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Add Digg This! Button to WordPress Posts and Float Right

A few people have asked how I get my Digg This! button to float to the right in every wordpress post.

Here is the code I use:

<div style=”float: right; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 2px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
digg_url = ‘<?php the_permalink() ?>’;
</script>
<script src=”http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script></div>

For my current theme (Not So) Fresh I had to add it into two places, the main index and the single post pages. Here is what it looks like in each of those places:

Screenshot of index.php:

Index Page with Digg This Button

Screenshot of single.php:

Single.php wordpress digg button

Hopefully that helps, if you have any questions, email me or post them in the comments section.

By |March 21st, 2007|SEO/SEM|4 Comments
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New Life for an Old Site

I have an old site (old by my terms, not in years) that I haven’t done much with other the last year. I post to it sporadically, but when people are looking for Internet Business Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses, they don’t find my site. Before today, my site was about business marketing ideas, but that has been a tough market, the market is flooded with sites, and a lot of good sites as well. As of today though I’m sticking to what I know, and putting a spin on the entire site.

It will no longer be about generic business marketing, but will focus on online marketing for businesses especially small businesses. Hopefully this will revive this site, and make it into a formidable competitor.

By the way, this is the same site that is suffering from supplemental issues still. Yes, I still do have too many websites, and I’m trying to redefine my focus toward sites that I know I can do well with.  Also, sites that I can write easily for that play to my strengths, rather than sites I don’t know anything about.

By |March 21st, 2007|My websites|1 Comment
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Before Hiring a SEO, Read this!

Sorry for just posting a link, but this article is an absolute must read!

The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant

If anyone with more than 3 years of experience is allocating more than 50% of their time to consulting, I’m going on record as doubting their skills.

Great article and definitely something to think about!

By |March 21st, 2007|SEO/SEM|0 Comments
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What Would I Do With 100K to Invest Online?

As we talked about last week, What Would You Do With $100k to Invest Online?

I have been thinking about it, and this would be my idea:

1. Transfer the money to ING Direct. ~5% = $1,000

2. Start shopping for a website in the $50k range that is already established and making $5-6k a month.

3. Buy site and start developing additional features within the site. Spend $10-20k on development.

4. Start marketing the new features of the site with Adwords, link buys, and buzz (social media) marketing.

5. Sell site for $150k in 6-12 months when revenue justifies price.

6. Repeat all steps.

My other ideas include:

1. Buy an old site in a market I can monetize.

2. Hire a link builder. $20,000

3. Hire a linkbait writer.$5-10,000

4. Hire 5 content writers. $10,000

5. Hire article submitter. $1,000

6. Spend $69,000 on arbitrage reinvesting the earnings into #2-5

I think that way would be more fun, but not necessarily as profitable. Any investors want to give it a shot and see if we can get you a 25% return on your money in 6 months?

What would you do with $100,000 to invest online within 3 months?

By |March 21st, 2007|Make Money Online|6 Comments
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