<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219</id><updated>2012-02-16T03:05:23.657-08:00</updated><category term='promotion'/><category term='blog strategy'/><category term='copyright'/><category term='consumer behavior'/><category term='dietandsugar blog'/><category term='website development'/><category term='search engines'/><category term='adsense'/><category term='lawyers'/><category term='search terms'/><category term='poker'/><category term='exoclick'/><category term='depression'/><category term='links'/><category term='content'/><category term='veterans'/><category term='adult'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='Country Music'/><category term='keywords'/><category term='diabetes'/><title type='text'>Search Engines and Blogs</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>37</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-2924151547805159364</id><published>2008-12-23T10:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-23T11:02:59.673-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copyright'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><title type='text'>Public Domain</title><content type='html'>Most artwork is copyright protected, which means you can't use it without permission and that usually means paying for the right to use it -- on your website, on &lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/mathandpoker/"&gt;a coffee mug&lt;/a&gt;, whatever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, if you look you can find public domain artwork.  Public domain just means you can use the works in your own work (website, coffee mug art, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://freeware.esoterica.free.fr/html/freecards.html#pl"&gt;Here's some public domain playing card artwork&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-2924151547805159364?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2924151547805159364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=2924151547805159364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2924151547805159364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2924151547805159364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/public-domain.html' title='Public Domain'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-2354990678256785017</id><published>2008-12-04T11:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T11:18:01.097-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engines'/><title type='text'>Page Rank</title><content type='html'>Google's &lt;a href="http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/12/03/all-about-google/"&gt;Page Rank explained&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-2354990678256785017?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2354990678256785017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=2354990678256785017' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2354990678256785017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2354990678256785017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/page-rank.html' title='Page Rank'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-3806917182730223171</id><published>2008-12-03T08:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T08:58:00.810-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer behavior'/><title type='text'>Random email</title><content type='html'>A press release from Northwestern University&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Rational or Random? Model Shows How People Send E-Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the last 10 years, e-mail has gone from a novelty to a necessity. What was once a pastime is now an essential form of communication, with many people opening their inboxes to find dozens of e-mails waiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how do people respond to those e-mails? Do they act rationally, responding to the most important first, making sure the process is efficient? Or do they send e-mails randomly, when they are at their computers or when they have time, without any regard to efficiency?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are questions that Luís Amaral, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, and his collaborators set out to answer. After studying e-mails sent and received from more than 3,000 e-mail accounts at a European university during a three-month period, they created a mathematical model that shows people send e-mail randomly, but in cycles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The findings are published online by the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amaral said he was inspired to create such an e-mail model after a recent paper said that the rational model -- where people respond to e-mails in the most efficient way -- was the correct model.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I was not convinced, since I don’t do it in a rational way,” he said. But if a random model was correct, there would be a typical interval between e-mails -- which, when Amaral looked at the data, wasn’t the case. He wondered if it was possible for people to send e-mail randomly but still have non-random intervals where they didn’t send e-mail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer, it turned out, was fairly simple: People don’t send e-mails when they are sleeping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“During the day, you send e-mails, but then you go home, or go away for the weekend, and you don’t send e-mails,” he said. “These data were from a few years ago, and in Europe, this was especially the case, since many people didn’t have the Internet at home.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result was a model in which people send e-mails at random, but the probability of them sending e-mails during a given period depended on what that period was. If it was in the middle of the night, the probability was near zero. If it was during the weekend, the probability was much lower than during weekdays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The model explains all the data, and it shows that people have cycles in which they use certain services,” Amaral says. “You can then make predictions based on those cycles to know when people are going to request a service. Even though it’s random, there are peaks in demand that don’t look random.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other businesses and services could use such a model.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If you know how people access that service, you can better plan how much capacity you need, when you need it, and how to best engineer your system to supply that capacity,” Amaral said. “It also teaches you how to interact with the system -- a good time to send an e-mail is just about the time that the person has arrived at work.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-3806917182730223171?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/3806917182730223171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=3806917182730223171' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/3806917182730223171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/3806917182730223171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/random-email.html' title='Random email'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8218035404381442454</id><published>2008-12-02T11:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T11:10:01.157-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer behavior'/><title type='text'>Using email</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/action/showStoryContent?doi=10.1086%2F%2Fpr.2008.11.24.1871"&gt;A press release from University of Chicago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;How to improve email communication&lt;br /&gt;Developing strategies to mimic face-to-face interactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how we use emoticons, subject lines, and signatures to define how we want to be interpreted in email. The authors find that “a shift to email interaction requires a new set of interactional skills to be developed.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike face-to-face conversations, email interactions leave out tone of voice, body-language and context, which can lead to misunderstandings. While these authors agree that there are difficulties, they believe that no way of communicating is actually superior to another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menchik and Tian argue that face-to-face and internet-based contexts each require a set of distinct interaction strategies. “People can cultivate ways of communicating in online contexts that are equally as effective as those used offline,” they write. “The degree to which … individuals develop unique conventions in the medium will determine their ability to communicate effectively.