Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
My excitement at the novelty of my first time to receive hate mail hasn’t passed. it’s not for my own organic posts though, but a guest post.
My guest poster is funny guy MonkeyChapps and the one who made the post stumble worthy is Witchypoo, for good reason. The post talks about a guy’s willingness to let a girl use him for a taste of somewhat-love. People also found it funny, but not this girl (the one who sent the hate mail).
She took the post seriously and found it pathetic. I guess she felt like she’s speaking for the rest of affronted females who detest man-ho’s and the like. I was very patient and gracious in explaining that the guy was just being funny. Despite the insults, i found myself grinning. Wow, hate mail! A reaction to my blog that didn’t get many hits a few months ago.
I wonder though… if hate came pouring in, will I cry? I dunno, maybe. :D Or maybe I’ll be stoked all over again.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Add-on to this post: Jason of Gorilla Sushi posted something on Stumble Upon. I saw it just now and I just needed to get it on this post because it showcases tips on how one can succeed in Stumble Upon. G.S. boasts a Google Pagerank of 5 and has received 21,000 unique visitors in one day, so we should listen.
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I’ve heard stories of how trolls abound at Stumble Upon. How they troll on people who stumble their own posts. I’ve always thought that self-promotion is a survival tool in the internet, and that in any way, you can promote yourself.
Now suddenly, in a social circle that can bridge the difference between no traffic and high traffic in a blog, it seems that self promotion will just bring you somewhere near the lowest reaches of the system. Or you can fight it, and they can still bring you down. They being the people who dislike self promoters.
So it seems the way to do it is to let another person stumble you. Like in entrecard, there’s a shop selling stumbles. Pay a certain amount of credits and the person will stumble a post on your blog. It makes sense. This way, someone else stumbled your post, and that person got compensated for it. What’s in a stumble, eh?
Maybe it pays to make a reputation in Stumble Upon first before selling your stumble power. Stumble worthy posts that other people will like, before selling your service to stumble posts that not everyone will like. They’d end up asking “why’d he stumble that post? maybe he got paid to do so?”… and lose your rep.
Things to think about.
Posted in Entrecard | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
This post is created to dislodge the evil number from evilwoobie.com
Call me superstitious, but a chill crept up my spine when I saw it.
LOL. Spam post with a purpose.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
MAKE MONEY ONLINE NOW, ASK ME HOW!
Subscribe and let me get inside your inbox (and ultimately, your mind) to spout edited versions of what you and I read in other more popular make-money-online blogs! Hee-ha!
Almost every other blog I visit has this theme. While I appreciate how bloggers are enthusiastic about the topic, I think the subject is getting hashed and rehashed a lot more times than I’m comfortable with.
If there is a NEW marketing tool in the blogosphere, for sure they will approach a MMO (make-money-online) niche pioneers to endorse them to 15k subscribers, who in turn will blog about it in their own MMO blogs and tell their readers… who in turn will click the link of the popular blog and read the original article.
I think joining a niche that is “less popular” than the Make-Money-Online one is the best way to go nowadays. Let’s face it, they were here before many of us, and thus have the bragging rights. Everyone has a version of how to make money online, so maybe the challenge now for internet marketers would be to teach people about…
“how to make more money online now that almost every serious blogger has an idea that they CAN make money online”
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
I just saw a forum thread at Entre where a guy was actually begging for people to advertise on his widget. I was amused because that was never a problem when the system was only a thousand bloggers strong. Then, everyone wanted to advertise on everyone else.
Perhaps the Ebay selling of Entrecard Credits made people realize that they’d rather sell their credits than use these to promote their blogs. The going rate now is 7-10 dollars for 1k credits and to someone from the Philippines, that’s like 400 pesos for a few hours of clicking. More, much more, than an average office employee earns.
Weird thought: so many bloggers are getting cunning at Entre. Setting up blogs that are so ugly and so useless just so they can gather credits.
What does this mean? Maybe it’s too soon to say anything but I’m worried for some reason.
“We need more incentive to place ads.” - Turnip
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Posted in Entrecard | 2 Comments »
