757 Visitors on 1st Day of New Blog
Filed under: Blog Advertising, Blogging, Build Your Website, Featured, Misc, Online Advertising, stumble
I started FortheCountry.com as a site to have fun on during this election cycle. It is 2+ days old.
The first day it received 757 visits and 8007 hits. Great for a first day on a new blog. Now most of this is through marketing through Stumbleupon. So you see some value in using Stumble.
It at least makes things a bit exciting off the bat instead of waiting 2 - 3 months to get a steady flow of visitors.
What are some ways you like to use when launching a new blog/website? What seems to work the best? While Stumble traffic is exciting I know that most of it doesn’t stay. So it is fun for a few days, but then it is over.
Is this kind of traffic worth it to you?
Mortgage Rates Near 5 Year High
Mortgage rates have steadily risen over the past year and are near their 5 year high. I have spoken to a local mortgage broker and it seems that people are having trouble getting approved for mortgages.
You must have excellent credit to get financed and even then it isn’t very easy at the present time. If you have mediocre credit this broker said you better have at least 5% down. He expects it to begin to turn around after the end of the year.
With the Fannie/Freddie troubles it may be sometime before we see a turn around in the mortgage industry. The Feds have also used everything in their toolbox so the recovery is going to be slow.
I am watching the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac issue closely (recently purchased stock when they were at their lows). I do feel they will make it and when they get on a little better footing the rates will come down.
Although with all this said now may be the best time to buy if can can get approved. The price correction has made this a a great time to buy and lock in these low home rates and then you can refinance later to catch the falling mortgage interest rates in the future.
17 Credit Card Offers
Today on JakeRinard.com I posted an article on credit card offers.
I received 17 credit card offers in 1 week!
How many credit card offers do you receive in a normal week?
Blog Pagerank Building
Filed under: Blog Advertising, Blogging, Build Your Website, Featured, Make Money on Web, Online Advertising, Wordpress Tips and Tricks
Back a couple of week ago I brought 
up the idea of a Promo Group for Blogs. Many of you emailed me wanting to join. I have not forgotten any of you.
Here is the deal. I am working on a simple way to improve our pagerank deep within our sites. I am going to do a beta testing with 5 - 10 of you. First though I am doing my own testing (alpha). So far the results are good!
So this promo group is something you will definitely want in if you ever want to get great deep link on your blog. Which of course improves your pagerank dramatically!
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