25.12.2009
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It’s no secret that the economy is tanking, and will not be recovering for many years. Taxes are rising, which takes money directly out of the pockets of consumers. The War on Global Warming will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and the cost of compliance with new government regulations will be dwarf even that. The cost of servicing the national debt and other non-discretionary federal spending will soon leave little money for anything else.
However, as with all changes, this also brings opportunity. Web publishers are quickly adapting to the new economy by creating web sites and web pages on how to receive government funds, how to deal with unemployment, and how to adjust to a lower standard of living than the one to which we have become accustomed.
Our own entries into this rapidly growing niche include Live Dirt Cheap and Homemade Guides. These sites contain useful information to help people live better on the percentage of their money which the government allows them to keep.
I believe that this information will be useful even when the economy does eventually recover. Financial conservatism is seldom a bad idea. It helped our grandparents weather the last depression and it will help us weather the current one.
17.09.2009
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I am very tired of Google penalizing my political sites. I have web sites in dozens of niches, but it’s only the political sites which get penalized by Google. Google will probably penalize my other sites just for mentioning this. <sigh>
Oddly, it’s not only serious political sites which Google censors. Many years ago I built a site called Political Humor. Well, Google apparently has no sense of humor when it involves making jokes about their influential friends in Washington. Google penalized the site by dropping it to PR0 and removing it almost completely from the search results.
The site has been penalized so long that I didn’t bother to update it for the last presidential election. Effectively, I allowed Google to silence my voice. I feel terrible about this. Yahoo and Bing have such tiny shares of the search market that they are almost irrelevant.
Instead, I must expand beyond search to route around Google’s secret censorship of the ‘net. I will rebuild and update the site later this year — possibly on a new domain. Then I will promote the site via social media such as Facebook and Twitter. I will not let Google silence my voice.
17.09.2009
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PromoJunkie is sponsoring a new SEO contest, the Oes Tsetnoc SEO Contest.
The prizes are:
- $1,000
- $300
- $200
The contest ends on 15 December 2009.
Hellas, winner of the recent NetBuilders SEO Contest, has already started with his Oes Tsetnoc entry and we wish him success in this new contest of SEO skill!