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The research focuses on “the case of a well-known scientific organization that decided to replace occasional meetings of a research panel with ongoing email interaction.” The panel encountered numerous problems conversing via email. But the researchers identified several ways people were able to overcome these barriers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; “People innovate in response to the challenges of a new context for the communication of essential elements of language,” the authors write.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Capital letters, use of quotations, emoticons, exclamation points, punctuation, bullet points, style and even color help the sender communicate the meaning of a word or message. For example, “I feel betrayed” reads differently from “I FEEL SO BETRAYED!! ;)” where the capital letters and winking smiley face indicate sarcasm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participants also maintained their conversational flow by cutting and pasting from previous emails and using subject lines that referenced previous discussions.  In email listservs these devices help address comments to a certain individual and help the discussion to stay on topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Signatures, disclaimers and other information about the person’s state of mind were also commonly used when writing an email. The authors found that subjects felt more comfortable communicating once they knew a little about each other, like the information included in a signature. They also found that indicating the frame of mind as a disclaimer, (i.e. “I wrote this at 5AM” or “on a blackberry while on vacation”) helped prevent the email from being misinterpreted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developers have picked up on these cues with the advent of linguistic monitors such as Eudora’s MoodWatch feature. This program tries to indicate to the sender that their email might be considered inflammatory, and to the receiver that they are about to receive such an email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian, “Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction” American Journal of Sociology 114: 2.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8218035404381442454?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8218035404381442454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8218035404381442454' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8218035404381442454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8218035404381442454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/using-email.html' title='Using email'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-7744844624686323508</id><published>2008-12-01T07:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T07:49:00.861-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engines'/><title type='text'>Links</title><content type='html'>One of the things search engines look at when they're evaluating a web page is links -- links into that page from other sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it can pay off to have multiple blogs and and few independent sites to create a round robin of self-referential links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To help boost the search engine interest in &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt; I created a page on a website I have called &lt;a href="http://www.400blogs.com"&gt;400 Blogs&lt;/a&gt;.  Registering that URL costs $8 a year.  Of course I need hosting services also, which costs about 6 times that but the hosting service cost can be spread across other sites.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I called the new page &lt;a href="http://www.400blogs.com/diet"&gt;My Diet Page&lt;/a&gt; and it's just a page of links to the &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt; blog and other related websites.  It's a small thing, but every little thing helps.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-7744844624686323508?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7744844624686323508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=7744844624686323508' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7744844624686323508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7744844624686323508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/links.html' title='Links'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-1170837673881569632</id><published>2008-11-30T08:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T08:12:00.695-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dietandsugar blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog strategy'/><title type='text'>Generating content for a blog?</title><content type='html'>My &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt; blog &lt;a href="http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-with-potential.html"&gt;looks like it has potential&lt;/a&gt;.  So I'm going to have to look into this deeper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first goal is to try to attract some traffic.  There are a lot of ways to attract traffic.  My preference is simply content.  That can be hard to do, but I think that is what pays off in the long run.  Content that lasts can be a nice annuity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My background is in operations research and I have a successful blog that combines an interest in that field and an interest in poker called &lt;a href="http://www.mathandpoker.com"&gt;Math and Poker&lt;/a&gt;.  Operations research is an applied math field that's about things like optimization theory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing I sometimes try to do is blog on subjects that have overlap potential.  An old problem in operations research is called &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com/2008/11/original-diet-problem.html"&gt;The Diet Problem&lt;/a&gt;.  That's a mathematical formulation of a minimum cost diet that provides needed nutrients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to start working on &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com/search/label/linear%20programming"&gt;The Diet Problem for the special case&lt;/a&gt; of diabetics with hypertension and kidney problems -- which is my current health situation.  Boom, I all of a sudden got really prolific on blog posts for &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems to pay off to stumble on a topic that I have both an expertise in and a special personal interest in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working on revenue improvement for &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt; has a twofold benefit.  It has the direct effect of improving the revenue stream from that blog.  But it also has the potentially beneficial effect of providing material for this blog.  This blog gets almost no traffic and hasn't made me a nickel in the last few months.  Maybe actually posting some content will help here too.  You never can tell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-1170837673881569632?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1170837673881569632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=1170837673881569632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1170837673881569632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1170837673881569632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/generating-content-for-blog.html' title='Generating content for a blog?'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-4936427789013047976</id><published>2008-11-29T00:52:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T01:11:39.119-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dietandsugar blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adsense'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog strategy'/><title type='text'>A blog with potential</title><content type='html'>I don't post to this site much, and don't get much readership.  I kind of use it as storage place to keep relevant links I want to save.  I need to start using it more as a vehicle to seriously bring myself up to speed on Search Engine Optimization issues and monetization of blogs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I use tags on my google ads to tell me what blogs are generating any revenue.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took a look at one of my blogs, &lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt;.  The focus is mostly on the intertwine between food and diabetes.  I have diabetes so the topic is one of personal interest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blog doesn't get a lot of traffic, but what traffic it does get looks promising.  