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Gary Lee 11.42 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink

Dinner on the other side of the table

As John has already posted on his blog, we were treated a great dinner at Bennihana’s after our last day of Blog World Expo. I’ve never been to Bennihana’s but I’m very familar with teppanyaki as one of my friends used to run a restaurant while we were in college and it was great getting grilled scallop and shrimp to top our spaghetti dinners. In case you don’t know, teppanyaki is a type of Japanese Cuisine similar to Korean and Mongolian BBQ.

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Japanese Words of the Day:

Teppan: Iron Plate

Yaki: Grilled

You can pretty much grill anything you want on these things, so if you want to make your own and send pictures of your creations, go ahead and I’ll post them back up on this post!

Anyways, back to the dinner. John invited both Danielle and I at the end of the last day of Blog World Expo and it just felt good that we were all going to get together to celebrate one of the most productive weeks of my professional life. As someone who inspired us to all start blogging, I think it was really great of John to treat us to dinner, much like how the teacher treats his students to a special lunch for doing good work in class. Oh, and for those who think we all would treat him like some superstar (ahem Leo!), we all knew that John is hugely successful, but after hanging out with him on the floor at the expo, he just became one of the guys we threw stuff at! The one thing that I was really impressed with was that even though both Shoe and Chow got so much attention from other bloggers, they all took it in stride and never got too big on themselves. Anyways, the amount of networking that I established with people like John, Shoemoney, the guys at Unique Blog Designs, Pit Crew of Blogging the Movie, Darin Carter, Greg Morgan of BCM, Neil Patel, CarZi and Egonitron, just to name a few for now, were priceless.

On my side of the table – Nate Whitehill, Danielle, Neil, Matt, Me, Dave, Vinay and Anthony.

On the other side of the table – Sarah, John, Zac, Reena, Josh, Darin, and Chris

Shoemoney and the UBD Girls were a little late due to delays with alcoholic distribution and consumption, but they were able to stop by to say hi and then went the Bennihana Bar to hang out while we ate.

Best Dinner Moment - An rather attractive Bennihana Photographer comes by to ask if we would like to take a group picture.

Photographer asks – “Would you like to take a picture of your group here at Bennihana’s?”

John responds – “What kind of camera is that? . . . . Nikon? . . then forget it! We use Canon!”

The Photographer is kind of shocked and then walks away as we all laugh at what just happened. I felt bad for the girl, but Dave and I were just trying to hide our faces from laughing so hard at what just happened!

Best Face after Shot – Nate Whitehill

Best Shot Technique – Ms. Danielle

It was fun to just get to know people at the table and see where they’re from and see what they do aside from blogging. Back in LA, it’s hard to find people with the same interests as mine and being to geek out and talk about familar subjects made sure conversations were pretty much going on all night! Again, thanks John for the Good Times!

Blog Word Expo Dinner

Photo courtesy of John Chow

John Chow 12.30 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink

It was great to have you there Gary. Hope you can make it to my CES party in January.
Gary Lee 2.07 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink

I’ll try my best to make that one John . . . if I can get the amount of knowledge I got at this conference, then for sure!
Zac Johnson 2.24 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink

Hey Gary, it was really great to meet you. Next time we might actually get to talk and hang out!
Anthony 2.57 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink

Hi Gary, it was great to finally meet you!
Hope you had as much of a baller of a time as Vinay and I did!
Cheers!
Gary Lee 3.27 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink

Great meeting you too Zac . . . we definitely should sit down and talk some more than this past time . .
Gary Lee 3.28 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink

Thanks for stopping by Anthony . . it was great partying with you and vinay as well! Hope you had a safe flight back to Toronto!
ms danielle 11.06 pm on 12.11.2007 Permalink

i was weened on sake…just like all japanese people are
Leo 9.54 pm on 13.11.2007 Permalink

I hope to make it to CES for January. Then we’ll party like a rockstar
Gary Lee 10.19 pm on 13.11.2007 Permalink

haha . . . aight leo . . . we’ll see who’ll be the last one standing!

Gary Lee 11.00 pm on 10.11.2007 Permalink

Best Booth at Blog Word Expo

From what I’ve heard, this blog world expo is relatively small compared to all the other technology/marketing conventions out there, but I think there were enough quality booths out there to run an unofficial Best Booth contest. Just so that you know, my criteria aren’t based soley on who spent the most money to create the most elaborate booth. I also took into account marketing tactics, booth service and quality of information provided. To make things fair, I’ve disqualified the Unique Blog Designs booth and Blogging the Movie booth because I spent way too much time there and don’t want to be biased in any way. Anyways, let’s get started:

Here’s Yahoo:

Typical Yahoo Booth – Lots of glitz and glamour, but I had to wait 5 minutes before anyone would approach me to explain what their product was and even then, I didn’t have a complete understanding. I do have to say that Jerri who was the Inside Sales rep was very nice as she came by the Blogging the Movie Booth to hang out a lil. She told me about her own blog called http://www.jerrific.com which I just checked out. I think it’s hilarious, since I have a similar quirky sense of humor.

Here’s B5Media:

Their booth location was pretty much right smack in the middle of the whole expo, so they were under much pressure to put up a great booth. What they did was go with the Vegas theme and give you some chips to play some texas hold’em poker. At the end of the day, they would auction off some prizes which range from hats to shirts to a new iPhone. I didn’t stick around to see who won, but I know at the end of the convention, they were throwing hats and shirts to anyone passing by. The Booth people were cool, but they came off like they really didn’t want to be there. Overall, the marketing and information was pretty good, but the Booth presentation was rather poor.

Here’s PajamaMedia:

From what I learned, they are a so-called bi-partisan political blog (more right wing than bi-partisan if you ask me) that dressed up their booth to look like the Press Room in the White House. They get a thumbs up for Marketing, even though they covered up the two attractive blondes they hired with very conservative silk pajamas (so conservative, I didn’t even want to take a picture). Anyways, the two girls would walk around the expo and pass out raffle tickets for an iPod Nano and iPod Touch Giveaway. I got suckered into it thinking that not many people would actually show up and I was RIGHT! There were only 15 or so raffle tickets in the bowl, but when I arrived for the raffle, I got suckered into listening to 15 minutes of the worst political jokes I’ve ever heard. This sort of bait and switch marketing makes sense, but the delivery was just horrible. This booth tied for WORST booth because 1) no one approached me to tell me about their site and 2) they wasted my time!

?????:

I have no idea what this booth promotes and do you see those guys sitting there? Well, they were still sitting there when I approached the booth. No one made an attempt to tell us who they are or what they do. So yes, they tied Pajama Media as the WORST booth of the Expo. I hope they don’t come back next year. Sounds mean, but really . . . horrible.

So now . . . the best Booth of Blog World Expo goes to Hacker Safe!

As you can see, they provided beer and Shoemoney took advantage. Hell, we all took advantage. People walking by would ask us, “Where’d you get the beer?” and we’d all respond “Hacker Safe!” . . . and that’s not all, they also had their booth babe walk around the expo and tag people with “hacker safe” badges so that if she sees you later, she gives you $10 of playing chips at Ballys or Paris. To complete the trifecta of marketing, they also had the best looking girl of the expo, who was very informative and very pleasant to everyone.

What do you think of the booths? What do you think makes a great booth at one of these conventions?

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- ms danielle 11.33 pm on 10.11.2007 Permalink
  
  lol that is so true. “where’d you get the beer?” In unison and pointing, “Hacker Safe!!”
  
  that other no name booth looks like pajamas media’s sister company, underwear media. the world will never know…
- Jeff Kee 12.15 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  OH MAN I missed out. I get sadder and sadder.
- 30 Day Man 2.08 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  good post Gary.
  
  gives a good insight into the overall feel of the show.
  
  wish I could have made it over there; will it still be the Vegas venue next year?
  
  Adam
- TheAnand 2.58 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  That was so much fun you guys had…..just saw the pics at msdanielle too…..xnlt!
- Gary Lee 2.05 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  man . . i lost my “Spread the Word” t-shirt from that unknown booth . . . how ironic, huh?
- Gary Lee 2.05 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  trust me . . there will be more conferences to go to Jeff and we’ll make this last one look like a picnic!
- Gary Lee 2.06 pm on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  good to see you back Anand
- Stephen 6.34 pm on 17.11.2007 Permalink
  
  We were talking about you at Dot Com Pho today! Greg and John told us all how wide eyed you were at the size of the show
  
  I guess to put it into perspective, compared to CES, which is at LVCC as well, the whole Blogworld show would fit into the medium sized Panasonic booth…and the people too. It sounded like it was a good time regardless and neither John nor Greg had anything but positive remarks about the people and the atmosphere. I’m sure it can only get bigger.
  
  Maybe I’ll show up next year if AMD doesn’t bribe me with a trip to Lake Tahoe again. I was going to go, but I didn’t feel like flying out twice in the same week.
- Gary Lee 7.33 pm on 17.11.2007 Permalink
  
  ya . i’d have to agree that i was pretty wide-eyed at the whole experience as it was my first convention in an industry I actually cared about and being that Danielle is the only person around me that I regularly interact with to talk about blogging, it was a great experience to talk to other like minded people. I’ve known about CES for a long time and have always read about it and thought it would be great to check it out, but I would choose blog world over CES any day because of the quality of people I met. I can’t imagine having to filter through all that stuff at CES to find someone that has similar interests as me. You definitely should come out to the next one!
- The Kid 1.53 am on 18.11.2007 Permalink
  
  Oh this comment hahaha, Yea they loved it, Stephen you better come next year, were gonna bring ED and Jeff to show how BC rolls! sup bitches!
  
  Gary quote me on that shit
- The Kid 1.54 am on 18.11.2007 Permalink
  
  Oh that comment, yes i agree you loved BW, i thought it was an awesome show we will bring Stephen and Jeff with us and show how BC rolls bitches
  
  Gary quote me on that.
  
  Gary we both know hackersafe was the best!
Gary Lee 10.37 am on 10.11.2007 Permalink

Old Site Content will be Back

Looks like there was a lot more damage to the site than I originally thought, so I had to do a complete reinstall and I’m looking to find a way to import my backup xml file into the new database. Apparently, there’s a 2.0MB limit to the Import feature and my xml file is 5.8MB. If anyone knows how to get around this, I’d greatly appreciate it.

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- Matt 1.10 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  Try adding these 2 lines to your wp-config.php:
  
  ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '8M'); ini_set('post_max_size', '8M');
  
  You can also do it with a plugin, but this way is easier and should work.
- Jon - SmartWealthyRich 1.47 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  if putting these lines in your wp-config.php doesn’t work, open your ini.php file, and add ‘em, that’ll work
- Gary Lee 1.55 am on 11.11.2007 Permalink
  
  thanks guys . . . i think I got it . . . i couldn’t find my ini.php file, so I just called my hosting service and told them to increase my php memory . . worked like a charm . . . so now, it looks like the site is back to normal . . besides all the missing pictures . . .
Gary Lee 11.19 am on 25.10.2007 Permalink

Becoming a Blogging Hero

A few months ago, I received an email from someone claiming they were a New York Times Best Selling Author – Michael A. Banks. I thought it was a joke, but I checked his background out and he was telling the truth! Mr. Banks wanted to interview me for a book he was writing called “Blogging Heroes” and told me he has already interviewed authors of some of the biggest blogs out there – Joystiq, Blogroll, Autoblog etc. Apparently, the editors of “Blogging Heroes” heard of my blog from the all the Link Trains I was doing in the summer and asked Mr. Banks to contact me to see if I’d like to be in the book. I was extremely honored to be asked and set up a phone interview with Mr. Banks, which ended up lasting about 45 minutes to an hour. He asked me a lot of questions about Link Trains and gaming the system, so to be honest, I’m not sure how I’m going to be received. I just wanted to tell the truth and pass along my main message which was that my “success” can be attributed more to my network of bloggers than anything else.

The book is scheduled to come out in late November, so keep a look out for it. Actually, I’m probably going to announce the release of it as soon as I find out about it. Look for me at your local Borders . . . I’ll have some signing dates ready for everyone as well Oh, and don’t forget about Blogging The Movie – I think I’m going to be in that, too. Lord, if my head gets any bigger, I’m not gonna be able to get through the doors.

Here’s some excerpts from the book if you’re curious:

Do you have advice to offer new bloggers?
My advice on getting more traffic is to participate in other blogs. You need
to participate by commenting and supporting other bloggers.
Meet people who share some of your interests—even if the interest is just
reading a particular blog. If you can do that and produce quality content,
you’re going to develop a rapport with just about everyone you approach.
Your reputation will precede you.

What do you find gratifying about blogging?
Networking. The fun has been meeting people from around the world.
There is nothing more gratifying than that, and knowing you’ve been able
to help people—just increase their rankings, or plant a seed in their mind
to help them be more creative and do things. Meeting people and watching
them grow—that’s been the most satisfying part.
I look at the whole blog thing as a big party, and everybody is trying to
meet each other—trying to build their cliques, as with any social function.
There are always cliques. And there’s always that one person who is just
trying to meet people, and right now that’s what I am.

How did you climb to the Top 100 so quickly?
I’m not going to lie and say, “I did this on purpose.” I really attribute it to
my network of blogger friends. The people I started blogging with all pretty
much started to blog at the same time as I did. We met one another on John
Chow’s blog [http://www.johnchow.com] and commented on John Chow’s blog
because we were trying to get noticed. And we linked to each other. We
would start dialogues in the comments sections.

Wiley Publishing has given me permission to post a link to my chapter, so give it a read and let me know what you think: Blogging Heroes – Mr. Gary Lee

Also, Boing Boing has posted their Chapter, so if you want to read, go check them out as well!

