Pedro Sttau

Just finished watching the first episode of Top Affiliate Challenge.

I must say I was a bit disapointed with the production side of things, but if they manage to improve on this area the show can be really great.

Was also a bit surprised to see everyone having their say in the “team room”, and then see John Cow was completely “skiped”. What was that all about? It was pretty much the only person in that particuylar group that I was looking foward to listening.

A lot of acting going on too, and I feel that If people acted more naturally, and stopped trying to be someone else for the camreas the show would have a different flow.

But all and all, exciting beggining and I wont be missing the next episodes.

Positives

Negatives

Oh the sweet taste of freedom, the idea that you can sit and relax and let your inner most creative ideas take over and create something beautiful, what could be better right?

You are the professional, I’ll leave the creative choices to you

Yeah Right.

I tell you what, here is what they are really saying is:

I am too damn lazy to brief you on what I really want, so taking into considerationt he fact that I am paying you, who knows, you might have extraterrestrial telepathic abilities and use them to find out what I want.

Oh oh and of course don’t worry, if you don’t get things right, you can always start again from scratch, but hurry up, as you have some time to gain considering you just wasted my precious time with your..crazy insane ALIEN ideas!
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For god’s sake!!!!

There is no such thing as total create freedom, PERIOD!

Either you know what you want or you don’t. If you don’t know what you want that’s fine, let’s try and figure that out before I/we commit time to create something out of thin air.

Now that that’s out of my system! Hi guys, great to be posting again!

This is something that has been bugging me for quite some time.

Over and over again I see stories reaching Diggs home page that simply redirect to a 404 Page or a “bandwidth quota exceeded” message.

Hosting isn’t that expensive you know? As a matter of fact it’s much harder to make it on digg’s homepage then it is to get a reliable Hosting service at a low price.

Traffic is Money!!

At least for some of us. If you’ve made Digg’s homepage, and couldn’t care less about the traffic, or just can’t be bothered to pay 10 bucks for a decent hosting account, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I’ll gladly provide you with proper hosting facilities that will accommodate your content and my ads.

Pedro Sttau the Samaritan

That’s right boys and girls, Zinc is toxic, it’s not one of those wussy supplements that people like myself take on a daily basis. *Not disputing my manhood of course… Man can take dietary supplements..right? *cough* let’s move on shall we?

I need to take a zinc supplement for a deficiency that caused by my Thyroid problem, so today having gotten up a bit later then usual I didn’t have time to take my breakfast, so seeing as I had to take supplements, what the hell! Bottoms up! 50mm of Zinc in the belly!

NOT very smart! 30 minutes later it was as if I was taken by the black plague and there was nothing that could help me! nausea, Diarrhea, awful abdominal pain, dizziness, short black out periods (although that is not that unusual to me! :D), shortness of breath, among other lovely symptoms! So it seems that Zinc is so toxic, that when you take it with an empty stomach the toxicity sticks to your stomach’s walls, had taken a higher dose I would be officially poisoned.

Dear oh dear, seems that we are experiencing the same issues we did last time with the Blog posts. Thank you for reporting this Robert, we are going to take a look at it right away.

That’s right guys. I want to make this a tradition in my blog. During the last weekend of every month I will be giving away two domains. (Friday and Saturday)

The only cache is that you will be required to post an interesting/useful comment in context with the month’s topic. The most interesting/useful answer/resource will win the domain.

Only the first 15 answers will be considered.

Domain: http://www.fwapr.com (Page Rank 1)
Registrar: http://www.namecheap.com/
Expires: Mon 01/14/2008

Topic: SAN Jose SES Conference. Resource: Interesting/useful/fun video. (Please don’t forget to post the source and author of the content)

This year me and my partner decided not to close the office in August, since there seemed to be a lot of action going on, Lot’s of deals being negotiated, internal developments, and other stuff as well.

I can safely tell you that this is the last year we are doing this. Most of the deals didn’t close simply because the prospect decision makers were on vacation.

Everywhere we turned people were off work, every time we tried to get things done we would get he same answer “come back september”.

People looked at us like there was something seriously wrong with us. “… but…it’s August!!”

For God’s sake, I know it’s August, so ****** what?!?

