An Update and a Bleg (UPDATED)

I know that the last time that y'all heard from me, I was lamenting my loss from ten years ago. Such is the nature of loss.

My life has changed dramatically since late June. Yes, it is all for the good of the world, too.

Anyhoo, my future and the future of my family is pretty much determined and we require your help to make things start out in the right direction. We are starting a non-profit that is going to center on helping individuals in small towns across this country, among other things. I think that we can all agree that small town folks in this country have been ignored for long enough.

This is where y'all come in. We are not approved just yet, so don't donate a bunch of money, hopefully we will have that distinction very soon. But! We already have someone that is in dire need of help and this cannot wait.

Remember W-A-Y back in July 2014 when the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge blowed up on the webby-nets? Well, there is a disease that is similar to ALS called Childhood Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy and it affects younger boys. We know such a child.

This young boy has gone from a vibrant, active child last December to someone that has lost almost all motor skills, the ability to talk, and is bedridden or wheelchair bound. It was brutally swift and the resources of the family are miniscule to say the least.

They need a good, dependable car and badly. We need your help to make that happen. At the top right of this page, just under my email and RSS feed buttons, is a link to my Pay Pal marked "Donate." Do it.

Send this post to everyone you know and get them to donate. Give five bucks, give a hundred bucks, give a thousand, just give some cash. I will compile a list of all those people who donate and I will put you on my list of folks to spam like crazy once this non-profit gets off the ground for good, too. (<<---This is a joke. Seriously.) Y'all know me. If there is one thing in this world you know about me it is that I always do what I say I am going to do. Make this happen for this kid and his family, please. Oh, and I might bring back College Gameday for a couple of weeks during the end of this season if y'all win at this thing. Hit your knees right now for this boy and his folks, too. Please take the time to comment.

Just So You Know

Today is the eighth anniversary of the first post of this here blarq.

Yay.

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This Just In!

It appears that Sitemeter has gone away. That means that I have to go into my template and clean up code. I have to do this for my tracking purposes on my still ongoing traffic studies. When I find the time to perform this tedious function, I am going to remove all useless lines of code and get this blog back up and going.

Has anyone noticed the new bar at the bottom of the page?

Gimme one month and Your MoM will be back on the air, LIVE!

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More Stuff that Paul Likes

I posted a bunch of new links to cool stuff at the Paul Mitchell Design Tumblr.

If you want to build something like one of these, give me a shout out and we'll get you hooked up.

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BREAKING!!!

We broke the 2700 post barrier today.

Plus, I do not understand chicks. I am beginning to think that at this late date, I probably won't either.

That is all.

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Just a Quick Update

Posting here will be light for the time being. Please stay tuned as I try to sort through some stuff that can no longer be ignored.

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The Value of Your MoM

Your website value?

Currently entertaining all offers.

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Traffic Update

April 2011 has been the second highest traffic month in Your MoM's history. We experienced a TEN THOUSAND percent increase from last April, which was before we started the "Two Dogs' Patented Get Mo' Traffic" program. If we do the same year to year, we shall break the internet by 2012.

Wonder why the month with the fewest posts is the second highest traffic month? Odd. Y'all HATE ME.

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Um, Comcast, We Got a Problem Here...

Here's how the conversation went...

Me: I need to get wireless internet hooked up like right freaking now.

Her: No problem, Mr. Mitchell, I can schedule that right now. Is Friday morning between eight and ten AM good for you?

Me: Perfect, what else do you need?

Her: It shall be seventy dollars, cash or check, when the installers arive.

Me: Cool, see y'all Friday.

Guess what the one thing is that they did not bring to hook up my wireless internet?

You guessed it, a router. That is being mailed to me. Probably Monday or Tuesday. So, now I am lying on a hardwood floor because the network cable they left with me is a full six inches long and the modem has a whopping eighteen inch cable attached to it.

So, we got off on the wrong foot, Comcast.

By the way, I am really liking the Disqus comments and yes, I know that I am the only one, too. It could be worse, they could be the FAILbook comments.