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- ms danielle 11.41 am on 25.10.2007 Permalink
  
  that’s so cool. you’re my hero! but i agree, it’s all about networking and participating with other bloggers, in a constructive and intelligent manner. with the tons of blogs out there, it’s the only way to get noticed.
- Hannes Johnson 3.46 pm on 25.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, congrats! That’s pretty cool
  
  Not too shabby having your name on a book cover
- ジェイソン (Jason) 6.12 pm on 25.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, it’s incredible to think of all the people that have become well known thanks to John Chow’s site.
  Congrats!
- Jeff Kee 10.30 am on 26.10.2007 Permalink
  
  NIIIICE you’re a celebrity now..
  
  and now i have the honour of meeting up with a celebrity in Vegas!!!
- CC 11.11 am on 26.10.2007 Permalink
  
  You are the most famous blogger I know! Dude, congrats.
- Advice Network Writing Contest 2.32 pm on 30.10.2007 Permalink
  
  That is cool, maybe I should start posting at John Chow’s site more
- Neil Duckett 5.44 am on 31.10.2007 Permalink
  
  That`s pretty cool Gary!
- sisterlee 9.25 pm on 31.10.2007 Permalink
  
  *sniff* i’m so proud!
- Nick 5.31 pm on 06.11.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m a new blogger and just found your site. I’m excited to read these chapters and am looking forward to the book. Thanks for the tip about link trains! Any new bloggers out there wanting to link up?
- Delia 8.10 am on 05.01.2008 Permalink
  
  The link http://www.mrgarylee.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/97394c25.pdf isn’t working anymore. Guess you want me to buy book.
- Anderson 10.26 am on 31.01.2008 Permalink
  
  Gary, the PDF link isn’t working anymore. Can you fix it, please?
Gary Lee 6.00 am on 02.10.2007 Permalink
The Free iPhone Giveaway Results Episode

So, I wanted to raise the bar on giveaway videos a bit and take advantage of the eyes that are watching these kind of videos. For those that have always been interested in making these kind of videos for their own kind of blogs, I just want to point out some key things that you should keep in mind when making your video:
- Remember your Brand – I used my Banner Image along with reminding people they’re on MrGaryLee.com
- Take Advantage of the time leading up to the Desired Message/Announcement – I used the time prior to the announcement to help Prija promote BloggingTheMovie.com and also my new site – CreativeTrafficBuilders.com.
- Don’t Over Edit your video – We were lucky enough to finish this video in 2 takes. In the world of video blogging, it’s best to present as genuine a broadcast as possible and that’s best shown with unedited video such as this.
So, I know it’s been a long time since the contest actually started and I realize the contest should have been over a little bit earlier than this, but a lot has been going like switching jobs, moving to a new part of town and coming up with the idea for this video, so I hope all of you can be understanding of this. In any case, the important thing is that the contest is now officially over and we have picked a winner – (watch the video for the winner) – a really great blog that talks blogging and other techy stuff. Feel free to visit her blog and congratulate her!

I wanted to give a special shout out to people who have helped with this contest, the video and promotions:

Ms. Danielle – http://www.msdanielle.com

Prija – http://www.bloggingthemovie.com

Nate Whitehill – http://www.natewhitehill.com

Jon Lee – http://www.jonlee.ca

Darin Carter – http://www.darin.cc

Saman – http://www.samanathon.com

Jeff Kee – blog.jeffkee.com

Derrich – http://www.derrich.com

Derek Semmler – http://www.dereksemmler.com

JM – http://www.jimimorrisonshead.com

Also, don’t forget to visit our new Internet Traffic Building site – http://www.creativetrafficbuilders.com – See you there!
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- DeMerchant 9.14 am on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Very exciting contest… well run… congrats to the winner… maybe i’ll make it into the next one
- BTM 9.18 am on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  nice post..
- Jez 12.19 pm on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Very entertaining, nice one
  Good luck with your new site(s),
  
  Jez
- ms danielle 3.09 pm on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  it was fun…we’ll definitely do another one soon. this time, with a better lighting set up
- Saman Sadeghi 6.47 pm on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  I guess I actually have to go buy an iPhone now!
  
  Thanks for the love though!
- Jon Lee 7.43 pm on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Ahh I was hoping to win… oh well, congrats to the winner!
- Jamaipanese 8.02 pm on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  nice plug prija
  
  real sneaky!
- Jez 8.30 am on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  That was pretty funny
- Kanute 12.52 pm on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Funny video and nice bait. keeps me thinking..
- Kanute 12.53 pm on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  I just got one for myself the other, no more IPhone contest for me
- The Artist 5.36 pm on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  OMG!!!!! I won an iPhone!!!!!!!!!! I can’t believe it!!! *slaps self*
  Thanks so much Mr. Gary!!! Thanks for bringing back the trust in blog contests. I’m gonna blog blog blog about it! Goodbye Nokia E61 i :p :p :p
- MyBlogContest 6.22 pm on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Congrats!
  
  Check out MyBlogContest.com for more blog contest info.
- Jeff Kee 3.51 pm on 04.10.2007 Permalink
  
  WOW danielle has a sexy voice… that’s pretty much all I picked up from this video. Who won the ipod again???
- Hannes Johnson 7.23 pm on 07.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Cool video Very professional.
  Congratulations to the winner.
  
  Also, congrats on the new site – I’ll be watching. I might even offer to do a guest post
  
  Oh, one more thing – I don’t want to go all Jeff Kee on you but Ms. Danielle is hot!
  
  I look forward to more videos.
- Gary Lee 4.11 pm on 19.10.2007 Permalink
  
  You definitely are welcomed to write a guest post hannes . . hope things are going well!
- Nick 8.39 pm on 22.10.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m just always a bit too late for these contests! Maybe i should subcribe to your blog… ~Click For Nick, Make Money, Save Money
- Pradeep kumar 6.22 am on 25.10.2007 Permalink
  
  coool!
- Michael Kwan 11.41 am on 13.02.2008 Permalink
  
  Ack, the banner image went missing on my link!
Gary Lee 7.25 pm on 17.09.2007 Permalink

Free Link to ask Yahoo about their SEM program

A couple of weeks ago, my marketing manager at my new job asked me if I would like to go down to Yahoo’s “Advertiser Workshop” in San Diego to see what they are up to these days. I said “of course” since it was a great chance to confirm some of the rumors I have been hearing about Yahoo’s new PPC program (yes . . even newer than Panama) and also to learn what kind of new initiatives they are going to be taking to get their company in gear.

By pure coincidence, Ms. Danielle will be at the same conference so we’ll be able to hang again. I still can’t believe it’s been over a month and a half since I have stopped working with Danielle at our old office, but I’m sure it’s going to be like old times again when we go to this conference together.

Anyways, to the point of this email. I wanted to invite all my readers to submit questions they would like me to ask Yahoo representatives while I’m at this conference. No relevant question will be denied as I know a lot of you do not get to have this kind of opportunity, since getting help from customer service is as hard as landing a date with Jessica Alba (this goes for Google as well, so don’t think I’m playing favorites).

Here are some example questions to get your creative juices flowing:

What steps are you taking to gain market share in the SEM Market to a level where you can realistically compete with Google?

Why are your minimum bids twice as much as Googles?

Why didn’t you merge with MSN to give yourself a fighting chance against Google?

So, if you can think of any questions you will want to ask, please leave a comment with your question and I will compile these questions into a list. I promise to get all the questions answered to the best of my abilities and post the answers once I get them all. As an added benefit, I will link to those sites who’s author have asked high quality questions that will make yahoo people nod and say “damn . . that guy’s asking some damn good questions. We should take him out to dinner afterwards to get to know the guy!” OK . . i don’t have to go to dinner, but you get the point. Ask good questions and you shall be rewarded – a link to any article you want with any anchor text you want. Remember, I have some pr4 and pr5 posts, so feel free to increase my page views by looking for them:)

I look forward to hearing what you all have to ask. By the way, the conference is this thursday, Sep 17th, so cut off is Wednesday night. . . . also, if you can do me a favor and give a WTF vote for this post, I’d greatly appreciate it!

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- ms danielle 10.28 pm on 17.09.2007 Permalink
  
  i’d like to know if they’re going to eventually license google’s algorithm, sort of like how ford licenses toyota’s hybrid technology. my guess is probably not. so i’ll probably end up asking about how they plan to make their platform more user-friendly — i.e. load time, back button usage, more integrated features. put simply, their back end really really sucks (brian and i went through YSM together last week and even he started getting really upset)
- Derrich 7.58 am on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  All these Google-esque upgrades are quick fixes. They need to do something completely different to beat Google. And my guess is that such a change will hit us outta nowhere.
- Lalla Mira 10.10 am on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  When is that conference again? Thursday 17th Sept??
- ms danielle 10.31 am on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  google works. i doubt ysm will ever launch something out of nowhere that will beat their algo. it’s all based on relevancy and they haven’t figured out the formula yet. but i’d love to be proven wrong…
- Gary Lee 9.14 pm on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  there’s one on wednesday too . . but yes, there’s one on the 17th as well
- Gary Lee 5.39 pm on 19.09.2007 Permalink
  
  i guess no one really cares about what yahoo’s doing . . hahahaha . . . well, i’ll find out as much as I can for everyone
- Kanute 5.07 am on 27.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I really don’t know what are Yahoo marketing policies, for me the most pertinent question is what Yahoo intends to do with MyblogLog? Would they add new services or maybe Ads, given that mybloglog is Ad free. Also ask them why they continue to overload their homepage. thanks
- Israel 8.02 am on 28.09.2007 Permalink
  
  thats a good point. I thin their main page has too much crap. it used to be so easy to navigate but now i dont even go there anymore. I use msn, its easier on my eyes.
Gary Lee 11.40 am on 13.09.2007 Permalink

Great Way to See if She’s a Keeper

. . . . . if she’s down to have fun like this on her wedding day . . . pat yourself on the back cuz you got one!

. . . so what do you think you could do to top this?

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- Jeff Kee 1.34 pm on 13.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I’d marry her… actually scratch that.
- Jeff Kee 1.36 pm on 13.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I would have done an array of dances.. from salsa to mambo, to techno, and then back to the Waltz.
- Gary Lee 3.37 pm on 13.09.2007 Permalink
  
  why not?
- Jeff Kee 2.48 am on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m only 21. And weddings are costly
- Jocko 7.47 am on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  My GF has proposed the same thing fro our wedding – Does this make her a keeper?
- derek 11.35 am on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  That is pretty good. It would not have been pretty if I had tried something like that when I got married.
- Jeff Kee 1.17 pm on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  You shouldn’t be marrying her if you’re still asking those questions.
- Derrich 1.20 pm on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Don’t forget the Macarena.
- Michael Kwan 1.39 pm on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  This still doesn’t top the goof that recreated Thriller.
  
  Now someone just needs to convince their bride to crank that soulja boy.
- Ed Lau 2.00 pm on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Being able to do the robot is a huge plus. Probably more so than…like…cooking.
- Gary Lee 2.13 pm on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  haha . . classic JK observation!
- JerkyBeef 2.04 pm on 19.09.2007 Permalink
  
  klassic… with a K for the old school hiphop fans… Any woman that would have that kind of fun on her wedding day must be a cool chick indeed.
- Israel 8.07 am on 28.09.2007 Permalink
  
  ha that was cool, they were a little stiff and offbeat but liked it. doesnt mean she is a keeper. i once was at a wedding and the guy pulled the girls panties off. crazy. then he smelled them and threw them to his friends. …
- headshot photographer los angles 5.33 pm on 28.09.2007 Permalink
  
  awesome!!! when are they going to be on dancing with the stars? It looks like they had a very special reception and a good time!!! I’d say they are both keepers and are as perfect for each other as it appears!!!
- Kanute 4.41 am on 29.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, what a nice video I loved it. They make a good couple, and would surely have “bouncing babies”
- DeMerchant 9.30 am on 02.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Ha ha… marry me… the only way to top that would necessitate the Dallas cheerleaders
- Angela 3.23 pm on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  my friend n her husband had their reception in Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science when it was hosting a circus exhibit. they both participated in the bungee jumping thing (the one where u sit in a seat n then jump). the bride got in wearing her wedding dress n did flips. if i find a video, i will share. hilarious.
Gary Lee 11.30 am on 10.09.2007 Permalink

600 Keywords that Make Money Online

Courtesy of a posting on 4rum.info by Rishi Modi, here is a list of 600 of the highest paying keywords online today. As expected, the list is dominated with insurance, mortgage and financial keywords. If you already have a site in these industries, then these are the words you should be focusing most of your SEO efforts on. If you don’t have a site in this industry, then I would recommend that you steer away unless you truly believe you have the SEO Jedi skills to get a brand new site ranking.

For those of you who may be wondering how you can make money from this list, then let me give you a very basic run down of what you need to do.

1) Build a Website in a related industry.

2) Rank on Google for one of these keywords

3) Maximize the use of Google Adwords on your site.

Here’s where the money starts to roll in. Someone does a search for “secured loans.” They click on your No. 1 ranking on Google. They are now on your site and have “secured loans” on the mind. They see the Adsense Ads on your site and click on them since those ads are related to the content you have on your site. Then you earn part of the $62.68 average price per click financial institutions are paying for this ad. Pretty simple, huh?

and now, the list with average price per click ( I did a check with SEO for Firefox and the prices are high, but probably $10-12 dollars less than what these prices say, but the list is pretty accurate in terms of high priced keywords):

(If you like this post, please vote for me on WTF by clicking here. Thanks!)

