ToddDickerson's blog

Some of you may have noticed I spent some time to day upgrading parts of the site. The backend software has been upgrade but there is still a bit more work to do. There may be a period of downtime tomorrow as well.

Also I changed the front page format to be a screened opt-in. I want the opinion of the posters here regarding it. Do you prefer this format or the top sales letter on the page for guests?

Lots more changes on the way!

Thanks!
- TD

We have a good number of changes and updates underway. We're upgrading the core site software to run faster and deal with search engines better and we're creating a great affiliate program and invite only system.

Also we have a few other projects underway such as:
Layouts 2.0 - Myspace Layouts
&
Politics 2.0

Keep up the great writing!
Todd

I ordered a package today that I think some of you might be interested in. I know all of you are to at least some extent interested in making money online. Article websites and writing websites such as fusepress and other niche websites can make a great deal of money.

Without getting into too much detail right now:
One great strategy is to basically pick a niche topic, build a website around it, use some of your own research and writings, 20-30% articles written by other people, and 20-30% articles you've changed around that you have rights to (these articles are known as private labal articles). Add adsense, ebay ads, etc and promote it via SEO techniques and you can great a nice little money maker pretty quickly. Now you're not going to get rich on one site w/ 50 articles on it but if you can make 50-100 month with it and duplicate the idea in different markets you can quickly get up into the thousand+/month range.

Looks like the heat surrounding AOL's paid 'certified email' service just got a little hotter.

On Thursday MoveOn.org (a petition group against AOL's possible plans to create an email tax), sent out its normal optin newsletter to its members, only all users with an aol.com email address had this message BLOCKED by AOL, WITHOUT even sending a message back with failure of delivery.

MoveOn.org sent out a notice to their subscribers about the events:

"AOL was caught red-handed censoring email, and now the public knows their credibility is gone," said Adam Green, a spokesperson for MoveOn.org Civic Action.

I wanted to update everyone and mention the newest Google pagerank update. We're now the highest pagerank "Paid To Blog" website on the Internet! All this in under a month!

What does this mean? Without going into too much detail, Google pagerank is basically a way of identifying which sites Google views as important and likes to send traffic and search engine rankings toward. This should be a great indicator of future growth and earnings potentials for your writings. Pagerank means your posts will get indexed faster and traffic to them faster! We now can say officially we have the best opportunity for users to make money from their blog posts! If you were using one of the other guys before, maybe its time to switch here for good. :-)

Just wanted to let everyone know our migration to our new server should be done.

The site is 20 times faster already. Get ready for some great new modifications now that we have a server that can handle more.

Just wanted to let everyone know I'm back in town and I'm in the process of setting up a new Dual Opteron server for the site to be hosted on. We should be fully changed over in the next day or 2. We may have a little down time tomorrow or wednesday but hopefully nothing long. This should fix the long load times some of us have been experiencing!

Just wanted to update everyone and appologize if I'm slow responding to messages.

I will eventually get through them all, but I'm in DC for the weekend at an Internet Marketing seminar.

Keep the great content coming!

- Todd