Less than $1,000 from the $10,000 mark! Should happen any day now. Also there’s a Brookline TAB article coming out about LinkExperiment.com and my running. It should be out Thursday, I’ll link to the article when it comes out. I think with the article coming out, the $10,000 mark will definitely be surpassed by a lot this week.

Also, I have added a “new” image next to text links that are less than one week old. This way it is easy to find the newest links on the page. I’ve got a 2 mile race on friday this week, although I woke up today sick, but hopefully it will pass by friday.

WEEK: 89 MILES

Sunday: 12 miles AM: 5miles trail PM: 7miles strides 4 miles, then 3 laps stride the straight jog the turn, 4 accelerations, 6 sprints, and a fast 300, 2 miles

Saturday: 16 miles AM: 16miles conferences ran 16 miles around the dickinson course. PM: 0miles

Friday: 15 miles AM: 5miles trail PM: 10miles workout warmup 3 miles, did 4 mile tempo loop in 20:12 Splits: 5:06, 5:02, 5:04, 4:58 then to the track from an 800 in 2:23, 400 rest, 600 in 1:45, 200 rest, 400 in 65, 200 rest, 200 in 33. Felt extremely good this workout. For the tempo tucked behind everyone the first couple miles. Tree and ian lead the first half, then MG took over the last 2 miles and tucked in behind him. Each mile felt better than the previous one, and by the end felt like I could run at least another 4 miles at the same pace. 1 mile cooldown

Thursday: 10 miles AM: 5miles trail +drills PM: 5miles trail easy day

Wednesday: 13 miles AM: 0miles PM: 13miles seminary+

Tuesday: 15 miles AM: 5miles trail PM: 10miles hill loop did the loop in 65 high. Felt surprisingly good today. ran most of it with the burmeister, andrew and the jablins.

Monday: 8 miles AM: 0miles PM: 8miles haverford ran around haverford and watched the race, then ran back with tree and power

So I’ve been buying signature links like mad to promote the Link Expeirment. I’ve bought somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 worth of links so far primarily from digitalpoint and namepros. I’ve seen a pretty good boost in traffic so far, but I don’t think there’s been a direct purchase as a result of one of the signatures I’ve purchased yet. Although that $401 purchase may have come from one of the ones I bought. Anyways, I think I’ll buy a few more and just see how it works out.

Someone offered $500 for the first link spot! Unfortunately, it was for an adult site, so the high link stays at $401. Lucky for the guy who bid $401, he would have only had the #1 spot for a day, that’s the danger in outbidding #1 by only $1, makes it all the easier to be knocked off.

New #1 link for just a buck more than the last one. New link is for PC Cleaning Software. The last #1 stayed at that spot for 12 days. The new link also takes linkexperiment above $8,000 so we’re getting very close to the $10,000 marker, very exciting!

I’ve bought a few more advertising links and it looks like i’ll be buying quite a few more. Let’s get this sucker over 10 Grand!

WEEK: 66 MILES

Sunday: 11 miles AM: 1miles shakeout PM: 10miles mayor’s cup warmed up 3 miles very relaxed, before the race I felt like I was ready to run hard, and told myself this one was going to be the hardest of my life. got OK off the field and was just behind bielecki. First mile tried to stay relaxed and tried to maintain contact with bielecki. Came through the first mile in 4:47 a bit fast. Second mile tried to maintain contact with the pack in front of me and stay relaxed. Lost a couple seconds on the hill because I wore track spikes and I couldn’t grip on the gravel. Came through the 2 mile in 10:00, so a 5:13 second mile. Knew I had to be passing people at this point because everyone was slowing down. Didn’t get a 3 mile split but was moving past people well. the fourth mile I started pressing pretty hard and came through in 20:05. Knew I could break 25 if I didn’t let up at all the last mile. Passed Mark Miller with about 3/4 mile to go, he repassed me and we caught another guy right before the final hill. Lost another couple seconds on the two of them because of the spikes again, and knew I’d have to catch Miller by the end of the downhill in order to have a chance of beating him. couldn’t close the gap but passed the other guy and started driving for the finish. The other guy came back on me in the final stretch, but being outkicked at lehigh left a bad taste in my mouth and I battled this guy off this time. Finished with a 24:51 good for 23rd. Going to try to get in one more higher mileage week next week and then start tapering for the rothman 8k. cooldown 2 miles very sore

Saturday: 9 miles AM: 4miles brookline ran with ian and scott around my house. PM: 5miles franklin park ran the course at franklin park, around 7:30 pace. Didn’t feel so great.

