Placing Ads Between Posts On Wordpress

by trigatch4 on May 29th, 2010 No Comments

Most of my banner advertising has been set it and forget it, only changing what actual ads appear on my site and not where they appear. But recently I had an advertiser request placement on my homepage BETWEEN two posts. I was able to find a simple solution in wordpress to accomplish just this and [...]

ShoeMoney System Full Of Shit?

by trigatch4 on January 27th, 2010 3 Comments

Everybody hates on ShoeMoney and have for years – successful/popular people are easy targets. I never had a problem with the guy… until now. While his ShoeMoney System is ridiculously expensive ($197 to start plus $197/month thereafter) and directed at total noobs, I’m not doubting it could be valuable for the right people. My problem? [...]

EBay Changing Affiliate Program To PPC Based “Quality Click Pricing”

by trigatch4 on August 19th, 2009 1 Comments

A lot of folks followed my phpBay tutorial which utilizes the EBay affiliate program so I figured now would be a good time to break the silence on myblog: EBay has just sent out a letter to all affiliates outlining a sweeping change in the way they calculate earnings and payments of affiliates.
Under the new [...]

Hot Products: Follow The Pattern

by trigatch4 on May 17th, 2009 No Comments

As you probably know by now, I’m a HUGE advocate of keeping your eyes and ears to the street, using tidbits of information to direct your online ventures. So when I saw an article on Yahoo named “Hot in recession: Cheaper wine, chocolate, Spam” I knew I had to click. Instead of guessing where interest [...]

Google Squared: Making Scraper Sites Easy

by trigatch4 on May 12th, 2009 No Comments

I just saw this article on TechCrunch about a new Google service called “Google Squared” that puts results into databases based on customized columns that you decide. Watch the video, taking particular interest at about 3:30 in, and if you’re a scraping kinda guy/gal you’re probably getting a little hot and bothered:

I’d like to make [...]

Digg Toolbar Launches

by trigatch4 on April 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Thought some of you might like to know that the Digg Toolbar just launched:

With an url shortening service included, it might help take digg into the next age of social media as it’s been getting a lot of hate lately, especially with Twitter kind of taking over all the hype. I’m not a huge Digg [...]

Top 5 Reasons I Hate Your Blog

by trigatch4 on April 2nd, 2009 5 Comments

I use Google Reader religiously. You should, too. If you’re looking for content to write than perhaps my system will help you depending on your web strategy. Personally, most of my “big” sites are information based sites with blogs and forum communities. How do I stay on top of the news?
I make a folder for [...]

Google Pagerank Update: April 2009

by trigatch4 on April 2nd, 2009 3 Comments

We all agree that pagerank means pretty much nothing in the grand scheme of things. But there are still PR whores out there who pay close attention to the PR of their sites for a variety of reasons:

It still provides some type of measuring stick
Advertisers use it to value a site, so we have to [...]

Got Mass Twitter Accounts? TweetMeme FTW!

by trigatch4 on April 1st, 2009 1 Comments

I don’t have a massive amount of fake twitter accounts – it’s not my style but more importantly, I don’t have the skills to get the job done. But I know some of you out there are creating twitter accounts by the dozens, hundreds and maybe even thousands. This opportunity is for you.
I just heard [...]

Free Idea: Make Bank From Conficker C

by trigatch4 on March 25th, 2009 2 Comments

This is a short-term idea so you’ve got to act quickly. No guarantees on this one – but with some hard work and a little luck you could make a lot of money.
Conficker C is a computer virus that aims to take over the entire interwebz on April 1st, 2009. I literally JUST saw the [...]