Many of you have noticed that I have been slowly turning off features on this site… From the top 100 bans blogs, to many of the services and templates, I have steadily been planning to kill off several things that have been hurting my own progress over the past 3 months, so I can focus on what works more!
This is not my first personal inventory and reorganization… but it will be the biggest! If I had to summarize my choice to downsize in one sentence… it would be:
“I am tired …

A few days ago, I mentioned that I get alot of questions about converting a BANS site to phpBay. This post is for those of you who have decided they do want to change from a straight up BANS site to phpBay, or ANY other type of site for that matter.
It should come as no surprise that there is a long and short way to do this, the method you choose is up to YOU and what your site traffic is telling you. The first method I am going to …

I have seen this question in my inbox many times… and wanted to share my own process on how I handle it myself!
Also – today is Day 6 without a cigarette! Coffee tastes completely different… I no longer spend the first 5 minutes of the morning hacking up tarballs… and I am just now starting to get focus back into my daily routine! Yes, being distracted was already an issue for me… quitting smoking just made it worse! :-)  That’s my NEXT trip to the Hypnotist… LOL
Anyhow… without further ado… …

As many of you know… I quit smoking 5 days ago! Hell… I don’t know if I can even count the first day, so maybe its really 4 days ago! Anyhow… I won’t butter this up with pretty flowers and say its been easy, because… it’s not! Over the past 5 days, I have hit just about EVERY different mood you can think of… and its been a heck of a ride so far! :-)
The one thing it has really opened my eyes to, are all the small ways something …

I know… another post about PageRank! I got an email from Otis this morning saying he noticed some PR changes going on… Sure enough, its time for a Google PR Dance!
I agree with 100% of everyone else who says PageRank has no instant effect on your actual site earnings… because it doesn’t! I have sites with PR5 that make little to no money and others that have PR0, making me some nice fat bank every day!
PR is a measure of site”authority”, nothing else. Don’t get hung up on it… UNLESS …

I have gotten many emails asking one thing… How Are you Doing? Thank you for all the emails and actually, I’m doing quite well! I tried like hell to get on here yesterday and provide everyone with an update to the days events, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t concentrate long enough to string together ANYTHING longer than a sentence or two! Many of my email replies to different people, really didn’t even make much sense! LOL
I came back up here to the top and added this …

This post is completely off topic and about the whole AIG bonus bullshit and our the way our Government is handling this… if you care less… the X is in the upper right corner!
Why Aren’t we ALL Mad As Hell and Demanding Accountability?
Just to qualify this post – I have no vested interest in AIG, not family.. not invested in, nothing, unless the Billions we are ALL paying in the garnishment of our tax dollars. I also voted mostly democratic in the past Prez election, but tend to stay in …

One of the HARDEST things I am going to face in the next few months, is breaking a habit I have owned for almost 30 years! You see… I started smoking at the ripe age of 15, and I have smoked on and off (mostly ON) ever since… Anyone who tells you it’s easy to quit smoking, is lying, and I have handfuls of failed attempts on my end to tell them so!
Nicotine is an addictive drug that literally consumes you… I have tried to quit several times in the …

First off – thank you to all of you who commented or sent me a personal email in reference to my 25 Things about Mark Hansen post! It was very encouraging and will help me come a bit more out of my friggin shell! :-) Today – I’m actually going to talk ab0ut a few of the most common emails I get… and instead of continually sending the same answers, I will come out of the closet right here and say it!
Are you Still Building BANS Sites?
Rochelle even talked about …

Earlier this week, I decided to finally say screw it, and just start writing on this blog as if I were talking to you, versus trying to make every word sound right in an email! To kick that off… I figure it may help to share a bit about me that many people don’t know, and maybe don’t even care to know! :-)
Along with that… I spoke to Wade over at phpBay, and asked him to create a phpBay discount code for me to share with you all! If you …