Art of Money | My New Home
February 25, 2006 by SMD · 2 Comments
Hi Everyone, I’ve begun to write stories on my brand new WordPress driven site. It’s called Art of Money and I have to say I’ve very please to have made the move. Thinks are still a little bit rough as I’m a complete newb when it comes to WordPress, but I have to say it [...]
Promotional Pens Outperform Internet Ads
February 21, 2006 by SMD · Leave a Comment
There’s a very interesting study over at Maketing Serpa [which will only be available online for free until Feb. 24...sign up for their newsletter to get these articles delivered every week], which suggests that giving out tacky promotional pens may benefit the bottom line for your business more than buying ads on the web or [...]
Fear of Girls & WordPress Here I Come
February 20, 2006 by SMD · Leave a Comment
I’ve finally made my decision to let go of this site, essentially to cut my losses [the most valuable investor's skill by the way] and to get a new domain and set up a shiny new wordpress blog. The primary reason is the growing sense of limitation with my home made concoction of code. As [...]
Title Tag or Headline – SEO for Humans?
February 13, 2006 by SMD · Leave a Comment
If you head over to SEOMoz.org you can check out their article on Search Engine Ranking factors. You’ll notice that the title tag is the highest rated factor [by an impressive panel of SEO gurus]. Based on my own experience this is probably a fact, although # of backlinks is certainly a biggie too. But [...]
Why Google SEO is Hard
This post is mostly about me just storing some SEO and keyword links so I can find them and refer back, but I’ll add some comments too. Here’s a useful mash up that allows you to see the overture bid prices and the overture [over-inflated] search counts side by side for a given search. I’d [...]
I’m Fine With Being Rich and Clueless
February 9, 2006 by SMD · 3 Comments
It’s been a tough day to be a Rich Dad loving geek! First, I got this email [see below] then, while checking my logs I found this comment on a story which says some guy removed me from his blogroll because I called myself a “Rich Dad loving geek”…uh, why did he add my site [...]
I Wish Banks Were Budget Friendly
February 4, 2006 by SMD · 7 Comments
I Wish Banks Were Budget Friendly No, I’m not talking about lowering service charges and fees, although that would be nice too. I’ve been working on a personal budget the last couple weeks and I’ve got all the accounts all set up. Of course I have the usual savings categories: “emergency fund”, “savings” and “retirement [...]
