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A Leap Forward: Blog Software Updates

Thanks to Jeff and our developers few software updates were just added to the blog.

1. Top header is clickable (more value to sponsors)
2. In back-end, I can now add headers for many days instead of updating daily, and it will auto update.
3. Added form “Submit Blog Post” for readers to submit their own material for publication on Conceptualist.com
4. Created a background image module (as you see on this post) to add some more colors, fun, to posts.

If anyone has any other suggestions to enhance blog experience please submit ideas/thoughts in comment area. TIA!

A Blogger in The (Bugatti Veyron’s) Driver Seat

Mainstream learns how influential a blogger is, putting him in the driver seat, that is, of one of the hottest cars in the world, the Bugatti Veyron.

Via Autoblog:

I opened my inbox one morning to find this question from a publicist: “Would you have time to drive the Bugatti Veyron?” Would I have time? Really? Would you believe, uh, yes? And that’s how I found myself at Westlake Village with a black and cream Veryon waiting in the shade of the porte cochère. Yes, it was perfect. It was like getting a date with that frighteningly beautiful woman I’ve had my eye on for a while now, and actually enjoying it. Follow the jump to read about The Day of the Veyron, and check out the gallery of hi-res pics below.

And how does it drive?

So this is what happens from a 2-MPH start in a Bugatti Veyron when you floor it (in fact, it would have already happened by now. It’s that fast, and you haven’t even started reading about it):

Hit the gas. The car rockets forward. Immediately. Instantly. You’re going really fast. Like it decided to skip everything from 2-MPH to 40-MPH and just jumped straight to 41-MPH, didn’t pass go, didn’t collect $200.

That took maybe two seconds. Maybe.

And you’re not even doing anything yet.

Because while you were busy trying to figure out where those two seconds went and where this speed came from, the turbos were busy getting ready to come on stage –

And then they kick in –

And then forget about it.

No really, forget about it.

Sixty miles per hour comes in maybe another second.

And another second after that, hell, who knows how fast you’re going. And another second after that, I think time and space take on different properties. I think I became a rhombus.

And this is the PCH, remember. I only had room in my head for two thoughts:
1. I need to stay on Earth.
2. I need to not hit a telephone pole.

That’s it.

To buy or not to buy.. that is the 2.4M+ question.

“Conceptualist.com” SitePoint Logo Contest, Take II

sitepoint logo contest

I wasn’t too happy with the first results, figured will give it a second chance.

What went wrong? On my part, not enough description, guidance to artists.

On their part, lots of cookie cutter logos, no attention to details.

So, trying again, this time increased the prize considerably (USD2,500), added more days, discussed in more details what is needed, what to avoid.

Hoping for the very best!

RedFly Marketing: AdWords Content Exclusion (beta) - A First Look

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(Image Source: RedFly Marketing)

Via RedFly:

The final tab is the page types tab. This is probably the most interesting and from reading the AdWords feature request forum threads on webmasterworld, one of the most requesed features. This tab lets you exclude a variety of “types”? of pages your content network ads will appear on. The most notable here are domain ads and error page ads. Many advertisers have been crying out to exclude these types of pages from their content network campaigns and their prayers are finally being answered. The other types of exclusion are of the social networking and media sharing sites. From managing this particular campaign, I can tell you that social networks such as MySpace and video sharing sites such as YouTube, are without a doubt, the worst performers. Domain Ads and Error Page Ads are by far the best performers (See below).

Domain Ads

I said few day ago when I first wrote about this

biggest winners long-term are domainers as smart marketers will now be able to analyze the traffic better, convert better, and focus on competing for it.

No secrets here, just evolution at work.

Break Time

The whole blogging experience really opened my eyes to a new world, a world full of possibilities.

I have a good idea where I want this blog to go but I do need a little bit of time to put it all together. Maybe one week, maybe few.

Stay tuned.




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