The 42nd Estate

Recently Matt Cutts gave a talk called Straight from Google: What You Need to Know at WordCamp San Francisco 2009. His talk revolved around why bloggers blog (money? fame? fun?) and how bloggers can improve their SEO. Jim Gaudet noted a couple lines of code from the presentation that are highly relevant to bloggers using Adsense to make money online. The two lines dictate where the unique content starts and ends on your page. It’s a handy way to have the Adsense algorithms display more relevant advertisements to your visitors. Read the full post

To celebrate our upcoming one year anniversary on April 8th, we’re hosting a super easy contest here on our blog. All you have to do to enter is comment on this post. That’s it!

We’ll pick one comment, at random, …

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When we started The 42nd Estate last April we set only one goal for the company, to survive our first year. Having previously started two companies, PC Experience (a computer repair service) and Open The Board Room (a customer service and consulting portal), I knew that just getting off the ground is a difficult task in and of itself. Read the full post

While catching up on my RSS feeds this afternoon, a post from FreelanceSwitch caught my eye. On December 24th, FreelanceSwitch announced that they are accepting article contributions once again. If you’re a freelancer or have skills or knowledge useful to a freelancer, …

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Quick post before the weekend to let everyone know of a new site, My Last Name Means Money [MLNMM], we launched silently but successfully ten days ago. MLNMM is a blog all about both the U.S. and global economy, money, savings, …

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