After watching Rand’s video about wiki-jacking, which I foun on Micheal’s SEO Blog, I came up with some what insane idea. But you need to watch the video first.

my insane idea is based on the fact that……

My “Enemy” is Wikipedia

While this blog is ranking in the first place on Google for quiet some time now for “Vlad The Affiliate”, if you search just “Vlad” you will see that Wikipedia occupies the first search result with a page about Vlad The Impaler (aka Dracula).

You Can Help Me In This Battle

If you ever consider to give me a link just use “Vlad” in your link’s anchor text. Do I think I would ever occupy the first place on Google for my name? I think everything is possible- besides the other guy is dead and he certainly doesn’t care.

Below is the code for the link to “about” page if you want to do it now:

How long do you think will it take me to to at least rank #2 for my name?

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I know that few of my “blogging” buddies may be disappointed not to see me video blogging these days. I will be back!

The reason I do not video blog is that my Sony DCR-SR82 is on its way back to the store. I have to say that I am very disappointed by the performance of this camcorder. The main attraction when I bought this camera was its impressive 60BG hard drive while entire camera fits the palm of your hand. Unfortunately the video quality made by this camera is far from being on par with its MiniDV cousins, in fact it does not even match the quality of videos made by Flip Camcorder- and the funny part is I could have both MiniDv camcorder along with the Flip Camcorder for nearly the same price as I paid for Sony DCR-SR82.

Bottom line is that Sony DCR-SR82 is way overpriced for the quality of footage it delivers.

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If you are like me, enjoy fishing that is….

Is the Next Internet Millionaire turning into “Internet Fear Factor”? Maybe, but it is definitely a unique way to lunch a product or even a line of products. Mind you that audience of The Next Internet Millionaire is more targeted than let say of the Trump’s Apprentice.

Anyway I would probably skipped this episode if the was not for Andy and his comments on my review of episode #3:

I get the feeling that at the end of the series, they will actually launch a backend product

Don’t you get a feeling that things are purposely omitted in the episodes? Well, Andy’s prediction materialized in the episode #4, you need to brace yourself for entire 49 minutes to see that part though.

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After writing yesterday’s article about Somoney post, I found myself playing around in implementing some tracking suggested by Jeremy. I do not particularly spend much money on promoting this blogs. But if I like the numbers, I maybe “knocking on your door” to talk with you about advertising, if your website is sending my way some traffic that is.

Before reading Jeremy’s post I did not put much thought into comparing the income on this or other blogs along side of the number of RSS subscriptions.

In his post Jeremy came short of posting the exact code of what he calls the “jump page”, so I have attempted to create one of my own which you can see at the end of this post. I would highly recommend to follow his blog, since in the comments he indicated of posting the code sometime next week. I am sure he will post more sophisticated solution.

Anyway, if you pay close attention, my big RSS button along with the “feed counter” image are linked to http://sageblogger.com/subscribe.html - the jump page which sends visitors to this blog’s feed over at FeedBurner while collecting some info via Google Analytics. Feel free to use it for yourself, just remember to replace “YOURFEEDSURL” with the actual url for your feed and use your own code from Google Analytics.

In the code below the “CONTENT” has two parameters. One is telling the browser to refresh the page after certain amount of time, the second is the url where the visitor will be taken to, in this case it is the feed’s URL. I have set the time value to 0(zero) so that visitor does not actually see the “jump page”, increasing this number will mean that your visitor may be able to see the page so it may be a good idea to put some content there. It can be just simple explanation that they are being redirected to another page.

Of ourse if you have a better solution please let me know.

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I just came across the article by Shoemoney where he explains how you can measure the value of RSS subscriber(s) via Google Analytics.

It’s a must read article if your budget for promotig your blog. It is interesting that Jeremy mentions that he gets only 3% of traffic from the search engines:

…keep in mind that this site gets less then 3% of its visitors from search engines. So my valuation for RSS subscribers is probably a little higher then someone who 50% of there traffic is from search engines.

So if you want to track these numbers you may need to adjust your number accordingly.