It has a google ad click thru rate of 14%.  I pretty much consider anything over 1% as good.  So I consider 14% excellent.  It's revenue per 1000 exposures is $27.  The problem is that it takes a really long time to get 1,000 visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to figure out how to raise the profile/interest of this blog.  It looks like it might be able to turn into a rent payer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-4936427789013047976?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4936427789013047976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=4936427789013047976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4936427789013047976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4936427789013047976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-with-potential.html' title='A blog with potential'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-4969563718238264297</id><published>2008-11-20T11:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T11:01:25.511-08:00</updated><title type='text'>RSS Feeds</title><content type='html'>I use Feedburner but there seems to be &lt;a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/embed-rss-feeds-add-html-websites-javascript/2515/"&gt;alternatives&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-4969563718238264297?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4969563718238264297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=4969563718238264297' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4969563718238264297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4969563718238264297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/rss-feeds.html' title='RSS Feeds'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-7937153651260398115</id><published>2008-08-11T02:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T02:12:42.699-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='links'/><title type='text'>Links</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/28/the-imperatives-of-the-link-economy/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;BuzzMachine&lt;/i&gt; points out that content&lt;/a&gt; doesn't count for much without links.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-7937153651260398115?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7937153651260398115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=7937153651260398115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7937153651260398115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7937153651260398115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/links.html' title='Links'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8763208669362807885</id><published>2008-03-01T22:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T22:12:58.893-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Poker search phrases</title><content type='html'>One of my more successful sites is &lt;a href="http://www.mathandpoker.com"&gt;mathandpoker.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to goggle webmaster tools the top 20 search terms that visitors use to reach the site are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# % Query Position &lt;br /&gt;1 29% poker math 4 &lt;br /&gt;2 8% math in poker 2 &lt;br /&gt;3 8% football models 5 &lt;br /&gt;4 8% mathematics of poker 5 &lt;br /&gt;5 4% math and poker 2 &lt;br /&gt;6 4% poker mathematics 6 &lt;br /&gt;7 3% big bet per hour expectation 2 &lt;br /&gt;8 3% poker math simplified 2 &lt;br /&gt;9 3% shortstack math 2 &lt;br /&gt;10 3% math poker 3 &lt;br /&gt;11 3% mathematics in poker 4 &lt;br /&gt;12 3% poker maths 4 &lt;br /&gt;13 3% poker stove 6 &lt;br /&gt;14 3% poker statistical analysis 7 &lt;br /&gt;15 3% the mathematics of poker 7 &lt;br /&gt;16 3% mathematics of poker review 9 &lt;br /&gt;17 3% law of total probability 10 &lt;br /&gt;18 3% random walk gambling 10 &lt;br /&gt;19 3% poker blog 21 &lt;br /&gt;20 3% borel poker 26&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8763208669362807885?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8763208669362807885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8763208669362807885' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8763208669362807885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8763208669362807885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/03/poker-search-phrases.html' title='Poker search phrases'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-5230996250298082911</id><published>2008-02-17T14:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-17T15:24:34.102-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Creating a circle of links</title><content type='html'>One of the things that search engines look for when evaulating a site are links into the site.  Outgoing links count something also.  Search engines are about links.  Keywords also, but in particular keywords that link to relevant sites are top of the line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can create relevant links among your own sites even if they aren't on related topics by creating intermediate sites that are related to each of the others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, I have a blog on &lt;a href="http://vets-and-agent-orange.blogspot.com/"&gt;veterans benefits&lt;/a&gt;.  I have another blog on &lt;a href="http://overnighttravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;domestic travel&lt;/a&gt;.  So to create some links I've built a small web page listing &lt;a href="http://garycarson.netfirms.com/veterans-museums.php"&gt;veterans museums&lt;/a&gt; around the country and linking it to both the veterans blog and the travel blog.  It's far from finished, and I probably won't get it finished for a couple of months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll probably spend 5 minutes a day for the next couple of months finishing the page, and it will then just sit there for a couple of years collecting a few pennies of adsense revenue.  But, that's not really the point.  The point is that with very little effort I've created related links between two unrelated blogs that I will be investing some effort in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search engines are important.  Search engine visitors tend to be looking for information, not entertainment, and they're more likely to click on ads than your regular blog readers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-5230996250298082911?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/5230996250298082911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=5230996250298082911' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/5230996250298082911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/5230996250298082911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/creating-circle-of-links.html' title='Creating a circle of links'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-1976095157019464267</id><published>2008-02-16T13:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T13:39:00.139-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><title type='text'>Telling Them About Me</title><content type='html'>I have a few websits and a bunch of blogs.  Probably way too many blogs.  But it doesn't cost anything to start a blog and it's so easy to throw some Adsense ads up that I just can't resist.  Whenever I think I have something to say about some potential niche topic that I think might have broad interest (veterans benfits, diabetes, etc) I just through up a blog at blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this post on &lt;a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/11/24/how-to-write-your-about-me-page/"&gt;writing an About Me page&lt;/a&gt; reminded me of something I'm doing wrong.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first blog was about poker.  I've written a couple of books on poker and my blogspot.com About Me page tells about my poker background.  That's not really relevant when I'm blogging about mortgage loans.  My experience as a banking officer and my master's in business is relevant to that topic however.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I need to stop using a generic About Me page and start putting together unique bios for each blog that puts an emphasis on hiw my background relateds to that particular topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll get right on that tomorrow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-1976095157019464267?