secured loans $62.68
consolidate student loans $60.25
find car insurance $58.56
find car insurance $58.56
no closing cost refinance $55.44
no closing cost refinance $55.44
affordable car insurance quote $53.42
consolidate student $52.72
consolidate student $52.72
student loans consolidation $52.23
car insurance florida $52.11
online car insurance $51.81
online car insurance $51.81
mesothelioma $51.68
mesothelioma $51.68
nj car insurance $51.30
nj car insurance $51.30
attorney mesothelioma $51.14
attorney mesothelioma $51.14
mortgages for bad credit $50.72
refinancing homes $50.71
refinancing homes $50.71
columbus auto insurance $50.35
compare auto insurance rates $50.28
compare auto insurance rates $50.28
tax attorneys $49.97
arizona dui $49.21
arizona dui $49.21
mortgages for poor credit $48.84
mortgages for poor credit $48.84
delaware car insurance $48.69
refinancing house $48.37
refinancing house $48.37
car hire alicante $48.17
car hire alicante $48.17
online car insurance quotes $47.45
car insurance quotes $47.10
car insurance quotes $47.10
mesothelioma lawyers $47.07
car insurance online $47.00
car insurance online $47.00
equity loan bad credit $46.72
125 equity loan $46.72
125 equity loan $46.72
structured settlements $46.66
low interest home equity loans $46.42
low interest home equity loans $46.42
car insurance quotes online $46.16
refinance your house $46.15
refinance your house $46.15
consolidate private student loans $45.80
consolidate private student loans $45.80
refinance mortgage loans $45.74
refinance home loans $45.74
mortgages with bad credit $45.21
sql server hosting $44.91
auto insurance compare $44.83
auto insurance compare $44.83
auto insurance texas $44.81
auto insurance texas $44.81
cheap secured loans $44.61
spam firewall $44.24
spam firewall $44.24
student loan consolidation $44.23
student loan consolidation $44.23
vitamins direct $44.07
quotes car insurance $43.69
quotes car insurance $43.69
ms exchange hosting $43.63
ms exchange hosting $43.63
loan consolidation rates $43.38
loan consolidation rates $43.38
bad credit home financing $43.37
bad credit home financing $43.37
texas auto insurance $43.10
alicante car hire $42.44
homeowner loans $42.06
homeowner loans $42.06
compare auto insurance $41.84
compare auto insurance $41.84
home equity loans $41.49
home equity loans $41.49
century auto insurance $41.48
century auto insurance $41.48
equity lines $41.36
physician answering service $41.34
cheap online trading $41.19
cheap online trading $41.19
equity loans $41.13
equity loans $41.13
life insurance quotes $40.95
life insurance quotes $40.95
affordable car insurance $40.88
affordable car insurance $40.88
refinance with bad credit $40.70
globe life insurance $40.55
fixed rate home equity loans $40.50
home owner loan $40.42
home equity loans bad credit $40.31
new jersey car insurance $40.30
accident attorney $40.21
accident attorney $40.21
secured loans uk $40.15
free auto insurance quote $39.88
cheap van insurance $39.83
loan consolidation $39.79
loan consolidation $39.79
refinance loans $39.51
refinance loans $39.51
home equity loan bad credit $39.32
instant life insurance quotes $39.32
instant life insurance quotes $39.32
refinance my home $39.19
nj auto insurance $39.13
very cheap car insurance $39.06
very cheap car insurance $39.06
freecreditreport com $38.78
freecreditreport com $38.78
tax attorney $38.62
secured loan $38.55
home equity loan bad $38.53
home equity loan bad $38.53
texas car insurance $38.37
buy car insurance online $38.09
equity line $38.07
equity line $38.07
dwi attorney $37.89
best student loan consolidation $37.73
best student loan consolidation $37.73
refinance home mortgage rate $37.49
home equity line $37.45
home equity line $37.45
auto accident attorney $37.25
car insurance quotation $37.19
car insurance quotation $37.19
refinance mortgages $37.10
futures brokers $37.07
insurance quotes online $36.95
denver auto insurance $36.95
denver auto insurance $36.95
refinance home $36.84
refinance home $36.84
online auto insurance quote $36.62
home equity rates $36.61
accident lawyers $36.52
free credit report com $36.52
accident lawyers $36.52
free credit report com $36.52
bad credit home refinance $36.52
ladies car insurance $36.46
auto insurance quote online $36.46
car hire alicante airport $36.43
adt security systems $36.43
car hire alicante airport $36.43
adt security systems $36.43
free car insurance quote $36.38
mortgage loans refinance $36.37
mortgage loans refinance $36.37
offer in compromise $36.28
offer in compromise $36.28
car insurance california $36.22
secured debt consolidation $36.09
loan debt consolidation $36.06
loan debt consolidation $36.06
2nd mortgages $35.95
mortgage rates refinance $35.88
nashville auto insurance $35.83
home refinance loans $35.62
cheap motor car insurance $35.62
cheap motor car insurance $35.62
compare car insurance $35.60
compare car insurance $35.60
consolidation loan student $35.56
mortgages bad credit $35.52
car accident attorney $35.50
exchange server hosting $35.48
online auto insurance $35.41
managed hosting $35.38
managed hosting $35.38
go cell phone $35.37
go cell phone $35.37
refinancing mortgage $35.22
refinancing mortgage $35.22
1800 flowers $35.10
1800 flowers $35.10
best car insurance $35.00
best car insurance $35.00
debt loan student $34.93
debt loan student $34.93
instant car insurance quotes $34.92
instant car insurance quotes $34.92
loan consolidators $34.89
accent furniture direct $34.71
accent furniture direct $34.71
buy car insurance $34.69
mortgage with bad credit $34.65
on line car insurance $34.64
pet meds $34.63
pet meds $34.63
home refinance bad credit $34.52
home refinance bad credit $34.52
accident attorneys $34.45
secured home loans $34.43
secured home loans $34.43
nationwide mortgages $34.40
nationwide mortgages $34.40
morgage loans $34.34
house refinancing $34.32
managed web hosting $34.31
loan consolidation programs $34.27
loan consolidation programs $34.27
car cheapest insurance $34.15
car cheapest insurance $34.15
personal injury attorneys $34.02
car insurance comparisons $34.02
auto insurance florida $34.00
auto insurance florida $34.00
accident lawyer $33.96
accident lawyer $33.96
fidelity investments $33.92
instant car insurance $33.92
refinance house $33.91
new york auto insurance quotes $33.84
new york auto insurance quotes $33.84
globe life $33.76
globe life $33.76
car insurance rates $33.50
car insurance rates $33.50
car accident lawyer $33.47
car accident lawyer $33.47
mortgage refinance bad credit $33.44
mortgage refinance bad credit $33.44
car insurance quote $33.39
car insurance quote $33.39
national grants $33.33
national grants $33.33
accident claim $33.29
accident claim $33.29
no money down home loans $33.26
no money down home loans $33.26
student loan debt $33.23
donate my car $33.14
donate my car $33.14
remortgage $33.08
remortgage $33.08
cheap car insurances $33.07
equity rates $33.07
equity rates $33.07
new york auto insurance $32.99
new york auto insurance $32.99
florida auto insurance $32.85
freecreditreport $32.70
freecreditreport $32.70
home equity $32.66
home equity $32.66
pop up displays $32.64
pop up displays $32.64
injury attorneys $32.63
conference calling $32.58
term life insurance quotes $32.57
term life insurance quotes $32.57
home equity lines of credit $32.55
home equity lines of credit $32.55
dui lawyers $32.54
laser hair removal nyc $32.32
laser hair removal nyc $32.32
budget rental car $32.21
net web hosting $32.10
home equity loan rates $32.02
home equity loan rates $32.02
home insurance quotes $32
mortgage refinance $32.00
mortgage refinance $32.00
web meetings $31.93
car insurance cheap $31.93
atlanta auto $31.88
loans consolidation $31.88
loans consolidation $31.88
private student loan consolidation $31.86
private student loan consolidation $31.86
cheap car insurance quotes $31.68
los angeles auto $31.66
car insurance provider $31.65
exchange hosting $31.58
exchange hosting $31.58
insurance quote auto $31.57
insurance quote auto $31.57
personal injury attorney $31.56
personal injury attorney $31.56
2nd mortgage loans $31.53
refinance home loan $31.41
refinance home loan $31.41
home loans mortgage $31.27
home owners insurance $31.21
home owners insurance $31.21
injury attorney $31.13
injury attorney $31.13
refinance online $31.12
dui attorney $31.12
dui attorney $31.12
online insurance quote $31.12
school loan consolidation $31.07
donate car $31.05
cheap conference calls $31.05
cheap conference calls $31.05
injury lawyers $30.98
injury lawyers $30.98
donate a car $30.94
cleveland auto insurance $30.91
bad credit secured loans $30.86
ca auto insurance $30.81
ca auto insurance $30.81
refinance mortgage $30.80
refinance mortgage $30.80
dallas auto $30.53
frontier airlines $30.52
frontier airlines $30.52
aeron desk chair $30.44
aeron desk chair $30.44
0 credit card $30.40
structured settlement $30.38
virginia beach auto insurance $30.38
no closing costs $30.38
no closing costs $30.38
home equity line of credit $30.37
home equity line of credit $30.37
secured $30.35
secured $30.35
refinancing with bad credit $30.35
conference call services $30.33
cheapest loan $30.32
cheapest loan $30.32
home equity poor credit $30.29
home equity poor credit $30.29
dedicated web hosting $30.28
dedicated web hosting $30.28
discovercard com $30.27
mortgage loans for poor credit $30.27
mortgage loans for poor credit $30.27
1800flowers $30.24
google adwords $30.21
google adwords $30.21
discover com $30.19
car insurance ny $30.16
cheapest loans $30.13
des moines auto insurance $30.11
des moines auto insurance $30.11
matchmaker dating $30.09
matchmaker dating $30.09
diamond car insurance $30.08
instant auto insurance $30.03
refinance second mortgage $29.98
refinance my car $29.98
refinance my car $29.98
cheap car ins $29.96
cheap car ins $29.96
personal secured loans $29.95
zero interest credit card $29.84
zero interest credit card $29.84
consolidate college loans $29.79
consolidate college loans $29.79
apply for a credit card $29.77
apply for a credit card $29.77
mortgage refinancing $29.76
mortgage refinancing $29.76
washington auto insurance $29.74
washington auto insurance $29.74
consolidation student loan $29.66
second mortgage loans $29.64
car insurance on line $29.59
asbestos cancer $29.54
asbestos cancer $29.54
mortgages refinance $29.50
2nd mortgage $29.44
2nd mortgage $29.44
refinance a home $29.31
refinance a home $29.31
equity home loans $29.28
insurance online quotes $29.24
insurance online quotes $29.24
bad credit mortgage refinancing $29.22
refinance mortgage rates $29.11
refinance mortgage rates $29.11
school loans $29.08
house refinance $28.97
house refinance $28.97
remortgage rates $28.97
remortgage rates $28.97
conference calls $28.87
800 flowers $28.87
california attorneys $28.82
auto insurance quotes $28.82
auto insurance quotes $28.82
home improvement loans $28.71
home improvement loans $28.71
hosting managed $28.67
www match $28.65
car insurance estimates $28.65
car insurance estimates $28.65
cheapest auto insurance $28.64
auto ins $28.63
auto ins $28.63
no medical exam life insurance $28.63
no medical exam life insurance $28.63
call center software $28.62
call center software $28.62
bad credit equity home loan $28.54
car free insurance quote $28.53
car free insurance quote $28.53
loans refinance $28.51
loans refinance $28.51
injury lawyer $28.47
injury lawyer $28.47
dui lawyer $28.44
dui lawyer $28.44
mortgage refinance loans $28.42
cord blood $28.36
home loan refinancing $28.28
house insurance $28.28
house insurance $28.28
adt security $28.26
auto refinance loans $28.23
laptop computers notebooks $28.22
personal injury lawyer $28.16
california car insurance $28.16
personal injury lawyer $28.16
california car insurance $28.16
car insurance quote online $28.15
home construction loans $28.12
home construction loans $28.12
auto insurance ca $28.11
auto insurance ca $28.11
discount car insurance $28.08
microsoft exchange hosting $28.03
microsoft exchange hosting $28.03
california auto insurance $28.02
home refinancing $27.98
home refinancing $27.98
texas mortgage refinance $27.96
texas mortgage refinance $27.96
home improvement loan $27.95
home improvement loan $27.95
1 800 flowers $27.94
chase credit card $27.94
call conference $27.91
refinance bad credit $27.81
refinance bad credit $27.81
home mortgages $27.80
best refinance $27.80
home mortgages $27.80
best refinance $27.80
affordable auto insurance $27.73
refinance mortgage interest rate $27.72
scottsdale auto insurance $27.70
auto insurance quote $27.69
churchill car insurance $27.67
churchill car insurance $27.67
defense lawyers $27.65
home equity loan $27.63
home equity loan $27.63
best refinance mortgage $27.62
home equity credit $27.62
home equity credit $27.62
home refinance $27.61
home refinance $27.61
refinancing loans $27.55
hard drive recovery $27.54
refinance interest rates $27.49
commercial vehicle insurance $27.47
net hosting $27.44
discount tire $27.41
hard drive data recovery $27.38
cincinnati auto insurance $27.28
0 interest credit card $27.26
free tax software $27.14
managed server $27.13
rate refinancing $27.10
jenny craig $27.09
conference call $27.04
equity loan $27.04
conference call $27.04
equity loan $27.04
u s airways.com $27.03
u s airways.com $27.03
refinance your mortgage $27.02
refinance your mortgage $27.02
online colleges $26.88
online colleges $26.88
0 interest credit $26.85
low cost auto insurance $26.82
cheap car insurance online $26.80
cheap car insurance online $26.80
mortgage home equity $26.77
mortgage home equity $26.77
0 apr credit card $26.76
0 interest credit cards $26.76
homeowners insurance quotes $26.76
business debt consolidation $26.68
colorado springs mortgage $26.66
home loan bad credit $26.66
refinance interest $26.66
managed dedicated server $26.64
ftd florists $26.64
windows dedicated server hosting $26.64
ftd florists $26.64
windows dedicated server hosting $26.64
hp computer laptop $26.56
auto insurance companies $26.54
personal injury lawyers $26.49
personal injury lawyers $26.49
personal injury $26.43
personal injury $26.43
term life insurance quote $26.38
term life insurance quote $26.38
cheap car insurance rate $26.35
cheap car insurance rate $26.35
sacramento auto $26.32
sacramento auto $26.32
discount web hosting $26.30
refinancing your home $26.25
car insurance compare $26.24
life insurance quote $26.17
life insurance quote $26.17
purchase domain $26.09
0 credit $26.06
car insurance prices $26.05
low interest mortgage rate $26.03
low interest mortgage rate $26.03
insurance quote online $25.95
insurance quote online $25.95
house insurance quotes $25.93
cingular prepaid $25.90
donate used car $25.90
cingular prepaid $25.90
donate used car $25.90
home mortgage rate refinance $25.84
home mortgage rate refinance $25.84
online commodity trading $25.81
online commodity trading $25.81
insurance quotes $25.80
insurance quotes $25.80
0 apr credit $25.76
business classes online $25.75
business classes online $25.75
car insurance price $25.74
instant auto insurance quote $25.73
motor car insurance $25.72
loans co uk $25.72
business credit report $25.69
bush office furniture $25.66
insurance comparisons $25.65
insurance comparisons $25.65
online savings $25.62
low mortgage rates $25.53
breckenridge lodging $25.53
fixed mortgage rates $25.51
car cheap insurance $25.50
car cheap insurance $25.50
web hosting sql $25.50
web hosting sql $25.50
asp web hosting $25.49
asp web hosting $25.49
cheap car insurance $25.47
cheap car insurance $25.47
sql web hosting $25.45
sql web hosting $25.45
loans secured $25.43
stock trading online $25.42
credit report com $25.41
credit report .com $25.41
credit report .com $25.41
register domain $25.40
register domain $25.40
help desk software $25.35
help desk software $25.35
house loans $25.26
bad credit equity loan $25.25
bad credit equity loan $25.25
iowa car insurance $25.25
iowa car insurance $25.25
quote car insurance $25.23
car ins $25.21
car ins $25.21
online doctoral $25.21
online doctoral $25.21
credit card deals $25.18
hp printers $25.13
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home loans with bad credit $25.13
home mortgage refinance $25.12
custom lasik san diego $25.12
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Clowns1, 600 Keywords that Make Money Online | Used Cars, MyBlogContest and 18 others are discussing. Toggle Comments
- teknolojik internet magazini 11.59 am on 10.09.2007 Permalink
  
  its really unbelieveble.
  thanks for info.
- Jason 3.23 pm on 10.09.2007 Permalink
  
  wow, this is a pretty comprehensive list. It almost warrants starting a site about student load consolidation and insurance
- Jeff Kee 3.37 pm on 10.09.2007 Permalink
  
  DEBT DEBT DEBT has so much to do with it.
- My New Choice 8.30 pm on 10.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I’ve got a site that covers various topics related to personal finances and I do experience some decent paying clicks, although I have yet to really see anything quite this high.
- eddie 12.29 am on 11.09.2007 Permalink
  
  great info thanks
  ill be reading the blog
- eddie 1.25 am on 11.09.2007 Permalink
  
  i have this domain name:
  
  webhostingsql.com
- Guadagnare 4.53 am on 11.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Gary, can you tell me how I can get similar information on italian keywords!
  
