Our Progress
In this category, you'll find the progress that we're making with our blog. These posts will keep you updated on the things we're doing to try and achieve our goals. If you think we're doing a good job, please let us know. Also, if you have any advice for us, we could certainly use that, too. But whatever you say, please keep in mind we don't really know what we're doing, so be gentle.
Published by Mike on 11 Jun 2008
As many of our loyal readers may know (ha, like we have many loyal readers), we haven’t updated the site for about a month-and-a-half. And I know I’ve said this before, but you can expect more frequent updates from now on, seriously this time. Anyway, even though we’ve been gone for so long, our Alexa [...]
Popularity: 54% [?]
Published by Mike on 25 Apr 2008
Updates
In the past month, the busy meter for our real lives outside of SAN.com headquarters has been off the charts. But our semesters are now over, so we have a lot more time to spend staring at a computer screen. Hopefully, we’ll be able to write more posts with greater frequency. So, keep checking back [...]
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Published by Mike on 04 Mar 2008
On February 28, SAN.com celebrated its 2-month anniversary. I know that the post date says March 4th, but hey, so we’re a little late. It’s been a busy week for us here, with many things requiring our attention outside of SAN headquarters.
The biggest thing that I can say at this point is that [...]
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Published by Mike on 15 Feb 2008
So, as I go through my daily, “What can I do to get people to read this site?” routine, I found some information about social bookmarking sites, like Digg and del.icio.us.
About Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites give people a chance to discover and share websites with people that have similar interests. The content [...]
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Published by Mike on 30 Jan 2008
Well, it’s been a month already for SAN.com, and Kevin and I feel pretty good about our progress. There are a lot of things that we’re happy with, but there is one thing in particular that we would like to see get better.
The Look
We like the way the site looks, first and foremost. [...]
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Published by Mike on 28 Jan 2008
SAN.com has launched its first advertising campaign using Google’s AdSense. Kevin and I figured that if we’re going to try and reach our goal laid out in our Expectations post, we better start trying to earn some money. This post will take you through what AdSense does, how to setup an account, and [...]
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Published by Mike on 24 Jan 2008
Disclaimer: this post is more of a plea for help rather than an actual, intelligent, informative post. Although, some may consider it informative in that we tell you how we completely missed the point of SEO and should be banned from the use of any optimization software.
Here’s what we did…
After installing the WordPress [...]
Popularity: 35% [?]
Published by Mike on 16 Jan 2008
I’ll be honest, our first attempt at creating and implementing a blog was pretty pathetic. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “What is so difficult about making a blog? People do it all the time…” I’ll be the first to tell you, Mike and I ran into more than our share of [...]
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Published by Mike on 29 Dec 2007
Now that you know what we are trying to do and how we are trying to do it, I would like to explain exactly what we expect from our endeavor.
Kevin and I consider ourselves to be pretty smart people, although we do a lot of things that would make a good argument for the [...]
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