Technology The Net

How To Start A Tech Site

I get many emails asking me for advice on starting a web site like The TechZone. Most are from readers, some are from people who have already started a site, but are having trouble getting visitors. Well, I’ve decided to put all I’ve learn about running a tech site into this blog post. Now, I’m by no means the master […]

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Ramblings

News Odds And Ends

Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Last night was the end of the NDA for the Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield Review. Over a dozen sites posted their reviews on Intel’s newest super processors. My friend Carl was the only site to get the review to the front page of Digg. He was in a race with dozens of […]

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Business The Net

Making Money With A Blog – October Recap

Record Breaking Traffic The blog enjoyed record high traffic for October, receiving 229,144 visitors and 360,967 page views according to Google Analytics. When you consider that just two short months ago, the blog was doing only 12,000 page views, the numbers look ever more amazing. The blog now does in a day what it uses to do in a month. […]

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Ramblings

Top Posts Updated

I have updated the Top Posts page. This is the page where I keep all the posts that received the most views, reactions or comments. Out of the 60 posts made last month, 21 of them qualified for Top Post status. Reader recommendations created the Top Posts page. Rather than have you surf through the entire blog to pick out […]

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Ramblings

Dead Halloween

Well that was the deadest Halloween ever! The grand total number of kids who knocked on my door to say “Trick or treat” was zero. That’s right, a big goose egg. I have never had a year when I had zero knocks on the door at Halloween. At first, I thought maybe my outside light wasn’t on but that was […]

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The Net

Digg Makes It Harder To Get Dugg

It looks like Digg has made a major update to their algorithm. Stories now need a lot more Diggs before they are promoted to the front page. In the past, I had my stories hit the front page with as little as 22 Diggs to as many as 42 Diggs. However, now it seems that number has increased to 60 […]

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The Net

The Elite Retreat

Yesterday, Shoemoney let the cat out of the bag with a brief mention about this on his radio show, Net Income. However, today is the office launch date for taking applications for Elite Retreat. This is a small group (limited to just 35 attendees) seminar hosted by Lee Dodd, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker, Aaron Wall, and Dave Taylor. If you do […]

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Cars

Spied – 650HP Super Corvette!

Super hotshot spy photographer Chris Doane has taken the first spy photos of the rumored 2009 Super Corvette. The spy photos show what appears to a normal Corvette Z06, but upon closer inspection, you see a large bulge on the hood that is rumored to be concealing a supercharged 6.2-Liter V8 that puts out 650HP. Initially codenamed Blue Devil (no […]

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