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Drive-by Blogging - Back in The 'Sip

Been back in town for a week and things are shaping up to normal again. Sorry for the lack of posting, but stealing https access in my neighborhood is tough and Droid tethering doesn't support it without a monthly charge.

I'll have full access to internet tomorrow and I'll be back, y'all.

Oh, I am abandoning my current FAILbook account and moving all my posts to a new place (no politics), if you want in, just send me a link to your FAILbook or the e-mail that you signed up with and I'll add you at the new place. I'm not adding anyone that doesn't want in.

See y'all tomorrow.

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Site Update!!! Disqus Comments

I added Disqus comments to see what kind of interaction we can get with them.

Please let me know what y'all think.

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Sunday Traffic Coming Down

We have pretty much figured out how to rank on Teh Google for some of the biggest topics of the day. This blog is a PR5, so Teh Google actually gives us a little more weight than the average bear. Plus, some of the higher traffic sites, like HuffPo and their ilk, do not publish their stats or embed Teh Google Analytics.

We do, so Teh Google probably gives us leeway in the SERPs.

We are good with that, too.

But, dude, seriously, I have no clue what the Hell Bing does for their stuff. I cannot rank on Bing for some of the searches that I OWN at Teh Google, then for other things that we do not expect, we get way up in the rankings.

Throughout the next three months, I am going to be running some of the very keyword trials on Bing as I did for Teh Google last year. We'll see how that works out.

By the way, if you want to get a bunch of traffic from somewhere and never find out where you are linked, try The Blaze. I have been getting oo-koodles of traffic from their site over the past two days and I have no idea how. Any hints?

PLUS! THIS JUST IN: IT IS NOT SEPTEMBER and it shall not be September for about four whiles.

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Drive-By Blogging - A Plethora of Nothing

Yes, Wednesday is usually the Teh Google day, but this week has been BONKERS with the bad_pool_caller, reloading my whole drive of software, tweaking all my plug-ins and stuff. I now have to use three whole days up, serious eight to ten hour days, getting all the stuff back in order. No fun. Throw a wild-ass twelve year old that is out of school because of FREAKING snow, and dude, Teh Google just gone be late...

But, there were a couple of things that I wanted to dump here.

I want to grab one million page views on this blog in 2011. I know that is possible, because from July to January, we got over half a million. But, I am off a few hits for the year. We have got to average about 2750 hits a day to make the goal. We are averaging about 2570 a day. That ain't gonna get it.

I also want to gross forty thousand bucks this year online without any architectural business. That might prove to be difficult, but with the affiliates site, Ball and Chain's yoga site, and a planned joint venture financial site, it should be doable. I plan on keeping y'all up to date on those things, too.

Also, I am going to get this here blarq back to its humor roots. I have seriously gotten away from that somewhat because of President Douchy McStupidass running the show, but I am going to refocus on what this site was intended to accomplish. Of course, we are a mere eighteen days away from the beginning of Blackuary and that is a huge task to undertake, but I am up to it this year.

Today's blogshow is a short one, but I think that it is pretty danged good.

Mudfence ugly Congresscritters. Ugly, stupid, and corrupt is no way to go through life, son.

The Obamanomic Recovery is on par with the Great Depression. Home values continue the freefall.

Dan Mitchell on the monumental task of changing Social Security.

Steve B tries to sort through liberal "logic."

Paul Ryan pr0n!!! And more.

Oddly, since the CBO now has a majority that is not Hellbent on destroying the way of life in our country, they now have numbers that speak the truth on the debacle that is ObamaCare. The only people that thought ObamaCare would save money are too stupid to stop digging when they are standing at the bottom of a hole.

Food stamp usage is doing what it always does when Dumb-a-crats are in charge.

The Obamas hire some more of their corrupt, criminal buddies.

Cat fight going on between Moron Joe Klein and Moron Ed Schultz. Who is dumber? it's a tie.

Dumbass Frank Lautenberg jumps into the Democrat Stupidity Rally and is surging toward the front of the pack.

Democrat hacks continue to fail miserably at their jobs. Democrats are the Mannings of SUCK.

The Democrat baby slaughter is gaining steam.

Boogie rails on the dumbshit stuff going on about the "Progressive" mass murderer in Tucson.

