Where’s Jon?

Oct 15

Yes, I’m still alive and I have been resisting the “why I haven’t been posting lately” post, but I guess it’s only polite to provide an update. A couple weeks ago I realized that the current trend that my online business was on, just couldn’t continue. The central problem was the I was spending more and more time doing maintenance...

Read More

Monday Morning SEO Tip – Google Exaggerates

Sep 24

Monday Morning SEO Tip – Google Exaggerates

Here’s a little tip for you, for when you’re doing market research of if someone is trying to tell you how fantastic they or their product is for search engine rankings. Haven’t we all heard people say, my ABC SEO killer product is so great, “I’m the number one site in Google for the term blankety blank out of 1,630,000,000 possible...

Read More

U.S. Inflation is Costing Online Entrepreneurs

Sep 20

U.S. Inflation is Costing Online Entrepreneurs

I went to my bank today to deposit two Clickbank cheques and for the first time since I was a kid, the Canadian dollar was worth more than the US dollars that my cheques were issued in. Which meant that I had to pay a subsidy to be able to deposit them into my Canadian dollar account. Same thing goes for my AdSense earnings, and every other source of funds in...

Read More

Careful, This Blog Rush is Going to Hurt

Sep 18

My prediction is that Blog Rush will be just another form of Internet gentrification. It benefits the biggest and best blogs the most. Which means that the more you, the little guy, use it, the poorer you will be. Since ProBlogger, John Chow and ShoeMoney are all better bloggers than you and I, our traffic will eventually end up with them the more we use Blog...

Read More

Speedlinking – The One Where It’s All About Me

Sep 17

My WordPress Upgrade Tip On my WordPress installation service site, I linked to an amazing plugin and created a video to show you how to make WordPress upgrades a snap. My Link Building Notes On my SEO notes blog I have some notes from the latest University 20/20 course about link building. And I also posted about a very cool market research tool that is based on...

Read More