The DVD drive on my macbook died today Now I have to send it back and have them send me out a new one. I tried to get them to send out the new one first, so I could transfer all my files from the old to the new, but they wouldn’t. Curses!

My first mac purchase. This hasn’t left a bad taste in my mouth for apple though, just got unlucky. Looks like I’ll have to be without my compter for a few days. So be it.

I’ve been selling about a link per day on average for the last week and a half now. I think that’s a pretty good rate. I’ve also seen traffic coming from new links popping up around the net, so that’s cool.

I did a pretty good workout yesterday, 6xmile on the track with 1 min jog rest between miles. averaged low 5:19 per mile and felt very easy. I should be ready to race decently in a week and a half.

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The orginal 100 links that made up linkexperiment.com have now all been bumped off. The Experiment has come a long way since I sold the first link for $.01 Thanks to the first 100 bidders for making linkexperiment.com a success.

The Experiment has 2 goals for the moment. 1)Sell 1 link for $100 2)Get a total of $1,000 in link sales. At the rate the page is going both goals should be acheived in the next couple weeks.

Finally got my internet connection today! Good to take a forced 2 week vacation, but now I’m back in business. Going to try to work on getting link sales up to the $1,000 marker. I think once linkexperiment.com hits $1,000 more people will start to catch on. There have been a steady stream of $20ish sales, I’m working on a big sale right now, hopefully that one will go through soon.

Running has been going well. I’ve getting about 95 miles a week, should be in pretty good shape once my racing season starts. First race is my 3 miles alumni race on Sept 9th.

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4 more days until comcast comes to install internet in my new house. I bought a macbook a few days ago. My PC had some bugs and I was sick of it, so I went with a mac. It’s saweet. I still have to learn all the mac tricks there are. Since my last update, the Link Experiment has broken the $500 mark, and received a couple $20 purchases in the last few days. I think the website is spreading through people who have had success with the links they bought and then telling other webmasters about the page.

I know of one webmaster, Tom Dahne, who has a lot of success with my links. He’s bought the number one spots a few times now. A while back Tom paid $20 for 4 listings and ended up making $388 from his links and 65 subscribers to his mailing list. Tom owns the websites Link Directory and Directory Submitter, and his links are still on the homepage!

Back from my trip to Vancouver. Awesome trip, did some good backpacking at Garibaldi Provincial Park and some walking around Vancouver. Took an easy week during the break with my running, about 40 miles for the week.

Now I’m back to do some good training and make some more link sales. I’ve also decided to give in and buy a macbook. Deciding which one to get now, the macbook or macbook pro. I’m a big mac fan, and my pc has become very buggy lately, so the time has come.

Other news, I’m moving to a new place this weekend and might lose an internet connection for a while. If I don’t get back to any emails immediately that’s why.

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My t-shirt came in a few days ago and I finally got around to taking a picture of it. I think it’s pretty cool, and possibly the only one that thinks so. Also yes, this is my sad attempt at growing a beard.

Did a 14 mile run this morning, might do another 3 miles before I leave for Vancouver. I’ll be in Vancouver backpacking at Garibaldi Park for a week, so if anybody has any questions, I won’t be able to answer them until I get back, august 8th. Anyways, I’m pumped about backpacking, looks like it’s going to be amazing, and not 100 degrees like it’s going to be in philly.

As for the site. Alexa rating is down to 138,370, link sales at $352.80. I want to get under the 100,000 alexa marker bad. I’ve gotten email of a big sale that I’m going to take care of after my vacation, I’ll probably write a press release after that big sale and we’ll see what happens there.

Alright, that’s all for now, off to Vancouver. I’ll report back august 8th

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The owner of KillSomeTime.com contacted me to tell me that he had more than doubled the top bid on my site, so I went to my homepage and low and behold a new high bid of $50 for Kill Some Time bringing the site total to $331.60.

If you haven’t checked out KillSomeTime.com it’s got great funny videos, games, and jokes. Definitely check them out.

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2 days after breaking the $100 mark, linkexperiment.com has broken the $200 mark, thanks mostly to our affiliate program. Also, the page has finally received a pagerank of 4 after google’s latest update. The site got a review at marketingvanguard.com the first time I’ve visited that site, but it looks like there’s some good marketing info on that site, check it out.

I’m currently looking into advertising options for linkexperiment.com. I’m going to try to fiddle with some PPC, although I’m not optimistic. I think this page is more about word of mouth than PPC marketing. Nonetheless I’ll try it out. I’ve been reading up on Shoemoney’s blog for some PPC tips. If you haven’t at least browsed through his blog, it’s a must read.

Also, one of our new banner’s is up at http://just-free-stuff.blogspot.com/. Cool to see it on someone else’s site!

We broke the 200,000 mark in alexa with a rank of 192,832, next barrier is the top 100,000. Link sales have been steady lately. The site has been selling a few links everyday. I’ll be sending out a press release soon anouncing linkexperiment selling over $100 in links.

Linkexperiment.com is has now sold over $100 in links! The site Webmaster Riches with a price of $2.50 has put us over the $100 marker. The current total for linkexperiment.com is $102.83 with 123 links sold. Hopefully we’ll get a PR update soon, that should really get things going.