The adventures of Paul Robinson

Url2Thumb is a handy-dandy command line tool that creates a thumbnail picture of any website.

Until this explanation of kerning pairs, I really had nooooo idea.

The Paper Bull has the same experience with Kontera as I (and everyone else who has tried it). Rest in Peace Kontera:
“Absolutely pointless - every last one of them. And all of them were retrieved from experienced sites whose authors know a thing or two of sound SEO techniques and practices. As if my […]

Nate tips me off that Mr. Gary Lee is at it again with his evil link trains.
This one is meant to increase the number people who favorite your blog with Technorati, which according to those in the know, can have incredible benefits, such as more friends, eternal life, and in one case, someone got fire-breathing […]

The DoFollow meme is gaining steam.
Mark tagged me with another D-list making the rounds.
Here are the rules of the D-List
***Begin to copy here***
1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn’t a suggestion. You need to […]

Scott Jangro has a much better alternative to Tim O’Reilly’s soporific Bloggers Code of Conduct. Use this motto in life and in your blog.

Uncov on why Web 2.0 sucks:
It has been said (by me) that what happens in Web 2.0 stays in Web 2.0. In AJAX development, programmers can’t be held responsible for, say, the amount of memory their giant JavaScript application uses, because hey, that’s the browser’s problem. We don’t care about the browser taking 100% of […]

Many have written on how to get your story Dugg, but Voltier has done an especially good job.
Essentially there are only two options - report a scoop or “re-load” an existing story.
I love the concept of taking an already exiting (but not yet well known) item and adding “viral load”:
You absolutely cannot disregard […]

Blogging Mistakes

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Last week I participated in a writing project sponsored by Daily Blog Tips. Here’s the final list of participants:

My Blogging Mistakes and Their Outcome by Thilak
A Star for a day. What I learned by Clever Dude
My Biggest Blogging Mistake: Posting Frequency by Chris
Your Blog Will Perish for Lack of Vision by Shawn
My Biggest […]

Look who was here at this humble blog….

Mister John Chow himself. John just published the March earnings from his own site.

This link to me and I’ll link to you thing is getting out of hand so here are a whole bunch of sites that will link back to you if you write a review of them. There are usually a bunch of bogus rules, like the review must be 200 words, and the anchor […]

Blogging Secret is offering a linkback in exchange for a review of his tricks to make money online.
Blogging Secret is another in the ever growing category of blogs that seeks to help bloggers make money online (see what you started Problogger.net!!).
The site is nice and clean and is run by LOUI$$, a undergraduate student in […]

Today I’m reading Make Money Online with Malaysia Love AGLOCO.

If ever there were a blog that clearly explained its intentions in the title this is it!
The author is working on building up his AGLOCO network (I’m not a member yet - who will sign me up first by linking to me?) The articles are interesting […]

Happy April Fools!

Andrew Kuo Review

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This is a review of AndewKuo.net. Andrew is a full-time college student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
His blog is full of tips and observations about making money on the internet. You can also get a linkback from him if you send a review his way.
Particularly interesting are the […]

This is a review a very cool Internet marketing blog, NetBusinessBlog.
NetBusinessBlog writes about online business strategies and looks at what works (and what doesn’t) in the online money-making space. NBB is written by Matt Coddington.
Recommended.

Turns out the Feedburner chiclet that shows how many RSS subscribers you have is super easy to fake by putting someone else’s Feedburner code with your feed URL. See How I Got 283K RSS Subscribers.
Towards my own journey of 283K readers, why not Subscribe to my RSS Feed.

Today I’m doing a My Name Is In My Domain list. You can participate if you name is in your domain!
The Instructions
1) Write a short introduction paragraph about how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
2) COPY the ENTIRE list below and add it […]

DoshDosh on the strategy of sponsoring a Wordpress theme to build linkbacks.

Daily Blog Tips has a new Blog Project encouraging bloggers to write about their past blogging mistake.  Daily Blog Tips is a great resource for any blogger and I’m sure every blogger has done some things that, in retrospect, weren’t such a great idea.
For me the worst mistake was to spend too much time looking […]

Mr. Gary Lee

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Mr. Gary Lee is offering a linkback in exchange for a review so here it is!
mrgarylee.com (clever domain name there since everyone’s own name is usally already taken he has added the Mr to the beginning - I like it!) is nicely written with lots of useful posts like this about importing your blogger blog […]

Now you can comment on this blog and get a full followed link to your site. If you have a blog consider going Do Follow too.
Some more bloggers who have removed the no-follow attribute from their commenters links:

Scoble
Chris Garrett
Andy Beard
Instigator Blog

Why are commenters web site URLs set to be no-follow links automatically by most blog software?
Well the idea is to reduce comment spam by eliminating the motivation for spamming in the first place - ie: the link juice. Nice, logical idea. The problem is, it doesn’t work.
As all bloggers know, you will […]

Gather Success is a blog by 25 year-old internet marketer Alvin Phang.
His site details how he is building his online business and making money on the internet including an intriguing story, How To Get 3300 Visites on the 6th Day of Your Blog.
Definitely worth checking out, Alvins writing style is clear and informative.

Ja Kel Daily Dot Com eventually wants to make money and is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog.

The Useless Stats Plugin is a nice addition to any Wordpress install. It generates stats on your posting frequency and habits that you can check from the admin page. A good way to see just how much (or little) you are actually posting.
Useless Stats for David Paul Robinson
Generated March 28, 2007 by Useless […]

Blog Rambler has a good post explaining how to setup your robots.txt file so that all the duplicate links that Wordpress generates (to your Archives, etc) don’t throw Google off the scent when it comes to indexing your site properly.
If you create a standard Wordpress site you will have same post display under the specific […]

There are so many ways to work your blog to try to make it better, more linked and more noticed but blogging is one of those activities that really benefits from consistency. So here is a Daily Discipline for pulling your blog up:

1. Write Simple, I know. But if you aren’t writing […]

No sooner had I finished filling out the application to have Text Link Ads ads on my site when I was instantly (and politely with nice fonts) rejected.

TLA has a slick site compared to many others and they promise to let me in once I’m one of the popular kids. Apply here

I just discovered Firebug via the Big Medium blog, and I have to say, Wow!
The abilty to click on any page element and see the CSS and tweak that CSS and see the page update in realtime is fabulous all by itself. But you can also measure web download speed (by element), monitor Ajax […]

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