Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas to all There's a Blog in my Soup Readers!

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/ho-ho-ho-merry-christmas-to-all-theres-a-blog-in-my-soup-readers/)
Well it has been a long eventful year, as far as historical years it has definitely been one for the record books.

From the recession, to the presidential elections and more. This will definitely be a year many people remember for years to come.

I would like to take a moment and give a gratituitous holiday greeting to all of my readers, friends, and fellow bloggers. This blog is a major success thanks to all of you, without your support I could never be a full-time blogger.

I appreciate all that you have done for me, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or another holiday this season I wish you the best in your celebrations, and hope that everything goes safely for you this season.

I also wish you a happy new year, and good luck!


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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Question for mormons: Is this bad? Motab vs Linkin' Park?

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/question-for-mormons-is-this-bad-motab-vs-linkin-park/)
Just a thought question that was posed at the Ward Christmas Party tonight - somebody asked the question do they have to like the mormon tabernacle choir if they're LDS, and I was thinking to myself, ya know - I would much rather be at a Linkin Park concert than motab anyday lol.

What say you? Is that bad for a good little mormon boy or girl? Can a Petey priesthood disavow affections for Mormon Tabernacle Choir?

I'd like your opinion - especially if you're LDS/Mormon.

BlogContestSite Now Tweets!

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/blogcontestsite-now-tweets/)
We'd all love to get our hands on the latest greatest gadget on the market. I myself would love a 42 inch tv or larger, can I afford it? Probably not. I'd also love to win an iphone, ipod, macbook, netbook, etc... I'd love to win anything - who wouldn't?

Blog contests are great ways to win great prizes. You not only win though, you help smaller blogs get their feet off. It's a win-win situation.

BlogContestSite.com has been around a long time. It started out as one of the first blogs to host blog contest information on the internet.

It has sinced moved into a different direction where you can add your own contests to the site, and vote other contests up and down and win in the progess.

I am a little biased being the co-owner of Blog Contest Site, but I believe it's headed for greatness. I have relaunched the new design using DRIGG for Drupal. I will be giving prizes to users with the most Karma - getting karma is easy just vote, and leave comments on contests.

You can also follow blogcontests on twitter and get updated every 30 mins on new contests that are running!


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About being Google Slapped and Matt Cutts being a Nazi.

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/about-being-google-slapped-and-matt-cutts-being-a-nazi/)

Matt Cutts Crush, SEO Comic
Image by ByronShell via Flickr


Does Google PR even matter anymore?

Nobody knows when or how it's decided, save a few select programmers at google. Does it even matter anymore?

I have 0 PR after having my blog up for nearly 2 years. I have many incoming links, I have a google index of 3,180, an alexa rank of 250,000 give or take, daily traffic equal to about 700 hits per day, and a yahoo index of 11,400.

My blog is also helping me earn over $1000 monthly working from home on a consecutive basis.

I'm at the point where whether I write or not I get traffic - when I do write an article I will spike and get between 2-4k hits on those days.

Each of my blog posts are pinged to many directories, and announced via ping.fm to all my social circles.

Yet, I have never sold or bought links. I have never blatantly spammed my links. I have never done anything to try and gain incoming links in a blackhat manner. All my incoming links are perfectly organic.

So, why do I have a 0 PR?

I would love Matt Cutts to write to me and give me a good reason. I'd also like a good reason why this site has been adsense banned, not that I need adsense I make more off adbrite, and honestly think it's probably better going with a different company than google.

Especially when google hires Nazis like Matt Cutts and other programmers who basically have the power to say who can or can't stay in their program based on stupid reasons, and won't answer why.

It's like the statement JP Morgan Chase Bank made today about the bailout:

"We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it,'" said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to."

