I created this blog for 2 main reasons. Firstly, to help myself keep track of different projects, and record my own ideas as they develop.
The second aim is to share my experiences with others, and gain interest from potential project partners or backers in the future.
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Having just moved this blog to a new hosting company, TSO, I thought I’d also take the opportunity to point out a new site I released with Max over at MoneyBits.com a couple of weeks ago.
The concept behind BlogGears is simple - persuade the audience to visit your blog using a video pitch, taking no more than 90 seconds. Viewers can then rate your performance and leave feedback. A few of the bigger name bloggers have already made a pitch; I won’t tell you who, go and find out!
The next stage will involve expanding the site to encompass a widget exchange, so that video views and traffic and just confined to the BlogGears site itself.
PS. you can also win $250 if you submit your video pitch before [..]
There has been a lot of talk recently about the drop in pagerank of a number of sites, from ProBlogger to the Washington Post - the suspected cause being link selling. First off, let’s put it in perspective - it is a suspected cause - no one knows for sure. But even if it is the case, does it matter?
Think of PageRank as an after thought. It is a value that supposedly sums up the strength of pages on your site. Being a sum up, it can only occur after the real goings on have taken place. If your pagerank drops during an update (we’re assuming it hasn’t been manually changed for now), then the reasons for that change have already happened. The drop in value does not mean [..]