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1976095157019464267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=1976095157019464267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1976095157019464267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1976095157019464267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/telling-them-about-me.html' title='Telling Them About Me'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-6104441650869851744</id><published>2008-02-15T13:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T14:36:10.600-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog strategy'/><title type='text'>The importance of having a voice and sticking to it</title><content type='html'>BloggingTips has a post on &lt;a href="http://www.bloggingtips.com/2007/06/30/top-10-mistakes-new-bloggers-make/"&gt;Top 10 mistakes new bloggers make&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four of the ten mistakes he lists are variations of the general theme of the importance of having a unique and consistent voice.  That should indicate to you how important that is.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a mistake to &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Repeat what other bloggers are saying&lt;/b&gt;  It's good to talk about the same topics other bloggers are talking about.  It's not good to just parrot the thoughts of others.  If you don't have something unique to add to the conversation then don't bother.&lt;br /&gt;It's a mistake to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Be afraid to rock the boat&lt;/b&gt;.  It's okay to voice unpopular opinions if you can back them up.  In fact it's not just okay, it's one of the best ways to get your voice heard.&lt;br /&gt;It's a mistake to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spam other blogs with comments&lt;/b&gt;.  Make yourself noticed with a few comments on other blogs.  But don't call attention to yourself as a bore with nothing to say.&lt;br /&gt;It's a mistake to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blog on too many subjects&lt;/b&gt;.  Stick to a focuses subject that you have a consistent point-of-view on.  You want your readers to know what to expect and to get what they expect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the whole post for the other common mistakes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-6104441650869851744?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6104441650869851744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=6104441650869851744' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6104441650869851744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6104441650869851744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/importance-of-having-voice-and-sticking.html' title='The importance of having a voice and sticking to it'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8398185897381924775</id><published>2008-02-14T11:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-14T12:48:29.315-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search terms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='website development'/><title type='text'>Five ways for your blog to attract attention</title><content type='html'>A blog is more than a webpage and it's more than a collection of webpages.  Blogs have a social content, a successful blog doesn't just attract search engine traffic, it also attracts readers.  In fact, the way to attract search engine traffic to your blog is to attract readers first.  If you attract the readers, if you give the readers what they want, then the search engines will find you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are millions of blogs, probably hundreds of blogs just in your small niche.  You have to call attention to yourself to be noticed in that wilderness.  Here's a few ways to do that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  &lt;strong&gt;Have a voice.&lt;/strong&gt;  Have a clear, discernible bias.  A voice will attract readers who share your bias.  They'll tend to agree with your positions and will spread the word about your brilliant thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  &lt;strong&gt;Read your competitors.&lt;/strong&gt;  Link to them from your site.  Leave comments on their posts on their sites.  Don't pimp your own site when you leave comments, readers will find you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.  &lt;strong&gt;Encourage comments.&lt;/strong&gt;  Reader comments are free content for you and they are strong indications to other readers that your blog is popular.  Don't engage in heavy-handed moderation of your comments.  Keep the spam out, but let the critics in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.  &lt;strong&gt;Use titles and tags.&lt;/strong&gt;  Search engines like descriptive titles, they like descriptive keywords in anchor tags in references to other sites, and they like tags based on common terms used by other blogs.  Cooperate and pay attention to your titles and tags.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.  &lt;strong&gt;Use analysis tools.&lt;/strong&gt;  Use analytics to track which pages or posts attract attention.  Replicate those topics.  Use keyword services to identify search keywords relevant to your topics that are in common use by users of search engines.  Target those keywords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seobook.com/bloggers"&gt;The Bloggers Guide to SEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-01-07-n13.html"&gt;The basics of SEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8398185897381924775?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8398185897381924775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8398185897381924775' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8398185897381924775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8398185897381924775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-ways-for-your-blog-to-attract.html' title='Five ways for your blog to attract attention'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-2008180751904005063</id><published>2008-02-13T12:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T12:11:28.368-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adsense'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adult'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exoclick'/><title type='text'>Adult pay per click</title><content type='html'>I'm trying out a couple of adult related (porn) sites but adsense won't generate ads for them.  It's just generating public service ads, I guess they check for explicit language.  So that's not working out well at all although I'm getting good traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I'm trying &lt;a href="http://www.exoclick.com/?login=garycarson"&gt;Exoclick&lt;/a&gt;.  It's a pay-for-click ad service that does service adult site publishers.  Their adult advertisors are mostly of the "meet a girl in your town" type, not really porn, and they don't pay much at all.  A penny or two per click.  But that's more than I'm getting from Adsense with those sites.  I'll see how it goes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-2008180751904005063?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2008180751904005063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=2008180751904005063' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2008180751904005063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2008180751904005063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/adult-pay-per-click.html' title='Adult pay per click'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-4162283516218062587</id><published>2008-02-10T12:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T12:50:01.266-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips for finding good adsense topics/keywords</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2004/09/23/adsense-tips-for-bloggers-5-high-paying-ads/"&gt;This is a good article&lt;/a&gt; on finding good keywords or topics for blogging as adsense bait.&lt;blockquote&gt;Are there Any Ads? - This is a good first question. Despite the many thousands of advertisers using Adsense there are some topics where the answer to this question is no. A simple way to check is to head to Google and do a search for the key words you’re wanting to blog about. The results page will bring up not only a list of other sites writing about that key word (they are you competitors) but on the right hand side there will be a list of ads - these are the same sorts of ads you’ll get on your site if you write on the topic. If there are ads there, it is a good sign. If there are not - maybe its worth finding another topic to write on if you’re hoping to attract ads. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-4162283516218062587?