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This past week I have been working with Paypals IPN (Instant Payment Notification). Now with Paypals IPN I can now have the orders put into my database/backend I made for BuyBlogComments.com. I used to email the writers every order, it was a pain in the ass. But lately I have been trying, with success, to teach myself php. About 2-3 months ago I built a backend that the writers could login and grab the orders at any time.

At first the backend was a simple page showing the variables from the database. Over time I added more and more shit to it such as an admin panel, a way to send emails to the clients (which was the hardest part to do correct), a sessions based login system, and now Paypals IPN will automatically put the orders in my database. Now all I have to do is login and process the orders. Which is simple, I make sure everything looks ok and then push a button thats says “Process Order” haha.

I am almost done with the backend part where customers can login and check orders, purchase more orders, and keep everything organized. Since most of my big customers are return customers, it will help a lot.

I should have that don’t tomorrow (which is actually later today, but I work at night). On Friday I want to test everything and make sure everything is running 100% smoothly so I can go on to working on other projects. Thats where this discount comes in. I will give the first 5 people a 50% discount if you help me test the system on Friday. It doesn’t matter how many comments you order.

If your interested, I will give you a check sheet of about 10-20 things that you need to make sure are working. Then just purchase your comments regularly using a discount code. Then you will have to list if everything went smoothly. If something went wrong such as an error then just email me what happen.

If your interested in this then please email me. The first 5 people that email me will get the deal. I will put about 2-3 people on the waiting list if one of those 5 people back out before Friday.

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Ok, I admit I have been getting lazy lately. The past month or so I have been pulling 10 hour days everyday working my ass off on my new projects. One of them has taken off and is pulling decent money, the other one is in the green but only making me about $2,000 profit a month. I have also started another projects, I am currently building up my SEO sites. With these new sites I changed my methods of promoting them. They will be 100% whitehat, won’t be interlinked, and will not be made public (in other words I wont be telling you guys). If you haven’t noticed I took down the network bar on all of my sites, and also the “Part of the Developer Hut, Inc.” on all of my new sites so there will be no footprints.

So lately I haven’t been working as much. But that will soon change. This month I want to hit the 1000 RSS readers mark on my blog. It will take work but I know I can do it. At this point I want to ask all the people who haven’t subscribe yet to please subscribe, here is my feed. If you haven’t noticed by now my RSS reader display jumped about 100-150 readers overnight. No I haven’t been cheating. I actually forgot to 301 redirect my wordpress feed to my feedburner feed. Once I did that I jumped about 125 readers overnight.

You can also see that I have made some changes to the design. I went from a single wide sidebar to a double wide sidebar. I personally think it looks way better this way. It also gave me more room to add some other shit like the recent comments and the flickr photo thingy. I still have a ton of more shit to do such as adding twitter, some design changes, rewrite my house page and about me page. That should all be done this week. Hopefully.

Anyways, for me to get more readers I need to post some better content on here. Thats were I need your help. What do you want me to post more about?

1. Posts about SEO
2. Personal posts
3. Posts about Abri
4. Other?

Let me know in the comments. Tell me what you want to hear and I will start posting more about that.

One more time, if you haven’t subscribed to my feed yet, please do that, help a brotha out.

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Going to Affiliate Summit East was great for my bank account. I’m not joking either, the knowledge and the contacts that I got from the conference helped me a ton, and also helped my bank account. I have been working with 2 people/companies that I met at the conference lately and have been doing some decent numbers with them. Since the conference I have been working my ass off aswell. I will definably be going to the summit in Vegas and maybe look into going to a different conference aswell.

Anyways, my blog hasn’t been really updated for a year now. So these next few days I will be doing some minor design edits along with revising my house page, about me, and the SEO Dictionary page. I will also be re-adding the top commenter section to get the comments back up. I feel lonely without any comments on my posts. So this time I will be placing the top commenter’s in a place that will get them decent traffic and exposure.

I will also start doing video blogs on here. I personally really enjoy watching other peoples video blogs, so I bet you guys would love to watch me video blog too? Right now I am trying to get the intro worked on, I was going to make it myself but I want my intro to be bad ass so I will have it made by someone who knows what they are doing. As soon as I get the intro done I will start the video blog posts

And last but not least, Flickr! Right now I am adding a ton of photos to my account and I will be integrating flickr into my sidebar. You guys will be able to see all my business related photos along with some personal. yay!

