100k Job Blogging From Home

It was all by accident, I found a trick he was playing to get more sales for his Mastermind course.

When he put up a post bragging one of his students achieved 3000+ daily visitors within 2 months, I did a quick check on Alexa on the site he was showcasing, the ranking was like 1.6 million (3 month average) and 1.2 million for the previous week(as of 1 October). According to my experience with my own blog, that doesn’t reflect 3000+ daily visitors at all. I was deeply in doubt about the integrity and reliability of Alexa ranking. So I tried to submit a comment on his post about this. Guess what, that comment never showed up, which made me feel that he was trying to hide something.

Anyway, I was not quite care as I thought it was not his intention to put up a trick like that, and I kept on commenting on his blog. To my totally surprise, none of my following comments(all good comments) was showing up, obviously I was banned from commenting on his blog.

This however just firmly proved that he had something to hide. When I went back to check the Alexa ranking for the same site, it was boosted to 1.2 million (3 month average) and 140k(weekly average) and 70k for yesterday(as of 6 October). He does get the power to boost a blog’s Alexa ranking in a fairly short period of time, just forgot to do so before he putting up his bragging post.

Funny enough, he put up a post not long ago questioning “Can you make money online without lying?” He does have the answer for himself I guess. I thought he was a decent honest person at that point of time.

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The latest news which sends a shock wave through the whole blog world at the moment,  an one man blog sold for 15 million dollars. Everyone’s first reaction was “is it true?”. That’s why I sent an email to the owner of the blog Johns Wu and got his confirmation of the sale (see the image below, click for a large one).

The blog is Bankaholic.com - a banking and finance related blog built on WordPress.  I’m sure there will be more stories flowing through about the blog and the owner soon, so I will not speculate what was the motive behind the deal. All I can say is that: WOW, while the economy is in a recession, a blog bubble is here now.

When a medical doctor stoped practicing and turned into a professional blogger(MacRumors.com), when someone can build a $30k plus monthly income from blogging within 2 years(JohnChow.com), when a company that sells concrete trailers(Cart Away Concrete) set up a booth in the Blog World Expo, do I need more approve for my point - a blog bubble is here now.

I am more inspired than ever, are you?

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In the latest round of Google update over the weekend, my blog had got a PR2. I was a bit disappointed as after I managed to put up a post almost every day for the last 60 odd days, and commenting on some heavy weight blogs/forums madly to get some dofollow back links from PR6/PR5 blogs/sites, I was hoping to get at least a PR3(which I achieved for another blog with much less effort, see that post). Anyway, it is better than none, just another incentive to keep myself up beating. As a precaution as well as an experiment, I disabled my dofollow plugin to see if that was the culprit.

My Alexa ranking at the mean time is more amiable as it cracked the 1million mark within the same period, stands at 923,491 at the time of writing.

The technorati ranking (similar to Alexa ranking, the smaller the better) is also promising as it improved from over 1.5 million to around 260k.

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A video posted on johnchow.com prompted me thinking of a possible law suit which could get Twitter in trouble. It claims to be the world’s first Twitter accident, a lady broke her leg while twittering on a charity walk for a cancer foundation. I did a quick look at Twitters TOS and to my surprise, there is no item mentioned about user safety when using Twitter.

If you were Twitter’s CEO, what you would do immediately after you saw this video?

I would do the following:

• Send this lady $100k to cover here medical expense, send the cancer foundation $100k to make the lady even happier (thus no law suit). This will make a perfect promotion case for Twitter while avoid a possible law suit.

• Amend the TOS as quick as possible to add in another term: users responsible for any harm incurred by using Twitter. This will eliminate possible law suit in the future.

• Post a safety warning of the home page warning people on safe twittering.

• Send 100kjob.info $100k for this advice. (As it may save Twitter millions in compensation payout)

Here is the post on johnchow.com with the video - World’s First Twitter Accident.

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This is a hilarious video, hope it gives you some incentive as a blogger.

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While reading his latest free report “The Entrepreneurial Emergency “, I’m watching(listening mostly) his live Q & A session on ustream.tv. He hosts a 24 hour live session simply to answer readers question regarding his report. Imaging talking without much interrupt for a whole 24 hours, that is something crazy, truly a talking marathon. Even himself is not believing he is doing this.

For those who doesn’t know what this guy is, Rich Schefren is widely known as “The Online Guru’s  Guru:” His tools and techniques have  been proven to add hundreds of thousands,  even millions of dollars to his clients’ bottom  lines.  Rich thinks several levels above and ahead of anyone else out there-  teaching cutting edge principles that both  acknowledge and leverage changes in the  media and the marketplace. He’s become legendary by taking a countless number of clients’ small business startups past the $10 million mark in 18 months or less. His client list (the ones he’s allowed to talk about) reads like a whose who of internet marketing:Brad Fallon, Mike Filsaime, Jim Edwards, Marlon Sanders, John Carlton, Joel Comm, Tellman Knudson, Gary Ambrose, Keith Baxter, Carl Galetti,Jeff Walker, Ryan Deiss, Keith Welllman, Stu McLaren, Tim Knox, Chris Carpenter, Don Crowther, Sterling Valentine, Yaro Starak. Plus Many, Many More You Would De?nitely Recognize.

In his report, he brings out some mind-opening (or even “revolutionary”) thoughts like:
“Only the POTENTIAL of your business is determined by your talents, knowledge, commitment and the amount of time and effort you spend trying to grow it. The ACTUAL SUCCESS of your business is determined by your CONSTRAINTS.”

He gave seven silver bullets to help you blast away possible constraints in your business. Get a report for yourself, definitely worth reading.

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Public domain repositories are goldmines of free available information. The
information found there can be freely used, rewritten to suit
yourself, broken into short articles or several ebooks or
published as is. Check the laws for your own country first.
You can find almost anything you need in the public domain, like
software, pictures, movies, plays, poetry, ebooks, music, artwork or
technical works to name a few. A Google search for “public Domain”
will fill your folders with more resources than you will ever need.
Here’s a few to get you started:
In the US:
•Project Gutenberg
•Project Bartleby
•Christian Classics Ethereal Library
In the United Kingdom:
•Free Classic Literature Library
•British Library Collection
•The Morgue File
•Virtual Library
•Newspaper Archives

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Social bookmarking is having a huge impact on the way that information is being classified, categorized, stored and exchanged.

It is impossible to believe that in the future the impact will be even stronger. Web 1.0 was static but Web 2.0 is fluid. The face is ever changing.

The technology that social bookmarking is based upon is really rather simple…there isn’t anything complex about it. It is user friendly. The level of knowledge needed to gain huge benefits from social bookmarking is low.

People do not have to be computer gurus to make use of the technology at all. The technology is so simple and the system is so easy to use that it will continue to grow in popularity into the foreseeable future.

Because of this inevitable growth of social bookmarking and the easily used tagging of such things as multimedia files, it may well be just as inevitable that the design and function of databases themselves will also change drastically.

They may have to change just to be able to accommodate this new way of managing information.

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