Chew on those things for a little while and I'll get the Teh Google post up really soon. Promise.

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And a Happy 2011 to YOU, from Your MoM

I have the round-up of awesome posts pretty much ready, but I do NOT want to publish it today. Not because it is a Saturday, but since it is COLLEGE FOOTBAW Bowl DAY!!!

WE BE CROOMING!!!

Enjoy the games, folks. If you want to sneak another Best of YOU post in, you better get it done today, because the Your MoM's Family 2010 Best of Posting post goes up first thing Monday morning.

Love ya, mean it,

YOUR MOM.

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New Sign Up Form - Test It For Me, Y'all

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Teh Google, Blogging, Traffic, and Whatnot (UPDATED!!!)

UPDATE: I signed up for this allegedly incredible list building thingy and I have to get three people to sign up within the first three days to E-X-P-L-O-D-E my list. Go sign up here, and confirm your membership. I'll let you know how it works, in a couple of days. (No, I do not get paid for that, either.)

Man, at year's end, Teh Google starts blasting out some stuff and then NOTHING for a week, but ignore that, first things first...

Wordpress has some critical issues going on. Of course, I do not technically self-host all of my Wordpress blorgs, so my hosting company done got me fixed up.

Just checking, but did you run over to my business site and sign up for the e-letziner on blogging, traffic, making oo-koodles of money and stuff? If not, click through and sign-up on the little pop-up thingy. No, it is not spammy at all. It is one of the first tricks that I finally figured out. I am almost certain that I can do it on this blarq too, but I have never tried. Should I?

In case you are not reading my Online Marketing Blerk, here is a post that we did on basic BEFORE the traffic stuff. Check it out, link the post, share the post, subscribe to the blauk, and send me money! And as long as you are dying to send me money, check out that shiny new "recommended" thingy on the top of the sidebar.

Now...on to Teh Google SHOW!!!

Blogger has really upped their game this year. I have been using this platform for almost six years now and it has never been better. Here are the upgrades to Blogger from 2010.

In case you are trying to put some rudimentary SEO in place on your Blogger blork, SEO starts in the post title. Watch...



As long as we are talking about blogging and getting traffic, please always keep in mind that CONTENT IS KING.

By the way, the old Keyword Tool is being taken down. Of course, here is the new keyword tool, but use the old one for as long as you can because I think that it is a little better.

SEOmoz likes to use You Tube for keywords as well. This makes assloads of sense, too, since You Tube and FAILbook are the main sites on the 'net right now.

SEOmoz also has six news SEO tools for us to play with. Honestly, I have not used any of them, but I have never been lead awry by SEOmoz, ever.

SEOmoz also dips into our Teh Google pool and reviews some of Teh Google's SEO stuff. I have started my Teh Google Wonder Wheel video and if you will go sign-up to get my SPAMMY news-ezine-email thingy, you will get first blush on my take on the Wonder Wheel.

While we are yapping about traffic and SEO, why don't you go ahead and add your Teh Google Analytics to your Teh iGoogle page?

As long as we have ANALytics (heh) on the brain, why not check out this video about AddThis's ANALytics (heh)?



If you recall, I just said that FAILbook and You Tube were getting all the traffic, I forgot to add Twittah, Linked In, and StumbleUpon. If you want all my data, hit up my QR Code on the sidebar.

Speaking of FAILbook, do you want to do that profile photo hack thingy? Mashable has yet another way to handle that. (Isn't that Kim Jong-il further down the page? His profile photo is BANGING!!!)

Teh Official Google Blog has a post of the latest from Teh Google Labs. Most of these things are stuff that we have already covered here, but you cannot expect Teh Google to be MORE up to date on Teh Google than I am...

Do you use Teh Chrome browser? Got some of them links, too!

Lovely Charts for Teh Chrome.

Here is a file sharing extension for Teh Chrome called Ge.tt. Seriously, Rapidshare just got their nuts kicked in. Free pr0n for everybody!!!