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4162283516218062587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=4162283516218062587' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4162283516218062587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4162283516218062587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/tips-for-finding-good-adsense.html' title='Tips for finding good adsense topics/keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-701312412828306936</id><published>2008-02-10T09:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T09:47:57.245-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adsense'/><title type='text'>Adsense words</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://stason.org/articles/money/highest_paying_google_adsense_keywords_hoax.html"&gt;Nobody really knows&lt;/a&gt; what the best paying adsense words are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It appears that legal related terms are good payers.  Things like DWI, sexual harrassment, personal injury, asbestos injury, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But really making money on the internet is not that much different from making money in general.  You really just need to start with doing good work.  Good work isn't going to be enough, and you can make money without actually doing good work.  But just doing a good job at whatever you enjoy doing is really the best start.  Pick a topic you like and focus on it, do a good job at it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My best money maker is a blog on &lt;a href="http://www.mathandpoker.com"&gt;math and poker&lt;/a&gt;.  I know something about both topics, the intersection of the topics interests me, and it's a nice little niche for me.  It's probably not a niche that would work for you becuase it's probably not something that interests you.  Find what works for you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-701312412828306936?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/701312412828306936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=701312412828306936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/701312412828306936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/701312412828306936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/adsense-words.html' title='Adsense words'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-4706253923623180599</id><published>2008-02-09T18:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T18:59:19.107-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><title type='text'>Poker and Golf</title><content type='html'>Poker and Golf are the top two search terms on this weeks Lycos Top 50.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used the adwords keyword tools resource to generate 200 related keywords and phrases based on poker and golf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I put those 200 phrases through the traffic estimator at Adwords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Based on estimated CPC the top ten are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;las vegas golf   &lt;br /&gt;poker party   &lt;br /&gt;poker stars   &lt;br /&gt;online poker   &lt;br /&gt;internet poker   &lt;br /&gt;free online poker   &lt;br /&gt;putting greens    &lt;br /&gt;online casino   &lt;br /&gt;online texas holdem  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Based on estimated clicks per day the top ten are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;games&lt;br /&gt;real estate&lt;br /&gt;vacation&lt;br /&gt;golf&lt;br /&gt;cards&lt;br /&gt;las vegas&lt;br /&gt;money &lt;br /&gt;baseball&lt;br /&gt;fishing&lt;br /&gt;poker&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Based on estimated cost per day (the traffic estimator looks at things from the viewpoint of the advertisor buying clicks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;real estate&lt;br /&gt;vacation&lt;br /&gt;cards&lt;br /&gt;las vegas&lt;br /&gt;games&lt;br /&gt;money&lt;br /&gt;golf&lt;br /&gt;poker&lt;br /&gt;casino&lt;br /&gt;fishing&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-4706253923623180599?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4706253923623180599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=4706253923623180599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4706253923623180599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4706253923623180599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/poker-and-golf.html' title='Poker and Golf'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-6863488748226302922</id><published>2008-02-07T19:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T19:23:56.134-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adsense'/><title type='text'>Adsense and porn</title><content type='html'>One of my blogging buddies is Ten-Mile Thane.  He links to me, which makes him a lifelong friend.  He usually blogs about poker stuff, &lt;a href="http://tenmile-thane.blogspot.com/2008/02/tuesday-february-05-2008-hope-you-have.html"&gt;this post he had some interesting observations about Adsense&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;blockquote&gt;I have always had the ads keyed to subject matter, mostly because I enjoy trying to run the spider crazy finding ads to fit the writings. Indeed, I do that. A cheap form of entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have gotten that spider to put up ads for everything from porn sites to humming birds - come to think of it, those two aren’t that far apart in terms of quickness are they? The porn ads came two days after writing about the reproductive organs of flowers. The humming birds after including a link to such a site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't know adsense did porn sites.  I'll have to work on how to get those ads.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-6863488748226302922?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6863488748226302922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=6863488748226302922' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6863488748226302922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6863488748226302922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/adsense-and-porn.html' title='Adsense and porn'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-7027069802337709742</id><published>2008-02-07T13:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T14:35:25.904-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><title type='text'>Finding valuable keywords</title><content type='html'>I have a few paid advertisors, who pay for ad placement by the month. That's the bulk of my ad income but I also get some from Google Adsense ads. I'm trying to increase the ad revenue from Adsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keywords attract ad revenue by attracting visitors from the search engines and by attracting ads relevant to those keywords. Then we let nature take it's course and let the visitors match themselves up with the ads that interest them. Traffic from search engines tends to be good traffic becuase they are people actually looking for something specific and they follow the ad clicks if the ads are on topic for whatever the visitors interest might be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adwords is the advertisor side of the Google ad business, where Adsense is the publisher side.  By opening an Adwords account you get access to some tools for searching out keywords of value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Keyword tool will suggest a couple hundred permutations or related phrases for a given word or phrase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Traffic tool will estimate cost (cost on the advertisor side of the equation is revenue on the publisher side) and traffic for a list of words and phrases.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-7027069802337709742?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7027069802337709742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=7027069802337709742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7027069802337709742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7027069802337709742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/finding-valuable-keywords.html' title='Finding valuable keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-1986201622686407220</id><published>2007-10-20T14:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T14:20:55.237-07:00</updated><title type='text'>affiliations</title><content type='html'>bodog (cash)&lt;br /&gt;Interpoker (cash)&lt;br /&gt;pokerlistins (cash)&lt;br /&gt;google adsense&lt;br /&gt;Commission junction&lt;br /&gt;  Vista Print&lt;br /&gt;  Yahoo&lt;br /&gt;  USA Today&lt;br /&gt;  Friend Finder&lt;br /&gt;  PlayDate  &lt;br /&gt;poker stars&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-1986201622686407220?