Archive for June, 2007

Populating New Forums

by trigatch4 on June 23rd, 2007

I’ve seen these question asked dozens of times on webmaster boards: “What’s the best way to drive traffic to new forums?  What’s the best way to get content on a new forum?”
The answers are typically, “make 10 posts a day under different names, ” or ,”buy a pay per post package from a company like [...]

Forecasting Strong Domains

by trigatch4 on June 23rd, 2007

Well things haven’t been going ALL that great if you measure success my income and traffic numbers.  The growth hasn’t been substantial.  But, I can say, that I bought 3 domains based on Google Trends and while 1 of them was a one time traffic bust and ultimate fluke, the other two have tremendous potential [...]

I Need Laptop Ergonomics

by trigatch4 on June 21st, 2007

I always thought the idea of keyboard ergonomics was dumb.  Probably the same way little kids think stretching before sports is dumb or loosening up your arm before throwing is dumb.  But, the older you get the more your muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves need that care from the wear and tear.
So here I am, [...]

False Job Advertising?

by trigatch4 on June 21st, 2007

I had my interview today and I did a pretty bang up job… but it definitely was not what I expected.  First of all I did NOT use my idea of pre-creating a Wordpress blog – I thought it was a little bit too forward and could even be considered “infringing” on their territory or [...]

Job Interview Preperation

by trigatch4 on June 17th, 2007

Happy Father’s Day everyone!  Since it’s Father’s Day, I won’t be getting much work done on my sites.  My Dad coaches my younger brother’s baseball team and they have a double header – I’m going to the first game, then going to the mall to find a present (impossible) bringing my sister home for a [...]

Trouble Posting YouTube Videos in Wordpress

by trigatch4 on June 16th, 2007

I had this problem awhile back, but for some reason, it hasn’t come up in awhile.  The way Wordpress works with it’s Visual Editor and Code View, if you try and embed YouTube videos you could run into some difficulty.  This problem is exacerbated if you’re switching between visual and code view.  For example, you [...]

Using Wordpress MU for Big Ideas

by trigatch4 on June 16th, 2007

I’ve been a big proponent of Wordpress over the past 6 months, using it to support the vast majority of websites/domains I own that aren’t forum based.  For those, I use vBulletin.  But for a recent project I’m now developing, I couldn’t get my arms around a logical setup.  I tried to map it out [...]

Need Ideas for your Websites?

by trigatch4 on June 15th, 2007

You’ve got a bunch of websites but you’re struggling to come up with ideas for new content, offers to push or finding ways to grow your site further.  What to do?  This is such an OBVIOUS idea, I’m sure many of you are already using it.  But at the same time, sometime the little things [...]

Random Thursday Thoughts

by trigatch4 on June 14th, 2007

I’m in a random mood and have a few things to share with you: (1) My FeedBurner Stats,  (2) Weekend Plans and (3) Some posts on other blogs that you should read.
FeedBurner
I finally decided to give a hoot about those little orange buttons in the upper right hand corner of my blog reading feed on [...]

10 Dumbest & Gayest Cities

by trigatch4 on June 12th, 2007

What is the epitome of dumb? If you ask me, it’s visiting Google or Yahoo and actually SEARCHING for Google.com or Yahoo.com. Where do all these idiots come from? That’s not a rhetorical question… with the help of Google Trends we set out to discover just that.
Google Trends is a keyword analyzer [...]