About 8 years ago I had an hourly job and I was contractor… I would work too fast and run out of things to do and have to go home early. My boss taught me to slow down so I would always have work to do and get a bigger paycheck

One day she was not at work, so I got her cushy aeron chair and decided to kill some time in my own creative way.

These were all made w/out photoshop using nothing more than a flatbed scanner looking down and moving my head as the moving part of the scanner went on by.

I used to get $15/hr as a graphic designer there, so I am guessing I made about $5 to make these. I had these filed away and I am glad I kept them. You can see the whole set at Flickr. Now I am sharing them with the world. What do you think of them? What do you do to kill time at the job you hate?

These are the results: http://twitter.com/wertrose … just kidding, that was still in my clipboard.

I actually read these before I sent them and wrote the descriptions myself. I have not done link building for a while so it was a really good refresher course for me. Also rereading Bretts 26 steps was a good idea. He was pretty solid on those fundamentals. Much of the shit I have done over the last few years was short lived and destructive… normal high risk/high return stuff. It have been a good few years, but if I was building quality long term sites I would be in a better place today (c:

I would say that and the "link building secrets" stuck with me the most… the part on bukkake in that is brilliant, and enough to get the juices flowing (pun not intended) on new ideas.

Rae Said the Following:

1. Overview of why links matter (http://www.sugarrae.com/why-links-matter-so-simple-a-monkey-could-understand-it/)
2. Overview on how to build a quality site
   (http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm )
3. Interview with 5 link “Experts”
   (http://www.sugarrae.com/five-link-development-experts-a-group-interview/)
4. Interview with 11 link “Experts”
   (http://www.sugarrae.com/11-experts-on-link-development-speak/)
5. Raes Link Building presentations from pubcon (http://www.sugarrae.com/pubcon-2007-download-the-presentations/)
6. Why cracking down on paid links is stupid/impossible (http://www.sugarrae.com/google-doesnt-know-the-face-of-evil/)
7. More demystifying of the link buying scare (http://www.sugarrae.com/why-google-shouldnt-penalize-me-for-their-incompetence)

Aaron Said to check out these:

1. SEO / Link Building for Bloggers
   (http://www.seobook.com/bloggers)
2. Link Baiting Strategies
   (http://www.seobook.com/archives/001936.shtml)
3. 101 link Building Tips
   (http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml)
4. A big list of “link building secrets” some of these are actually funny. A bunch are creative- (http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/seo-sem/link-building-secrets/index.php)
5. Overview of Trustrank
   (http://www.seobook.com/archives/000661.shtml)
6. Aaron also recommended Raes #3 and #4 from above, so you know those are quality.

Martijn recommended these links:

1. The fundamentals of Link Building
   (http://www.audettemedia.com/blog/link-building-fundamentals)
2. Why Jim enjoys building links and talks about link building VS baiting
   (http://www.jimboykin.com/expert-link-building-can-be-fun/)

Still waiting to hear back from Todd on this (:

Anyone else have any great resources to teach a person new to the industry link building basics and then on to advanced tactics?

I am not how many times this will work, or which ones are valid but these will get you between $50 and $200 in free advertising on AdCenter. If you do not know AdCenter is Microsoft's pay per click advertising. It is a great value, and sends the cleanest traffic of any. The volume is pretty low compared to Google (2-5% maybe), but it converts like a MUTHA.

Here are the Microsoft AdCenter Coupon Codes:

• $50 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/lcoff/

  WMW1106

• $200 credit:

  http://startadcenter.com/mw13a/

  x67l4q3dbrblkz94

• $100 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/signup

  DMB1-JA5

• $200 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/ppcadcenter

  5v9fn8swpvsg7wk6

• $200 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/sales

  4l9wgl2qrb25v64

• $100 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/tipssms

  DM-1-1106

• $200 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/SteveDM

  6v9vt9w3hd45vjn8 (got 2 different ones with this code)

• $200 credit:

  http://www.startadcenter.com/mw13

  x67l4q3dbrblkz94

Hopefully they will work for you and you can test out the system and make some sweet $$$ and continue to spend on AdCenter. Leave comment if you can or cannot get any of them to work.

Cheers

The bar is called the Rising Sun Anger Release Bar and is located in Nanjing China.

The Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in Nanjing lets customers smash glasses, rant and even hit specially trained workers, state media reported.

The bar employs 20 men who have been given protective gear and physical training to prepare them for the job.

Clients can ask the men to dress as the character they wish to attack.

