Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

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As I mentioned in this article, I was planning on doing an affiliate marketing expieriment soon.  I had a product from ClickBank in mind, but after doing some more in-depth research, I’ve come to find out that the product is completely fraudulent.  I’ve already bought the domain name, so I am still going to pick [...]

The Top Affiliate Challenge will feature 12 marketers in 3 teams of 4, lead by Ken McAurthur, John Chow, and ShoeMoney.  It should be an interesting show, and I’m looking foward to it.  I’m sure there will be a lot to learn from watching it. Personally, I’m a big ShoeMoney fan, and my money is [...]

This is something I’ve thought about doing for a while, and Ive decided to go ahead and start this. In an effort to spread good will and karma throughout the web, I want to start looking for interesting, educational articles I think my readers would enjoy. So, here you go, my links o’ the week:

Twitter and Squidoo have had a lot of buzz around them lately, and I’ve been playing around with both, so I thought I would offer my two cents on these new social platforms.

I Have gotten all the major kinks hammered out of the new theme. Granted, it looks like a newspaper right now, but that will change in the near future. I hope you all will like the new look when it is completed, and all the new functionality I’m going to put into this blog.  For [...]

Working on upgrading to the latest version and putting in a new theme. As you may notice, the site is temporarily in the ‘classic’ theme. This is just a temporary thing while we work out some kinks. Sorry for the inconvience.

I was reading Shoemoney’s blog the other day, and one of his posts mentioned how he would have his bigger, large-scale projects, and smaller ones on the side to make money while the larger ones were in production.  I’ve decided to start a quick project just as soon as I get around to coding the [...]

I found out an interesting little nugget of information about Adwords the other day. Your placement ranking is based on a quality scoring algorithm, instead of just your bids. Here is the super complex Google algorithim, which has recently been leaked:

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time. An easy way to download youtube videos. quick how-to: