I stared a blog a long time ago for a client and he never did anything with it. The blog topic was on lawnmowers, something I know very little about and have a hard time getting interested in. We did make a couple blog post but that was about it. This blog is getting a good bit of traffic each and everyday and is not doing anything.

Some sites you have to work you but of to get to do anything and this one takes off all by itself. I’m not sure rather I should start writing post for a topic I care nothing about or not.

I was originally not going to post about this but I think I will now. When I first heard about PPP (PayPerPost) I thought what a neat idea. But the more I looked at it the more I decided I just didn’t like it.

1. Not enough money. It takes me around $6,000 a month just to break even, $10.00 a post with a limit on 1 or 2 post per day just want make the kind of money I need.

2. It looks to much like selling links, I’ve never been banned or gotten a site banned and I’m not about to start on something like this.

3. It ugly ups your blog with ads about companies I could careless about.

But let’s face it, finding good links are getting harder and harder to find and if you can pay someone to make some blog post for you I’m sure it’s worth the one time fee of $10.00.

I don’t fault John Scott for the idea. And he had a good idea on how to get some cheap links and told the people they could not tell anyone that it was paid advertising.

And John got some attention, as a matter of fact he got the attention of Google.

Now Scott claims that the links are undetectable

Contextual Links @ V7N are undetectable to search engines. Whether it be by human or algorithmic filtering, our links are impossible to detect. Additionally, an enforced non-disclosure agreement prevents both publishers and advertisers from revealing participating publishers and advertisers.

But he’s told everyone that wants to post these ads to let him know by signing up and posting that they have a blog and want to make some post for $10.00 a pop. They are signing up on his forum. Matt Cutts is watching this and some are even posting the blog address that are going to be using.

Hey John, it’s not undetectable anymore.

Guess it goes to show how important Microsoft feels a good article in Wikipedia is worth.

The full story is here and after reading it I don’t really see that Microsoft did anything wrong.

Microsoft felt IBM had written some stuff about them on Wikipedia and asked Rick Jelliffe to edit the article. They had agreed that Microsoft would not see the edits until after they were online.

Another words Microsoft was not trying to tell Jelliffe what to write, they only wanted a third party to correct the article.

This is an improvement and I’m glad to see Yahoo trying to do something right but it sure took a long time to copy someone.

On Monday Feb. 5^th Yahoo will be launching it’s new ranking model for ads. It will now take into account the quality of the ad along with the price being bid. If it sounds like you’ve heard this before it’s because it is the same thing that Google does. Not only can Yahoo not come up with something new but it takes them years to copy someone else’s ideas.

Sometimes when we are online surfing the Internet when we are brought back to reality. It’s not ever a fun experience but one that makes us stop, think and sometimes even cry.

Messing around a bit on BoingBoing I came across this site A Wish For Ava. The site is dedicated to a little girl who has cancer and in almost every picture you see a beautiful little girl sitting laughing and having a good time.

I think I’m going to start donating a part of everything my business makes to helping kids with diseases. I’m willing to work harder and do with out in hopes that maybe I can help out one little baby.