  I saw you used SEO tools for Firefox to check the accuracy, how do you do that? Where does it say the $ for each click.
  
  Anybody that can answer would be appreciated.
  Thanks
  Francesco
- Gary Lee 12.23 pm on 11.09.2007 Permalink
  
  almost warrants . . . it’s a really hard industry to get into . . but if you really think about it, you might be able to focus on a nice long tail that gets good traffic . . . I know of some secret keywords that are paying pretty almost as well as these words, but will probably make that annoucement in a couple of months when I’m ready!
- JerkyBeef 2.19 pm on 11.09.2007 Permalink
  
  this is a great post… thanks for the information
- Gary Lee 5.13 pm on 11.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m not sure how this guy did it without going into google and submitting all the keywords he suspected of having a high cost and then filtering it down.
- Scary Website 3.36 am on 12.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow. I never realized the keywords paid that high. I knew there were high paying ones in these industries, but never knew they paid out so much. Think it’s time to start an Insurance blog.
- Tom LeDree 3.49 pm on 12.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow great list! Thanks for sharing… I wonder how successful it would be to target these keywords and try and make money from this?
  
  I’m willing to give it ago tho!
  
  Tom LeDree
  http://www.TomLeDree.com
- jafeth mariani 5.55 pm on 12.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Greatwork!!!!
  I voted for you on technorati and i linked you here:
  http://angelsmagazine.blog.de/2007/09/12/reich_mit_adsense~2970899
- Jeff Kee 2.44 am on 13.09.2007 Permalink
  
  After reading this, I wrote a blog post about how I handle my debts, and the Google Adsense ads obviously switched over to that type. We’ll see what happens in the next few days.
- Derrich 12.10 pm on 13.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Totally. Insurance, DWIs, and metho-whatchamacallit…
- Derrich 12.11 pm on 13.09.2007 Permalink
  
  It works. Student Loan Consolidation was a gold mine for me.
- Etienne Teo 12.27 am on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Most of them do pay, but make sure you can talk about them on your blog, otherwise…your blog might just lose steam..
- vitvirtual 6.29 am on 14.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I would like to ask if it’s possible to win Goggle TOP on any of these keywords by my SEO efforts and how much and time do I need for that? That would bring huge profits in future…
- Jez 5.41 am on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I know a couple of people with sites in these niches and they get maybe $2 per click.
  
  I think these prices are way OTT, and, if correct apply to Google’s sponsored links as opposed to Adsense on sites.
- Jez 5.50 am on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Since adding this post you seem to have a lot of finance related ads poppping up on here
- Derrich 6.51 am on 18.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Insurance cancer! Sorry. My mesothelioma ads are acting up again. DWI!
- Thomas Sinfield 3.15 pm on 21.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, that is a very comprehensive list! thanks for sharing.
- macdet 4.04 am on 23.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Greatwork!!!!
  I voted for you on technorati and i will try it netxt week.
  
  My favourite sport is “oneline bewerbung volkswagen”
  please help to improve ist
- Neil 5.50 am on 23.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Intersting list ….. thanks for posting Gary.
- MyBlogContest 7.27 pm on 03.10.2007 Permalink
  
  Do those keywords really can make money?
Gary Lee 12.20 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink

A Nudge in the Right Blog Direction

I have a friend who asked me to help set up a new blog for them using WordPress. Since they are pretty new to this whole blogging thing, they especially needed some help with plugins that will help get their blog running as smoothly as possible from the start. After I finished installing all their plugins, I wrote him an email to let him know what most of the plugins do and also gave some hints on how to increase some traffic. I thought it would be a good idea to post my email since it was a pretty damn long email and with my lack of posting, I thought . . . “perfect!”

Dear Jon,

Per your request:

1) List of Plugins I used for your Blog

Akismet – Spam Filter

All in One SEO Pack – Allows you to override the Meta Tags to Title your blog post with the correct keywords and titles.

Brian’s Threaded Comments – Great Plugin to Directly respond to comments of a Post instead of having them compile towards the bottom.

Contact Form – Creates a Basic Contact forum that gets forwarded to jrognerud@microsaw.com

Enforce http://www.preference – This is to make sure backlinks don’t get split up between microsaw.com and http://www.microsaw.com

Executable PHP Widget – This allows the insertion of PHP code into the sidebar widgets

Feedburner Feed Replacement – Once you have the RSS Feed set up, you will want to use Feedburner to distribute your RSS.

Get Recent Comments

Google Analytics – Insert your Google Analytics Code into the Options and it will automatically tag every page so that you can track everything on your blog.

Google Search Widget

Google Sitemaps – Creates a Google Compliant sitemap that you can upload to Google Webmasters

MyAvatars – Places the MyBlogLog avatar next to comments to place a face to someone’s words.

MyBlogLog Widget – Used in the sidebar to load MBL Widget to see who has been to the site.

Name Dropper – Social Bookmarking tool so that your readers can submit your posts to help drive new sources of traffic.

No Self Pings – I use this to decrease the amount of unnecessary pings to search engines and technorati

Optimal Title – In case you don’t use the All in One SEO Plugin, this automatically places the title of the post in front of the title of the blog in the Meta Title to promote better placement on Google SERPS.

PostPost – If you are promoting anything, you can place a 468×60 banner below each post.

Posts Related / Related Posts – Lists 5 Posts that are related to the Post just read by the reader to increase more page per viewers.

Show Top Commentators – I use this to encourage more Comments. The rewards are a free backlink from your site.

Smart Update Pinger – Pings only when publishing a new post.

Top Posts by Category – Once you have enough posts, this will display the Top posts based on views or comments

WP-PostRatings – This adds a rating system at the bottom of each post.

2) Suggestions. Off the top of my head, this is what I think you should do.

- Build your Content Quickly. I would suggest at least 4-5 posts per category.
- Join a Group of Bloggers who will help link to your articles and get your blog noticed.
- Set up an Account at the Following Social Networks: Stumble Upon, Netscape, Technorati WTF, and of course Digg.
- Comment on other Blogger’s sites and don’t forget to respond to comments left on your own site.
- Leverage your own network and your association.
- The best thing to do right now is to write high quality/controversial articles that can get dugg easily and quickly.

3) Sites that I would suggest reading right off the bat:

http://www.doshdosh.com – Great Analysis
http://www.bluehatseo.com – Crazy Out of the Box Thinking
http://www.johnchow.com – Great Marketing

As you can see, I didn’t link anybody since I’m really lazy right now. I’ll probably link all the plugins if there is enough requests for them, but i’m assuming most of my readers already have installed a majority of these plugins.

If you have some friends who are interested in getting started in the blogging world, then feel free to reference this page to give them an idea of what they need to install to get off on the right foot.

If you’re interested in seeing which blog I helped out, click here to see what my friend has so far on his blog. From what I’ve seen, he has some really great content that all of you might be very interested in.

Moved to Wordpress : SKFox Blog & Photos, comment-faire-pour-maigrir.com, Israel and 12 others are discussing. Toggle Comments
- BeachBum 12.35 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Great advice. I’m taking you up on the comments right now.
  I would add MyBlogLog to the list of social networks to join. For bloggers they are a good one. That is where I first found DoshDosh.
  
  BeachBum
- Enkay Blog 1.53 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Excellent idea of posting the email because plug-ins are something that most people always look for to make their life easy. Good job!
- Carl Coddington 2.04 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Excellent Post. I think it is my favorite of the week. I am going to trackback this to my readers
- jon 2.52 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Very cool, indeed… Thanks, my man!!!
  - JR
- MDB 4.03 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  The list of plugins is useful. I have a few of them but hadn’t thought of/seen the others. I would agree that I find mybloglog useful as well, it’s a good way to meet new bloggers and new blogs.
- Carl Coddington 6.06 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I like all the plugins you suggested except for the mybloglog. I think it slows down the loading time of the page dramatically.
- Enkay Blog 8.23 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  MyBlogLog is definitely worth it because you can build a readership base that is recognizable by a picture of them or some kind of graphic. It helps!
- David 10.21 pm on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the wonderful tips!
- Gary Lee 9.44 am on 01.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I really don’t know if it’s mybloglog . . . you might want to check your other plugins . . . . at the end of the day, I still think it’s worth the trouble because the plugin puts a face to the name and gives commentators a chance to show off their personality . . .
- Gary Lee 9.45 am on 01.09.2007 Permalink
  
  you should ask Ms. Danielle . . . she loves MyBlogLog like no other . . . personally, I like it more because it offers this avatar system so that it gives me a chance to see what some of the other bloggers look like . .
- Gary Lee 9.46 am on 01.09.2007 Permalink
  
  no problem jon . . . . look forward to your great articles!
- browie 7.53 pm on 01.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Great tips, I’m going to go through them more closely to see if I’ve got most of them.
- Etienne Teo 12.21 pm on 03.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Hey Gary, that is one list of wordpress plugin, you installed all of them as well?
- Click Input 11.52 am on 05.09.2007 Permalink
  
  That’s a heck of a lot of plugins you got there!
- Anjali 12.23 pm on 07.09.2007 Permalink
  
  This is exactly the kind of info I was looking for. I just started a blog for my business and have no experience in starting a good blog. I am glad I found you. Wish you had placed the links too.
- Kanute 4.51 am on 27.09.2007 Permalink
  
  Very exhaustible list of useful plugins. I’ve never heard of some of them before maybe because I’m good in programming, so it do it myself. Anyway your friend could not have a better counsellor than you. John Chow is just marvellous, I read Dosh Dosh ones in a while, never heard of bluehatseo, i guess its time to have a look.
- Kanute 4.56 am on 27.09.2007 Permalink
  
  You’re very right. I made an experiment on this, and I found out that myblolog widgets could grind up to 12seconds in download time. So i took it off. In bigger blogs say John Chow you’ll find this very true.
- Israel 8.15 am on 28.09.2007 Permalink
  
  pretty useful thx, i found one i had been looking for all this time.
Gary Lee 2.19 pm on 28.08.2007 Permalink

Situp Contest – Boy vs. Monkey vs. Dog

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- Jeff Kee 10.38 pm on 28.08.2007 Permalink
  
  That’s so awesome!!!!
  
  Smart monkey.
- MDB 9.08 am on 29.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thats funny… only Japanese TV could produce stuff like that.
  
  My quick/rough translation… with the dog
  Is he alive?
  Has he died?
  Monkey (Pan-chan): Do it
  Pan-chan: C’MOOOON… go for it
  Dog (James): No way
  Pan-chan: C’moooooon
  Pan-chan: aaaah… it’s useless… I give up
  James: uuuugh
- Etienne Teo 10.20 am on 30.08.2007 Permalink
  
  hey gary! You seem busy for these past weeks.
  Anyway That monkey is just so smart!
- Enkay Blog 9.03 pm on 30.08.2007 Permalink
  
  If that monkey keeps going, hes going to have a six pack in no time!
- Gary Lee 11.54 am on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  just a little busy . . . i’m in the process of moving and also doing my research for my new job . . . . plus I haven’t posted a video in a long time, so why not, right?
- Regisrty Hacks 8.16 am on 06.09.2007 Permalink
  
  This is a great video – I actually posted it too! Japanese TV Show: Fitness Competition – A Monkey And A Dog

Gary Lee 9.51 pm on 16.08.2007 Permalink

Know when to Buy an Ad Campaign

As Ms. Danielle has announced on her blog, I have recently accepted a job in West Los Angeles to head up internet marketing. I really don’t want to get in to what I’ll be doing there just yet as I haven’t started, so I honestly don’t want to assume too much, especially since I found out the higher ups read my blog prior to my interviewing with them. I wanted to thank everyone for sending in their congratulations. I don’t really start my new job until September, so until then, I’m going to concentrate on tying up some loose ends with my projects sites and consulting work.

One of those loose ends is helping a buddy of mine sell some ad space for his website. The website will remain nameless for right now, but I can tell you that it receives well over 350k impressions per month and has a very strong niche following in the financial sector due to my friend’s expertise in search engine optimization. Anyways, I’ve been contacting some potential advertisers and sent them over a media kit that I made to give them a good idea of what we can do for their company. I gave them basic information such as impressions per month, uniques per month, traffic demographics, an article explaing SEO vs. PPC ad campaigns and some screen shots of where their advertisements would go.

The inspiration for today’s post comes from a conversation I had with one media director today who has me completely baffled with her ignorance and stubborness. Oh wait, let me correct myself . . she’s an “assistant” media director and I’m still, at this moment, baffled at her ignorance and stubborness. Here’s an synopsis of how the correspondence went:

Monday Email – “Dear Media Director . . . My name is Gary Lee and I wanted to see if you were interested in advertising on my site . . . I’ve included a media kit for your review . . . . . please feel free to contact me at any time! . . . Best, Gary Lee”

Wednesday Email – “Dear Mr. Lee . . . . Thank you for contacting me . . . I’ve gone through your Media Kit and your CPM seems to be a little high . . . . . the highest I can go is a $5-8 CPM!”

Wednesay Email – “Dear Media Director . . . . have you considered that this is highly targeted traffic that is actively looking for products your company offers?”

Thurs Email – “Dear Mr. Lee . . . . . the highest I can go is $5″

First thoughts in my head are “Dayam!” . . . next thoughts I can’t write as they are full of profanity and if children read this site, their parents would come after me with pitchforks and SUVs.

So, I finally calmed down and was trying to figure out why $5 was the magic number in her head. Was it because she’s so used to advertising on the Adbrite with Network Ads or any of those other 3rd tier ad networks? (For those of you who have never used Adbrite, it’s great for a certain demographic, but if you’re going to do ad buys for financial products, let’s just say Adbrite traffic won’t be able to see through all their smoke to click on that kind of ad). Or maybe, she has a boss that gave her a $5 CPM ceiling that she can’t get past. Or MAYBE, she doesn’t know the finer points of ad buying and needs some help?

I’ll go with no. 3 and say she needs some help. Since I have this wonderful blog of information, I thought I’d add a little bit to it and see if I can show her the metrics she should be looking at when considering an ad buy for her client. In this example, I’m going to sell her some of my inventory for a 160×600 Skyscraper ad on the left side of the site. The only given in this whole example is that she will be getting 225,000 impressions from my site.

The guessing game starts when she’s trying to figure out the quality of my traffic using:

Click Through Rate – Number of Clicks on Ad out of Number of Impressions Delivered. This is something both her and I can control. If my site relied on PPC campaigns to get traffic, then I could control the quality of traffic by purchasing cheap non-relevant traffic from non-relevant keywords. Since the site’s traffic is purely from SEO, this won’t be a factor. The Media Director can control the CTR by the quality of ad she decides to run on the site. An neon green ad with pink flashing words that say “Low Rates! Sign up Here” might get a decent CTR, but she can probably get a higher CTR by appeasing to the traffic with a Well Dressed Professional flashing a million dollar smile with a tagline that read “Save Now with our 5.45% Savings Loans!” Another point that she might be considering is Ad blindness, which is when returning visitors become blind to the left skyscraper because it’s consistently the same ad over and over and over again. I usually suggest to advertisers that they either have 4 different versions of their Skyscraper Ad or at least 2 to rotate to counter this problem.