I tried to get me one of those test Chrome laptops about a month ago. I just found out that I would be slamming the thing against the concrete if I get one. You cannot use a jump-drive on it without an act of Congress. Of course, that makes total sense if everything you are doing is in the cloud. But, how are we going to get our stuff IN THE CLOUD to begin with?

Maybe if everyone else is using a desktop and we are all connected on Salesforce Chatter, all will be well?

I was looking back at Tech 2010 and ran across these start-up logos. Really? Foursquare started in 2010? Seems like it has been around since I was BORN!!!

Since I am getting ready to launch thousands of e-books this next year, I found a great e-book cover tutorial. If you want me to make yours, e-mail me and we'll work something out.

And you know that I'll be nekkid when I am making that e-book cover, too. Mainly because I learned from the Mistress of Working Nekkid.

Before we sign off, what would Wednesday be without a Rule 5 or Humpday Hottie post?

Just so you know, I am going to pump out some good e-book content in 2011, so get you something to gnaw on those books with!!!

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Your MoM's Year in Review!

While we are vacationing at the B&C's folks' house, I am putting the finishing touches on the Year End Best of The Fambly post. If you do not want to let Your MoM down, well, more than you already have, get your posts in.

Yes, THAT MEANS YOU.

DO NOT embarrass the family. Well, no more than you already have...

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This Week in Teh Google and 'Round the Webbynets

I know that I am one day late, but duty has been calling. Dammit, it is only ONE DAY!!!

There has been a dumptruck load of updates, highlights, and interesting stuff released into the wild this past week. As a matter of fact, the day after our last Teh Google update, Teh Google opened their Teh Google E-Books site. If you are into reading e-books, here is the Teh Google E-Book Store.

Also announced last week was that Teh Google Wave was going all Apache, jump on it. With online colaboration becoming more and more important, I really think that Teh Google jumped off the Wave too soon, but I am pretty sure they have much more data than I do to bolster their point. I just F-E-E-L that they did.

Teh Google Groups is testing out a new interface. At some point, I am going to take the time to start consolidating my online presence into a more cohesive amalgamation. I think that Teh Google Groups is going to be pretty important to that ends.

Speaking of online consolidation, below is a QR code, it has all of my business links and information. If you have a smart phone with some kind of barcode reader, like Google Goggles, you can take a photo of this and immediately have my data. Yes, even my bank account numbers and passwords.

Make your own code with Its My Urls.

Did you realize that Teh Google has started their own affiliate network? You can now integrate that affiliate network into your Blogger blog, too.

G-Mail's Priority Inbox is a coupla' months old now and they have added even better learning features and an explanation of why Teh Google finds stuff "Important."

Oh, man, and they have added MUTE, too. I have sent them no fewer than six hundred e-mails asking for that feature. Their response? "Paul WHO?!?!?!"

This GIS information used with Maps is too cool. Somewhere I saw that the Mobile Maps was expanding their vector mapping data, too. So, in the future, your Droid X will be able to store maps entirely and use them offline. In the future, the people that own an iPhone will still be unable to place phone calls.

Oh, in case you do not understand how birth control works, and you mistakenly SPAWNED, you can track SATAN Santa this year using some kinda useless technology probably invented by iPhone users in their NON-LIFE BUBBLE while residing in their Cone of Stupidity.

You Tube's "Leanback" thingy launches personal channels. I am not really sure why anyone would want to watch movies, but I hear that some people do. Probably on their iPhone will masturbating to Steve Jobs latest announcement on how stupid iPhone users are.

I am still playing with this Global Market Finder and I see this as some kind of gateway to the increasingly accurate targeted marketing on the internet. Folks, face it, Teh Google Maps has already killed the Yellow Pages. I really thought that mail order would have been first, but I was wrong.

If you read that about Affiliate Networks above, in a few days, Teh Google is going to launch tracking links for that service. You gotta know what is bringing in the dust, you know?

Here are some AdSense tips for tightening up your money grubbing ways, too. Why are you so selfish and money-grubbing, you Money-Grubber?

Speaking of marketing and Maps, Hotpot is certainly creating more than a little BUZZ in the Intervironment. If you have a brick and mortar thingy, get to work on these things. A QR Code will help.