Just to tell you that I am aware that the blog is having a lot of issues at the moment, one of them being that the blog posts are outputing a “404 page not found” error.

Me nad my programmer are adressing this and hopefully we will have it all sorted in a couple of hours.

Update: This issue has now been resolved.

I just noticed that Problogger has a new design, and dear oh dear…

Is “overall ugliness” some sort of a trend right now? In the early nighties that rugged unclean look was “the look”, so I’m guessing this is cyclic.

What’s up with this Technorati look? Is it just me or that font is just hard to read and in all fairnness, ugly as hell?

By the way thank you David Naylor for starting the trend with the splendrous redesign of your Blog.

My very patient programmer Cody Robert added a couple of very neat features to the blog that make it more user and Search Engine friendly.

I’m going to create more specific categories for the SEO posts, so things might look a bit messy until I’m done.

Here is the list of stuff that was added:

• Nested categories divided by Groups
• Removed the “Category” default slang from the Home Category Links
• Added the Digg button
• Added the Word Press Poll system

The K2 Nested categories features is particular valuable since K2 doesn’t offer this our of the box and I haven’t seen this work well in any other blog.

In a day or two I might post the hack for anyone who is interested.

I know this one is a bit off but I feel it might be very useful information for anyone that hold a Paypal business account.

If for some reason you need to change your Business name, just login to your account and follow this link: https://www.paypal.com/us/wf/f=ap_namechg

It’s as simple as that. No Faxes, or bank statements are needed. All the credit for this information must go to the following Digital Point Forum member: jestep

It’s not only the SEO Rockstars show that seems to be completely inactive, even Oilman’s blog isn’t as active as it once was. Does anyone have any info on this?

I decided to remove the “Dissecting Page Rank” paper from my work plan. The reason for this is that I came across a paper that pretty much covers all aspects that I intended to approach. It’s possibly the best independent study I have seen on Page Rank.

So, if one has nothing to add on a subject, why not simply shut his pie hole?

Pagerank Explained Correctly with Examples by Ian Rogers

Like someone stated before, for a blog that holds in its title “SEO experiments”, there is not a lot of that happening here lately.

So I feel it’s time to announce my plans for this particular content area for the rest of the year.

The publication of these Papers/studies will be conducted in a slight different manner then the content of a post. Since I am going to invest a lot of time on research and testing, I am going to take a more “institutional” approach when publishing my conclusions.

By this, I mean that I will be posting the methods that I used to reach the conclusions, as well as the. I have seen this methology used in a couple of SEO experiment websites, and I feel they do such a good job in clarifying issues that otherwise are just talked without real evidence backing them up.

I will be creating a separate section in sidebar, to mark a clear distinction between them and the regular post categories.

Realistically, with my shortage of time it was imperative that I limited the number of “papers” to be published until the end of the year, so here are the topics:

• Dissecting Page Rank
• Impact of Outbound Links
• Orthography as a ranking criteria

If you have a subject that you would like me to analyze, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I am more then open to all suggestions.

On a recent post at Shoemoney Blog I took some abuse because of my admitted prejudice regarding working with minors.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against young blood in any way, so try to keep the content of this post in context please.

First of all hiring minors is illegal unless one obtains a Parent/School Authorization Form legal considerations aside, I quite simply chose not to Outsource my work to minors at a professional level, because I feel it’s prejudicial to my business.

Every single time that I hired young students to work for me things went sour. Either they completely disappeared, couldn’t handle constructive criticism or just weren’t able to handle the pressure.

The way I see it you are not a professional until you depend on a certain activity for your livelihood. Doesn’t mean that you aren’t good at what you do, just means that you are still a couple of steps away from a more serious commitment that in the end will give me, as an employer, more assurance that you will be held accountable for your actions during the time we are working together. I like working with professionals, they know how my business operates and they understand the importance of accountablilty and communication.

Professionals have more to lose then an amateur, as everything that happens will have a direct impact on their career.

A Professional: Someone engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career: a professional writer.

Livelihood…think about that for a minute, ah yes, livelihood! House mortage, bills, taxes, Adult life!

I am sorry if this post is offensive, and I understand that there are a lof of mature youngsters out there that have gone through a lot in their lives, and I am sure many of them have a life experience equivalent to a 40 year old, but its strictly a business choice.