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Archive for April, 2008

New Baby+Hit and Run+Vacation=One Hell of a Week

Apr
29
2008

I haven’t blogged for the past week and for good reason…my wife had our third kid on Thursday the 17th and I pretty much didn’t turn on the computer for 10 days. Olivia was born at 7:56am, the same time as our son was born.
For those of you that don’t know, babies are really [...]


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Posted in: General

Is Google Ad Manager Worth It?

Apr
16
2008

I signed up for Google’s new Ad Manager about a month ago and received my invitation to join the program last week. I finally got around to playing with it tonight and have to say that I’m pretty impressed. All of the ads on this site are now set up with Ad Manager [...]


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Posted in: Marketing

Wordpress.com Accounts are Fun

Apr
15
2008

I saw on twitter that doshdosh has a wordpress.com account so I thought it would be fun to sign up for one just to see what it is like. I’ve always come at WP from the self hosted side of things and thought that the wordpress.com version would suck. I was pleasantly surprised that [...]


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Posted in: Announcements, WordPress

The Google Juice Works Whether Your Site Does or Not

Apr
11
2008

I came across a pretty interesting site today that shows how important links are to your site (just in case you think that they aren’t). I’m not going to reveal the site here because it is not one of my own or one of my clients, so you’ll just have to trust me that [...]


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Posted in: Marketing

Success Comes From Stupidity

Apr
9
2008

One theory that I have is that success can come from stupid things. Take this for instance:
Get your own Mclovin ID
The mclovin id maker* is a dumb idea. It’s definitely something my wife would think is stupid. However, it is also a fairly popular idea, and as you may know, [...]


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Posted in: Marketing

Announcing the DEVTRENCH Web Developer Directory

Apr
8
2008

I thought it would be cool to have a directory on this site for web developers to get links back to their website or blog, so I set one up. This niche web developer directory is for the websites of web developers, web designers, web programmers, and search engine marketers – so basically [...]


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Posted in: Announcements