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Ed’s Attack Tree.

Well I’ve been attacked and wounded by a…… christmas tree.  My 2 year old pulled the christmas tree down this morning. As I leaped over the coffee table to ’save’ her, I was hit in the eye by one of the branches.

It cut into my eye, and I now am on pain killers and am wearing a patch (arghhhh me mateys).

Apparently I’ll be fine and will be able to see soon enough.  However, the drugs and trying to read this screen with one eye is disorienting.

See you in a couple days   (or if I find that I’m able to see and type a little better after the pain killers wear off).

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Newbie Training… 10 comments a must!

Well the other day I posted a request for 10 of you to comment if you wanted us to start teaching some of the newbie stuff (it was a trick question – I’ll explain in a minute).  I cheated though because 2.3k people have read that page and I didn’t get 10 responses……. and only one well thought out one.

You see – if you had already followed some of the instructions inside the 30 day guide that means you’ve signed up for Other98percent.com as a free member.  Guess what?

I teach CSS and the basics of PHP in there already It’s free – PAY ATTENTION!

What I was hoping for was for someone to say hey – Teach me cpanel.  Teach me to set up my VPS.  Teach me how to scrape some articles.  Teach me something beyond the basics….

I’d LOVE to do it.  I will do it…. IF…..

10 comments literally asking to learn something.  If 10 of you can’t say “I WANT TO LEARN XYZ….” well I won’t be bothered to teach it.

Sound fair?

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Black Hat Mistakes – Not Making Money

Let’s be honest.  If your reading my blog you probably aren’t building websites out of some altruistic motive.

Your building them to make money.

So why in gods green earth do I see so many of you building link farms,  websites, “property” of some type that is never going to make a dime.

Some Examples (and excuses):

200 Blogger blogs with ZERO references to anything that earns you money.  EXCUSE :  But it’s my link farm.

So?

Those links have value sure – but unless your blogger “farm” is totally automated it’s sucking up your time. Your time should turn into money right?  Put up a couple money posts.  Want an easy way?  Take an article about xyz from the article directories, write a paragraph UNDER their resource box — of course pointing to your affiliate link.  You break no rules, have no reason to get kicked from blogger, etc…

Why do I see so many of you not doing your damn research?

Hello – McFly!  If you don’t know what your trying to do before you come out the gate your just insane.   I KNOW I’ve mentioned research enough times through out this blog, and the guide.  Let’s just say you need to have:

Keywords to target and something to sell.Keywords to target and something to sell.Keywords to target and something to sell.Keywords to target and something to sell.Keywords to target and something to sell.Keywords to target and something to sell.

That clear enough?

From the moment you start building a network have a plan.  Don’t depend on long term keyword “accidents”…. depend on long term keywords PLANNED OUT!

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