Oh, and you might be wondering how I will get all of these updates done, along with managing a team of 7 comment writers, and running my other projects all day? Well this is one of the reasons, the other one starts with mt and ends with a w. The answer is in the source code of this blog post. Have fun.

mt dew

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It looks like I hit 700 RRS readers finally. It has been hanging around 700 for a while now, but it finally went over and stayed there for the last week or so. I apologize but I wont be making myself a cake or anything to celebrate. My next goal is of course 800 RSS readers, but my real goal is to get 1000 RSS readers by ASW in January, which shouldn’t be too hard.

I don’t have anything worth wild to post today so I will just keep you all up to date with the shit I’m doing lately.

Buy Blog Comments Backend
I’m a newb at programming, it has taken me almost a month to make the this current backend for buyblogcomments.com. With the current backend my writers can log in and do their comments, then submit the comments to me through the backend. I then check the comments quality and if its good I send the order to the client. Its pretty much all automated for me, all I have to do is upload comments and approve comments. Pretty basic ehh?

Well now I have to add the backend for the clients. So customers can order comments using a username and pass. This way both me and the clients can keep track of the comments better. A lot of my clients are web designers or seo firms that need to gain backlinks inexpensively and quickly, so it will be better to have a backend with username/passwords. They will be able to easily check there outstanding orders, track tickets, order more orders, etc.

The hardest part for me will be doing the paypal integration and passing the variables though paypal. It should be fun. The hardest part of the current backend was getting the god damn email feature to work right. Since email spammers ruined it for all us, we now have to have everything just perfect to send lots of emails from a server. I send about 100 emails from the server a day, and the code (mostly headers shit) had to be 100% right for the emails to get into the customers inbox.

I should have the backend done this weekend sometime. Wish me luck.

Google Penalties
About 4-5 months ago my shitty content network got hit with penalties from google because I was selling text links on them. I had to sell all my sites or just get rid of them. They went from making $x,xxx a month to $x a month. I had to upgrade servers, and get new ips because it seemed like google penalized me based on the sites on the ips. I also did like 10 other things so Google or you can’t track any of my sites.

Thats all over with and now I am slowly starting to make SEO sites again. I have about 3 that are being worked on right now and I have survivorman and open guardthat I will be working on this month. The rest I wont be making public. Open guard will be an enthusiast website kinda based on my roommates platform. He made his site Horror films based of a heavily pimped out wordpress and vb integration. When the site is 100% done there will be a shit ton of stuff to do. Great platform for enthusiast websites. Open guard wont be THAT pimped out, but it will be around the same platform. The Survivorman site is just a fun site for me, I like to watch survivorman and so this site is just a side hobby. I dont even care about making money off it. If you want a laugh check out this post of survivorman spoofs.

SEO Paid Backlink Testing
I have been testing about 3 different companies for gaining backlinks. My results are almost in. I will be doing a post reviwing the companies. Don’t worry my own sites will be excluded.

Thanks for reading, now subscribe!

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Last Saturday my gmail account got hacked (or my password wasn’t working properly). I recognized it within 2 hours and had my password reset which made it so the hacker couldn’t keep using my gmail account. I’m not sure 100% what happen because no emails were sent from my account during that time period, I’m hoping it was just a problem with Gmail. But since that happen it got me thinking about how secure my gmail account really is. What if one day Gmail deleted my account for some random reason or someone hacked my account again and everything got lost? I would loose a TON of valuable emails and other shit that would hurt me and my business.

Google Apps (Gmail Hosted)
So I decided to try out Google Apps instead of relying on gmail.com. This way I can use my own domain for my email such as jon@domain.com, instead of using jon@gmail.com. Gmail hosted works pretty much like gmail.com, the interface is just like gmail.com. You also get the important apps such as Google Calender and Google Docs. You are also safer using gmail hosted because if they ever delete your account you will only loose that account, but you still have your own email address (jon@domain.com) you can still use with Outlook or whatever you like. You will also have your emails backed up because of the Google pop3 feature. This way it wont set you back too bad.

Some more benefits of using Google Apps is being able to create multiple accounts for your employees. So for me I would set up info@developerhut.com, support@developerhut.com, etc and it will all be managed under 1 account. You can also set up your own personalize Google Homepage with your own logo and colors. I used to have Google Homepage for my old jonwaraas@gmail.com account, but now since using my new email jon (@) developerhut.com I turned off Google Homepage. I am trying to get rid of everything that distracts me during working time, and the 10 plus RSS feeds on my old Google Homepage was pretty distracting. On the same note I also deleted my myspace account, that thing was very distracting. Since then I have got a ton of work done, and i am pondering weather to delete my worthless facebook account aswell. I suggest you do the same if your serous about making realz cash moniez. Anyways, below is a picture of a customize Google Homepage you can do with Google Apps.