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1986201622686407220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=1986201622686407220' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1986201622686407220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1986201622686407220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/10/affiliations.html' title='affiliations'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-573568727726828224</id><published>2007-08-23T20:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-23T20:22:42.381-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><title type='text'>Carnivals</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;erase racism carnival&lt;/strong&gt;  (keywords: racism, antioppression, antiracism, justice) A carnival dedicated to ending racism, White Supremacy, and unearned privilege&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-573568727726828224?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/573568727726828224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=573568727726828224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/573568727726828224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/573568727726828224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/carnivals.html' title='Carnivals'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-9076449576041822411</id><published>2007-08-16T07:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-16T07:59:56.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog traffic</title><content type='html'>A &lt;a href="http://www.fitforfreedom.com/general/rss-subscriptions-the-ultimate-ressource-list.html"&gt;list of articles &lt;/a&gt;on building blog traffic through rss subscriptions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/02/feedburners_view_of_the_feed_m.php"&gt;Bloglines has about 11%&lt;/a&gt; of the total rss readers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-9076449576041822411?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/9076449576041822411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=9076449576041822411' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/9076449576041822411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/9076449576041822411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-traffic.html' title='Blog traffic'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-1004463300453043933</id><published>2007-08-08T17:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T17:05:35.545-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poker'/><title type='text'>Poker names</title><content type='html'>Starting earlier this year, &lt;a href="http://google.com/trends?q=brian+townsend%2C+doyle+brunson%2C+mason+malmuth%2C+gary+carson&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0"&gt;searches for Brian Townsend&lt;/a&gt; got real popular.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-1004463300453043933?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1004463300453043933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=1004463300453043933' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1004463300453043933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1004463300453043933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/poker-names.html' title='Poker names'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8162176788278072448</id><published>2007-08-07T15:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T17:43:19.773-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><title type='text'>Christian keywords</title><content type='html'>Keywords                   Search        Estimated Avg. CPC Estimated Ad Positions Estimated&lt;br /&gt;                                    volume&lt;br /&gt;                                                             Clicks / Day Estimated Cost / Day&lt;br /&gt;                                                         lower upper upper lower lower upper lower upper&lt;br /&gt;bible                                 4 $0.60 $0.79 1 3 3,597 4,499 $2,170.00 $3,550.00&lt;br /&gt;christian                          4 $0.81 $1.22 1 3 7,470 9,376 $6,060.00 $11,400.00&lt;br /&gt;christian creation story 0 $0.74 $0.98 1 3 0 0 $1.00 $1.00&lt;br /&gt;genesis                             3 $0.67 $1.00 1 3 1,138 1,424 $760.00 $1,430.00&lt;br /&gt;jesus                                 4 $0.31 $0.44 1 3 1,620 2,026 $520.00 $900.00&lt;br /&gt;life of christ                     2 $0.25 $0.38 1 3 5 8 $2.00 $4.00 &lt;br /&gt;new testament               3 $0.49 $0.65 1 3 71 98 $40.00 $70.00&lt;br /&gt;old testament                 2 $0.33 $0.47 1 3 41 57 $20.00 $30.00&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8162176788278072448?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8162176788278072448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8162176788278072448' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8162176788278072448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8162176788278072448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/08/christian-keywords.html' title='Christian keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8276087346634603321</id><published>2007-07-31T04:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T04:17:57.617-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diabetes'/><title type='text'>american diabetes association</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=" http://google.com/trends?q=american+diabetes+association&amp;ctab=0"&gt;Search interest in the American Diabetes Association&lt;/a&gt; has been drifting downward during the last 2-3 years.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8276087346634603321?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8276087346634603321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8276087346634603321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8276087346634603321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8276087346634603321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/american-diabetes-association.html' title='american diabetes association'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-1289329701543029414</id><published>2007-07-30T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-30T14:00:44.807-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='website development'/><title type='text'>Writing PHP script</title><content type='html'>I finally found a &lt;a href="http://www.tizag.com/phpT/"&gt;tutorial on PHP script language&lt;/a&gt; written at a level accessible by me.  What is that level?  I'm an old mainframe programmer whose years of writing code pretty much ended in the 1970's.  Since then I've done some html markup and written a few BASIC and VBASIC programs, but that's about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also looks like that website has other tutorials aimed at the beginning web programmer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-1289329701543029414?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1289329701543029414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=1289329701543029414' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1289329701543029414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1289329701543029414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/writing-php-script.html' title='Writing PHP script'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-1613260384956574888</id><published>2007-07-20T20:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T17:46:15.321-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='depression'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search terms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><title type='text'>Depression keywords</title><content type='html'>Depression keywords ranked by combination of search/click frequency and ad costs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;depression                $5,140&lt;br /&gt;antidepressants            340&lt;br /&gt;suicide                            310&lt;br /&gt;prozac                            220&lt;br /&gt;depression treatment 200&lt;br /&gt;zoloft                              170&lt;br /&gt;bipolar depression $90.00&lt;br /&gt;clinical depression $90.00&lt;br /&gt;suicide prevention $30.00&lt;br /&gt;anger depression $20.00&lt;br /&gt;depression diagnosis $20.00&lt;br /&gt;suicide symptoms $1.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A list of &lt;a href="http://www.cash-words.net/depression.html"&gt;depression keywords&lt;/a&gt; ranked by CPC&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-1613260384956574888?