Archive for April, 2007

Top Gear Video Compilation of Odd Vehicles

Just when you think you’ve seen everything on Top Gear, check out this video comparo of unusual vehicles, including a driveable living room set. They settle things with a race to proclaim one of these as the “Fastest Stupid Car Ever”.

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Riding The Technorati Favorite Train

Jason, aka The Man of Silver, has included me on his list of Technorati Favorites in a link train started by Gary Lee. Thanks, Jason! The idea is to help fellow bloggers get some back links, which translates into a higher Technorati rating. See the list below, and find some new blogs to add to your favorite list.

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Rules For Boarding The Train

1. Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
2. Copy the rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can be accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.
3. Take “My New Faves” and move them into the “The Original Faves” list.
4. Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Technorati Favorites to the “My New Faves” section. Remember to also add the “Fave Me” link next to your new blogs (i.e. http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.yourfavesdomain.com)
5. Add Everyone on this list to your Technorati Favorites List by clicking on “Fave the Site.” Those who want good karma will fave you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of faves from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

My New Faves
Flipping Rich - Fave The Site
Stock Trading 101 - Fave The Site
eMoms at Home - Fave The Site

The Original Faves
The Wrong Advices - Fave the Site
derrich.com - Fave the Site
Shawn-Knight.net - Fave the Site
Stephen Fung - Fave the Site Add him to your favorites and he’ll donate to charity!
Ed Lau - Fave the Site
QMusings - Fave the Site
Gary Lee - Fave the Site
Dosh Dosh - Fave the Site
Nate Whitehill - Fave the Site
Ms. Danielle - Fave the Site
Jeff Kee - Fave the Site
Scribble on the Wall - Fave the Site
Jimi Morrisons Head - Fave the Site
Jon Lee - Fave the Site
Samanathon - Fave the Site
Eat Drink & Be Merry - Fave the Site
The Man of Silver - Fave the Site
Hannes Johnson - Fave the Site
My Dandelion Patch - Fave the Site
Nathan Drach - Fave the Site
SiteLogic - Fave the Site
Julies Journal - Fave the Site
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Enjoy the ride! And be sure to Fave your Favorites.

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Friday’s Finds - Friday The 13th, April 2007

Since today is Friday the 13th, I tried to come up with some links that are…well, Friday the 13th-ish. So, sit back and enjoy. Well, you might have to sit up to use the mouse. But you know what I mean.

• The fear of the day Friday the 13th is referred to as friggatriskaidekaphobia or paraskavedekatriaphobia (say that real fast 13 times). The fear of the number “13″ is called Triskaidekaphobia. Kendra Van Wagner on about.com provides a list of phobias. I think my biggest phobia is pteromerhanophobia — fear of flying — one of the many characteristics I share with B.A. Baracus. What are your phobias? Do share.
• What better way to spend Friday the 13th than by catching a thriller? Disturbia releases today in theatres everywhere, and Jettie Kernion offers a clean, unbiased review of Disturbia on Cinematical.com. Check out the Disturbia trailer. (Personally, I’m going to see Red Line tonight.)
• Got Domain? Well, my good friend, Nomar, at KingNomar.com talks about stepping up your parking potential by setting up a proxy website. Proxy websites are great alternatives to parking and can potentially put a little more cash in your pocket.
• One of my favorite blogs to read daily is WallStreetFighter.net. My buddy, Shane, has a hilarious post today: Top Ten Shirts For Geeks. Be sure to check it out, and if you like it…digg it. I know I would.
• Derrik Dyka over at FlippingRich.com is having much success with his FlippingRich T-Shirt campaign. Read about it’s sweeping the nation. Even Sanjaya is rocking one. Geez, I can’t stand that guy. Seriously? Sanjaya? C’mon America. Stop voting for this clown.

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How To Get A Link On Derrich.com For One Month

I was thinking of a few ways I could incent you to sign up for a few different services using my affiliate links. There are 3 ways you can get a link on Derrich.com for one month. Simply sign up for one of the services below, and you get a free link for one month.

Help Me, Help You
Derrich.com is constantly growing, and faster than ever. You will receive a link from a PageRank 4 site with an Alexa rank of 224,702 and Technorati rank of 31,567 (as of 04/12/2007…which has gone down over 20k in less than 2 months). Be sure to read this post all the way through to the end for more details regarding your link. There are some cases…usually if your blog is too new…you may not qualify for one or all of these programs. But there’s only one way to find out.

