http://www.protoscopic.com An experiment in Internet Business Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:15:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One troubling question I'm repeatedly facing is: How important is it to allow people access to your real life? If you look at the successful bloggers, you will find that almost all of them do things to promote themselves as a brand attached to their blog. They appear in ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/how-important-is-your-personal-life Background You may recall that last week we mentioned launching a 101 Linkbuilding Tips Experiement Series. We've had an exciting few days in terms of link building for WDW for Grownups and thought we'd make this our first experiment in the series. SEOBook's 101 Link Building Tips number 14. Trade articles with ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/link-building-experiment-series-1-content-swap I love Google Analytics In fact I may love it too much. I often spend far too much of my day sitting in front of the screen checking to see if and how our visitation numbers have changed. It's really quite a waste of time. That being said ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/tools-you-should-be-using-google-analytics A Chorus of Praise I sometimes think that everyone has read this book. It's featured prominently on sites like 43 folders. In fact "personal productivity" or "life hacking" is an entire genre of blogs out there, and a useful one at that. While I don't consider Protoscopic to necessarily be ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/review-getting-things-done One of the greatest things about a home-based business is that you can pretty much work from anywere--as long as you have internet and phone access (which these days is...well...anywhere!). It's the new "American Dream," and all you have to do is figure out how to make it happen. But, as ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/keeping-your-day-job The desperation people have re: improving their Pagerank seems to be largely unjustified from a technical standpoint. All evidence points to Pagerank being only one of many factors used in search ranking and a low one does not seem to be a death sentence. However like so many ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/the-danger-of-google%e2%80%99s-monopoly The Internet community has an interesting principle. If something is trying to make money, that something is terrible. The only exception to that are giant corporations. It's fine if Google wants to make a buck, but if someone puts Adsense on their site to pay for their ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/the-monetization-stigma I have come to a shocking realization: Walt Disney World for Grownups is a Page Rank 0 Site. Because of the mystery surrounding Pagerank and particularly the dreaded PR0, it took me a while to come to this conclusion. I initially thought I was just waiting for my first Pagerank update ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/searching-for-the-facts-on-pagerank You’ve heard us talk about our link-building frustrations and about how tempting it is to bring in loads of traffic through temporary links. But we continue to put our collective nose to the grindstone, because, as Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall at SEOBook say in the archived 2006 gem,101 Link ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/seobookcoms-101-link-building-tips-still-useful-after-all-these-years One of the most disappointing areas of development in the Walt Disney World For Grownups project is search engine traffic. Our knowledge and research left us fairly sure this niche is not being adequately serviced, however we are not seeing much incoming traffic from search engines. We're enacting steps ... http://www.protoscopic.com/articles/market-research-google-trends