Conversion Rate - This is the number of new account signups she gets divided by the number of clicks she receives from the ad placement on the site. I have no control over this as once that visitor is on their site, it’s their responsibility. But one important thing to know when negotiating is that she should know what the conversion rate is of the page she’s sending traffic to. If she doesn’t, request to talk to someone else.

Customer Sign Up Value – This is the big one. This is the number I would like to know and the number that she should know to make all this work. Basically, this number is an estimate/average amount a customer will generate for you when they sign up for your site or product. So for her site . . . let’s say we get 100 new account signups for her site. The total revenue over the course of a year those 100 signups generate is $5000. That means on average, every time a person signs up for a new account on her client site, it’s worth $50 to her client.

So here we go . . . . remember how she was saying that $5 CPM is the most she can pay? Let’s use that and see what happens at the end of one month when all 225,000 impressions are delivered for her client. I’m going to assume a 15% conversion rate as that is usually an industry standard for any landing page (if you’re not getting 15%, fix it using Google Optimizer)!

Impressions	225000	225000	225000	225000	225000
CTR	5%	4%	3%	2%	1%
Clicks	11250	9000	6750	4500	2250
CR	15%	15%	15%	15%	15%
Account Signups	1688	1350	1013	675	338

As you can see, I am showing her a range of CTRs that she is projecting my site to get. Most likely, she’s thinking worst case scneario which would be 1%. To tell you the truth, I think she’s going to get closer to 5%, but I’m biased so let’s go with worst case scenario. Next, let’s take a look at her projected costs. I’m going to give a wider range of CPM rates so not to reveal too much about my friend’s site.

CPM Rate	Total Campaign Cost for 225,000 Impressions
$5.00	$1125.00
$20.00	$4500.00
$30.00	$6750.00
$45.00	$10125.00
$65.00	$14625.00
$85.00	$19125.00
$100.00	$22500.00

As you can see, the prices for ads can get up there. The only way to justify the costs is to see what you’re going to possibly earn for the client at the end of the campaign.

So, remember the $5 CPM ceiling she is holding on to dear life for? At a 1% Click Through Rate, she would still get 338 Account Signups. She is basically saying that each customer is worth only $3.32 (Total Ad Spend = $1125 divided by Worst Case CTR Account Signups of 338) to cover her costs for the ad.

Are you beginning to see where I’m going with this? Does her client realistically only make $3.32 per Account Signup? Remember the last time you wrote a bad check . . . . didn’t the bank charge you $25 for overdraft protection? Out of the 338 signups through this campaign, her client would only need 45 bad checks to be written over the lifetime of 338 accounts to cover their costs! And that’s just writing bad checks . . . how about ATM fees, check writing fees, ordering new checks, deposit in the bank fee, direct deposit fees? I definitely think they make more that $3.32 off each account.

What do you think each account signup is worth? $20? $50? $100? Remember, this is over the lifetime of this new account! Here’s a table I made up to show you how much our favorite Media Director’s client can earn based on different customer sign up values:

Customer Sign Up Value	@ 5% CTR	@ 4% CTR	@ 3% CTR	@ 2% CTR	@ 1% CTR
$5	$8437.50	$6750.00	$5062.50	$3375.00	$1687.50
$25	$42187.50	$33750.00	$25312.50	$16875.00	$8437.50
$50	$84375.00	$67500	$50625.00	$56250.00	$16875.00
$100	$168750.00	$135000.00	$101250.00	$67500.00	$33750.00

Pretty Amazing, huh? Look at the top right hand corner where our projected $5 Sign up Value meets our worst case scenario 1% click through rate. The client ends up making $1687.50 which is a 50% gross margin. Ad companies usually will charge 20% of what they spend, so the real cost to the client is $1350, which still comes out to a very healthy 25% gross margin. Now, this is also based on the fact that I was naive enough to believe that the bank only makes $5 an account signup. You can see for yourself and guesstimate with yourself how much each account is worth.

So, what do I do now? Do I email back the media director and show her this post? Do I call my bank contacts and ask them what their average customer value is?

If anything, I hope this has given you a glimpse inside what goes on in my mind when I’m negotiating ad deals for any of my clients. Numbers don’t lie and can lead you towards a successful internet marketing path!

Have any questions or comments? Go for it . . I’m really curious to hear what you guys have to say about this post, since it’s probably the longest post I’ve written in quite some time!

mahdi yusuf 10.37 pm on 16.08.2007 Permalink

first comment!!! woohoo! great post! i will definately put it to use when considering adverting!
Jon Lee 10.44 pm on 16.08.2007 Permalink

Great post Gary, it’s always hard to see something from both sides. Seeing all those numbers… makes me want to do some statistical analysis… god I’m a nerd.
Mark - Productivity501 11.26 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink

Keep in mind that she may have other places where she can pay $5 CPM and have conversion rates that are perfectly acceptable to her. I’d start out by assuming that she is behaving rationally–you will be in a better place to negotiate. If she is behaving rationally, then your perception of the value of your traffic is much higher than hers. If you can change her perception, you can convert her into a customer. For example, offer her a month or week for free (or at $5 CPM) in exchange for sharing the conversion rates. That gives her a chance to see the value and even if you don’t keep her as a client at the higher rate you can use the stats to help acquire other clients. (Assuming they are good.)
Gary Lee 11.30 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink

The only problem with offering a free week of anything is that we lose out on a week’s worth of revenue from other sources willing to pay the rates. We have done our fair share of testing and are pretty confident that we have fair rates that are competitive with other sites in our niche. Ideally, she is a rational person who will understand the balancing act of traffic and conversion rate to come to the right conclusions.
Gary Lee 11.31 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink

I love studying numbers and analyzing the effects of minor changes . . . . optimizer is seriously too fun to use when it comes to that!
ms danielle 11.43 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink

this is pretty funny actually. i’ve looked into purchasing advertising on sites like LinkedIn, and the minimum CPM for them was $12 (last time i checked). i mean, come on, i saw ING Direct advertising on there. that’s basis to at least charge $20 since linkedin is way less targeted than the financial site — and their banner is in the footer. you’re charging for top leaderboard…
my guess as to their max CPA: $200. we know the numbers for some other big money industries and my instinct tells me banking ain’t that far off…gangstas… they must think you’re stupid…when in the end, they’re not gonna get the advertising.
Mark - Productivity501 11.45 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink

Then I would suggest going after clients who will assume that your traffic is higher quality than what they have experienced in the past. Otherwise you are going to have to prove something to them.

There was a company that operated in the travel industry. They were trying to get a deal with Expedia. They tried contacting Expedia several times, but never got any response. So instead they started sending Expedia traffic–lots of traffic for a month or so. Then they turned the traffic off by switching to someone else (Travelocity or whatever). The next day Expedia called them asking if they could work out some deal.

I don’t remember the name of the company, but I believe they eventually sold to Expedia.
derek 1.29 pm on 17.08.2007 Permalink

I love this post Gary….very insightful into the process of working on an ad deal. It sounds like this media director thinks they are dealing with a finance site of the stature of my personal finance site, not a high traffic popular site like it sounds your friend has.

Send her my way!
Hon 7.03 pm on 18.08.2007 Permalink

Gary some great points here although I wouldn’t email her this post.

Once you know the life time value of your customer and your conversion rates you should go and find any and all leads that create profit and buy them all ( provided your business is set up with a good cash flow model).
Michael Fultz 9.27 pm on 18.08.2007 Permalink

I printed this page for future reference. I would love to start advertising, soon..
Joe Smith 5.57 am on 20.08.2007 Permalink

Interesting stuff- but who focuses on CTR these days??? Websites and coversions are way ABOVE and beyond that!!
Marc Eilbeck 5.24 am on 21.08.2007 Permalink

congrats on the job gary, and nice post m8!
Shane 8.18 pm on 21.08.2007 Permalink

Great read Gary,

My first instinct is that she’s lowballing you simply because YOU approached her. She thinks you need her business.

The only way it’s worth doing business with her is to throw her your excess ad space for 5 bucks with one stipulation … you can pull the plug at your discretion. As soon as your excess real estate is tapped out at the rates you want, she’s out unless she’s willing to come back at your rate.
Miss Ladybug 6.18 am on 24.08.2007 Permalink

Really helpful information. Will continue to follow to follow your successes. Good luck to you!
Enkay Blog 7.07 pm on 26.08.2007 Permalink

Very well written post! Highly detailed and informative! Keep it up Gary!
MDB 9.17 am on 29.08.2007 Permalink

Very interesting read and an eye-opener. I guess the limit depends on how narrow you want your margins and the risk you associate with the quality of the traffic. Anyway, it’s a very informative and thought provoking post for the average joe
Josh 12.03 pm on 10.09.2007 Permalink

Very nice informative post…enjoyed seeing the thought process.
HMTKSteve 10.51 am on 11.09.2007 Permalink

Great post! Can I hire you to sell ad space on some of my sites?
Gary Lee 5.17 pm on 11.09.2007 Permalink

haha . thanks Steve . . you know how to reach me . . . let me know if you ever need any help!

Gary Lee 9.04 pm on 13.08.2007 Permalink
Free iPhone Contest and MIA update

First, I’d like to tell everyone that I’m alive and well. Thank you to those who wrote in and for your some times hilarious emails asking if I was ok! A lot has been going on in the world of Mr. Gary Lee and obviously, blogging has not been one of them. I hope to make ammends for now by letting you all know what’s been going on.

To kick off my August, I let my employer know that I would be stepping down as the Business Development and Marketing Director for PokerLetter.org. I have been working on this site for the past 2 years and along with Ms. Danielle, have helped it grow into very successful email marketing business. I was proud to be part of a team that grew a high quality email list to over 375,000, generated more than $1M in a 12 month span and overall, learn how to succeed in one of the toughest markets in online advertising. Some may ask why I’m stepping down from such a lucrative business, but after months of trying to adapt to the new law changes the US have placed in the online gaming world, I recognized that it was time for me see what else was out there for me. Coincidentally, the owner of PokerLetter.org also felt the same as I did and a few days after my last day, asked me to help him sell Poker Letter to any interested party. So, if you’re an interested party and think you can leverage this large database, then by all means, contact me at your earliest convenience.

Other than that outside piece of news, I know many of you are very interested in the iPhone Contest. Originally, the plan for the iPhone contest was to generate some buzz around my blog and get some quality backlinks from participants with high quality page rankings for some of my other side projects. Well, I think I’ve definitely gotten the buzz as I’ve done a couple of interviews for some books coming up in the fall. I will definitely be letting you guys know of those once they come out. As a result of the increased exposure, some of you may have noticed that the Technorati Faves Train came back to life for a couple of weeks and as a result, I finally passed John Chow on the Technorati’s Most Popular Blogs (aren’t you proud of me John? muhahaha)! As for the quality banklinks, I originally timed the contest to end around now because I thought Google would be done with their page ranking by now and obviously they still haven’t. As for the keywords I have chosen to promote the site, here’s where they’re ranking right now on Google:
- free online coupon – #5 : PinkDeals.net which is a site I work on with Ms. Danielle
- golf equipment – #13 : My Golf Site Project which I have high hopes for. Still in the works so reserve judgement until late September.
- free iphone – #137
Of course, the “free iphone” keyword is a little disappointing, but the success of the other two more than makes up for it. The long tail effect of ranking for those keywords have been tremendous and I hope to continue getting links for those sites. Also, I must give Yahoo credit for actually catching onto this promotion as I was ranking in the Top 5 for “Free iphone” for a couple of weeks, then they banned my post all together from their listings. Someone’s going to have to tell Yahoo to get off their high horse and just be glad I use their search engine! hahaha . . and ya, that’s exactly what I would say to Mr. Jerry Yang if he were in front of me right now!

Since Google is taking their sweet time with the Page Rank update, the only choice I have is to say that I will be annoucning the winner of the iPhone as soon as the Page Ranks are out so that people can get multiple entries for their newly ranked blogs. I apologize for the delay, but don’t you want your extra ticket?

If you haven’t entered the iPhone Contest yet, what are you waiting for? I made a huge banner at the top of this blog for you to click on!
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- Stephen 9.58 pm on 13.08.2007 Permalink
  
  You have a very cool blog with lots of useful, interesting info.
  
  Please visit my blog for money-making tips. Thanks!
- ms danielle 10.29 pm on 13.08.2007 Permalink
  
  hehehe the cat is out of the bag… for your sake i hope you’re able to sell PL that would be some nice cash for you.
  
  and it’s ok that you’re not ranking as high for free iphone. the contest will be over soon anyway. i’ll stumble this post for ya… maybe that will help too! hopefully the longtails for pd and bp will continue to rank in the long run.
  
  anyway lunches aren’t the same without you who is going to eat my leftovers?!
- Gary Lee 10.33 pm on 13.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I love how you leave this comment while we’re chatting!
- Jack 6.36 am on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Good to see you are back!
  
  Looking forward to some more posts this week and then that draw!
  
  Cheers!
- Josh Buckley 7.36 am on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Glad to see you’re back at the blog!
- John Cow 7.48 am on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I bet Google is deliberately delaying this quarter’s pagerank! They don’t want anyone to win that iPhone
- derek 9.59 am on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Sounds like you have been pretty busy with things. Good luck on the sale of PokerLetter and on whatever the next step will be for you. Have you transitioned into something else? You didn’t mention a new job so I wasn’t sure.
- cooliojones 7.06 pm on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Stephen you do have quite a collection of tips. And you’re brave enough to post you made a whopping $0.15 with certain programs!
- cooliojones 7.07 pm on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  LOL Gary you eat the leftovers? I hope they are good and tasty!
- cooliojones 7.08 pm on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  For some reason, a lot of bloggers have been on hiatus lately. The only thing that save my posterior was scheduled posts! I wonder if it is due to summer vacations?
- trench 3.26 am on 15.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Pull my name! haha. glad your back. Thought you ran away!
- Hannes Johnson 3.33 pm on 15.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, $1M in 12 months – not bad. Congrats.
  Yeah, it’s better to move on to something better instead of trying to struggle…
  
  Well, if I were to buy the PokerLetter.org business I would first change the domain name – because I don’t think “poker” and “.org” fits. The domain name is short, which is good – but I’ve always felt that “.org” is more reserved for non-profit organizations or something similar – not gambling
  
  But I got enough projects already so I think I’ll pass Do you have an asking price or are you just waiting for an offer?
- angad 10.29 pm on 15.08.2007 Permalink
  
  good results.
- Etienne Teo 2.30 am on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Everyone is on holidays i guess, not much updates coming from some bloggers.
- mahdi yusuf 10.50 am on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  hahah thats sweet! left overs rock if you were there for when they were fresh, if you weren’t just feels like leftovers!
- mahdi yusuf 11.44 am on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  yeah, lets take this a step further, Google is trying to shut down apple inc.
- Enkay Blog 3.26 pm on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Just read that you got a new job so Congratulations! and I can’t wait for that iPhone giveaway to end
- Etienne Teo 5.50 pm on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Enkay, same thinking, i could not wait for the iphone to be given out!
- cooliojones 5.14 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink
  
  The more they delay, the better chance everyone has of getting a better rank. People should be using this time wisely. (keyword: should).
- ms danielle 11.48 am on 17.08.2007 Permalink
  
  what if they do away with the page rank as some speculators are suggesting? does everyone then just get 1 entry?
- cooliojones 1.32 pm on 17.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Hey this is something that I haven’t heard before. Do you have a link to more information? Would they replace it with something else?
- Michael Fultz 9.29 pm on 18.08.2007 Permalink
  
  This is a cool blog. Sometimes, we can’t always post as much as we’d like to..
- Click Input 11.53 am on 05.09.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m just entering this contest right now via a new blog of mine!
Gary Lee 11.26 pm on 01.08.2007 Permalink

Remembering my Commentators

Nice Nanos, huh? Keep on Reading to find out how they’re going to be mine!