The bar charges from 50 yuan ($6.25) to 300 yuan for the pleasure.

Brilliant.

As seen at BBC,  MSNBC  and the register.

Here is just a sample:

That is me, Aaron, Andrea (girl from CarFax), and Darren.

Brian of SoulCast and Stunty

Rae and Sean of TrueLocal

Martinibuster, me Rae.

I love the CaveMan

Somehow wound up with Joe's Badge on for a bit?

You can get your own copy of all the new Microsoft office products right here.

Here is a quick run down of the programs:

Microsoft Word: still pretyt much the same, but with a new interface

Microsoft Excel 12: TITS, this program is awesome. first off they removed the limit of 65,000 lines so now you can go crazy building keyword upload sheets or working with log files. They changed the way sorting is done and you can sort on any and every variable found in a column…and in every column, which is awesome. They made removing duplicates even easier (one click), lots of features are even easier to find. It is great. I cannot wait until the full release comes out, but from now on I am only using Office 2007.

Outlook 2007: wow this is a great program, they now have assignable tags, so you can have one color for one thing…you also have the ability to choose a followup date and add numerous flags to an email. The interface does not feel as heavy and it even includes searching… this is another great product enhancement.

Powerpoint and Access – I never use either.

OneNote – wow this is a sweet little program. Well not really that little, it probably takes a gig of space (thanks microsoft).  It is awesome though. It allows you to keep an online notebook, with various tabs or sections, and within those sections or tabs you can have pages and sub pages…and even password protect them. It is pretty neat, and supports crazy formating and even tablet/handwriting. I could see this very helpful for staying organized, but I think it could be dangerous if you do not keep proper backups. It also allows you to sync up with a handheld so you can take notes on the road which would also be great.

All in all you cannot go wrong with the free microsoft office 2007 beta. If you use excel all the time I would get the upgrade immediatly. Again the office beta can be found here.

We pretty much shot the shit on the big three in the PPC industry: Google Adwords , Yahoo Search Marketing aka Overture, and MSN AdCenter.
I am not sure how I did , but I do know that I had 2 sweet brain farts on the air…so that should be archived for the world to hear. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. Oh and by the way, the reason I spelled out the dottedonline domain is because so far of the 10 people I have told about it, 2 think it is dottedline… and I never get their emails. I also was able to plug pay per click / ppc blog as well. Thanks Greg.

Much like a yellow pages but with more focus on a single topic… geo-vertical directories, compare these two:
Flower Finder – Chicago Florists
Super Pages – Chicago Florist

Which would you rather use? Our goal is to provide valuable feedback on the things that matter to the end user. Initially on this site it is just easy to navigate and find listings of local florists, and people have the ability to leave either positive or negative feedback on florists, on a variaty of ranking criteria.

We are also going to be adding valuabe content to people looking for flower information, much like florist.com, ftd.com or aboutflowers.com
In addition to this we have a few consulting gigs and will continue to keep moving forward with our sites. Let me know what you think about Flower Finder.

• searchstatus 1.15 – displays pagerank and alexa ranking, also allows nofollow links to be easily highlighted.
• roboform – fills in forms/stores passwords (paid). I could not live with out this program.
• gmail manager – allows you to manage multiple gmail accounts and shows their status
• split link – supposedly shows you where a redirect link actually redirects you. Liek the poor mans version of HTTP Watch used for IE.
• IE Tab - allows you to open IE windows in firefox, good for adcenter
• Duplicate tab - allows you to duplicate the current tab to a new tab or window and keeps the history
• colorful tabs – ads som ecolor to multiple tabs
• tabbrowser preferences – control over tab usage
• bugmenot – fills some registration things with accounts other peopel created, good for newspaper sites
• user agent switcher – lets you change user agents, good for finding out if someone is using bot cloaking on a website
• del.icio.us – portable bookmarking
• sage – rss reader
• ie view – launches the site in an IE browser
• web developer – allows you to turn of css /java etc
• pearl crescent page saver – allows you to screen capture the entire webpage (including things you have to scroll down to) as a png file. this is pretty much an awesome plugin, it allows you the same features of a paid screen capture program…it is great for documenting changes to a website for a client or designer. Another way to describe it would be full page print screen.

What are some of your favorite firefox plugins that I did not list?

Did I miss something or would that be a simple enough solution to the problem? What it seems like they would be attempting is a google bomb of the phrase link condom, w/out having the phrase on it…
My advice, maybe add link condom to the title and somewhere on the page and see if that solves the problem? WTF?