I recently had the urge to move my 4 year-old WordPress blog from JasonHendricks.com over to a fresh WordPress install on this site, and I wanted to use a newly created directory named /blog/. Why? I didn’t like the layout of the old site at all, plus it makes more sense to blog here than from my own personal domain.

I knew this would be a challenge from a 301 redirect perspective, due to the fact that I decided to go with a completely different permalink structure AND have WordPress installed in its’ own directory instead of the web root like it was on the old site. So I figured I’d share my experiences…
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For the unaware, the Google Home Income scheme (Google Work from Home, Google Cash Kit, Google Money Tree, etc.) is basically a recurring billing rip-off that operates by enticing people looking to work from home and somehow convinces them that they’ll make thousands of dollars per month for only a few hours of work posting links. As with anything that sounds too good to be true, it’s a scam.

Here’s the skinny on how this hustle works from snopes.com:
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I’m currently in need of a search engine API programmer for a couple of small projects. Previous experience with search engine APIs (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask) required, and I will need to verify your experience with working URLs. Project involves updating an existing web application to use the latest search engine API functionality from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask as well as a few feature additions on another site that uses Yahoo’s API.

If interested, please use the contact form on this site and be sure to include your phone number.

UPDATE: this project is completed, thanks to all who emailed.

Since there’s an upcoming session at SMX advanced titled “Buying Sites for SEO“, I figured the timing is finally right to hit the publish button on a post I wrote long ago about finding quality sites to purchase for SEO benefits.

The first time that I published this was about 2 1/2 years ago, and I was quickly asked by a well known SEO expert and friend (I won’t name any names, but he’s on the panel at the “buying sites” SMX session) to remove the post and wait until buying old virgin sites was common knowledge.
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It’s a new year, and with that comes the annoying task of updating the copyright dates in the footer of all of your sites.

So this year make a resolution to never, ever do this again and just insert some code to handle the date for you. Examples in a few different languages are included below as well as a javascript version for static HTML pages:
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2008 has arrived, and I have to say I’m extremely optimistic about this year. I have BIG plans for my business and personal life, so it looks like it’s going to be a wild but fun ride. I don’t have any new year’s resolutions, because I try to work on my long and short term goals daily (as opposed to once per year with new year’s resolutions).
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I was checking on one of my sites tonight when I noticed something I’d never seen before inside the AdSense block:

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I could write an entire post about how hard I think it is to blog about SEO. Oh wait…I already did.

I just noticed that I missed my blog’s two year anniversary. Sorry blog, Happy Birthday.

I still suck at blogging, but please make my blog feel better by reading some of my favorite posts so far:
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