I’ve finally remembered to acknowledge my Top Commentators for July, but it sure wasn’t easy. I woke up this morning thinking “Ahh dammit! I forgot to copy down my top commentators for the month!” Then I remembered I could go back and look at the snapshot Google took of my site last night and use that to see who are my most favorite people in the whole world! So without further adieu,

Samanathon – It’s no surprise seeing the Conqueror of Comments sitting at the top of my list!

Ms. Danielle – I feel really bad cuz I never make her Top Commentators list.

Jeff Kee – Even when spending most of his time in Costa Rica. This guy’s a true blog homie!

DigitalNomad – I’m pretty sure he’s one of Saman’s homies, but he’s been contributing to my site pretty often. Thanks man!

Cash for Comments - The sneaky bastard is working it hard this month. Make sure to stop by and give him some love. So, we meeting up for lunch this weekend? Any other SoCal Bloggers down?

My New Hustle - Coolio Jones seems to be pretty new to the scene but is working it real hard for the past 4 weeks. He’s gone pretty deep into my archives to comment and I have to give it up to him for using that technique.

Russell Wagner - I just checked his site and it’s down right now, so if any of you see Russell around the blogosphere, let him know.

Enkay Blog – The winner of Ms. Danielle’s Zune Giveaway is now getting into gear. I know he’s been rocking it pretty hard since I’ve been hearing Danielle talk about his blog.

Derrich - This San Antonio Spurs Fan must be loving life now that KG is gone to the friggin’ Celtics and not to my beloved Lakers. And know it looks like Kobe is gone . . . anyone want some Lakers Season tickets? any one???

Leo Chiang - I just saw him getting Top Commentator Awards at Ed Lau‘s site and now he’s making my list too! You guys should go check him making some chinese food in his parents steamer . . . makes me want to him Valley Blvd right now!

Speaking of Ed Lau, him and Michael Kwan are giving away two ipod nanos right now for helping them name their new hockey blog. All I have to do is email them with my url suggestion, then write about what a great personal blog Ed Lau has and how Mike pretty much makes all his money freelance writing about pretty much anything he wants. Aww dammit . . I would love to write about it, but I just got my 11:22p writer’s block. Maybe next time guys!

So, who’s gonna be the Top Commentators for next month? You got what it takes to unseed Saman? I’ve seen a many people try and I’ve seen a many people fail! (Saman, you better win next month . . i’m hyping you up so much right now . . hahhaaha)

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- Leo 12.22 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the link love. BTW, the steamers are mine now since I stole it from my parents place
- CASH for COMMENTS 12.41 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Yea. You free Thursday?? I’ll see whats up with Danielle. Let her know.. maybe dinner or something.
- CASH for COMMENTS 12.44 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  This is just to be number one this month, well for now anways. I just realized that you resent the Top Commentators.
- cooliojones 3.29 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the shout out! It’s been fun so far, looks like I have some work to do in August though!
- Derrich 6.36 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  They traded like eleventy guys for KG though. Wow. Thanks for the acknowledgment, Gary.
- Enkay Blog 11.28 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Saman will pretty much beat everyone of us again but if you see, his comments always have something to do with the post. He doesnt make a comment just to raise up his count. By the way, last time I checked, you and I are still neck and neck at Technorati!
- Enkay Blog 11.28 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the link back! I have been really trying hard and working hard to getting my blog out there and every bit of exposure helps so thank you!
- Marc Eilbeck 12.31 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  nice feature giving on giving back to your commentators
- mahdi yusuf 9.29 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  not if i have anything to do with it coolio
- mahdi yusuf 9.30 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  nice post! !! saman is going down, king kong style!
- MDB 9.39 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  The competition is on… will have to see what I can do
- Saman Sadeghi 11.55 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  At least that’s what I want you to think!
- Saman Sadeghi 11.57 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  It really is – especially if you’ve joined the DOFOLLOW movement!
- Saman Sadeghi 12.00 am on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  “King Kong style”
  
  Just remember that I took down Godzilla!
- mahdi yusuf 12.08 am on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  well, thats not much of an accomplishment we killed godzilla, awhile back! see!
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_vs._Godzilla
- Saman Sadeghi 8.49 am on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Careful – you are making me angry and I just might attack!
- mahdi yusuf 1.05 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  haha, get angry its how i like it ( while still maintaining a relationship!)
- cooliojones 1.12 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Try if you may, but you cannot stop my work!
- cooliojones 1.13 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Well both of ya’ll can duke it out…I’ll see you at the top!
- Saman Sadeghi 2.28 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  No worries bud!
- Ed Lau 11.01 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the plug, Gary.
  
  We need your help folks and we’re giving away a couple of iPods as a thank you.
- Josh Buckley 11.13 am on 05.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I’d love to win one of those ipods!
- Joshua 1.35 pm on 05.08.2007 Permalink
  
  You two are comment spam warring on every money making site around, eh?
- cooliojones 2.12 pm on 05.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery, so I’m flattered he wants to be a ‘hustler.’
- mahdi yusuf 3.30 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  haha, your funny and if anyone is imitating anyone its you! monkey boy!
- mahdi yusuf 3.31 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  yeah don’t worry yourself i will see you from the top!
- Saman Sadeghi 10.12 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Name calling now huh?
  
  Don’t just spam just to get to the top of the list!
- Saman Sadeghi 10.13 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Wait, now I’m confused – what that supposed to be your footer?
- Joyce Babu 11.17 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  From today on, count me in too…
- mahdi yusuf 11.35 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  what? and did you really need to comment twice to get that thought across?
- kalpesh 1.08 pm on 07.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Its nice to see that you are been kind and humble towards your commentators. Comments are life blood of any blog and rewarding the people who take the pains to read and comment on your blog is most touching gesture.
- Etienne Teo 8.20 am on 14.08.2007 Permalink
  
  it is really nice to see you offer a 8GB Apple iphone, good way to roll contest.
- trench 3.24 am on 15.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Lakers fan for life!! Can’t turn my back on them ever! Been a fan for over 20 years! You seriously considering jumping ship if Kobe leaves? Are you a Laker fan or a Kobe fan? haha. Just asking.
- Michael Fultz 9.30 pm on 18.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Those are some great blogs, hope I’m in the A-list someday.
Gary Lee 10.33 am on 28.07.2007 Permalink

This Week in Blogs sees some Old and some New

Hannes Johnson is throwing a contest to raise his ranking in the Technorati Top 100 listing. Hanne’s is giving away some cold hard cash and PR4 link in his Featured Sites section!

Cash for Comments just started a link train of his own called the Jet Train where he somehow combo’d the idea of a link train with the promtion of a contest. This guy is one of Ms. Danielle’s disciples and is always coming up with crazy stuff. You really have to check it out, even it’s just for the crazy diagrams explaing link trains and video clips featuring himself.

Leo Chiang – Using a new tool that Leo found, I found out that I’m being listed as an A-List blogger. It’s basically a tool that takes into account how many backlinks you got through technorati. Now I know how Barry Bonds feels or at least how he should feel, gaming the system!

Jamaipanese – Interesting site about a Jamaican in love with the Japanese Culture. I’ve always been interested in understanding more about the Japanese, but never have taken the time. I guess I know where to look now if I ever have the time!

Contest Blogger – If you like the iPhone Giveaway Contest and just want to participate in more contests, check out this site for all the top contests out there in the blogosphere. Just on the first page, I see that there’s a total of $500 being given away, Google Lava Lamp, and t-shirts. If you’re in the mood, go check it out!

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- Hannes Johnson 11.48 am on 28.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Cool blogs Thanks for the mention – you just got 5 entries in my contest
  Contest Blogger sounds like a great idea – I will definitely send him a submission next time I have a contest and I will probably check the blog out regularly because we all love a good contest, right?
  
  By the way – The prize in my contest is a website review on my blog and $25 – but if you don’t want the cash (or if you don’t have a PayPal account) I will give you a featured link for 2 months. Maybe I should have explained that a little better in the post…
  So, it’s either A) Review + $25 or B) Review + PR4 link
- Leo 6.36 pm on 28.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the mention! I’m a B-lister myself but it’s all for fun anyways, my mom tells me I’m on her A-list
- Eric 6.48 pm on 28.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Contest Blogger rocks – trying to set up your own blogging contest is a study in futility. Trust me – I have tried. Next step – work with Contest Blogger and see if I can make it work this time around.
- Philomena Ojikutu 9.46 pm on 28.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Gary,
  This is good coverage. Very informative and also resourcefully selecting the most fertile blogs of the week, thank you for I have benefited from them.
- seo training 12.27 am on 29.07.2007 Permalink
  
  i checked out contestblogger and hannes both of them are quite cool.
  i think you really really have to be lucky to win hannes’ contest
- Francesco | Guadagnare 1.04 pm on 29.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Hey guys, It is funny to see how many bloggers are around on a Sunday!!!
  Mr. Lee thanks for the nice suggestions, I will be spending the whole night checking out the blogs you mentioned in your post.
  
  Thanks
  Francesco
  Guadagnare con NuoviBusiness
- Gary Lee 10.26 am on 30.07.2007 Permalink
  
  sorry about that hannes . . i should have been more clear . . . i’m glad I could have been of some help!
- Gary Lee 10.27 am on 30.07.2007 Permalink
  
  with the amount of trains you’re getting on . . . i seriously think you’ll be an A-Lister in no time!
- Gary Lee 10.31 am on 30.07.2007 Permalink
  
  luckier than my iPhone contest? =)
- Hannes Johnson 11.50 am on 30.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Well, right now there are 28 entries in the contest. So, if you favorite and comment + post about this in your blog you’ll have a 6/34 chance of winning (which is about 18%).
  
  So you don’t have to be that lucky… But like they say, you don’t win if you don’t have a ticket
- Saman Sadeghi 7.49 am on 31.07.2007 Permalink
  
  That’s funny, you mom told me that too!
- Leo 1.23 am on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  That’s the other A, Saman . . . A as in azzhole
- Saman Sadeghi 10.38 pm on 02.08.2007 Permalink
  
  But she don’t me she loves me!
  
  I feel used…
- cooliojones 12.34 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Yeah, you’re right. Sunday and weekends in general are not that good from what I have seen in the blogosphere.
- Saman Sadeghi 10.10 pm on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  The weekend are fairly slow, people spend time with their families…
  
  I’m actually surprised at how much traffic I get on the weekends! It’s a lot more then I expect (but I’m on then, so there you go).
- MDB 10.35 pm on 07.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the links. I am thinking of starting a contest, so the one to contest blogger is great.
- Michael Fultz 9.33 pm on 18.08.2007 Permalink
  
  These are great blogs! I visit them regularly!
Gary Lee 11.59 am on 25.07.2007 Permalink

Link Trains are making a Comeback

A couple of months ago, I started the Technorati Faves Link Train and watched it take off around the world faster than I would have ever imagined. I cracked the Technorati Top 100 in less than a week and now currently reside in the No. 19 spot behind one of the blogs that got me into this whole thing – JohnChow.com.

At the beginning of the current iPhone Giveaway Contest, I started to notice a few blips of people trying to start the train again, but then I thought to myself “there’s no way it’s going to start again!” But I was wrong, almost 3 weeks since then and the train is chugging along nicely as it did in the tail end of it’s hey day – about 5-10 backlinks a day! A combination of the revival of the link train and the iPhone Contest has finally got me past the 3k mark on Technorati to 2900. Of course, all these numbers don’t really mean anything in the grand scheme of things, but I’m a stats whore, so shoot me!

Of course, there have been a number of articles written about the evilness, genius or sheer luck of this link train. Enough so that I originally wanted to distance myself from link trains as a whole because I was starting to become one with the term “Link Train!” and I wanted to become more than that when I started blogging. As more and more people started creating unique link trains and added me onto them, I became more and more content that I was never going to escape it. I felt very much like Dennis Weaver in the Spielberg classic thriller “Duel” where Dennis Weaver’s character is trying to escape this killer 18 wheeler that’s trying to kill him and his car! Okay, maybe it’s not to that extreme, but I know I’m never going to escape, so hopefully you’re smart enough to see the correlation!

With that being said, David Wilkinson of Techzi.net asked me to join in his new Geek Train where he has given nicknames to pretty much all the bloggers I currently read! I love my nickname in particular since I’m called “The Legendary” for reasons unbeknownst to me, but I’ll take it! So, since I got an awesome nickname plus the fact that I’m sponsoring this link train, I thought I’d embrace my link train association with the Geek Train:

———- START COPYING HERE ———-

Geek Train – All aboard!

1 – Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and linkback to the blog(s) that put you on the list in the paragraph. You MUST do this. No-one plans on getting slapped for duplicate content any time soon, do they?

2 – Next, copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your own blog. If you’d like a different keyword for your blog then change it, when you do your post, and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword, provided the train keeps on spreading.

3 – Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.

4 – Add at least three new favourite blogs of yours to keep the train going, e-mail the blog owners (or comment on one of their posts) and insist that they post.

My Adds:

(The Cash) Cash for Comments
(The Showoff) Jon Lee
(The PC Fan) Samanathon

The Originals:

(The overclocker) Shawn Knight
(The incredible) Chris Hooley
(The rhetorical) Michael Kwan
(The talented) Leo Chiang
(The root of all evil) John Chow
(The crazy) John Cow
(The business dude) Josh Mullineaux
(The brilliant) Shoemoney
(The absurdly loud) Ed Lau
(The mastermind) Jon Waraas
(The yaketty) Stephen Fung
(The wickedly cool) Everton Blair
(The uber blogger) Ms Danielle
(The enterprising) Matt Coddington
(The career minded) Jane May
(The legendary) Gary Lee
(The nifty) Dosh Dosh
(The ambitious) Jeff Kee
(The $256 man) Tyler Cruz
(The kick-ass) Nate Whitehill
(The original) 13-Year Old Blogger.
(The money-making) Affiliate Marketing guide.
(The crafty two at) TechRave
(The AdSense ‘dude’) Michael Cheney

This link train is the brainchild of David Wilkinson, hyper, money-making kid, and kick-ass blog designer Nate Whitehill.

