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Twitter is a Monster of a Promotion Tool - Let’s Try an Experiment…

Over the past two weeks, I’ve learned a lot about maximizing twitter. Before, I didn’t know the point of Twitter, now because of Twitter, I’m getting steady traffic around 800-1000 hits per day. (Not too shabby after 15 days, being back up and live, and having roughly 30 blog posts so far.)

On top of the subscribers, the diggs, and the traffic - I’ve also met some wonderful people, found some interesting blogs, had some interesting conversations, and increased the conversation at my site. I’ve gotten a total of 88 comments on this blog, since March 17th.

March 17th was also the day my traffic began going up, up and away.

The next experiment is actually a Twitter Meme.

Goal: For each participant to receive the following:

1. More followers on Twitter.
2. More RSS Subscribers.

How this works:

1. Subscriber to my Feed. Via RSS, or Via Email.
2. Follow me on Twitter:  PatrickCurl
3. Put a comment stating that you subscribed & Followed. In your comment - provide your RSS FEED link, and your Twitter Profile Link.
4. Please follow / subscribe to those who have commented before you. If you like, you can come back regularly and subscribe to the new people on the list, it is highly recommended, but not mandatory.
5. Send this link out via Twitter, and See if we can’t get 100 subscribers / followers per person listed. (Here’s the tinyurl to make it easier: http://tinyurl.com/37k65m )
6. We would also ask that each person who joins this movement - write a quick blog post about it - and link to this post (as this is where all the subscription / follow links will be.)
7. You can also send out the blog link that you just wrote to Twitter, as well for added exposure.

As you can see this is a great way to promote your blog - but it is also an experiment, I’m excited to see the kind of momentum we can build on Twitter.

Other things you can do is stumble this post, digg it, sphinn it, favorite on delicious, etc…

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I’m just totally amazed. Last week I wrote a post, which I thought was good, and all my twitter buds, seemed to like it as well, as they gave me a good boost on Digg.

You can read and or Digg that post here: “7 Ways to Be Best Buds With an A-List Blogger“  or Digg it here.

Over the weekend, I had some huge traffic to my blog as a result of the digging, and twittering of that post.

My bandwidth was huge, and the most amazing part is my Subscriber Base went from 81 Subscribers on Friday - ALL the way to a whopping 1836 SUBSCRIBERS, as of Today!

I totally can’t believe how much twitter has increased my site’s reach.

Have you experienced a Digg & Twitter Boost? What were your results?

What’s the most new subscribers you’ve received in a short period of time?

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Here’s the plan. On the homepage there are a number of April Fool’s Day Joke Posts. I hope you can figure out which ones are jokes, lol.

Here’s the plan: Let’s make the internet community BELIEVE it’s REAL!

It’s one thing for one person to say something - but it’s totally different when you get a lot of people saying the same thing!

Pick 1 or pick all - and write a blog post, about the topic, linking back to the original.

The more creative you are, the better - feel free to include youtube video’s, photoshopped images, etc….to Increase the shock value.

Then come back here, and submit the link to your post in the comments - I will write up a 1 paragraph review of EVERY Blog that participates. I will also be picking one blog to do a complete blog review for, graphic intense, with a bunch of out-going links. This is currently worth about $40 as I have 1000 hits per day.

The best post, will also receive a Permanent Blogroll Link, on this site, as well as BlogContestSite.com (PR3).

Make me PROUD! Also feel free to digg / Sphinn the posts.

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Shoemoney Arrested and Tazed!

Jeremy Shoemaker, aka Shoemoney was arrested Sunday night, for “Riding a Bike Under the Influence”. Apparently, and I agree, he thought it was better to ride a bike to the bar than a car, so as to prevent himself from getting a DUI. He did not know it is also illegal to Ride a Bike under the Influence.

Two cops, watching the establishment saw him leaving, followed him for a mile and arrested him.

It also seems that the cops claim he was resisting arrest, and they were forced to Taze him.

Shoemoney, swares he wasn’t resisting, and had only had 2 beers to drink. Shoemoney is talking with his lawyers, as to whether he is going to file charges against the cops, for unnecessary roughness.

I just can’t wait to see the youtube video! Lol.

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UPDATE!!!! THIS POST WAS ONLY A JOKE.

