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30×3 Challenge update: The Spaghetti Method

Status Report:
Day 21 - 2008/12/21
Revenue: $0.03
No real progress on the monetary side and I really shouldn’t have expected anything else.
Though the main point of this experiment was to test out some different theories, I didn’t go into it with any sort of planĀ  beyond the very vague “update and promote”. Not the most detailed attack [...]

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30×3 Challenge update: 0.1%

update on the 30×3 Challenge
Day 5: 2008/12/05
Revenue: $0.03
Well, I actually didn’t expect for there to be anything to report yet. Even though it is less than impressive, I’d say it is still enough to keep me motivated. After all, pennies become dollars.
So only 2,997 pennies left to go!
No real new site development, just started [...]

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30×3: an exercise in making money online

December 1, 2008
Day 1: Throwing Down the Gauntlet.
As I perused the net today I ran across an interesting idea: The Thirty Day Challenge.
The concept is that people who sign up will get email instructions on how to make money online and the goal is to make $10 at the end of 30 days.
Our at least [...]

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Site Ripping Bastards: collecting the proof…

One of my last posts was about someone else ripping off one of my company’s sites and that at least this one may go somewhere. So the powers-that-be want some documentation.
So we decided to give them print outs of all the site pages and a copy on disc of the site.
For “downloading” the offending [...]

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Quick and easy Online Sitemaps.xml generator

Great tool to share today.
Ran across this website XML-Sitemaps.com that does exactly what you would want it to do.
You enter the website you want it to crawl and generate the XML sitemap for and a few minutes later it provides links to XML (compressed and uncompressed), text and HTML sitemaps for easy use.
It also [...]

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