———- END COPYING HERE ———-

What do you think of Link Trains? What do you think of me and Link Trains? What do you think is next after Link Trains?

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- Derrich 12.20 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Sounds fun! I got the best boost from the ViralTags train. I get at least one new link each day. I like this one…with the nicknames.
- Jon Lee 12.50 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  The Showoff haha I love it!
- Gary Lee 12.52 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  honestly . . i think if you join all the trains out there, you’re bound to crack Technorati 100k without having to do anything else!
- Gary Lee 12.53 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  for sure man . . . the creator of the showoff plugin!!!
- Jack 2.41 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Link Trains are old school! I didn’t even know people still created them, haven’t been included in one for months!
- Gary Lee 4.24 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  haha . man . . i can’t believe no one’s said anything about my photoshopped “Duel” poster . . . . you guys must be way too young to remember that movie!
- Hannes Johnson 5.22 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I remember Duel (vaguely). Nice photoshop job [isn't it your eyes in the mirror?]
- Hannes Johnson 5.25 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I like link trains – they’ve brought me plenty of links and traffic
- Gary Lee 5.55 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  haha . . THANK YOU HANNES . . . someone finally noticed . . sharp eye I say . . sharp eye indeed!
- Jorge 6.33 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Link train away! Never done this hah. Thanks Mr. Lee for your wacky experiments!
- Melody 7.02 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  So link trains are making a comeback! Good to know I got into the whole thing at the right time, thought I was way too late! Then again, mine’s a simple personal blog, not a high-funda techie one like this
  
  PS: Had faved you @ your earlier post. Waiting to be added still!
- ms danielle 8.02 pm on 25.07.2007 Permalink
  
  i am the uber blogger? LOL now that’s funny
- Jeff Kee 1.28 am on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  “The Ambitious” for me eh?
  
  I LIKE IT SO MUCH. PERFECT.
- Kanute 6.05 am on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Well comebacks are not always successful, I’m tempted but I don’t really like all the names in the list. They all talk of “making money”. Maybe I’ll try to generate one myself.
- Jorge 6.55 am on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  First time train linker. It’s fun but geeky at the same time, but then again blogging is kinda geeky. If I could only get my fiancee to do it.. sigh. Thanks for the train instructions sir!
- jerkybeef 7.05 am on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I can say that i’ve had some success but the only thing is that the people you fave never return the favor, or the list owners never update their list so it kind of beats the purpose.
  
  I think DoshDosh and Samanathon were the only ones that reciprocated the Technorati love and faved me back so i have yet to really see the benefit of joining a link list.
- Enkay Blog 9.41 am on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Its a bummer that I didnt make the list!
- Hannes Johnson 4.22 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Yup, that’s me; Mr. Attention-To-Detail
- CASH for COMMENTS 6.35 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  @ derrich – Hey Derrich. I added you to my Jet Train as Well.
  
  http://www.cashforcomments.com/contest-jet-train
  
  @ Gary – Hey check out my lastest sneaky invention on the Jet train. You might laugh.. but its going to be nuts. Don’t worry you are on this list as well.
- ChaLicious 7.30 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Nice, think gonna try this on my web…
- ChaLicious 7.30 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Nice, think gonna try this on my web… ASAP…
- Enkay Blog 8.17 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Hey Hannes,
  Ive got a link chain going on at my blog if you want to check it out. You get added to the list for posting it on your blog!
- Enkay Blog 8.18 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  ofcourse you are! who else? ::looks around::
- Enkay Blog 8.21 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Just a follow up. I was wondering, how can you get added to a list like this?
- Saman Sadeghi 8.24 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Nice! Thanks for adding me to another link train!
- Saman Sadeghi 8.25 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  For sure – I wouldn’t be rated as high as I am if it weren’t for Gary!
  
  You could always just put it on your blog and add you site!
- CASH for COMMENTS 10.21 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  hey. I’ve seeing you around a lot. I’ll stop by your page more often Saman.
- melo villareal 10.44 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  please add me in your list… thanks
- Gary Lee 1.06 am on 27.07.2007 Permalink
  
  dude . . saman’s the man . . . you should totally visit his site!
- Gary Lee 1.07 am on 27.07.2007 Permalink
  
  it’s all about the network . . my original train included people i met who were starting off blogging or ones that were helping me
- Chris 3.54 pm on 27.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Gary,
  
  Good meme post. There is actually a bigger pagerank meme going on at the moment. I am in the list and have had a huge traffic boost from it.
  
  Feel free to hop onboard the link train
  
  http://deanhunt.com/say-no-to-pagerank-yes-to-life/
- CASH for COMMENTS 9.28 pm on 27.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Hey I just added you to my technorati favorites. Can you please add me and if you want to increase your Technorati Fave Count check out my FaveMe UP Trainstation.
  
  http://www.cashforcomments.com/faveme-up/
- Allsux 2.33 pm on 28.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Added you to my train – please add me back! Thanks! See: top post at http://allsux.com
- Saman Sadeghi 7.46 am on 31.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Nice of you to say – I always share the link love, just my way of saying “Thank You!”
- Saman Sadeghi 7.48 am on 31.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks Gary
  
  You could say I get around more then Paris Hilton….
- cooliojones 1.03 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Cash for Comments, I’ve seen you around a lot, you stop by my blog yet? And let me get s seat on your train too!
- cooliojones 1.05 pm on 03.08.2007 Permalink
  
  That’s how a lot of mine have started off too Gary. And if you notice, a lot of the top bloggers are friends with each other because they remember their humble beginnings. I think we can start a new crop of millionaires just in this bunch if we all stick together.
- Etienne Teo 2.38 am on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I have joined the link train too…its cool to have a viral train at times.
- MDB 12.38 am on 31.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m at the station but the train has left…. aargh!!
- Leo 7.36 pm on 28.11.2007 Permalink
  
  Oooh, this was was dug up out of the archives
Gary Lee 11.43 am on 23.07.2007 Permalink

Get your Page Rank on NOW!

It’s the final week before google releases their updated google page ranks and by reading some of the SEO forums I frequent, it looks like a lot of people are making one last ditch effort to get some high ranking quality links to bring their page rank averages up a few percentage points or maybe, they just want to get a few more entries into my iPhone giveaway contest!

For those of you unfamilar with Page Rank, it is a method of ranking website’s overall quality which grew from the minds of two Stanford University students by the name of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who coincidentally are the founders of the internet’s largest search engine, Google. The whole idea behind Page rank is that it factors in how many and what kind of links are linking to your site. The way I explain it to my clients is to think of the Web as one big party that you go to by yourself. Once you get to the party, your goal is to meet one person, then another . . . then another. Hopefully, you’ll be smart enough to meet people through your newfound friends to increase the chances of meeting more people of similar interests. As you increase the number of people know at the party and with more people saying good things about you or talking about your opinions, the more “authority” you will receive in what you are saying. So, what this translates too in the search engine world is that if you have a higher page rank than your competitor and if both of you write about the same topic, then most likely, you’ll get ranked higher than your competitor in the search results. You don’t have to be a genius to know that this can mean some serious cash in a highly competitve market!

So, for the past couple of months, I have been trying to learn and work the system by showing Google that I know lots of people and they know me as well. I’ve used a couple of link trains for my blogging buddies throughout the world. A good majority of them talk about blogging as a whole, so the relevant content is there. One link building method that just went down the tubes for me was WordPress’ decision to take down sponsored themes. I don’t believe it will be a long term problem, but for this upcoming update, it wasn’t the most ideal situation in the world. The last promotion I’ve been doing is the iPhone Give Away Contest that has been spreading around the world pretty quickly. This promotion is pretty much the equivalent of me providing the alcohol at the party and everyone being my friend because they want some free booze! The great thing is that I think the contest has revived my Technorati Faves Link Train since Danielle, Jeff Kee and I have noticed a lot more incoming links coming through our dashboard.

In any case, the links are still coming in right now and there’s less than a week left before Google releases the page rank. So for this week, I’m going to try and hook up some of my readers with some high quality link love.

Basic Rules: I’ll include your main website url or a post of your choice on these posts under these conditions:

1) You link to http://www.pinkdeals.net using the anchor text online coupon codes

After you’re done, just contact me and use the subject line – “Post Link Request” – so that my email filters know which folder to put your email in. Include the post that you mention the online coupon codes and let me know the link you’d like me to include and to which one of my posts. Once I receive your email, I’ll post your link asap since I know we’re running on a short clock here.

Here are 8 diverse posts you can choose from:

PR5 – How to Convert a Blogger to a Real Blog

PR5 – Why Desktop Computers Suck

PR4 – Quick SEO Checklist

PR4 – Because I don’t have enough iPods

PR4 – My First Full Month of Blogging

PR4 – This Week in Blogs II

PR4 – AppleTV getting ready to take over CableTV

PR4 – A Night with Kelly Hu

The last day for this will be this wednesday at midnight since I’m going to San Francisco for a wedding and a golf tournament. Good Luck with the Update!

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- Saman Sadeghi 12.54 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Do we know when the Googles will be updating PR?
- Gary Lee 1.07 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  It’s suppose to be coming out this weekend!
- Saman Sadeghi 1.10 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Crap! That is a lot sooner then I expected!
- Jeff Kee 1.28 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Is it every 3 months or what?
- Jeff Kee 1.30 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  P.S. Gary, and other people who were so freakin curioius about why I was in Costa Rica – I wrote a post disclosing some of it on my blog, finally, as I am on the last day of this trip.
- Saman Sadeghi 1.45 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I believe that’s correct, it’s updated quarterly.
- Gary Lee 5.42 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  man . . . i only want to hear about the stuff you didn’t write about!
- cooliojones 5.57 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Seems like Google was kinda late this time in determining the PR of sites! Well, looks like I came on board right on time!
- Jeff Kee 6.43 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  That’ll be on MSN, records.
- ms danielle 6.43 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  it’s pretty much once a quarter. last update was third week of april
- Jeff Kee 6.44 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  i meant off-records..
- Jules 7.26 pm on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Yes, the Technorati train has been flooding my inbound links this week
- CASH for COMMENTS 12.17 am on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I guess I need to get sneaky.
- cooliojones 7.13 am on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m almost scared to see what that consists of!
- Colleen 8.38 am on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m with you on the sponsored themes thing.
- jen peto 9.39 am on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  this is easy. make your website good and effective like peekamo. id rather have ppl come on and stay at the page rather than bounce.
- Gary Lee 10.34 am on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  when it rains, it pours . . huh Jules? . .
- Gary Lee 10.51 am on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  he’s gonna create a new blog . . cashforlinks.com . . .
- CASH for COMMENTS 12.46 pm on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  hmm good idea.
- Derrich 1.11 pm on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  They’re slackin’. Sorta.
- Derrich 1.14 pm on 24.07.2007 Permalink
  
  LOL! The largest ViralTags blog EVER!!!
- Jack 12.18 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  It so soon! I don’t know if I can get my PR to go up from 3 in such a short time!
- Enkay Blog 8.35 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Well word on the street is that its going to be late this month, so this week basically or early next week. A lot goes into calculating the PR for every single site out there so Im not really surprised that there are delays.
- gary 4.47 pm on 05.08.2007 Permalink
  
  I was surprised when I read this post, as I hadn’t noticed any PR update from Google (but I know some DCs are update sooner than others). It seems as though it still hasn’t updated, although we are now well into August. Hopefully soon!
- mahdi yusuf 10.55 am on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  yeah i am very interested in seeing my rank!
- mahdi yusuf 10.56 am on 06.08.2007 Permalink
  
  yeah i am very anxious to get things up and running!
- MDB 6.15 am on 09.08.2007 Permalink
  
  Think I’ll have to wait till the next update to get my page rank on. Good luck to you Gary. What do you think is a good start rank for a young blog? 2 or 3 or more?
- Thomas Sinfield 3.31 pm on 21.09.2007 Permalink
  
  it still hasn’t arrived! this is crazy….
Gary Lee 10.53 pm on 16.07.2007 Permalink

WordPress is Getting Rid of Sponsored Themes

In a move that probably will send some shockwaves through the SEO community, WordPress Themes has started the process of taking down themes that sell sponsored links.
For those of you who don’t know, selling links on very popular themes have been one of the easiest and most cost effective ways of getting backlinks for your website using a specific anchor text. Last year, links to sponsored themes were going for well over $100 bucks, but as more and more people learned about this SEO technique, the effectiveness of this technique has decreased, lowering the amount of the links down to as low as $15.

To be honest, I don’t think it’s going to effect the overall market of sponsored themes much, since selling links on these themes has been a great source of revenue for some extremely talented designers and coders. Putting my economics degree to use, the law of supply and demand will probably say that that we won’t be able to demand quality themes if we don’t supply them the cash! OK . . that probably isn’t the best explanation, but you know what I mean. Instead of combating the “evils” of SEO, WordPress might have driven at least one nail into their proverbial coffin, since it’s obvious they’re not abiding by one of my golden rules – Quality over Quantity (except when it comes to sushi and brazilian buffets). Designers of quality themes are going to start uploading their work to other, less restrictive sites, taking the themes market share away from WordPress.

What are your thoughts about WordPress’ goody two-shoe move? Did you even know about buying links on themes? Basically . .what do you think?

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- ms danielle 11.36 pm on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  google’s inherently flawed system of ranking sites based on the number of quality back links received is what creates these types of cycles. yea wordpress can take down “sponsored” themes but after this move, how will they be able to spot sponsored themes from this point forward? SEOs know how to adapt and can’t be shaken off that easily. right or wrong, SEOs will keep pushing the boundaries … until google says enough! and bases ranking on something other than links. but the catch 22 is that it’s their system creating this madness!
- Jeff Kee 11.51 pm on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  You’re a smartie Danielle!
  