And now for all you regular gmail users here are some tips to use your gmail account to the maximum.

Thanks too Revvenue for bringing this to my attention. You can have multiple different ways to display your email address. Which is very useful if you are needing to create a ton of different email addys for a certain reason.

All these ways below will all send to darthvader@gmail.com
darth.vader@gmail.com
d.arthvader@gmail.com
d.a.r.t.h.v.a.d.e.r@gmail.com
darthvader+chickenwings@gmail.com
darthvader+grapedrink@gmail.com

Get the point?

The Google Email Search
If you get hundreds of emails a day (like me) then this video below is very very valuable in helping search through all those emails you get. I am always searching for shit with the search feature, and I wish I knew of all these little hacks a lot earlier in my life :-s

Ok folks, let me know if there are anymore kool gmail features that I don’t know of. Also be sure to check out this post for more info on Gmail Hacks.

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Advaliant decided to treat a few of us to dinner on Sunday night. The original number of people they were expecting for the dinner was about 15 people, but in total 25 people showed up to the dinner. The dinner was hosted at KO Prime which is one of Bostons’ nices places to eat. KO Prime is a steakhouse with really high prices and really good food. They have the Japanese Wagyu beef which is served there for $30 an ounce! I got a 12 oz regular steak with a side of mashed potatoes, and also about 7 Hennepin microbrews that night which were really the best beers I have ever tasted…ever. They also treated us to a free pop sticker looking thing which was really really good.

I think one cab driver said the restaurant was a 10/10. Which I have to agree with, it was unbelievable. The best steak I have ever tasted, the best beer, the best macaroni and cheese, and the best pop sticker thingys I have ever tasted. All thanks to Advaliant.

At this point I want to thank Advaliant for treating us to dinner, and for putting up with paying for 25 people even though only 18 people were invited. I also have signed up with Advaliant and they have some great offers. I will be pushing 1 of there offers that on other affiliate network has. Be sure to go to Advaliant and sign up to check out there offers, and maybe make some good money with them.

Here is what I had to eat, John Chow style. But I didn’t feel like turning on the flash because of all the people. Again sorry for the bad lighting. You win some you loose some.

Ko Prime:

Pot sticker thing:

Ko Prime Steak:

Thanks again Advaliant!

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Alright lets get right into this shiz, On Saturday I had a 2 1/2 hour drive from Idaho Falls, Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utard. I then left from SLC to Las Vegas where I had a connecting flight to Boston, Massachusetts. Let me remind you that I had to get caught up on a ton of shit before I left so I woke up at 3:00 am on Saturday morning. Anywho, the flight was 5 hours long, and I probably only got about 3 hours of sleep on that flight to Boston, and at this point I would like to add that I will be taking JetBlue from now on, they are awesome.

So I get to Boston at around 8 am on Sunday morning. With only 3 hours of sleep that night. I waited for my lazy fucking friends to wake up so we could go to the summit and the meet market thingy. At the meet marked I met a TON of people from the interwebs, it was really great putting all those faces behind the names. John Chow, seocracy, AoJon, Wes, and the list goes on and on.

Boston at dusk:

After the meet market Advaliant treated us to a great dinner at KO Prime, which I will be talking about later. After that and few buddies and me got smashed and played some poker.

Then, after 6 hours of sleep we get our Monday started off right with some sick ass shit food from Dunkin Donuts. After that we head over to the expo to talk to our favorite affiliate companies and meet some new people. At the summit I guess that I probably made about 5-10 NEW contacts at which I will be working with over the next little while. But I probably met at least 40 plus people all together at the conference.

Anyways, later that day we headed over to go fishing with our buddy Lazar. Our fucking fishing trip got canceled so we decided to do snagging off the bridge. For those of you that don’t know what snagging is, its where you cast into the water then jerk up and hope to snag a fish. I’m not sure if its legal or not. But anyways, none of us have licenses and we certainly don’t have a Massachusetts licenses. So we cast off the bridge a few times, then the cops show up and start asking for people’s licenses. Our buddy lazar starts walking over to his truck and the cops ask him to come over there, he takes off running down the street, gets into his truck, turns his highbeams on, and then gets out of there. We take off walking down the street and meet up with him later. Thats our running away from the cops story

Chinatown:

So after our awesome fishing trip we head over to the Bunker Hill monument. Its this monument they made on top of bunker hill that looks like the Washington monument. Its pretty big, but when we went up it we found out it was pretty huge. The thing has like 400 stairs. Thats a ton of stairs, all 3 of us that went up where out of breath by the time we got up. My calf’s are still sore, but it was worth it.

