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Ban That!

Alex — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:48:37 +0000

Yeah, my widgets are getting out of control, but most of my readers use RSS apps anyway. Aren’t crazy amounts of plugins half the fun of blogging?

My latest site “enhancement” is my Ban That widget you can see on the top of my sidebar. It’s a fun site to tell the world about things you hate and why.

Review Me

Alex — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:00:28 +0000

Many of us, including myself, have our collection of blogs that we read each day. I nearly feel sick if I don’t know what’s going on with my favorite “reads” each day. If you are reading this chances are you know that feeling all too well. As always, rapid growth invites innovation. Savvy entreprenuers continue to find ways to monetize this buzz industry. The folks at ReviewMe were the latest to catch my eye.

ReviewMe offers solutions for publishers to make an income off their creative blog posts and advertisers to find a new marketing source. New businesses attempting to build an online awareness of their products will find this especially useful. One other perk that comes to mind involves the continued decrease of ad click throughs. Web users are becoming more and more familiar with the look and feel of contextual advertising and avoiding it. ReviewMe helps advertisers place content contributed by unique publishers in the main body of websites.

Although the list of new, hip contextual advertisers is extensive, I imagine we will see ReviewMe around for some time. I’ve tried these guys out and only have good things to say about them and gladly give my endorement.

*Sponsored Post

Quality Search Engine Marketing Blogs

Alex — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:50:22 +0000

Over the past few years I’ve become addicted to reading my list of blogs each morning. The majority of these blogs are related to internet marketing and search engine optimization. I’ve compiled quite a list of the top blogs in the industry (I’ll get around to posting the list one of these days), but I’ve also found some blogs that aren’t so well known of significant value. Apogee Search Marketing Blog is one of those.

More to come soon…

Token Blog Post

Alex — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:48:02 +0000

Yes, I’m about to make the most common mistake a blogger can make…apologizing for a lack of posting. It’s been a long time since I’ve even visited this domain. I’ll be completely honest. My absense is due to complete laziness, not being overly busy.

Anyhoo…click on this image to be slightly entertained. Why can’t I resist a dare?

Movin’ On Up

Alex — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:27:07 +0000

Great news for those of you following my attempts to surpass Alex McArthur the actor in SERPs (search engine result pages). About 2 months ago this domain was floating around the 10th page for search results on “Alex McArthur”. At the time AlexMcArthur.com consisted of one static page with very limited content. I’ve since turned this site into a blog with SEO friendly pages and it quickly jumped to number 2 on most search engines. Also, I took some time to submit to numerous directories and acquire a handful of linkbacks. It will be interesting to see what this sites PR (page rank) is after the next update. I expect a small jump to 2, maybe 3 if I’m lucky.

As far as the Alex McArthur (me) vs Alex McArthur (actor) challenge goes it appears a long road lays ahead. I’m sure there will be ups and downs along the way, but hopefully before I die he will feel the pain of being #2. The actor’s fan site has numerous linkbacks that will take me some time to outdo. Why do people have to be so obsessed with movie actors? Quit linking to the schmuk! Desperado wasn’t that good!

This site is optimized fairly well. I’m sure I could do some tweaking and include a few more keywords, but my first priority is to get as many linkbacks as possible. Too bad I have a job and a family or I could spend all day getting links. This site isn’t very high on my to-do list so be patient. However, it will be interesting to see what happens over time.

Utah Business Blogs

Alex — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:46:37 +0000

I enjoy reading many local Utah business blogs. Here’s a list of the ones I’d recommend. Feel free to add yours in the comments and I’ll add it to the list when I find the time.

Paul Allen’s Blog – Actually, I’ve been reading this one for some time. Paul has a history of success and continues to start new ventures.
Cameron Moll – Marketing guru
Phil Windley – Former CIO of Utah
added 12/8/2005 UtahTechJobs.com – Utah tech recruiter blog.
added 12/20/2005 Jona’s Blog – Yeah, work from home John Jonas…that’s me.
added 12/23/2005 Smooth Harold – “Swing for the fences”
added 1/5/2006 Jimmy Zimmerman – Tech & biz blog
added 4/6/2006 Jeff Jordan – COO of FundingUniverse.com
added 4/6/2006 Jordan Gunderson – member of the Provo Labs team
added 4/6/2006 Ryan Money – Money talks
added 2/19/2007 Janet with Affiliate Flash
added 2/19/2007 Michael Eagar
added 2/19/2007 Joshua Steimle from MWI. Josh has another great blog on SEO called The Organic SEO

*If any of the above come across this site I’d be happy to allow a link to AlexMcArthur.com on your site. Really. Please!