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/1613260384956574888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=1613260384956574888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1613260384956574888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/1613260384956574888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/depression-keywords.html' title='Depression keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8831702289327679309</id><published>2007-07-19T14:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-20T20:44:58.711-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Country Music'/><title type='text'>Country Music</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://google.com/trends?q=dixie+chicks%2C+faith+hill%2C+Merle+Haggard&amp;ctab=0&amp;amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;amp;sort=0"&gt;Comparing Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks, Merle Haggard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merle Haggard is an old guy with a small but steady search interest.  He's dwarfed by the interest in younger stars such as Faith Hill and Dixie Chicks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There appears to be slightly less interest in Dixie Chicks than Faith Hill, except for spikes when they are in the news for canceling concerts or winning awards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay away from the old guys in Country Music blog posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/trends?q=dixie+chicks%2C+faith+hill%2C+Trace+Adkins&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0"&gt;Trace Adkins is another&lt;/a&gt; who doesn't come close to Dixie Chicks or Faith Hill in popularity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8831702289327679309?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8831702289327679309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8831702289327679309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8831702289327679309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8831702289327679309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/country-music.html' title='Country Music'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-6959685756081657947</id><published>2007-07-19T06:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T06:53:21.080-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poker'/><title type='text'>Interest in World Series of Poker</title><content type='html'>Public interest in poker is waning. At least thats the case for the World Series of Poker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href="http://google.com/trends?q=poker+strategy%2C+world+series+of+poker&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0"&gt;this google trends graph&lt;/a&gt; comparing the search phrases "world series of poker" and "poker strategy".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to look real close to see the "poker straegy" line down towards the bottom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "world series of poker" interest spikes every summer during the event, but last year (2006) the spike dropped off.  &lt;a href="http://www.mathandpoker.com/index.php/?cat=42"&gt;Entries to the world series of poker main event fell for 2007&lt;/a&gt;, so I think it's a safe conclusion that the poker boom has peaked.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-6959685756081657947?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6959685756081657947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=6959685756081657947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6959685756081657947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6959685756081657947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/interest-in-world-series-of-poker.html' title='Interest in World Series of Poker'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-299751006881731036</id><published>2007-07-17T19:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T18:28:23.641-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search terms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='veterans'/><title type='text'>Vet keywords</title><content type='html'>Here's a list of adwords keywords related to Veterans Affairs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;memorial                           $2,950&lt;br /&gt;veterans                                  820&lt;br /&gt;VA loan $380.00&lt;br /&gt;loans va $260.00&lt;br /&gt;veteran $230.00&lt;br /&gt;va home loan $150.00&lt;br /&gt;Purple Heart $140.00&lt;br /&gt;VA hospital $120.00&lt;br /&gt;veterans administration $100.00&lt;br /&gt;va loans home $90.00&lt;br /&gt;agent orange $70.00&lt;br /&gt;Veterans Affairs $60.00&lt;br /&gt;va mortgage loan $60.00&lt;br /&gt;va mortgage loans $30.00&lt;br /&gt;va home loan mortgage $20.00&lt;br /&gt;Vietnam veteran $10.00&lt;br /&gt;va home loan rate $6.00&lt;br /&gt;apply for va loan $3.00&lt;br /&gt;resisting $3.00&lt;br /&gt;va loan mortgage calculator $3.00&lt;br /&gt;va streamline loan $3.00&lt;br /&gt;National Defense Service Medal $1.00&lt;br /&gt;combat veteran $1.00&lt;br /&gt;disable veterans $1.00&lt;br /&gt;iraq war veteran $1.00&lt;br /&gt;va auto loan $1.00&lt;br /&gt;va home improvement loans $1.00&lt;br /&gt;va loan approval $1.00&lt;br /&gt;va loan qualifications $1.00&lt;br /&gt;va student loan $1.00&lt;br /&gt;texas veterans home loans $0.00&lt;br /&gt;VA mortage no data&lt;br /&gt;agent orange exposure no data&lt;br /&gt;concientious objector no data&lt;br /&gt;war resister no data&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Adwords is the advertisor side of Google Adsense. The dollar value is the estimated daily cost of buying that adword based on expected frequency of clicks and the expected bid costs per click.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the value for memorial is sky high because of the high search frequency and it's going to be a hard word to get high search engine placement with&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another veteran related list is here.&lt;a href="http://www.cash-words.net/loan/va_loans.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-299751006881731036?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/299751006881731036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=299751006881731036' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/299751006881731036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/299751006881731036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/vet-keywords.html' title='Vet keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-6316539038098596158</id><published>2007-07-17T11:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T11:20:52.863-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='content'/><title type='text'>Write to publish</title><content type='html'>I have a habit of writing short thoughts on random pieces of paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, later, sometimes years later, I'll go through a pile of old pieces of paper and try to figure out what I was thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title of this post is a phrase that was on one of those pieces of paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure what it means.  But I think it means something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it does mean something (and I'm not 100% sure it does) then it probably has some kind of application to blog writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If nothing else it got a blog post written.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-6316539038098596158?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/6316539038098596158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=6316539038098596158' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6316539038098596158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/6316539038098596158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/write-to-publish.html' title='Write to publish'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-7789619930906714442</id><published>2007-07-17T09:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T06:48:45.985-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><title type='text'>A family of blogs</title><content type='html'>I have a bunch of blogs.  Too many.  One of the reasons I have many blogs instead of posting a whole lot on one blog is that the search engines like sites that have a core theme.  They tend to rank you higher within a search topic if you have posts that stay on that topic.  