Bunker Hill:

Top Of Bunker Hill:

After that we headed back and just chilled in the hotel room. Then on Tuesday I headed home, leaving from Boston to NYC, then from there to Salt Lake City. Then drive 2 1/2 hours back home. It was a fun time. And I’m glad I got to go.

I also got a few more blog posts about the summit still coming, I will post those later.

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Affiliate Summit East has been awesome. I have been putting a bunch of faces behind the names. I have a ton of shit to talk about and tons of pictures to post including running from the cops, walking up 400 stairs, spending ton of money on beer, plus lots more. But right now I’m tired and don’t really feel like working too hard tonight, but my buddies wanted to watch me blog live so I’m going to post what I had for lunch. In true John Chow style.

We headed off to China Town in Boston to some sushi place called Ginza. It was pretty good, but nothing compared to KO Prime which I will talk about that heaven later. I had everyone take pics of their meals so I can post them John Chow style. It was also good too meet John Chow in person, I’ve known him for 3-4 years now so it was finally good to meet him in person.

John Chow and me.

This is what I had which is called Kiji-don, it was pretty good.

Bombay Roll

Spicy Tuna Roll (Left) & Philadelphia Roll (Right)

Another Philadelphia Roll

Alaskan Roll & Spicy Tuna Roll

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Its 1 day till D-day. Tomorrow night at 7:00 pm my plane leaves from Salt Lake City, Utah. I then fly to Las Vegas, NV. Then from there I go to Boston at which I get there at 7:00 am the next morning. But I’m flying JetBlue which I am totally stocked for, I have heard nothing but good things with them.

On Sunday I should be at the conference most of the day. John Hasson will be having running the class
“Which PPC Engines Work And How?” which I will be attending. Most I will probably be walking around networking with everyone. Then on Monday I will probably be exploring Boston. And Tuesday I am back on the plane for another fun filled 8 hours.

If you would like to meet me during those 2 days shoot me and email and we will exchange info. I will be attending the summit to network with people and maybe learn some new tricks. So if you would like to meet just send me a email.

If you don’t feel like sending me an email then feel free to come up to me at the summit to say hi. If you don’t know what I look like then here is a picture of me:

See ya at the summit

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If your keeping up with the blog world you will know that The Next Web found a “evil” way to trick your feedburner count into thinking that thousands of people are reading your blog. Most readers will only subscribe to a blog if there are a bunch of people that have also subscribed. They have the mind set of “well if 4,000 other people reader this blog everyday, then I will subscribe too”. So people are always thinking up clever ways to trick the feedburner stats. Just like the guy above.

Now I would never tell you to go do what he is doing with the widgets thing. That will have the ban hammer as soon as feedburner reads Mr. Chows blog post. If you know simple php and how to run a macros program then I have a better solution for you.

What we will be doing is setting up tons of emails and having a macro program accept them. I’m almost 100% sure that to get RSS updates via email all you have to do is sign up under the blog and then accept the confirm email once you get it, then you will get sent an email every time the bloggers writes a new post. And the blogger will get 1 new reader for every email submitted. I dont have a ton of time to research how it works, but Im 100% sure thats how it works. And if it works like that, let get started spamming it…

First Step
You need email addresses! And I’m taking about a lot! You can either buy them (you have to find your own source) or you can make them, or you can even set up your server so all emails like 1@domain.com, 2@domain.com all forward to some main account like main@domain.com. I would suggest using cpanel and having emails forward to a main email. Does making thousdands of email sound hard? Well its not, simply use Imarcos. You will get the hand of it, and it wont take too long either, dont be lazy.

Second Step
This is probably the hardest part, but its still pretty easy. You need a way to have your thousands of emails sign up under the blog. I would personaly use cron jobs to do that, but you can also use Imacros to copy and paste the emails into feedburners web form. You would probably want to use proxys and only do a few a day. Maybe 20 emails from 1 proxy a day? Its your choice…

Third Step
This is easy. I do it all the time to mass accept emails. Simple use Imacros and have it go though your email account and accept X number or emails every X number of minutes. I would probably do something like 10 emails every 30 minutes or something. It will take you some time to figure out how to set it up, but it works trust me… like I said I use it all the time.

So there you do, a decent way to get thousands of rss readers over night that won’t get your feedburner account banned or the method of obtaining the readers banned. With this method you can have your Hanna Montana blog with 3000 RSS readers created in a matter of days. Good luck and feel free to link me if you like this blog post.