2008 April

Alexa or Google Pagerank Which is Better

April 17, 2008 By MoreMerchant

Is Alexa now more relevant than Google Pagerank?

Alexa made drastic changes and blogs were hit with higher rankings but is the new system fair? I am researching it and MoreMerchant got hit but at first glance I believe Alexa rankings may now be more valuable than the trash Google Pagerank. What do you think?

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Filed Under: Blogging, Featured, Misc, Tools Tagged With: Alexa, Google Pagerank

StumbleUpon is About to Crash and Fall on Their Sword

April 17, 2008 By MoreMerchant

As my readers know I have been an avid support of Stumbleupon. I even donated money to them since I believed in what they were accomplishing through their great idea. I have promoted them to all of you many times. I loved Stumble.

Now they are trying to crack down on spam. Great, I hate spam as much if not more than anyone. I have fought spam on this site and on the web in many ways. Now for some reason Stumble thinks they should stop my account.

I assume they are saying that I have spammed. Now if sending a link to a friend is spam, than what good is Stumble? That would mean Stumble IS SPAM by design. They mentioned to me that anyone participating on Digitalpoint is a violation of their terms. I am not sure why this forum is a violation, but I have not participated on this forum … EVER. So they don’t even know why they are blocking me.

If giving a thumbs up to a friend’s great blog post is spam, than Stumble IS Spam by design. Also people often add their own site to Stumble. If you write a great post you should be able to tell someone. Isn’t that what all forms of writing does. If I write a good book, I will tell a friend.

I lovED Stumble. They have gone off the deep end by attacking one of their biggest supporters.

*** Update ***I just noticed that my post yesterday says that Stumbleupon is making changes and it isn’t as good as it once was. Interesting that this morning I get banned. Here is the post How to Grow Your Blog .

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How to Grow Your Blog

April 16, 2008 By MoreMerchant

How do you grow your blog income and what seems to be working? Lately I have tried growing through Stumbleupon and other networks. This has done extremely well although Stumbleupon seems to be making changes and the Stumble effect is not as good as it once was.

So I am growing mostly through relationships once again. I am trying LinkedIn and doing ok, but more private networks that I establish. I began a few through Blogcatalog, a couple from MoreMerchant.com readers, as well as through some other. [Read more...]

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BlockBuster, Circuit City, and Commissions will Build a Better Blog

April 14, 2008 By MoreMerchant

Today I read this in the finance new: Blockbuster Inc. (BBI) said Monday it will take an unsolicited $1 billion-plus bid for Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC) directly to shareholders of the nation’s second biggest consumer electronics chain, saying Circuit City has not responded to repeated offers.

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