Geez it’s been like 3 days nice I last updated!! It seems like there is no time to get anything done lately! Well I have been busy working on a few things…
Over at ThinkComputers I have noticed that even if I don’t post 1 thing a day traffic stays the same. Even the day after I post something the traffic is the same of sometimes better. Because I have been so busy I have only been posting reviews every other day. I started doing it this week and I have really not noticed a big traffic or income change at all. This will give me more time for my other sites and my life (yes I have one!! LOL). The normal review schedule will be Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. I will keep this schedule over the next few weeks and see how it effects traffic and income.
I am still trying to find the time to get content on ThinkGaming. We will have a bunch of content in the next few weeks because Geeks.com was nice enough to throw out a whole bunch of gaming accessories for us to review. We are still looking for a few more writes and someone to post news so if you are interested e-mail me! I am also working on implementing the news system that I put on ThinkComputers a little while ago.
MyProfileResource has been doing good. I have started an in-direct marketing campaign that will, in time turn into a direct marketing campaign. I was reading the 15K challenge and got an idea of how to market MyProfileResource indirectly, then eventually move into direct marketing. I am testing it right now, but it seems to be working good. If it is a success then I will have a full blog post all about it. Other than that I have been trying to make more graphics (when I have time), and jsut keep the site updated!
Thats about it, trying to keep myself motivated! Oh the pens won 4-3 in overtime tonight!!!
Yesterday I was interviewed by the guys from Buck Being Normal. Buck Being Normal is all about people who go against the normal of working the 9-5 for someone else. They are a very new site so make sure you check them out. The interview was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed talking about what I do, atleast someone is interested! You can check out my review here. They are have reviews of some of my friends like John Chow, and David Lithman. Oh yeah sorry for not updating in like 3 days!!
Well I just got my first student loan payment and damn it’s A LOT. You really do not realize how much you are borrowing until you get out of school and the payments come. This stuff is just as bad a credit cards. Since my loans were issued they have already gained $3,000 in interest!! The worst thing about all of this is the money that was spent for college was for nothing. Just as I have said before, college was a waste of time and anyone, if they work hard enough could be doing what I am doing, no college required. Anyways I have a total of 5 loans, 3 of which are subsidized. These 3 I can consolidate into 1 loan with the fixed interest rate. You want to consolidate as soon as you can because the interest rates go up all the time and you want to get the lowest one you can get. I am lucky I am able to make this payment, some people when they get out of college can’t find a job or get one that does not pay that well. For them they are screwed, they either have to differ the payment till later (which there is a penalty), or extend the loan period (which makes the payments lower, but you will pay more than the original amount over time.). These payment are more than a car payment! Oh well, I gotta pay them!!
Well as I said before I needed to get a new laptop. I decided on the Dell XPS M1210. There were a few things that made me choose it over the other laptops I was looking at. The biggest one being size. The laptop I had before this one was the Dell 700m, which is also 12.1-inches. I am used to this size and love the portability being that it is so small. I didn’t want to go to anything bigger that I would not be comfortable with. Another factor was Dell’s customer support, which is one of the best. My roomates laptop was having problems and they gave him a brand new one! Support like that is hard to come by in the PC industry. The final deciding factor was that I was able to go look at the laptop in person. Dell has a kiosk at the mall so I went up there and was able to check it out before I bought it. I did have to go through getting hassled by the dell rep, but it was worth being able to check out the laptop. The M1210 is amazing I upgraded a few of the components from the base model, but here are my specs, Intel Core Duo 2.0 Ghz Processor, 1GB Memory, GeForce 7400go, 60GB hard drive, 8x DVD RW drive, webcam, and integrated wireless and bluetooth. The only problem I have with it is that you can see hand marks really easily on the casing, you can tell from the pics below. Check on each pic for a full size image.
Well last night I finally decided to do the task of recoding the news script on ThinkComputers. I reason for this is getting more pages indexed by google. When I used to post news on ThinkComputers it was displayed as one large news post that was part of the front page. After the day was over the news was moved to the archive. Everything worked fine and there were no problems, but John made a good point that Google could not index the news because it is included on the front page as one big post. The way to fix that is to make each news post an actual page itself and link to it from the front page. Usually when I would post a review I would be adding 3-6 new pages to the site. We get almost 20 news e-mails a day so each day I will now be adding 20 new pages to the site for google to index instead of just the 3-6. Hopefully I will see an increase in page view’s because if this. It took me almost 4 hours to get it right so hopefully it was worth the work.
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