This week in Teh Google Docs...

Add images to CELLS in Docs. Imma Pie Charting Fool.

The Google Drawings feature in Docs is getting pretty crazy. I think that this has something to do with the vector thingy in Mobile Maps.

The Google Translator is now available in Google Apps. I think that Teh Google has just about added the integration for all of the free services now. I could be wrong, but they are getting close if they are no already finished.

With perfect seamless use of Teh Google Calendar with the Droid phones, no other calendar can compete. Optional attendees.

You Tube has increased upload length on videos. TO see if you qualify, like I do, click the upload button on your You Tube page. I have no idea how long the videos you can upload can be, but we'll find out soon enough.

You Tube: Using new media know how to run your family. instead of Chief Household Officer, I call myself, "Mr. Belvedere."

You Tube: Choose the next homepage star from the community. Looks like it is going to be JustJesse197.

You Tube: How to compress and upload with Professor I Couldn't Think of a Gayer Name To Call Myself, So This Will Have to Be Gay Enough For EVERYONE.

By the way, whenever I run across a video that has had the music cropped out by You Tube, I get mad enough to kill. Do your homework before uploading and here are some resources to help you NOT STEAL the damned music.

Oh, I almost forgot, Tumblr had a big outage earlier this week, back-up your blogs and stuff. Back-up stuff for Tumblr.

Next week, this Teh Week in Teh Google update will be at my affiliate blog. If you want to know where the Hell that is, you better sign up for the mailing list on this pop-up here. No, it is not a spammy pop-up, it is something that I made to test.

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Teh Google, SERPs, and Technology Newz...

Normal people want to make more money and smart people know that as time goes by, the Interwebs is going to be the way to do that quickly and efficiently.

Since I fancy myself a smart guy, I have been spending some time trying to figure out how to rake in the dust online. Obviously, the MAIN issue is getting traffic to your page. This is easily done if you do a few very simple things.

First, you have to embrace Teh Google. Make no mistake, Teh Google simply must keep getting better or it shall be replaced as the Search Engine of choice. Right now, though, Teh Google is the main game. I was asked this morning if I was really such a Google fanboi and I must answer in the affirmative. I want traffic, so I must embrace the technology that delivers around 80% of my traffic right now. I am also playing with Bing, but seriously, their SERPs are just not very good. I do not care what the tech blogs say, I can search for hours on Bing and NEVER find anything that remotely answers my query.

Here's the target that I chased yesterday, "sarah palin nude." *Click the image to see it bigger* When we started trying to rank, there were just slightly over 1.1 million results for that string. Today, there are 1.07 million (see "B"). I dunno why we lost around 30k results, though. De-indexing maybe? But, you see that my post went up just after noon yesterday, by one of the clock, I was already number one on Teh Google Blog Search. So, it took less than thirty minute to be AT THE TOP of "Blog Search." I did make it briefly onto the front page of Google's main search page and this screenshot was taken right before I started this post. We are on the middle of page two.

I also showed you in the post yesterday that there were no GOOD images in the Instant Preview. As you can clearly see, mine has a clear photo (see "D") with a very good preview paragraph (see "C") talking specifically about Sarah Palin getting all nude-y and stuff. No preview that is outranking me is better. But,w ill I keep that traffic that we grabbed with less than admirable means? Of course not. Will that traffic be valuable in the long run? Well, they will never come back, so the answer is a big NO.

Where is this diatribe going? To consistently rank and get more and more traffic, you have to rank for the searches that people WANT. When you get that traffic, you have to be able to hold those folks in order to monetize their traffic. That is MUCH MUCH MUCH easier said than done, though. However, I have gone from about 400 regular hits per day to a little over 2000 per day since I started this traffic experiment. "Larissa Riquelme nude" did not hurt either.

Quick tips for traffic surges: Number one is obviously have a post title that is provocative. For instance, if you want to rank for Barry Obama, I suggest something to the effect of "Barry Obama Caught With Reggie Love's Junk in His Mouth." Then fire up Teh Twittah, use the same title with a shortened url, and add the hashtags #tcot, #p2, #ocra and #rebelleft. Works like a charm.

