Ok, so here is something different. Blogging contests tend to get quite boring if you asked me, especially in the make money online niche. “Oh Boy!!! who’s going to win yet another Market Leverage baseball cap???” lol

So anyway, a few weeks ago I met a new friend who totally busts his butt producing some of the most useful and amazing articles I have seen. His name is Allyn Paul — I recently covered a full story about him — and he runs a blog about the lawn care business called, Life and Lawns.

Allyn is running a very unique blogging contest that started earlier this month and ends on Aug. 31st. He is giving away a Neuton CE 6.2 lawn mower. I don’t really know anything about this lawn mower, but when he tells me that this green tech gadget of a lawn mower cost $500 dollars, it captures my attention real quick. I have seen this lawn mower advertised on TV late at night but I never realized that it was as popular as what it really is. This mower is a hot item right now, everyone wants one!

Want to win it? Here is some more information about Allyn’s content and how you can get your hands on this lawn mower for free. Continue reading »

In 2002, a young college kid named Brent Oxley, decided to create a hosting service for himself and a few of the other students at the Florida Atlantic University. Today, that little endeavor is known as HostGator.com and is quickly becoming one of the leading web hosting companies on the Internet, hosting about 1% of all sites online. What started out as a dorm room project is now a leading corporation with more than 175 employees ... Continue reading »

You shouldn't pack it up and call it a day after you write and publish a blog post. In fact, after you publish a blog post, you should look at it as being the beginning of your day rather than the end of the day. I'll admit, this strategy is new for me; however, it works. My traffic has increased so much over the last few weeks and partly due to what I have done ... Continue reading »

Alright, so its time for me to renew a bunch of domain names. It is times like this that I have to ask myself, "What The Hell Was I Thinking?" because quite a few of these domain names I think I must have been smoking crack when I ordered them. I have seriously got some really STUPID domain names. I don't smoke crack, but I am thinking that maybe smoking crack wouldn't be such a ... Continue reading »

I just got an email from Yahoo! that notified me that Yahoo! Buzz is now open and available to the general public. Yahoo Buzz! is a social network that has been in beta for awhile now and was only available to selected people. That remains no more and anyone can now grab buttons for their blog and contribute in this new social network. I already have some buttons added to my blog and I am real ... Continue reading »

Special thanks goes out to CyberCoder for sending this to me while I was in the middle of eating dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. Needless to say I couldn't stop laughing in the restaurant while I was watching this and everyone thought I was nuts and my wife was pissed. My kids really didn't think much of it as they are already used to the public embarrassments. So anyway, If you have server issues, you might ... Continue reading »

It is one thing to make money online with private ad sales, but it is another thing to do so by accepting ads onto my blog that promote services that are total scams and fraud. With my private ad sales increasing as well as the requests to take full advantage of the advertisement programs being offered on my blog, I now know that I need to be very careful and selective with who I accept ... Continue reading »

Drop me a comment and let me know... I have a 125x125 and a 468x60... let me know the cost / traffic / etc... Oh... also, I have free copies of ThemeClick - Art and ThemeClick - Business available if anyone wants to exchange advertising for a free copy. Here are screen shots: ThemeClick.com - Art ThemeClick.Com - Business Continue reading »

Asking me to invest time into helping you by answering support related questions about a product or service I promote or have an affiliation with and then turning around and either stripping away my referral ID and or just simply signing up for the service under the referral ID of someone else just isn't cool. Over the last month, I have had this happen to me many times on quite a few of the items ... Continue reading »

Are you looking for a free WordPress Installation Service? I am providing assistant to people who want to start using WordPress. If you have been wanting to start your own WordPress blog but not sure how to get it all set up, the process is rather simple. However, I do understand that if you don't have much experience with web hosting and installing programs on a web server that you might feel stuck. WordPress is a ... Continue reading »

Are you wanting to import your Blogger.com account into a self-hosted WordPress domain name hosting account? I am providing a free import service for Blogger.com to self-hosted WordPress. I am sure that you have been hearing all the great reviews about WordPress, indeed this is a wonderful blog publishing program. As you know, WordPress has many more features available compared to Blogger.com and it is a system that will quickly take your blogging into a ... Continue reading »

Here is a guest post written by David Lamm from TailGatingIdeas.com that will provide you with some really good insight on how to score tons of traffic to your blog for free simply by being the first to comment on a blog post. After reading this post, you should race to be one of the first to comment on this post. For those who don't know, Dave Lamm has been a tailgater for most of his ... Continue reading »

Everyone is interested in increasing web traffic, right? I wrote an article that will show you how to increase your web traffic using Google Analytics. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t have an interest in increasing traffic to their web site or blog. In this article I am going to show you how you can increase traffic using Google Analytics This is a free tool that Google provides to anyone who wants to track ... Continue reading »

You may have a WordPress.com blog and have soon discovered that you can have your very own independent version of WordPress hosted on your own domain name. In this article I am going to show you how you can quickly pack up your bags and move your own WordPress.com blog to a brand new self-hosted WordPress blog that will run on your very own domain name. It is possible that you may have been searching for ... Continue reading »

This is a quick announcement with an edit. In my last post I invited you to subscribe to my special RSS feed address to follow my writing on SEOHosting.com. Please update that that link to this one: http://feeds.feedburner.com/garryconn/searchengine The Twitter addy will remain the same: http://twitter.com/hostgatordotcom The reason for the updated FeedBurner addy is the fact that one day if I lose my job, more likely too I would loose my rights to that FeedBurner URL because I used a ... Continue reading »

Yes. The rumors are true. Many of you guys and gals already know that I have been helping HostGator.com in the past month writing on their sister company SEOHosting.com. Last week, I was officially HIRED by HostGator.com. I went from being a freelance writer of their company blog to a... well, I am not really sure what my job title is... I guess we can call it Social Networking Guru. :) A few things have changed. ... Continue reading »

I am thinking that Google doesn't really want to compete against Paypal.com. I can't find Google Checkout anywhere in the SERPS and search term after search term, Paypal.com clearly loads up, number one and in many of the sponsored spots. So anyway, what do you think? Could Google Checkout actually TAKE OUT Paypal.com? If Google simply put some effort towards bring out some "awareness" of Google Checkout I think many more people would use it. The question ... Continue reading »

Google has a new tool that indeed can help you make money online. It is called Google Insights. Using Google Insights can give you insight on which search terms are more popular than others. Additionally, you can find related press releases and web pages information based off your searches such as Pepperjam vs MarketLeverage. For me, I can quickly see how this can help me in my business of search engine marketing. For me, it's all ... Continue reading »

I wanted to let you know that among the million and one different projects that I have going on, I am working on another Wordpress theme. This one is different thought, this is actually a WordPress theme package. Awhile back I had helped Mark Mason with the graphics for his first product called, Niche AdSense Themes For WordPress. It looks like things are going quite well for him so I am going to do the ... Continue reading »

Ok, so the thrilling idea of being able to make money online with a blog while having to do absolutely ZERO writing appeals to many people. But also too, the threat of getting penalized in Google for publishing duplicate content seems scary too. So what do you do? Seems like a catch 22, huh? Well, there are ways around this issue. For one, we need to understand more about duplicate content and what Google considers duplicate ... Continue reading »