Of course they also rank you higher for frequent updates, so there's a limit to who spread out you should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of my blogs are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://americantradition.blogspot.com"&gt;American Tradition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.offtopicrant.com"&gt;Off Topic Rant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dietandsugar.blogspot.com"&gt;Diet and Sugar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://road-to-world-series.blogspot.com"&gt;Road to the 2008 World Series of Poker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://playingnolimitpoker.blogspot.com"&gt;Playing no limit poker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://new-poker.blogspot.com"&gt;New Poker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pokercultureblog.com"&gt;Poker Culture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mathandpoker.com"&gt;Math and Poker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://search-engines-and-blogs"&gt;Search Engines and Blogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-7789619930906714442?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/7789619930906714442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=7789619930906714442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7789619930906714442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/7789619930906714442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/family-of-blogs.html' title='A family of blogs'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-8745119413349348756</id><published>2007-07-16T16:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-18T21:46:43.665-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search terms'/><title type='text'>Poker Search Phrases</title><content type='html'>Comparing the search frequency of the keywords&lt;br /&gt;poker tournament&lt;br /&gt;poker math&lt;br /&gt;poker strategy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/trends?q=poker+tournaments%2C+poker+math%2C+poker+strategy&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=US&amp;geor=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0"&gt;Poker strategy&lt;/a&gt; comes out on top by a lot, followed by poker tournmant.  Poker math isn't even a blip on the screen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mathandpoker.com"&gt;MathandPoker.com&lt;/a&gt;, and some of the pages at &lt;a href="http://garycarson.netfirms.com"&gt;www.garycarson.com&lt;/a&gt;, rank high in poker math and related google searches.  But it turns out that's not doing me much good since very few people actually search for those terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update&lt;br /&gt;nolimit poker doesn't have enough search volumn for google to process&lt;br /&gt;no-limit poker does, but not enough to show on a graph when compared to poker tournaments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;holdem poker doesn't have enough volumn to process&lt;br /&gt;hold-em does, but it doesn't show on the graph either&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-8745119413349348756?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/8745119413349348756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=8745119413349348756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8745119413349348756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/8745119413349348756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/poker-search-phrases.html' title='Poker Search Phrases'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-2818675160214071184</id><published>2007-07-16T13:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T13:54:19.077-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search terms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lawyers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diabetes'/><title type='text'>Trends in search terms</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://google.com/trends?q=poker%2C+diabetes%2C+lawyers"&gt;Comparing 3 terms, poker, diabetes, lawyers&lt;/a&gt;, poker is the more searched for term hands down.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-2818675160214071184?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/2818675160214071184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=2818675160214071184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2818675160214071184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/2818675160214071184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/trends-in-search-terms.html' title='Trends in search terms'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-320892133956840897</id><published>2007-07-16T00:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T00:18:33.031-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diabetes'/><title type='text'>Some diabetes keywords</title><content type='html'>based on both click frequency and adwords costs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;diet $10,750.00 &lt;br /&gt;nutrition $5,230.00 &lt;br /&gt;sugar $3,170.00 &lt;br /&gt;diabetes $3,040.00 &lt;br /&gt;fruit $2,180.00 &lt;br /&gt;insulin $350.00 &lt;br /&gt;glycemic $230.00 &lt;br /&gt;dark chocolate $130.00 &lt;br /&gt;carbs $120.00 &lt;br /&gt;glycemic index $110.00 &lt;br /&gt;carbohydrates $70.00 &lt;br /&gt;glucose meter $70.00 &lt;br /&gt;low blood sugar $60.00 &lt;br /&gt;blood glucose level $20.00 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;xcel version of the &lt;a href="http://garycarson.netfirms.com/diabetes-keywords.xml"&gt;word list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another &lt;a href="http://50-highest-paying-adsense-keywords.blogspot.com/2006/02/diabetes-keywords.html"&gt;diabetes keyword list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-320892133956840897?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/320892133956840897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=320892133956840897' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/320892133956840897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/320892133956840897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/some-diabetes-keywords.html' title='Some diabetes keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99544291228987219.post-4248991811250347956</id><published>2007-07-15T19:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-15T19:45:52.153-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search terms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='keywords'/><title type='text'>Poker keywords</title><content type='html'>Here's a list of of poker related keywords and their adwords cost estimates (based on both value and volume).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;poker $12,130.00 &lt;br /&gt;online poker $2,780.00 &lt;br /&gt;party poker $1,080.00 &lt;br /&gt;holdem poker $330.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker stars $320.00 &lt;br /&gt;internet poker $190.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker tournament $110.00 &lt;br /&gt;online poker tournaments $50.00 &lt;br /&gt;las vegas poker $50.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker blog $40.00 &lt;br /&gt;stud poker $20.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker books $20.00 &lt;br /&gt;atlantic city poker $9.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker cheating $7.00 &lt;br /&gt;ultimate bet $3.00 &lt;br /&gt;new york poker $3.00 &lt;br /&gt;internet poker tournaments $3.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker cruises $2.00 &lt;br /&gt;california poker $2.00 &lt;br /&gt;poker math $1.00 &lt;br /&gt;oklahoma poker $1.00 &lt;br /&gt;nolimit poker no data&lt;br /&gt;nolimit holdem no data&lt;br /&gt;missisippi poker no data&lt;br /&gt;7card stud no data&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note:  The keyword "poker", by itself, has huge volume and is next to impossible to get good search placement with that term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to add a post tag of "poker" to my &lt;a href="www.mathandpoker.com"&gt;mathandpoker.com blog&lt;/a&gt; and see if that gets any search engine placement.  That blog gets pretty good placement for some terms, such as "poker math".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's an &lt;a href="http:/garycarson.netfirms.com/poker-keywords.xml"&gt;excel list &lt;/a&gt;of the words&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a &lt;a href="http://www.seonewsblog.com/top-adsense-paying-keywords-week-7-poker-and-gambling-niche"&gt;similar list&lt;/a&gt; from another blog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/99544291228987219-4248991811250347956?l=search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/feeds/4248991811250347956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=99544291228987219&amp;postID=4248991811250347956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4248991811250347956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/99544291228987219/posts/default/4248991811250347956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://search-engines-and-blogs.blogspot.com/2007/07/poker-keywords.html' title='Poker keywords'/><author><name>Gary Carson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.pokertv.com/articles/garycarson/garycarson_124x90.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
