Hi folks,
Just a quick post to let you know I deleted all the old feeds for MMOFB – seems a spammer now has the site and judging by the facebook comments some of you were getting a bit annoyed… ooops. If I missed any feeds let me know.
Needless to say I have taken the summer off – no computer – just golf!
I vowed this was the year I was going to shoot par or better and it took 93 games to do it… a 71. That is 1 under par or 6 strokes better than Tiger’s last tournament… hehehe…
Unfortunately I have now run out of life encompassing goals so I may have to catch up with the rest of you online. Google plus? Anyone care to fill me in… I’m not kidding when I say I haven’t turned on a computer in a few months. Seems I may have missed a few things…
Just perused my extremely full inbox and yes I am still kicking… thanks to all for your concern.
If I have missed any other Earth shattering news please fill me in otherwise I just wanted to say hello and hope all is well with everyone.
It's been a tough summer...
Cheers,
Griz
Hey Griz,
Welcome back … and congrats on breaking par. I shot 70 and 71 a couple of times when I was a teenager, but since then not even close … lol, although I suppose the fact that I only get out to the course once every couple of months lately probably has something to do with it.
As for Google + … you should probably get an account .. I expect that in a year or two it will be “the place to be”. For right now though, it’s pretty much just another social networking site to add to our list of places not to forget to check in on (IMO).
Thanks Todd… can’t say I got too excited when I saw all the Google + invites. Just curious if anyone has found it beneficial. I will no doubt sign up and forget about it until it becomes necessary… nice hearing from ya’
Google plus happened. People think it matters. That’s all.
Glad to hear you’re doing well. Congrats on breaking par.
Medic
Thanks Medic – hope all is well!
Hey, Griz. I’m so glad you’ve been enjoying your summer!
Some of the natives got a little restless while you were gone. But maybe they found out through your absence that they don’t need Papa Bear to take care of them. That would be better for them, and I imagine for you, too.
And Google+ = who cares, as far as I’m concerned. I maintain a perfunctory presence on it and that’s about it. I vastly prefer Pinterest.com, which is a lot more fun and actually sends traffic. I may pay the price some day for not worshiping at the Google+ altar, but in the meantime, I’m going to run with scissors.
Carla,
Great to hear from you as well. Hope all is well with the new home and location. Thought about you last week as the PGA Championship was played in Atlanta. Pinterest.com? Damn… now I suppose I’ll have to explore…
Ah, you get traffic from Pinterest? I may have to join up then. A lot of friends love it, but thus far, none of my SEO/IM buddies have tried it (I think). I personally like G+, but only because my SMO/SEO/IM buddies are on there and posting more interesting info than they do on FB.
Good to hear from ya Griz. Some of us were starting to worry lol. I mostly have IM people on my Google+ account, as only a couple of people I know off the internet have them. Mark Butler and Fraser have hosted a few “hangouts” I didn’t have a chance to join. Apparently, they have been pretty interesting. Let me know if you start an account and I will add you to my circle
Thanks Shaun – will do. Apparently I have a few emails from Mark and Fraser that need attending… time to catch up with the Keyword Academy. Are they ruling the internet yet? Lol.
TKA is now in transition to TKA 2.0. I think you missed all the craziness caused by the Panda Update.
Shaun, Is there a link that would fill me in?
Griz, so nice to see your furry mug pop up in my reader! Glad your golf game is improving and that you’ve taken time off from the internet which can suck your life away if you let it.
I can tell you a little something about TKA 2.0 because Mark has hired me as one of his two instructional designers for the new program. We just rolled it out last week so there’s nothing on the public TKA blog about it yet (we should have something up by the end of the month). If you’re still a member, you can see the gist of it in the “Members Area” link in the nav bar.
Basically it’s great content, authority links, and go real easy on over-optimizing those anchors. Would love to have your feedback.
Yeah, we drove by the PGA site the week before all the golfers arrived. It made me feel like such an insider, even though I barely know which end of the golf club to swing.
Thanks for the kind words about our move. We absolutely love it here. We decided to rent an apartment for a year, so we could get to know the area before buying. I’m so glad we did, because we now have a much better idea where we want to be. It turns out that Justin Bieber lives about a mile from us, so we’re thinking something in that neighborhood would be nice. Perhaps not quite in that price range though.
And I feel like a dope, but the other day I finally came across your post about your move. A much-belated congrats on such a big transition!
Grizzly Brears – The Original legend of MMO!!
Thank you for the pic! That is fantastic!
Griz lives!
Great to hear from you again, Griz! Nice photo, btw!
Thanks Atma – a very rare photo…
Indeed…
Lorecee,
Thanks and nice to hear from you. I am currently reading the thread in TKA forum and getting the gist of it… sounds vaguely familiar…
Will finish later – yup I Tee off in half an hour!
Hey buddy:
Glad to see your well; enjoying the family and golfing. I only wish I had the discipline to stay off of the computer for months… I’m sure my wife does too!
lol!! (BTW: I just got married on April 9th–see my Facebook images for details, if your interested?)