Apparently someone posted it on Darren’s Wikipedia page, and all hell broke loose.

In order to keep seo continuity I won’t delete the post entirely - BUT I do want to let everyone know that it was just an April Fool’s day Joke. For all of those who say I was early. It was April Fool’s day in Australia at the time. Remember not everywhere in the world is sharing the same day / time that you are.

Apparently some have taken offense to this post, I do apologize to those, including Darren. I did not mean to defame your character or person. I hope this addendum to this post will prove that point.

Problogger is Bankrupt!

Darren Rowse, probably one of the most famous and talked about bloggers in the blogosphere is filing bankruptcy. Apparently, his blog has been a farce, and he was ‘faking it till making it’.

The truth is that he never was making it. The most he’s earned is $1000 in a month, which went to bandwidth fees, and server hosting. His wife is threatening divorce if he doesn’t call it quits.

He has spent his savings, and built up a lot in credit card debt, in order to be able to go to all the blogging conventions, and build up connections which he swore would make him rich, but never really delivered.

He states, that if I fail, then everyone does. Which makes sense since his blog is one of the most trafficked out there. He is the authority on making money blogging, and to find out the Authority is broke, is quite dis-heartening.

This truly is a sad day for blogging, as it - pretty much means that all of us trying to make money on this should give up and go home. Go back to school, or get a real job, at a factory or something.

Wait - why am I wasting my time writing this post then? I quit!

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Long Live GOOGLE-Soft!

Apparently, the CEO of Microsoft told the Google CEO, “Ha - we will sell you our company for 1 Trillion Dollars!”, adding: “yeah, right” under his breath.

This was all in jest, and a joking manner, however it was also on live television, and Google’s CEO immediately pulled out a checkbook and wrote a check for $1 Trillion Dollars. Bill Gates, at hearing the news crapped his pants.

Apparently Microsoft under-estimated the Search Engine giant, citing that they had no idea Google had
that much money available.

On a related note - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, on hearing the news, tracked down the CEO of Microsoft, and shot him point blank with a .22 revolver, before ending his own life, ironically he couldn’t shoot himself, so he took a PC, filled a bathtub and took a bath with a Personal Computer. Ironic because it is his company that helped put a computer in just about every household in America.

I’m curious what we do now, since Google, now owns the whole internet / computing world, pretty much.
Talk about a big Monopoly. What are your thoughts on the matter?

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I receive a few submissions for my guest blogger spot, and I do appreciate them of course. However I think I mis-explained things. So far I’ve received links to articles that have already been written. I would only be re-publishing the posts. A Guest Blogger post is a post that is written explicitly to only be published on the blog that you’re Guest Blogging for.

The Guest post needs to be new, meaning it can’t be published on any other site, people have been sending me links to already published blog posts, and due to the way search engine optimization works, it can’t be already indexed and duplicated.

I would like the full article emailed to me, it can be as an html file, plain text in the email, or anything similar.

IF I post it - I will add a byline for you and link to your blog, as well as everything else mentioned in the original blog post:Patrick’s Star Search - Looking for Some Guest Bloggers!

Basically the post must never have been posted on another blog, it must never have been seen by human eyes other than yours or perhaps, your spouses, it must be unique and original, and be the first time ever being spidered by search engines.

Let me know if you have any further questions regarding this THANKS!

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Word out on the street is that there’s a new Wordpress ready to launch.

This is all grand and wonderful, but there are some setbacks.

Don’t get me wrong the new design is somewhat sleek - however, I had grown accustomed to the advanced admin menu plugin which essentially turns the menu into dropdown menu’s. Sometimes wordpress is really slow and this makes pretty much all navigation one-click.

I think, with all the new javascript based technologies out there today, such as ajax, jquery, etc - it wouldn’t be too much of an issue for them to include a drop down-like menu standard in Wordpress.

Another plugin that lacks functionality in Wordpress 2.5 is the Gregarious plugin, which I was using for social bookmarking / diggs etc.

I’m also not sure I like the way they redid the side-bar in the new post area.

But it does look a lot better in other ways, and I can see it being a lot easier to navigate for newbies. My beef is probably just the fact that I’m so used to the older styles look, that the new change will take some time to get used to.

Have you tried the new Wordpress? Let me know your thoughts.

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