Friday: 9 miles AM: 4miles alumni PM: 5miles trail ran with jb/scott, another relaxed day, should be good and rested for the race, that’s for sure, foot felt fine.

Thursday: 10 miles AM: 3miles shakeout PM: 7miles trails felt pretty good today.

Wednesday: 9 miles AM: 2miles shakeout PM: 7miles trails took it nice and easy, foot a little sore.

Tuesday: 11 miles AM: 1miles shakeout PM: 10miles workout warmup 3 miles, cooldown 2 miles, 16×400 with 100 rest in 67, 69, 69, 69, 69, 68, 71, 70, 69, 70, 70, 71, 70, 69, 70, 68. did the full 8k in 26:21. Doc told us to keep the rests no slower than 30 and aim for around 70 for the quarters. Felt a little off the first few, then got into a groove, then my stomach started cramping up, but finished well. This stuff still feels pretty fast, as it should I suppose. Did this same workout faster than I have at this time of the year so that’s good.

Monday: 7 miles AM: 0miles PM: 7miles trails decided to take an easy week this week. After thinking about it I decided nothing bad could come of pulling back a bit this week only good. As it turns out this is probably for the best because my left foot was very sore on the bottom outside. Took it easy on the trails.

WEEK TOTAL: 90 MILES

Sunday: 14 miles AM: 0miles PM: 14miles saunders relaxed run

Saturday: 7 miles AM: 0miles PM: 7miles strides 4 miles then 3 laps stride the straight jog the turn, 3 acceleration, 4 sprints, 2 miles felt good

Friday: 14 miles AM: 5miles +drills PM: 9miles workout warmup 4 cooldown 2, 2×1600 with 10 minute jog rest in 4:34, 4:33 felt very uncomfortable with the pace but defintely good to do this workout. Need to work on my weakness which is faster paced stuff. Doing faster quarters next week probably so that should be good too, hopefully I’ll feel better for those.

Thursday: 10 miles AM: 5miles dentist ran to the dentist office and back. Got 2 fillings today. PM: 5miles trail ran easy with the poosefather. Nice outside.

Wednesday: 13 miles AM: 0miles PM: 13miles saunders+ ran with tree. Going at a decent pace at some points, felt pretty good.

Tuesday: 17 miles AM: 5miles trail PM: 12miles workout warmup 2 miles, cooldown 3 miles, did 6xalumni with 1 min rest in 5:14, 5:18, 5:16, 5:16, 5:20, 5:11 felt relaxed throughout. Pushed a bit on the last one. Worked on increasing my stride rate. Think my long slow stride hurts me in cross country because of the terrain so I’m going to see if I can make it faster/shorter.

Monday: 15 miles AM: 5miles trail +drills PM: 10miles balls deep+ ran with zach, jb, tree and dan. Relaxed pace, picked up a bit the last mile.

I’ve just started up an ad campaign for linkexperiment. So far I’ve put up some banner ads through adwords on some of the webmaster message boards and I’ve purchased a text link off of alexaholic. So we should see a nice bump in traffic. I’ve been using the adwords site finder and text link ads to search for sites, hopefully I’ll find some nice sources of traffic.

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New high link of $400 just bought today to someone blog. Never seen it before, but looks like history/trivia about various stuff. Good if you want to brush up for jeopardy

On another note someone PM’d me over at digitalpoint. Asked if I was the owner of linkexperiment.com then said he could help me market the site. 5 hours later I hadn’t replied and he sent another PM calling me arrogant and telling me that my site was dying. Which bring me to another point.

PATIENCE! Something I think a lot of people who work online need more of. If something isn’t making tens of thousands right away a lot of people will give up on it. It doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to put some work in your projects and have patience.

Other stuff about the site. I’m starting up another marketing push. I’m thinking about buying a link from a PR 10 site and maybe about purchasing a billboard on I-95 in Philadelphia. I’ll have to look into these both a bit more, so we’ll see. I wouldn’t be buying a link from statcounter to get PR, but purely from a advertising point of view, since everyone looking at the link would be a webmaster. (although it would be cool as hell to have a link from a PR 10) Anyways I emailed them about some info and to see if my site would be acceptable to them so we’ll see.

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Was browsing the web a bit and came across a blog for business entrepreneurs. He’s got some good tips for anyone interested in business and some pretty interesting reads. I don’t read very many blogs, but this could potentially be one I start to read.