By the way, Teh Google has actually published a pdf on Search Engine Optimization. (Right click and download, it is a hotlink, I'm so bad.)

If you want some actual sustainable traffic tips, you should sign up for my newsletter at the pop-up on my website. No, I shall never give you e-mail out, I shall never spam you, and I'll never ask you for money. Well, unless you want to donate to my Pay Pal at linked on the right sidebar.

By the way, speaking of the right sidebar, please note that I now have a QR Code there. Try out your smart phone with it and you'll get all my contact info. I feel like James Bond with that crap. If you want to make your own, shoot me an e-mail and I'll let you know how.

Here be the Tech Links, yo...

You did know that Twitter has instant notifications, right? If you are like me, you turned them off because walking through the grocery listening to "DROID DROID DROID DROID" can get pretty irritating. It does help to know who re-Tweets your stuff, though. It builds relationships, which is important to making MONEY.

And here's how to customize your Twittah background with their latest interface.

If you want to know how your site stacks up against others for traffic and stuff, do a little research at this site. Enter the competitor's url and find out what they are up to.

Needlebase is another great tool for checking out your competition, and ReadWriteWeb has information to help you use it.

As far as your traffic is concerned, video is a great way to get noticed, too. If you are filling up the Twittah and the FAILbook with stuff, you can now link to You Tube COMMENTS and send traffic in more than one way. Fun stuff. You Tube comments are awesome for dropping links to your site, too. Keep in mind, You Tube is owned by Teh Google and they index everydamnedthing.

Another great Teh Google tool for increasing links, traffic, and expertise is their Moderator service. Post a series and get free Teh Google traffic to wherever and whenever you want.

By the way, if you are going to be making money online, you need to get LEGAL. You need to post a Privacy Policy and a Terms/Conditions page. Those two links shall make accomplishing those two tasks simple as pudding pie. You're welcome, hit the damned Pay Pal to compensate for my legal advice. (I am not an attorney, plus I do not lie, cheat, and steal, either. They will not let me be an attorney because I do not fit the three primary requirements.)

The Google Commerce Search is one year old.

Analytics has added some more features, AGAIN. Dude, I can't ever catch up with all their stuff.

Teh Google Affiliates has added some new folks. SEARS!!! Just in time for Christmas, too!!!

Man, it is STILL snowing here and I am starving to death. I wish there was a woman around to make me a damned sammich. Check out the latest Tivo special below, too. It is FREE FREE FREE!!!

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Check out this great deal on TIVO.

Weekly Interweb News and Teh Google

When I first started my traffic studies, I was averaging between 400 and 450 page views daily. I have also blocked (from the traffic stats) the IPs of almost sixty people, too. About twenty of those IPs were spammer IPs and there are maybe forty people that regularly contact me and comment on this blog, so I knew that I did not want to count those folks, because they are NORMS!!! No, none of them are Cliffs. Maybe we have a Woody or a Coach, but no Cliffs.

What we are seeing here in this graph is one month after I jumped on the cellphone-tits-soccer-girl from Paraguay. This week in June is the first time that traffic got back to normal (for a whole week) after that nutzville. Still, six months after that craziness, we are perched at number six for "larissa riquelme nude," so we are solid for that term. Like that makes us some money or something. If there is one thing that you can take to the bank, it is that dudes looking for NEKKID chicks are not going to buy anything. They are looking for chick meat, pure, plain, and simple. I guess if you ran a pr0n site that would do you some good.

Anyhoo, after seeing what could be done with very targeted KEYWORDS to boost traffic, I continued to kick up the NUDES, but started playing with legitimate search strings. So far my spreadsheet has 114 keywords for which I have tried to rank. I have hit the first page of Teh Google on almost every, single one. I have missed on less than three percent (3%), which I think is stellar.

Not only did I discover that it is relatively easy to rank on Teh Google for something, but I also learned that you can make some good blog friends by sending some really noticeable traffic over a short period of time. This helps to develop an alliance with folks that are in your area of expertise or interest and can get some really good backlinks. Odd, people like when you send them some traffic.