  And that’s hot…
- Jason 10.10 am on 17.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I have been getting quite frustrated with the “powers-that-be” at WordPress. While this decision does not affect me directly, I find that the hubris exhibited by the primary decision makers to be suffocating.
  If they have such a problem with sponsored themes containing lots of links, why do they include their own sites in the default Blogroll? Do they think the majority of people are so dense that we wouldn’t be able to edit out parts of a theme that we don’t like?
  Most theme designers will offer their themes without sponsored links for two or three dollars, so banning all sponsored themes just because of a few bad apples that take things to extremes is about as intelligent as licking a lit halogen light bulb.
  I agree that some theme developers go way overboard when it comes to embedding sponsored links, and some designs can be quite offensive with their use of JavaScript (opening a sponsor’s site in a 1×1 pixel I-Frame, for example), but this should be something that the market decides.
  I would like to say that I enjoy working with the WordPress platform and many of the functions and features available. But I am concerned that Automattic may be starting down the same path that Steve Jobs took Apple back in the 80′s.
- Matt 12.36 pm on 17.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Now, if only they’d take “sponsored” links out of WordPress. The Blogroll, the BrowseHappy logo (in IE, in the footer of every Admin page) and the Technorati link with the “?partner=wordpress” at the end of it…
- Dani 4.56 pm on 17.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Definitely was not aware of this. Thanks for the update. I totally agree with Danielle, the flaw is inherent in the system. Found this site through Blogger’s Choice Awards. You’re nominated for Best Blog about Blogging. You can easily get more votes (and then more readers like me) by adding a brag badge code to your site which is the same place where people can go to vote for this site . Thanks for the heads up. Best of luck
- cooliojones 10.18 am on 18.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Ok now I have a better understand of what the whole ‘sponsored links’ controversy is. I think it’s crazy, and like the other readers said, take them out of the blogroll!! Pot calling the kettle black maybe?
  
  And does anyone here use the Hello Dolly plugin? I don’t.
- Jane 1.35 pm on 18.07.2007 Permalink
  
  The hell with WP and the hell with Google
  
  Who needs them anyway…oh wait, we all do…
- Xavier 9.48 pm on 18.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Excellent post! I can say I’m totally agree with this.
- Xavier 9.50 pm on 18.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m totally agree with this.
- ms danielle 3.50 pm on 22.07.2007 Permalink
  
  in addition… and this is just my two cents. i’ve left my sponsor link at the footer of my blog because it’s not in the way of anything. i may one day remove it, or i may just leave it. but i know it’s there. i didn’t pay for any wordpress software — it’s free for me to use. so what’s the harm in letting someone get a link from me that helped give some money to the designer?
  
  btw, i just checked and gary’s also left his sponsor link on the bottom. who cares?! i didn’t even know it was there until right now.
- Francesco 11.28 am on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I really do not understand the logic behind this choice. WordPress is probably having problem with Google but they will be facing a consistent reduction.
  I am sure this won’t stop the marketplace at all.
  It seems an already lost war!
  
  Francesco
  Guadagnare online – Nuovibusiness
Gary Lee 11.26 am on 13.07.2007 Permalink

TWIB: So Many New Faces

This Week in Blogs got a lot easier with the influx of entries into the iPhone give away I started earlier this week. I’ve been chatting it up with a lot of people from around the world about blogging, the iPhone and each other’s part of the world a lot this week.

So, without further adieu, here are some sites that caught my eye this week:

Sandier Pastures – Dubai’s been recreating so many new tourist attractions and their version of the Venice Canals is no different!

World of Dreams – I just learned it’s Buy a Friend a Book Week and it’s FRIDAY!!! Can we count Danielle keeping one of my books for 6 months as my donation?

Egonitron – Just posted an article about how Google’s gonna get a PR 8. I won’t believe it until I see it!

Shawn Knight – Long time reader Shawn Knight just posted about Fried Food and even better, it’s southern fried food, so he gets a mention just because I’m a sucker for anything fried!

Make Money with Kassper – It seems like I can make money with so many people online now, so why not Kassper, too? He’s just saved me a post and talks about how Google is taking advantage of their new acquisition and intergrating Feedburner into Blogspot.

To Facebook or not to Facebook – Ed Lau just posted this question this morning and to be honest, I’ve been thinking about the same thing. I’m annoyingly tired of sifting through the garbage they call MySpace, Friendster’s a joke now and Bunkers Paradise just isn’t finished yet! What is a stalker, er, friend suppose to do these days to find people?

Hope you enjoy these blogs! If I haven’t pushed it enough, here’s my chance to . . . all these blogs were entries in my iPhone Giveaway Contest, so if you haven’t entered yet, what are you waiting for?

Etienne Teo, Enkay Blog, Judy and 4 others are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Grace 9.38 pm on 13.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Hey, this is a surprise!! Thanks for linking my blog. I am glad I found your blog too, with or without the iPhone promo! =)
- Kassper 3.51 am on 14.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks Gary for the mini review and for the links.
- Blogging the Movie 7.44 am on 15.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Yeah I like Kassper. He’s an avid reader.
- Blogging the Movie 12.54 am on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  You author. Googleshadow and Agloco101.. ahahah you sneaky bastard. Good job on that.
- digitalnomad 10.47 am on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Funny and odd observation about the prediction tool. I have never trusted it. I had 3 blogs with a PR4 straight away my first go around.
- Judy 2.55 pm on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Thanks for the linky-love! I’ve been enjoying your blog. Next quarter, make sure you enter the BAFABW contest. I hold one every quarter
- Enkay Blog 8.38 pm on 26.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Oh man that fried food sure does look good!
- Etienne Teo 2.36 am on 16.08.2007 Permalink
  
  You must have got great contents in your blog, and thats how you got your straight 4 for all 3 blogs..
Gary Lee 5.43 pm on 11.07.2007 Permalink

I really do own an Amex Gold Card

A lot of people have been emailing me to ask if I really do have the Amex Gold Card that I promoted in my free iphone contest. I just want to post this picture to show people that I’m not lying and that I stand behind the products I promote. So, if you haven’t applied yet to receive your $250 Gift Card Bonus, what are you waiting for? Go to PinkDeals.net to check out the offer!

Other than that, the contest has been running along really smoothly and I’ve been meeting even more people than ever from around the world. A lot of people from the link train promotion have come back and are more enthusiastic than ever to enter the contest. I think it’s because the iPhone’s only been released in the United States so far, the rest of the world just doesn’t have any other way of getting their hands on them.

Anyways, my stats have been improving quite a bit. I’ve cracked 3,500 in technorati and hit all time highs in unique visitors on tuesday. Ms. Danielle reports that she’s almost cracked the Top 10 for the term “free online coupon,” but no word on “golf equipment“, yet. Other news would be that I was on Netscape’s front page for a good 10 hours, which gave me a good amount of traffic, but then some guy reported me as spam (I know who you are) and I was quickly removed! It’s ok though! The post I made for netscape got indexed by Google and it’s ranking #43 for the term “free iphone” as of today. I’m still going strong on Technorati’s WTF section having been at the top of the list for a solid 2 days now. One thing I’ve learned from being listed on there for so long is that it seems votes only have a shelf life of about 24 hours. After that, your votes start to diminish, but your rankings don’t get effected too much.

I know this is a little early for an update since it’s only been a couple of days since I started the contest, but to be honest with you, it’s become way more successful than I could have ever imagined and I wanted to share with you some important factors that made it happen. The contest is going so well, I might just stop over at the Apple Store and try to find something else to give away! Any suggestions?

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- Blogging the movie 5.51 pm on 11.07.2007 Permalink
  
  a new ipod would be nice
- Gary Lee 5.57 pm on 11.07.2007 Permalink
  
  funny thing is I have my old 5th generation 60GB Video iPod just kickin’ it on my desk right now. Maybe we’ll incorporate into the movie? D just told me about it!
- Blogging the movie 6.23 pm on 11.07.2007 Permalink
  
  hah. same here i have 2 or 3 old ipods. for some reason I cannot use them now after I used the color screens.
- Jeff Kee 10.08 pm on 11.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I should get that card! Have you heard of teh platinum card?
- Saman Sadeghi 10.30 pm on 11.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I have a Gold AmEx through work (corporate card) – does that count?
- ms danielle 1.13 am on 12.07.2007 Permalink
  
  shot caller, big baller…………!!
- Natron 7.26 am on 12.07.2007 Permalink
  
  How many visitors a day does this translate into for you Gary?
- Gary Lee 8.47 am on 12.07.2007 Permalink
  
  ya . . I actually have that one too . . . . amex is really great when it comes down to it!
- Gary Lee 9.12 am on 12.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I’ve been getting a nice influx of new people coming in. I would safely say over 65% of viewers this week have been new. Now it’s my job to find a way to retain them.
- Gary Lee 9.14 am on 12.07.2007 Permalink
  
  sure . . . i personally need this credit card the most to pay for gas these days when I’m traveling . . . it’s especially helpful to keep track of your gas payments for tax purposes as well . . . there’s no way I’m carrying around that much cash with me . . . hahaha
- Russell Wagner 11.29 am on 12.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow you really get a free $250 giftcard for doing that offer? I am going to try it out. How long did it take to come?
- digitalnomad 10.44 am on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  That should bring the readers in. Too bad they will have to use AT&T as a carrier.
- digitalnomad 10.56 am on 16.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Have you heard of the black card?
- Bobo 9.43 am on 18.07.2007 Permalink
  
  actually just wanted to say hi. then I realised that there is SO MUCH to learn from your blog! It’s fantastic. Will drop by often!
- Vijay Teach Me 8.30 am on 23.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Free iPhone….. 6 months of ATT bill payments…
  
  Vijay
Gary Lee 10.45 pm on 08.07.2007 Permalink
I’m Really Giving Away a Free iPhone

If you weren’t able to win a Zune on Ms. Danielle’s blog site, I thought it would be nice to give my readers a chance to give an iPhone away as a prize, since I was able to grab two of them from the Apple Store last week. I know a lot of you have been reading a lot of reviews about the iPhone, so I won’t go into detail about how great it is. Hopefully, after you win, you can write your own review about how much you love it!

Prize: Brand New 8GB Apple iPhone + Fancy iPhone Bag that it came in + Free Shipping anywhere in the world (that fedex delivers to). It’s still sealed and in pristine condition!

All you have to do to enter this contest is post about this contest in your blog or write about it somewhere on your website. Here are the linking rules:

Write a short blurb on your blog using the following links:
- Link to MrGaryLee.com using “internet marketing” & this Post using “free iphone“
- Link to BunkersParadise.com (my new project) using the anchor text “Golf Equipment“
- Link to PinkDeals.net using the anchor text “online coupon code” *updated as of July 30th. Participants who used other anchor text before still qualify*
- No Duplicate Content or Forum Submissions will be counted as an entry.
Rules for Number of Entries
- PR 0 – PR 3 Sites – 1 Entry per Post
- PR 4 and above – 2 Entries per Post
- Your Page Rank will be based on the PR after the next Update later this month
  Only One Post allowed per Blog – Use ixwebtool.com to check your PR
The deadline for this contest will be some time in mid to late August! After you have created your post, you can contact me and send me the URL of your post using the subject line “iphone giveaway” so I can make sure it qualifies for the giveaway.

An example of a post you could write:

One of the best ways to do internet marketing is to give something away and Mr. Gary Lee knows this so he is giving away a free iphone! All I have to do is write a post about it in my blog and link to his new project site about golf equipment as well as PinkDeals.net which provides a free online coupon for most stores on the internet.

To make sure that no one walks away a loser in this contest and that you can afford at least an Apple iPod, Pink Deals is promoting a free $250 Gift Card for signing up for an American Express Business Gold Reward! I personally have one of these cards and have tied it to my paypal, adwords and other online accounts. It’s a great card that has helped me recover a lot of money from fraudulent advertisers along with building points for free gifts. That sounds so commercial like, but I’m telling you the truth. You can rack up the points, protect yourself and make a free $250 at the same time! I’m closing in on a free Nike SUMO Driver soon! Click Here to Sign Up Now!

If you’re new to Mr. Gary Lee dot com, here are some posts that have been well received, so please feel free to check them out and let me know what you think:
Don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS Feed since there might be some additions/changes to the contest in the future! Ms. Danielle and I will be recording the drawing live, so that you can see first hand who will win the iPhone!
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- Ed Lau 11.18 pm on 08.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Nice. I’ll enter tomorrow.
- TheAnand 6.37 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I would have entered if it was the N95. Whole lot more funtional. hey your link to iWebTool is broken with a misplaced x in the url. *Sigh..Cant believe I lost the Zune…its yet to sink in*
- CASH for COMMENTS 6.51 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  WOW. I’m in!
- Natron 8.49 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Quite the prize!
- Russell Wagner 9.52 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, this is an amazing contest! You will get alot of entries for sure!!!
- ms danielle 10.54 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  this is going to get interesting
- Derrich 11.17 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  To join, or not to join…
- Gary Lee 11.22 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  you know you want one . . . c’mon . .take a hit!
- Derrich 11.23 am on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Sonuva! *pant*pant*sigh* Can’t…decide…must…be strong.
- Saman Sadeghi 12.13 pm on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I’m in too, you can’t pass up a free iPhone!
- Saman Sadeghi 12.15 pm on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  In the very least, you can give it way on your site!
- Jason 12.46 pm on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Considering I’m about to move to a country where this phone absolutely will not work, I’ll definately put this up in a contest should I win
- joshua 2.44 pm on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Review done and done.
  http://www.disregardme.com/index.cfm/2007/7/9/win-a-free-iphone
- Gary Lee 3.11 pm on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  don’t forget to email me cuz that’s the only way I can keep track of everything! thanks!
- ms danielle 4.21 pm on 09.07.2007 Permalink
  
  don’t u have a half-written entry sitting somewhere?
- Blogging the movie 12.28 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  You sure can’t.
- Grace 3.37 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  This is so cool. I need to replace my old Nokia soon.
  Count me in.
  http://sandierpastures.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/win-an-iphone/
- Sucharith Menon 3.40 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I am in too…. This is really tempting… Waiting to get my hands on this…
  Review done here: http://www.talentterminal.com/general/win-a-free-iphone/
- Judy 4.16 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I am so in…
- Sucharith Menon 5.13 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Review Done at Talentterminal.com.
  Link : http://www.talentterminal.com/general/win-a-free-iphone/
- gadis 7.06 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  I just write about “iphone giveaway” please check !!!
- Derrich 8.09 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Very funny, Danielle. It’s for your Zune.
- Hans 10.44 am on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow, that’s a really nice offer. Hope I’ll get some time before the deadline to send my review.
- Gdog 8.47 pm on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Awesome contest, entered!!
- St4tixOrama 8.47 pm on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Hi Mr. Gary Lee,
  
  I need to change my old phone already! I did the review. Please check it!
  http://st4tix.blogspot.com/2007/07/free-iphone.html#links
  Thanks!
- Shawn Knight 8.48 pm on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Got my entry up here:
  
  http://www.shawn-knight.net/win-a-free-iphone-with-mr-gary-lee/
  
  Thanks!
- JerkyBeef 9.41 pm on 10.07.2007 Permalink
  
  got my entry in… cool beans…
  
  http://www.thebeefjerkyblog.com/want-a-free-iphone-or-ipod-shuffle/
  
  cheers.
- genzy 2.21 am on 11.07.2007 Permalink
  
  Wow… The coolest phone will be be given away.

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