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The Importance of Public Relations

Tweet One of the Net Income podcasts (direct link to the mp3 file) on Webmaster Radio from last year summer (everyone probably already heard it but me) had an interesting segment reviewing the “Top 10 Dumbest Ideas that have made a fortune online.” Greg Hartnett from Best of the Web and ShoeMoney went through the […]

robots.txt

Tweet I recently created a robots.txt file for this site and the yet-to-be-launched Niche Site 1. Graywolf’s video is a nice primer on the problem of search engines crawling your blog, finding too much duplicate content, and lowering your PR. He’s a fan of WordPress and specifically made the video for it. There are a […]

LinkShare

Tweet Our first affiliate program is through… LinkShare! Ta-Da! Fortune 500 type companies allow affiliates to market their products using LinkShare. They needed our EIN but opening the account was simple: fill out a few online forms, choose a company and/or product, and get the magic link(s) with your affiliate code. We went with them […]

Learning Spanish

Tweet One of our goals for the last few years was to learn Spanish. We both had years of Spanish in high school and college but lost most of what little proficiency we had. I decided a few weeks ago that “wanting to learn Spanish” wasn’t a real goal. It wasn’t a real goal because […]

Business Checking and Employer Id Number

Tweet We opened our business checking account. It went smoothly because we had all of the required paper work and knew what we wanted. The problem is we’ll need to go back because our taxpayer identification number changed/will change. The IRS doesn’t really recognize LLCs. A single member LLC is treated as a sole proprietorship, […]