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January 28th 2009 11:38

Worse Things Happen At Sea

Here's something that made me raise an eyebrow and say "Huh?" - especially since it happened on a site as reliable as Google. Come on, you know you trust their search engine more than any other, so don't give me that "reliable? hah!" look.

It was while I was building a new Hub that I thought I would do a bit of research for the keywords. You know, bring in a bit of extra traffic and all that jazz. So I went off to the rather splendid AdWords tool and typed in a few phrases. Things like "bad manager", "bad leadership" and so on.

Among the suggested keywords, with over three million searches, was "Robert". Yes, the name Robert. How the hell did that get on a list of keywords about bad managers? That's just bizarre. So much for SEO.

Other news: monthly earnings figured out. Bad month, but then I've been busy with real life hassle and not with writing as much.

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Pay Check Time

January 26th 2009 14:15

Well, the end of the month is coming, so most folks are looking forward to their pay check (or cheque if you're British like me). Unfortunately, freelancers don't get those at the end of the month, so for me it's time to start thinking about my round-up of earnings - to check my pay, har har. I'll get to that by the end of the week, promise.

For the writers out there, I thought I'd mention a couple of newer items that I've run into this month and may have forgotten. Firstly, Helium has started another incentive scheme - a $1 bonus if you're the first person to write on a particular title. That one could work out rather nicely if you have a head full of knowledge to empty. They've also reduced their rating demands to only 10 items in 30 days (quality counts, as always), so getting to the point of being paid is a lot easier now.

Associated Content rolled out their new look. I'm still in two minds about that one: in some ways it's nice, in others it feels like it's unnecesssarily stuffed full of little annoying widgets and things. I haven't noticed any other big goings-on there, though I was offline a lot this month, so may be wrong.

HubPages has restarted a few of the community goings-on, including the HubMob and a weekly HubNuggets update. Given that every time I go there, the place is overflowing with demented pages full of photos of Indian actresses, anything to promote some decent content is a good idea. It seems to be working - over the last couple of weeks, there's been some excellent new stuff (including, of course, my own beginner's guide to making money online).

Constant Content has also been quite active with requests for articles (not for me personally, general requests), though my lack of connection has prevented me from doing much about responding.

My other blog over at Today.com seems to be reasonably secure now as well, with a few followers and some nice reviews. They even offered me a second paid spot, so I should probably try to think of something I can write about!

Here at Orble, my daily hits rocketed as soon as I moved to Wordophilia, which was both very nice and very scary. I seem to get fifty or more visitors a day (*waves*), though few comments. It's nice to know people are dropping by.

Time to do some shopping for food. Earnings blog will be updated by the end of the week, though it's a slow month since I couldn't get online much. That's going to be a touch depressing.

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Where's the 'On' switch?

January 19th 2009 15:18

My Internet connection is doing a remarkably good impression of a yo-yo at the moment. I may not be around consistently for a while. Please bear with me while I deal with this technical difficulty...

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Your Cookies Make Me Want To Puke

January 16th 2009 10:38

Mine are yummy. Yours are not.

Cookies. Chocolate chips surrounded by warm, soft dough, lightly baked, just a little bit crispy around the edges. Yummy

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World's Worst URLs

January 11th 2009 16:55

Just a very quick additional post today - while at HubPages checking on my content, I ran across this excellent entry. It's not mine, but I wanted to point it out. Some of the URLs listed take a moment to figure out exactly why they're bad, but they're all pretty darned hilarious. When registering your domain (to quote the old TV series): "Be careful out there."

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Moving House

January 9th 2009 15:45

When I was living in France, I moved house a lot. Well, that's not actually true: I moved twice, but my lady moved frequently and, in seven years, I participated in something like ten different moves. By the end, I was sick to death of packing, lugging boxes and all that crap. I even destroyed my back doing it, getting a free ride in an ambulance, a night on morphine and ten days of excruciating pain into the bargain.

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