January 2007

Seth Godin had a great post the other day about what he calls the “T-Shirt Rule“. Seth says “It’s a simple test of whether you’ve created a remarkable experience: “Would I buy the t-shirt?” For most things… My answer would be “No”.

However… I got an email from the folks over at the Earners Forum the other day announcing that they would be giving everyone who had 500 pr more posts a free Earners Forum T-Shirt. Unfortunately, I usually just do a lot of lurking but not much posting so I didn’t qualify. The Earners Forum is certainly t-shirt worthy so I asked if they would be willing to trade for some chocolate covered Macadamia nuts, and they DID so I sent them some of Island Princess’ world-famous Mele Macs.

Lee Dodd and his crew liked the nuts so much, they sent me more than one shirt. (Bonus!)

I got several complements on it while walking around Waikiki from some big earners who were here on vacation. One guy who manages a large network of financial and investment blogs was particularly impressive.

Here is a picture my three year old boy took of me in front of Diamond Head with my new t-shirt. (You know you want one)

So… Since I have more than one shirt… I’ll be giving the other away! All you need to do is post a link to my blog and then post something in the comments for where I can find the link and it’s all yours. If more than one person links to me, I’ll pick someone at random.

Aloha,
Dave.

Google Reader now has cool trends.

I guess that works out to about 40 articles per day. Believe it or not… I read all 130 of these feeds periodically depending on the title of the post and how much time I have. I usually spend at least two or three hours a day reading about search engine and affiliate marketing. Blogs come and go from the list periodically as well. Almost all of these feeds are search marketing blogs except for Weird Asian News and a few others. This is where I get most of my search and affiliate marketing information.

I’ve been meaning to create a post about all the great blogs that I subscribe to and read but I’ve been procrastinating because I know it will take quite a while. Luckily… Lee Odden at the Online Marketing Blog did the job for me in a post called “Must Read Search Marketing Blogs“. Lee on the other hand tries his best to read 250 plus (and counting) SEO, SEM, social media and online PR blogs. (Amazing!) Almost all the blogs I read are listed there.

Barry Schwartz also has a great list of about 175 search blogs that he calls his Link Farm. It’s a real honor for me to be listed.

Happy Reading!

Aloha,
Dave.