Month of September , 2006

Ever since I passed the Google Adwords exam, I’ve been chomping at the bit for an idea to play with Adwords. I think I’ve found it.

My friend does sports paintings, really nice sports paintings. He can take any picture and turn it into a realistic looking painting. He’s extremely talented.

Well anyway, we were out for a beer last night catching up. I asked him if he was still painting. He said, all the time. Said he wasn’t selling too many. I asked where he was working and he said he had an “ok” job at xyz company.  read more »

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I found an interesting thing the other day. I clicked on one of my post’s and went to the page and viewed my source. Uh-oh, two sets of meta tags!! I checked some more posts, same thing.

I know what caused it. I have meta tags defined in my header file and I also use the custom tags of keywords and description. This creates two sets of meta tags for each post. Ugh. Google hates that.

I wonder how far this has set me back? I’ve resolved the issue by removing them from the header.php file. I’m hoping my traffic improves now.

I’m at the point where I need to start investing some money back into my sites. So I pose the question if you had $500 to spend on your blog, how would you spend it?

AdWords comes to mind first. But it’s a blog, I don’t think adwords is effective on a blog. I’ve always let my blogs grow organically. Yeah, I’ll trade links and do submissions, etc. But good ol fashion SEO seems to pay off.

I’m sure you’re thinking…hire a designer! Oh, no no no. Not for me. I’m of the school that ugly sites out perform the pretty ones. Just like Rock, the ugly bands rock the hardest.  read more »