Lets change this to Matt Cutts of Google (I attack Matt Cutts because he's the PR arm and well known, maybe he won't like being attacked and will answer my questions if not then he truly is a Nazi and I'm calling him out on it):

"We've slapped some sites, we've not slapped a few, we're not giving any accounting of who we have slapped, or why.  We don't care if people's businesses are hurt by it - we're google we can do anything. Oh and by the way about that "Do no harm" thing...haha just kidding!"

With all this said - the funny thing is I may be google slapped when it comes to PR but I do still get good traffic from the search engine arm - I just have no PR juice, maybe that will change - I'd be happy to write a retraction if I ever get an answer as to why my PR is still 0, and my adsense account was deactivated.

Do I have high hopes? Nah - maybe someday though Matt Cutts will see this and look into it, maybe he googles his name every now and again, maybe he will see me ranking high for the term Matt Cutts is a Nazi.

One last thing I use Nazi, not as white supremist, but as totalitarian. Hitler had full control, and could do as he pleased. Those at google think they have the same power when it comes to the internet - I'd love to see them get slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit by the USA - it's only a matter of time.


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Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Tragic Side of Web 2.0 / Progress...

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/the-tragic-side-of-web-20-progress/)


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New Media can be Bloody at Times


Social media and all encompassing 'new media' is a boon of opportunity, it's a way to socialize without even leaving the home for many. It is a way to build relationships with people in different lands.

Many have also embraced New Media to share the many aspects of their lives. From the birth of a new child as Robert Scoble, and This Guy did, via twitter; to the suffering of people.

To the joys of a nation embracing change, amidst a changing the world (yeah I'm talking about the election, duh!)

As Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests put it quite poigantly:
The “new” web is more than the spectacle of the crushingly banal or the bruisingly idiotic, and like it or lump it, it will probably catalogue the depth and breadth of the human experience in a way that’s never been done before.

Which brings us to the Tragic Side of Web 2.0.

It was reported today that a young man took his life, while streaming it live on Justin.tv.

Justin.tv being a video service which streams content live. This may be one of the first suicides committed on live internet tv, but I doubt it will be the last.

I'm sure there will also come a day when serial killers torture, rape, and kill their victims whilst letting the whole world watch.

Let's pray that it doesn't get that bad, and lets pray that if that day comes, that we won't be so base to not even acknowledge it as newsworthy.

New Idea to gain / keep Newsletter Subscribers

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/new-idea-to-gain-keep-newsletter-subscribers/)
I'm gonna keep this post short and sweet.

I was thinking about ways to build my list larger, so far it's growing pretty good. Offering a freebie download is always a good start -  I'm toying with the idea of writing one free elite pdf ebook weeky, and make it only available to newsletter members.

I believe this technique would work great because it's a good way to split-test new topics. One ebook may not appeal to your readers, while another might appeal better.

Anyone have experience with this type of technique? Share your Experience and comments!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Blackhat Article Writing Technique!

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/blackhat-article-writing-technique/)

Well, this may not be blackhat but it's definitely gray.



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The key to successful blogging that I've been mentioning lately is focused dedication and continually writing new content. You may notice that I don't always post new content every day to this blog, although I do try to. A lot of the content I create, I use on article sites, squidoo, hubpages, etc.

This is an easy quick way to churn out articles with reckless abandon:

1. Purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking, or find an alternative speech to text program.

2. Google the topic that you want to write about, or visit goarticles.com and search articles there.

3. Launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking and rewrite the article on the fly by putting the article into your own words. Most people can speak faster than they can type and this is a much faster way to write articles.

Please note that the key here is to make the article look different and not duplicate as far as the search engines are aware. It's also to save you from any copyright issues.

How you make money with this technique:


Well you could post it to your blog and make money off your blog's advertising, OR you can post your new article to squidoo, hubpages, associated content, helium, or any other site that pays for articles.

If you do it right you could potentially write 5-10 posts in an hour, if you submit these to Associated content as exclusive posts you could earn as much as $5 per post, plus an additional $1.50 per 1000 pageviews. In essence that's $25-50 for an hour of work!

Let me know if you've had success with this technique!


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