Thanks for telling me about John Reese’s videos. Why I must have had 10 emails alerting me to the fact that they are FREE! People are really nice aren’t they? All these people rushing to email me about something that is FREE! They are all quick to point out that he’s not trying to sell me anything today. So go watch for FREE! Cool huh?

Somehow I doubt these people would have emailed me about this FREE! video if there wasn’t something to gain. When I get a surge of emails telling me about FREE! this or that, I just tune out. The video I watched was pretty slick but didn’t say much that you probably don’t already know. Plus it didn’t really show you how to do what he was talking about. I’m guessing that is where you part with your money for his membership. Every single email talked about how much value this video provided. I dunno guys. Maybe I’m simply a dumbass and just don’t get it. Did any of you really not know that you can go to Ebay and find out what is hot and worthy of creating a website on? Are you really not paying attention to your competitors and not looking at how they make it #1 in Google?

I’m a hype curmudgeon. It makes me grumpy. They’re like, look what a nice guy I am by bringing this to your attention. It’s FREE! The tactic now is to let you know that they know that there is a backside, upsell, side deal somewhere in there. But it’s cool because this part is FREE! But if they didn’t stand to gain some affiliate dollars in the bargain somewhere then I’m doubtful they would have been so generous. But everybody has to make a living I guess. And so it goes.

The bottom line is you gotta figure out if paying hundreds of dollars a month is worthwhile for his course. It’s not for me. Maybe it should be. It’s not like I get a million viewers to my sites. Hell, I can’t even figure out how to keep my sites from vacationing at Google Beach.

The effing Google sandbox is a pain in the ass isn’t it? Is there anything more frustrating and disheartening? I have two, month old Blogger blogs that I have really been working. There isn’t anything special about them but I’ve pushed them to the head of the class to see how far I can get with them. I am trying to generate affiliate sales from them. No Adsense. I’ve written three articles and submitted them to directories. I’ve submitted the links to over a hundred, maybe two hundred directories. I’ve bookmarked them across maybe 5-6 profiles. One a week. On different IPs even. I’ve made comments on blogs. Nothing spammy. I don’t even see how the head assholes at Google could fault what I was doing.

But no. Their algorithm has caught my little sites. Just when I was making inroads to top 10 glory. My sites are taking a break at the beach while the visitors I had yesterday are clicking someone else’s links.

Then again maybe the sites have been banned. Maybe Google has decided that they aren’t worthwhile after all. Maybe I got too many links too quick.

I sniped a keyword. I had an article, a Blogger blog, Wordpress.com blog and a Squidoo lens all ranked in the top 10 at one point. 300 searches a day. 323 to be exact if you believe nichebot. I had over 500 page views last Monday on one of those blogs. Traffic is already looking to be at least half of that today. By Friday I’ll be lucky to have 20 people visit those blogs. The article listing,  WP blog and lens are all still hovering around the top 15-20. But not the Blogger blog.

I don’t know what the formula is to keep your sites from taking the beach vacation. Not all links I add to directories and blogs count. I mean, some are no follow. Some directories won’t get around to adding your listing for months. It seems like the thing to do is jam as many directory submissions as you can because your eventual inclusion, if at all, could trickle in over the course of months. So the hundred, two hundred, submissions I’ve done really only amount to what, 30 actual listings right now? Maybe bookmarking is a bad idea. Maybe 5 different profiles with the same URL is bad over a month. I doubt it. I hide my links. I even got off my lazy butt and wrote up new articles for submission to EZine and GoArticles just yesterday. I almost never do that.

Whatever. I’ll keep adding posts. I’ll keep adding comments. I’ll keep submitting my links to directories. Hopefully the vacation will be short. It’s not like am the only one who feels the pain. And I bet the damn things will be listed by the end of the day. It’s just how Google does. And this is just how I whine.

I have new comments concerning my original Blinkweb post:

I’ll keep this short. (when have I ever made any of this shit short?) No really, I promise. (tough it out. IM is all about broken promises) I tried Blinkweb this weekend. (I didn’t dig deep enough. told you I was lazy) So far it’s crap. At least for what I’d want to use it for. (actually it’s not crap) Try Weebly.com instead. (they are the same) The tools are far better. (not really but I still like Weebly a little better. must be the templates.) Sure you’ll have to agree to rev share 50/50, but something is better than nothing. (Blinkweb doesn’t appear to have this problem. Adsense is far more customizable which may not actually be a good thing) Plus you’re not building these sites as anything more than to feed your other sites some links. (who knows? maybe you’ll become rich building 100 of these little jewels) Though I think all things considered, I’d just assume build Squidoo lens. (actually I’d rather go mtn biking, watch my daughters play softball or ride a snowboard)

I don’t think either is better than the other at this point. Choose one, build something and get links. I built this little Weebly site on wine gifts in less than 10 minutes. That includes a little rewrite and changing templates 3 times to see what’s what. I busted this Blinkweb site on beginning photography tips out in about 30 minutes. I had two separate elements, a blog and a page, which slowed me down.I bet the next one I build can be completed in about 15 minutes since I now know what I’m doing.

They are the same builder. If I didn’t know better I’d say Blinkweb ripped off Weebly. There is nothing much different except Blinkweb has the blog and salespage. But Weebly allows you to add more pages, more easily in a sidebar. It doesn’t look like you have to rev share with Blnkweb so that is a huge thumbs up.

I was quick to dismiss Blinkweb. So shoot me. I can find value in each. I do not, however, find either one any easier than Squidoo. It’s still all about content. I am curious to see if either one gets in the SERP doghouse like Squidoo, and maybe Hubpages, seems to have a tendancy of doing.