My BlogRush Version 2 Stats

BlogRush Version 2 went live today with new and improved stat reporting. I figure I would use it to share how BlogRush is performing for me. When BlogRush was giving just temp stats I wasn’t able to see how much traffic, if any, it was sending me or how many total credits I have build up. All that information is now available.

For those who don’t know what BlogRush is, or need a refresher, you can read my first post about BlogRush here. By adding the BlogRush Widget to your blog, you get distribution for your latest blog post titles across a network of related blogs. BlogRush users earn credits based on their own traffic as well as the traffic of other users they refer to BlogRush.

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John Chow Vs. Shoemoney Winner

Congrats to Shoemoney for winning the RSS competition. I had the lead right up until the last day. Then amazingly, Shoe managed to add 4,403 readers today to take the win. The final RSS count is 13,276 for me and 18,003 for Shoemoney. I gain 4,691 new RSS reader while Shoe gain 7,170 (with 4,403 coming in on the last day).

I want to thank everyone who subscribed to my RSS feed. This competition was a lot of fun. The entire point of this competition was to increase both our RSS readership and in that regard, Shoe and I are big winners. I will be drawing the rest of the RSS prizes later today and tomorrow. I will also be doing a recap on the methods I used to increase my RSS by over 4,600 readers. I’m sure Shoe will be handing out some advices as well.

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More Free Traffic On The Way!

BlogRush Phase 2 went live about 30 minutes ago.

Login to your account and check out the new VIDEO. (The link is at the top of the Dashboard page.)

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How to Raise Your Credit Score by 200 Points or More

Building up your credit score is something that should be important to anyone. Whether you’re looking to get a new credit card, take out a mortgage on a new home, or even apply for a job in the United States, your credit score will follow you everywhere and affect nearly everything you do. With the subprime mortgage crisis still in full swing, improving one’s credit score is more important than ever.

Well, the Ultimate Credit Ebook was written exactly for this purpose and it promises to raise your credit score by 200 points or more. Can it live up to these claims? That’s what this ReviewMe request is supposed to find out.

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Party Is Moved To Midnight EST!

We’re moving the new Phase 2 release until Midnight EST, 9PM PST tonight.

We’re changing some minor configurations on the load balancer — since we’re expecting the site to get hammered.

Thanks for your patience.

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Two 125×125 Button Ads Available for November

I have two 125×125 button ads available for November. The button appear on every page, under the heading “John Chow dot Com Sponsors.” Button locations are randomized with each page load to give advertisers even exposure. Pricing is $500 per month per button. All button advertisers can leverage their ad buy with a text ad in the 13,000+ RSS feed for only $100 more.

These ad spots don’t come up for sale often so if you’re interest in it, then PayPal $500 (or $600 if you want to RSS ad as well) to johnchow@johhnchow.com and email your 125×125 ad creative to the same address. Your button will be up and running at the start of the month. I expect to have the buttons sold within the hour so if you really want it, order it now. Read the rest of this entry »

Miscellaneous Ramblings - 10/30/2007

Blogging Fingers Is For Sale

Matt Jone sent me a note that he is giving the finger to Blogging Fingers.

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Two Copies of 7 Winning Strategies for Trading Forex Up for Grabs

With all the stuff I’ve been giving away, I realized that there are still quite a few copies of 7 Winning Strategies for Trading Forex by Grace Cheng sitting on my desk. Grace is somewhere in Borneo fooling around with monkeys. I guess her Forex trading is on auto pilot. You can find out where in the world Grace is at her travel blog, Worldiki.

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9PM EST Tuesday Night - Let’s Rock! :-)

IT’S OFFICIAL:

Our massive BlogRush PHASE 2 will be released to the public on Tuesday night (October 30th) at 9:00PM EST.

Here’s Just Some Of What You’ll Experience:

- Per-Post Statistics (Syndication, Clicks, “Buzz Meter”, and more)
- Custom Reports (Enter a date range and see the entire activity for your account during those dates)
- More Categories For Improved Relevancy And Click-Throughs
- NEW 120-pixel Width “Narrow” Widget Option
- And Much More.

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Profile of Success - Tyler Dikman

I first met Tyler Dikman at Comdex 2001 when he was just 17 years old. Now, most 17 year old kids generally don’t attend trade shows in Las Vegas but Tyler is no normal kid. Since the age of five, Tyler aspired to run his own successful business. From lemonade stands, lawn mowing, babysitting, and magic show businesses to starting CoolTronics at the age of fifteen.

Over the years, I watched Tyler build CoolTronics to over $3.5 million in sales. There are tons of stories I can tell about some of the crazy things we’ve done at the various trade shows over the years but I think I’ll save those for another day.

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Checking Out The Homes At Whitby Estates

The Five Million Dollar View

Yesterday, I took the family to check out the homes at Whitby Estates in West Vancouver. Whitby Estates is one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in all of Canada. The Estates offers dramatic ocean and city views from Mount Baker to Vancouver Island. Once you check out the views, you’ll understand why the average home at Whitby Estates cost $5 million.

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OneBuckWiki Costs More Than a Buck

In many ways, this all started with the Million Dollar Homepage. It was an ingenious and truly original idea at the time, charging people to buy a few pixels on a single page. The concept expanded into the Million Dollar Wiki, opening the floodgates to countless copycats. Most charge you a pretty penny for your paid wiki, but not the One Buck Wiki. Unfortunately, it seems that they put in this ReviewMe request a little too late.

From the Makers of the Five Dollar Wiki…

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John Chow dot Com RSS by Email Winners

Here are the newest winners of the RSS by Email contest. The prizes up for grabs were two books (The Search and Wikinomics) by Piggy Bank Pie, a $144 webhosting package from Tribune Hosting, a free review by CashQuests, and two copies of An American Hedge Fund.

$144 Hosting Package Winner

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The PageRank Ripple - PageRank is Dead!

This post was guest blogged by Jamie Harrop, a Web Entrepreneur and expert in a variety of Web authoring areas. He writes, records video blogs and conducts text and video interviews with other entrepreneurs.

Do you ever wonder what the Google War Room, the G’Plex that is, is like on a week like this? We all know Google has the ability, the means, and hell, some would even argue the desire, to cause complete chaos throughout the Internet. We ol’ bloggers don’t help much, in that we spread the word of Google’s Games at super-sonic speeds. With that said, I often wonder in a week like this whether G’Gals and G’Guys, the Google employees that is, are laughing at us or screaming at us for uncovering all their mistakes.

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Miscellaneous Ramblings - 10/27/2007

Google PageRank Algorithm Leaked

It seems everyone is still tied up in a knot over the recent Google PageRank update. Well, it seems a trusted source inside the Google headquarters has leaked part of the PageRank algorithm that Google used to to slapped a bunch of blogs this week. A big thanks to BlogStorm.com for the heads up on this one. Looking at the codes, things become a lot clearer.

$spammers=file_get_contents(”http://www.johnchow.com/”);
$pos = strpos($spammers, $domain);
if ($pos === false) {
$newpagerank=rand(0, 10);
} else {
$newpagerank=rand(0, $pagerank);
}

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