New Blog Milestone - 14,000 RSS Readers

Even after the competition with Shoemoney, the blog’s RSS readership continues to grow. Yesterday, it passed 14,000 readers for the first time. Today, it is at a record 14,109.
I want to take this time to answer a few questions about the RSS that I’ve received since the contest. The first concern why the RSS count […]

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One More Reason To Dump Google AdSense

Problogger.net broke a NDA to bring you news that Google is going to bitch slap your AdSense earnings by making it harder to click the ads. In the old AdSense setup, a reader just has to click anywhere inside the ad block to register a click and be sent to the advertiser. The new setup […]

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TTZ Media Network Server Upgrade

We recently completed a server upgrade to the TTZ Media Network in order to handle the influx of new affiliates. The new setup consists of the following.

Two Load Balancers Servers
Two Dual Quad-Core Xeon Clovertown 2.0Ghz web servers with 8 GB of RAM and RAID 1 hard drives
One Dual Quad-Core Xeon Clovertown 2.0Ghz database server with […]

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Scot Lies Some More

It appears Mr Scot Smith from RSSxplosion.com is now trying to compete with himself for the stupid cow of the month award. Just after we said that it would be hard to top his stupidity, he proves us wrong with yet another email. This time it’s a receipt that states that we’ve ordered 12,000 […]

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Quitting The Day Job To Pursue The Dream

I want to congratulate JD at Get Rich Slowly on making the next big move that many bloggers aspire to - the title of full-time professional blogger. Yes, JD is quitting his job at the box factory and will become a professional blogger.
JD started Get Rich Slowly 18 months ago and has seen the […]

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The John Chow Blogger Dinner Cost How Much?

I asked readers to guess how much dinner at Benihanna cost for 15 bloggers. The guess the came the closest to the actual bill without going over would win a signed copy of An American Hedge Fund by Timothy Sykes.
The post received 159 replies with guesses ranging from $350 to $4150.10. One person guessed […]

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PlugMe Please #2

After we had posted our first ‘PlugMe Please’ (PMP) post, emails started flooding in like there was no tomorrow! Unfortunately we simply don’t have the time to respond to each and every one of you guys, but if we see you entry as fit for PMP, we will publish you. We’ve picked two entries […]

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Shoemoney Admits I Am More Evil

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This Months Stupid Cow Award

So much for a quiet Sunday. Waking up, drinking 2 liters of water to cure the hangover we’re suffering right now, we switched on our sexy iMac and went through our emails. Between the tons of daily fanmail and marriage proposals, we found a rather odd email from someone with the email address halcyon5@gmail.com […]

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Blog World Expo - John Chow Blogger Dinner

On the last night of Blog World Expo, I hosted the first, and hopefully not last, John Chow Blogger Dinner by inviting some fellow bloggers to dine at Benihanna Japanese steak house. The blogs that showed up include Egontron, Zac Johnson, Darrin Carter, Gary Lee, Ms. Danielle, Mad Whips, Neil Patel, Nate Whitehill and the […]

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Blogging The Movie Needs One More Blogger

While at Blog World Expo, I got a chance to meet and hang out with Prija from Blogging The Movie. For those who don’t what that is you can check my review of concept here.
Blogging The Movie is a film that follows the lives of ten bloggers, one of whom is me. It will […]

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Blog World Expo - Video From The Show Floor

Here’s a quick little video I threw together at the Blog World Expo. The expo is over now and I have to admit, I had a really great time. This is one of the smallest trade show I have attended but this is their first year and I’m sure it’ll be bigger next year. I […]

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For Those Who Couldn’t Make It

The Blog World Expo seems to be the place to be this week. Nearly all the big names are wandering Sincity for some fun and probably to do some serious networking! We would have loved to make it this year, but having to fly from the other side of the world was just a […]

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Two 300×250 Ad Spots Available

I have two 300×250 ad spot for sale. That’s the ad you see on the right of this post. The 300×250 is embedded into the first two posts of the front page and into all single posts. The ad also appears in the first two posts of the full feed RSS. This is the only […]

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Blog World Expo - The Party

Last night Blog World held their opening party at the Joint at the Hard Rock hotel. It was a good way for everyone to sit back, have a drink, eat some food and get to know each other. After all, the networking aspect is one of the big reasons why bloggers are here.
Since Blog World […]

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PlugMe Please #1

So after we’ve done the “Make Moo Famous” batches and “Fanmail Fridays” it’s now time for a new category, even less selfish. We’re going to plug you people at no charge. How does this work you ask? Well ll you really have to do is drop us an email and ask for a plug. […]

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Faking It Ain’t So Bad

So what do you get when you take a fake cownapper with a nonthentic* (*new word) ransom note, a ridiculous demand and add an (international) audience to it? A crap load of traffic and about the first three pages on Google, full of backlinks. It seems most bloggers are obsessed with the amount of […]

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Hello From Blog World

Just checking in before I head off to the Blog World Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Last night we got a chance to see the setting up of all the displays. Shoe and I were able to give Nate Whitehilll from Unique Blog Design some pointers on making a great display. And I […]

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How I Gain 4,691 RSS Reader In 1 Month

When Shoemoney challenged me to a competition to see who can get the most new RSS readers in a month, I thought it was a great opportunity to put my Internet marketing skills to the test against one of the Internet’s best. Many people speculated that RSS readership would plummet after the competition was over […]

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Flying to Vegas for Blog World Expo

We are heading to the Sin City for the first ever Blog World & New Media Expo. It should be a very interesting and fun event. I’m looking forward to meeting many fellow blogger like Zac Johnson, Shoemoney, Gary Lee, Ms Danielle, Greg Morgan, Nate Whitehill plus many others.
Blog World doesn’t officially start until […]

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