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I have nothing concrete to post. But that is the beauty of having a blog that has little pressure to make money. I don’t care about PageRank, which BTW has gone from 4 to 2 (My irrelevancy knows no bounds). I don’t much care about keyword rich posts. I’m not concerned about having 10,000 readers for the purpose of putting them on a list. Since this blog has never been all that focused, it’s a good enough place to simply type what’s on the mind.

Bing. Still use it. Still love it. And apparently I’m not the only one. I’ve been hearing people promote it, word of mouth style, on TV. And now I am concerned a bit. I make money with Google. Will there ever be a point when Bing affects my Adsense earnings? Seems crazy right now. But stranger things have happened. People get tired of shit. They love things shiny and new. People know me as the “computer guy” around the ‘hood. I’ve got people tooling up asking if I’ve been to a site called Bing. Really? I look in my stats on some of my sites and I’m starting to pick up more and more Bing referrals. Maybe for advertising Adsense will become even more important (for Google) as people use other methods for search yet still click those shitty little ads.

And that’s another thing. I’ve still been using Twitter as a means to search too. I’ve mentioned that before but you can find out all kinds of up to the second information. Google? The hell is Google?

Some of you remember a guy named Griz. I think he’s gone feral. Haven’t heard from him in ages. He talked a while back about using Today.com as a place for links and to collect a few dollars. I signed up and started working a crappy little blog. It’s not much but I’m making about $1.50 a day there now. I send traffic from 4 WordPress.com blogs, one Blogspot.com blog, one free hosted blog elsewhere, one self hosted blog and 5 Hubpages to my blog at Today.com. I update all the blogs about once a week, which basically involves adding a photo and a snarky comment. And the Hubpages actually make a few pennies every once in a while too. All but the Hubpages have a PR better than 2. Makes them useful for getting other sites indexed and popular.

I know some of you may scoff at $40 a month. I cashed 9 checks yesterday from various online affiliate programs. 8 were less than $60. It all adds up. Sure I’d love to make $700 a day in Adsense but that is just not happening. So I collect the scraps and piece them all together. My PayPal account is like a dividend program. A few times a week I’ll get a deposit here and a deposit there. Some for $20. Some for $300. It all adds up. Google is my biggest contributor but the scraps fill in the gaps nicely.

Blogprofitz has been a pleasant surprise. If you don’t have time to DIY with StoreStacker or need to offload some of the CPU cycles from your hosted account, then BP is a good solution. I haven’t yet made a million dollars pimping eBay and Amazon stuff but I have built a few huge sites and they are getting indexed. Every single post. BP is very easy to use. Good for those needing to add content to your site. RSS feeds, articles and products. Your blog comes alive.

I’ve been trying to get motivated to build a Hubpage a day. Many of you know about Court’s 100 hub challenge. He seems very successful with it. I’m not that successful. I get few Adsense clicks no matter how diligent I am with keyword research. But the thing is I am going to continue to work this. Why? Because I am sick of webhosts. I would love to have hundreds of Hubpages and/or Squidoo lenses that were bringing in $5K+ a month. Pipe dream? Waste of time? Maybe. But you have to try to succeed. Failure is just part of the deal.

Speaking of Court, I am still a member of the The Keyword Academy. The main reason is that they added 30 blogs that you can use to write something and splash your link on. It has actually made a difference to a couple of my sites. They require you write at least 125 words and only use one link back to your site. Knowing their prowess at SEO I can tell you at some point those links are going to be very powerful. 125 words. Surely you can cobble together 125 words in a coherent fashion 30 times in a rapid manner.

I think perhaps I am the only one I know that does not either have a smartphone or want one. I don’t get the allure. The last thing I want to do is talk on the phone. I have a cellphone that I bought for $15 on eBay that costs me $10 a month to make a call on. My daughter on the other hand is spoiled and has a smartphone that she can do texting unlimited and surf the Internet. She can listen to music and watch videos and play games on the thing. Whoopee. I don’t want to text people. I’d rather call. I’ve already said I don’t like to talk on the phone so there you go. Surfing the Internet on a 3-5 inch screen is retarded. I’d sooner buy a netbook and tote it around with me in the event I needed Internet access. Hell it’s cheaper. Why would I want to play a game on a little device? I have an XBOX at home that is fantastic. You can watch movies and TV shows on the thing? Wow! If I have to watch TV why would I want to hunch over a tiny little device to do it? Plus most of that shit you watch and play on the devices you have to purchase from an app store. More money flushed IMO. It has a camera? So what. I have a Canon that is smaller than the iPhone that is 10 megapixels and can do all sorts of different photos. Not to mention a dSLR. It has video? I use a Flip. Easy to use and offload video. I use it at my daughter’s softball games. But the phone combines it all. Yea and each feature is mediocre compared to a stand alone unit. I’m sure it’s cool and fun and you get used to the convenience factor. I simply do not want to be tethered all day long. Rim, Apple, Nokia, ATT and Verizon are sucking the life (and money) out of people.

I rode the Cherohala Challenge this past Saturday. It was a nice accomplishment. Long story short, it was hot, windy, I stupidly got dehydrated, my legs cramped badly the last 40 miles and was lucky to finish. We climbed the Dragon and we ascended the Cherohala Skyway. It was brutal. Next up: 6 Gap in the Georgia mountains in September. Can’t figure out how to make a trip to Texas to ride Hotter n Hell in August work out this year unfortunately.

Thanks for reading.

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