Over the past couple of months, I’ve noticed something: My cat doesn’t sleep with me when I’m loaded.

On a normal night, she’ll curl up right next to me and sleep. But when I pass out on my bed after a good drunk she’s nowhere to be seen.

I wonder why this is?

- Is it my stanky alcolhol breath?
- Is it like a child not wanting to see their parent drunk so they avoid them?
- Is she afraid I’ll roll over on her?

I’m just so curious why she does this? Has this happened to anyone besides me?

I’d love to hear your thought’s on this.

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Yeah, I did it.

In one of my previous posts, I was debating on whether to buy a theme or not. I mean, I could have found a different magazine theme for free…but I really liked this one and it was almost exactly what I envisioned.

It was advertised for $79 and that’s what was holding me back. On a whim, I looked for some sort of discount code and guess what - I found one for 25% off. So now it was $59. I couldn’t not buy it now.

Anyway, I got it and now I’m working on developing the site. Click here for the work in progress that is: Daily Actor.

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At least from my point of view.

I’ve had them on 2 of my sites since January and I’ve made a whopping total of:
$1.63

Yup.

I’m sure people are making money on this but I just didn’t want it taking up real estate on my site anymore.

I wonder if I can get a check for $1.63?

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I’ve stopped posting to my acting site, Daily Actor, for a while now.

I’m kind of envisioning a newspaper style/Drudge Report type of theme but couldn’t find any theme that I really liked or that was free. I didn’t want it to look lame.

Then, I happened upon a theme last night that I really love - but it cost’s $79.

Now I’m torn… do I buy it or continue with my current theme and just not be as enthused?

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted!

I went back east to visit family… all the while having full intentions of posting while I was away. But every time I opened up my laptop and attempted to type I just couldn’t think of anything on topic.

Since this site started, it was basically a throw away site initially dedicated to my experience blogging. That then morphed into adding technology reviews. Since then, I’ve struggled to find things to write about because I didn’t want to go off topic. I hated not updating on a regular basis.

So, while I was away I just decided to start again. Not from the beginning but just a re-do. Think of it this way: First there was Ang Lee’s Hulk and now there is Edward Norton’s The Incredible Hulk. Same Hulk… just better.

And with the new theme comes a new focus. Basically, I’m going to write about whatever I damn well want to write about. Blogging and Technology with still be a part… but so will TV. Food. My love of drinking. Like I said…anything!

So keep checking back. You’ll be glad you did!

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I had been hearing a ton of stuff about EntreCard lately so I decided to sign up and try it out.

Since I have more than one site, I created 2 accounts. One for this website and another for CatPuppy. I created my little 125×125 icons and hit the ground.

The first thing I noticed on both accounts was that the same 7 or so people immediately asked to advertise on my widget. The same exact people! And I created these accounts a couple days apart. Do they just sit by their little computers and refresh their Entrecard page every couple of minutes in search of fresh meat?

I began to notice that my traffic suddenly had a nice little spike. This was with barely dropping my card on anyone’s site. I did a little research and found that this may be a good tool to drive up my traffic.

I discovered that some people make it their daily goal to drop the magic 300 (this is what Entrecard allows you to drop a day).

Here’s how they do it:
- You have to have the FireFox browser.
- Go to the category that your blog is in. Once you’re in that section, take your mouse and hover it over the first icon. Click onto the CTRL button and that will open it into a new tab. Go through all 15 of the icons till you have 16 tabs open.
- You’ll have to individually go through each tab and open up the sites.
- Once all 15 are open, go to the top of the browser and click onto Bookmarks. Then Bookmark all tabs. A box will pop-up and you can now create a folder where all the new bookmarks have been placed. (Pretty cool, huh?)

They do this for up to 300 sites. I guess some people have nothing better to do? Any who…

- Once this is finished, you can now right click onto each separate folder and hit Open All In Tabs. Every bookmark in that folder will pop open.

Now, you can drop your card on each site. Its a pretty quick process but still.. it seems like a little much to me.

I did this yesterday for CatPuppy. I bookmarked all 91 sites that catered to Pets. This morning, I woke up and did the first 30…then I got bored. I think I’d like to generate traffic from people who actually ENJOY my sites rather than have people who just to use it as a marketing tool for a few seconds.

But like I said, this seems like a great way to move traffic to your site. Meaningless traffic, but traffic nonetheless.

One thing I did notice was that the bounce rate is pretty high. I’m not exactly sure what this could mean for any sort of ad revenue. Anyone have thoughts on this?

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Well, I now have a page rank 1 on all 3 of my sites that I started in January.

Awesome!

I don’t even know if thats a good pace for a page 1 or not but I’m still happy.

How did I do it? I concentrated on good posts (hopefully!), finding no follow blogs in my sites niche and sending my articles to social bookmarking sites.

This still hasn’t translated into any higher revenue on any of my sites but I’m still optimistic.

This site in particular is hard to market. Its all over the place with technology and gadget reviews, blogging stuff and basically anything else I damn well want to put up. I really don’t think I’ll ever get a ton of people to regularily visit.

Whatever - I finally have a rank!

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After months of sitting on my butt, I finally put Daily Actor live last week.

I have a problem in that I want everything perfect before I make it known to the world but I just didn’t want to wait any longer. I have forums on there and that was my main issue. I had never put forums on a site so there was a little learning curve. I still need to monetize it a little more but that’s the easy part.

I’m planning on marketing this site. I’ll do some Google and Yahoo ads (I have some free credits via GoDaddy) and I’m also going to buy some moo cards and leave them all over LA. Don’t know what moo cards are? Check them out! I love them. They’re like little business cards but much, much cooler.

It’ll be a while though. I want to get at least 20 posts under my belt. I’ve been finding that 20 posts is about the norm to get you’re groove with a site.

If you have any comments, let me know!

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I found this site earlier today - dnscoop.com. It’s really cool.

Type in your site’s url and it tell’s you the value of your website.

My site is already $140,000!

Just kidding.

Test it out on your favorite sites.

Here are my faves and what they are supposedly “worth”:
AintItCool: $9,132,400
DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com: $936,310
Problogger.net: $7,634,850
CatPuppy.net (my other site): $230

What? Catpuppy is only worth $230?? That’s an outrage!

Thanks to KushMoney for the tip!

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