Now that we have developed a theory of traffic driving, it has to be tested on more targeted websites instead of just my personal blog. After this holiday weekend, I am going to work diligently on developing my two business blogs and one other site that I am involved with. On one of the business blogs, I am going to chronicle the traffic and link building of the other two sites, as well as the studies that I am doing here. If you are remotely interested in watching that, WIN or FAIL, the only way to get that info is to sign up for the PMD Newsletter. You can do that at the pop-up on my Paul Mitchell Design website. When you put your info in that box, it comes straight to my business e-mail address, it does NOT go through an autoresponder or any kind of spammer crap. Yes, I built that pop-up MYSELF!!! Dammit, I enjoy doing stuff like that.

Speaking of building stuff like pop-ups and thingies, Teh Google has a page called "Elements" that allows you to plop some cool stuff on your site. I got the new site search box from this page. Yes, the site search works swimmingly for me. I must be a narcissist to keep searching for stuff on my own blorque.

Another page that Teh Google has that was an integral part of building my traffic to the current level was "Insights for Search." For a brick and mortar store, Insights is a great tool for local traffic. Remember, the phone book is DEAD.

For more Search Engine Optimization, you really need to grab some tools that can help you. If you are like me, you want those tools to be free, too. Try these SEO toolbars and add-ons for Firefox. They are very useful and free.

Here is a new SEO plug-in for Wordpress called "Yoast." It is still in Beta, so if you like playing with stuff and tearing it up, grab this plug-in.

Here are some Webmaster Central tips for controlling Teh Google's crawling of your site. I am going to have to get someone to implement this stuff for me, I ain't that damned good and I'll ruin something.

One of the very next things that I am going to do is to figure out how to rank in Bing. This post actually says that ranking for Bing searches is easier than Teh Google.

By the way, Teh Google Instant has got search history again.

Here is a case study on an AdWords success story.

If you are going to use AdWords, you need to understand the Optimizer, too. The Richard Petty Driving Experience uses it, check out their results. Two words, "Pornostache Beltbuckler."

And just to explain WHY you have to start getting the business clicking on the web, the internet contributes 7.2% of GDP in the United Kingdom. My guess is that percentage is ONLY going to get bigger and bigger. That is probably a very safe bet, too.

Here's a tour of the new AdSense interface. When AdSense is hitting on all cylinders, even NUDE searches net cash. And here are some more insights on the new interface.

Google Affiliate Network has some tips for holiday promotions efficiency.

This past week, Teh Google Apps has been adding existing services to the Apps Suite. Teh Google Finance, Reader, and Blogger, too!

At some point, Teh Google Docs will be as easy as FTP to use. HA! Drag and drop is added.

This last week, Docs also rolled out mobile editing. Of course, the Androids could already do this, albeit, it was a little cumbersome. Here are some tips and tricks.

Here are the Blogger updates for November. Dammit, I am glad that they got that freaking image screw-up fixed. I hated having to add the line breaks manually. Blogger has some more fonts now, too.

Captious Nut, over at Marginalizing Morons, sent me a link to a Blogger widget site that has some good stuff. Please ignore the apostrophe slaughter going on over there, they ain't doing copywriting, you know?

You Tube's automatic captioning is a year old, now. I am weird about that kind of stuff. It took me so long to start extrapolating things and reading lips that captioning drives me crazy sometimes. Well, it is not really a drive per se, it is more like a walk, across a very narrow street.

Here's more on that Howcast Filmmakers Program I told y'all about two weeks ago. YOU, yes, YOU need to be in the movies and the makers of movies.

Mashable has five places that you can find online video to inspire your future movie career.

On temporary bookmarking, with the speed with which the web is changing, and the ridiculous amount of content that I read daily, I am giving Instapaper a try. You should too.

Darren Rowse at Problogger sent out a link to StudioPress that had some great deals on some Wordpress themes. The themes are all top notch and support is offered with all packages. If you are looking to build a Wordpress blog, you could do a lot worse than these themes.

If you liked Teh Google Wave, you'll love Simplybox.

Now, do NOT forget to click through to Paul Mitchell Design and fill in that e-mail form to get the latest traffic study update stuff.

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