1. Text-Link-Ads
I’ve recently repositioned all of my Text-Link-Ads…ads…for optimal viewing pleasure. It has only been a couple of days, but I’m optimistic that I’ll have some featured links before the end of the month. I’ve also downloaded the most recent Text-Link-Ads WordPress plugin so that I can take advantage of the Post Level Ads to be offered starting next week according to TLA.

In order to qualify for a link, you must register for Text-Link-Ads using my affiliate link. Additionally, according to TLA, a referred publisher must install the advertising script on their site for seven days. At this time the referral will appear in the affiliate’s account. Once your information appears in my referred list after that 7-day period, I will place your link up for 1 month from that day.

If an affiliate refers an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in the affiliate account within 24 hours.

2. Kontera ContentLinkâ„¢
Back on April 2nd, I recommended Kontera ContentLinkâ„¢ for your blog, particularly if you could not qualify for similar in-text advertising programs. ContentLinkâ„¢ continues to be a great compliment to my Google AdSense. While it has not yet surpassed AdSense in terms of total revenue, my eCPM continues to rise over time. I highly recommend it.

Kontera ContentLinkâ„¢ involves no additional code per post. Upon acceptance, you simply place the code provided by Kontera, allow the spiders to learn your content over a 7-day period, and you start watching your in-text advertising make you money online. Apply for ContentLinkâ„¢ today!

3. Agloco
I’ve only begun to push Agloco in my community. I’m sure many of you are already part of this growing membership. I currently have 1 member signed up — me. You can help me increase the number of referrals and get a link for a month. Agloco is easy to join. Simply sign up, refer your friends, download the free Viewbarâ„¢ software (to be released withint he next week or so) and surf the Internet as you normally would. Sign up for AGLOCO today and get a link.

What If I’m Already Signed Up For These?
You can still get a link. I will provide you a link for 1 month per person that you sign up…per service. One person, three services, your link on Derrich.com for 3 months. If you get 2 people to sign up for 1 service using my affiliate links, I will link you for 2 months and the person you refer gets a link for 1 month.

One Last Requirement
After signing up, or getting other people to sign up, please contact me by email at derrich derrich [dot] com and let me know which of the services you signed up for, or the name of the person(s) you have referred and the service they signed up for. NOTE: For Text-Link-Ads, don’t forget that the advertising script must be installed on your site for seven days.

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Top Commenter Love

I just wanted to take a moment to thank the Top Commenters on Derrich.com. Comments are an integral part of any blog or web community. All of you, whether or not you’re on the Top Commenter list, play an important role…and give me something to look forward to each day. I love to interact with you guys, so keep em comin’. Don’t be shy.

• Blain Reinkensmeyer, Stock Trading 101
• Shane, WallStreetFighter.com
• Warren Buffet, RetireRichBlog.com
• Ed Lau, the.[ED]ition
• Saman Sadeghi, Samanathon
• Chris B., Project Stocks
• Jason, The Man of Silver

If you haven’t already please consider subscribing to the Derrich.com RSS feed and joining MyBlogLog Community.

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Text-Link-Ads Post Level Ads

Yesterday, I received an email from Text-Link-Ads regarding its anticipated post level advertising. Text-Link-Ads WordPress Publishers need only to login to their account and install the latest WordPress plugin (v. 3.0.0) in order to sell additional ads on the bottom of your individual posts. It’s features include:

• Editorial control for each link purchased if you have opted for editorial control (Approval System B) for your regular Text Link Ads.
• Pricing is set automatically, and is lower on a per link basis then typical homepage placed Text-Link-Ads.
• Adding the extra coding to the layout of your site is not necessary. TLA will sync all of your posts automatically with the new WordPress plugin, and ads will automatically appear at the bottom of your post. A Text-Links-Ads representative confirmed for me that TLA spiders will crawl your site for new content, and determine if anything in their store is available to convert to an ad.
• If your regular Text Link Ads are sold out you will now have new inventory to sell.

To get started, upgrade your Text-Link-Ads WordPress plugin now.

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New Southwest Airlines Commercials…Sort Of

Southwest Airlines recently held a commercial contest in which anyone could submit a 20-second video based on the Wanna Get Away theme. Entries were judged on creativity/uniqueness of idea, quality of execution, and quality of writing and acting…in conjunction with online voting. Although the contest ended February 20th, some pretty funny “entries” continue to pop up on YouTube, including one based on The Shining. Here’s one that uses How To Catch A Predator.

Here are a few of the actual entries that were pretty funny: The Retirement Party and The Hair
And the winner: Out On A Limb

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• Milk Was A Bad Choice
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• For The Love Of Sports
• Project Spurs
• Busted Coverage
• WallStreetFighter

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