But you know how it goes, build, write, and write some more… I know your aware of the Panda update. Quite an interesting beast, but fortunately it has been friendly with the majority of my sites — albeit a PR drop here and there, but who cares.
I haven’t really experimented with Google’s +1 yet. I figured I would let things settle in a bit before I go and get banned. lol! However, it is nice in that you can post links, etc., and share some good information with your circles.
Anyhow, that’s all I’ve got for now. Looking forward to some long-winded posts
~Scott
Hi, Griz!! Glad it’s really you. Nice to see you on G+.
I heard the blogspot was occupied by an invader. Every time I’d get an email announcement of a blog post from “you,” it’d lead to a Grizzly nightmare of a post instead: “MMO is fun. Everyone likes to MMO. Do you like to MMO? Here is one way to MMO, which is a very good way to MMO, if you are so predisposed to MMO for yourself.”
Nice to hear from you Griz! And that photo is sure rare. It’s all supersites and passion sites with the new panda mania. Getting back to the roots at blogging I think.
I haven’t even noticed anything different with my two sites. I started reading about this panda thing the other day and I gotta say, i don’t care. I’m at the point now, where I’m trying to find a way to monetize a site that people come to for entertainment articles. Not gossip, but entertainment/tech. I pretty much don’t want to use adsense at all. I don’t even post on it too much. Traffic grows though. when it reaches a high point, it’s over 1000 per day, then drops down to about like 300-400 a day when it’s on a normal day. The normal day figure increases with every big traffic spike over a thousand though. It’s wierd being able to own certain key phrases. I can pretty much rank on page one for a certain keyword +the subject. That in turn causes me to get links from other big news and entertainment organizations. Its crazy. I don’t have to go around asking or submitting to any directory. I think most of my juice comes from using a related post plugin. It just keeps getting spread through out the site. My links from big news and entertainment companies don’t disappear either because they’re legit. Who knows, in about a year or 2 they will probably be pr5 links etc.. I don’t even have to do anything. I’ve also gotta say, that I honestly believe not having adsense or any ads at all has helped me get those links from those big sites. They don’t even have to think twice about linking to me. Anyone else got any tips about good monetization strategies for what I am talking about? The only real thing I’ve seen is blogads as far as maybe monetization goes. I don’t know if anyone likes them though.
“it’s been a tough summer….”
Yea you can say that again. After 113 Games later, it must be tough.
Great to hear you’re living the dream! Hope everything continues to go well, and yeah – I noticed the spammer getting the old address from an e-mail update. One post told me it was time to go back and be very diligent about taking out all those old backlinks. Cheers!
Hey griz!
Very nice photo and good article overall…………Nice to have a share
Hi Grizz!,
It’s really nice to hear from you
. It seems like you had a great summer. The little one is your youngest right?, She’s so cute!.
And oh, congratulations on the Golf games too and all of a sudden I’m starting to see you’re spamming the heck out of my FB home with “Grizzly Brears and *#*{*# are now friends” LOL!
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Hi Griz!
Just wanted to pop in and say it’s good to see you back in action.
We live near Pinehurst and my husband (who is a true golf nut) thinks this is the next best thing to heaven. lol
Hope you got some novels under your belt for us!
Hmmm, I don’t remember you looking like this from the old photos. I thought you look much better……
Oh, what happen to your lovely wife? Why isn’t she in the picture : )
Hey Griz,
Good to hear you’re enjoying a great summer… and you managed to keep your hands off a computer all that time? That must’ve felt weird at first. Maybe liberating later and damn enjoyable not to have to even look at your email inbox!
You might have gotten a small surprise at Google’s new layout – three ads taking the top 3 spots in the SERPs that are only vaguely decipherable as being ads. Most regular surfers don’t even realize. Google have figured out how to game their own index with paid ads looking too much like organic listings! So the message is “you CAN buy your way to the top of the SERPs as long as you pay Uncle G and not an SEO (or, heaven forbid, you do it yourself).”
I’m amazed that so few IM’ers have mentioned it. Probably had their attention deftly diverted by +1, FB et al. Ho hum, life goes on eh!
All is well in Spain, although for once I envy your cooler summers. We’re having a real hot one with average 35C days here on the coast, although inland the poor buggers are getting +40C days. Makes rehearsing in the band hard work (yep, we rehearse inland!) Calls for lots of cold beer…
Anyway, its great to see you’re back (with a computer switched on again)!
Terry
Google+ ? About as wonderful as Facebook. Meh. Seriously, if it weren’t for relatives, I wouldn’t be messing with either one.
Other than the Panda updates, you didn’t miss a thing. Clicks are down, but I blame that on the economy, especially when traffic is up.
GRIZ!
good to hear from ya! I was very surprised when I opened my email this morning and saw this.
I have been most of the summer also (but I have turned my comp on), and my goal was to break 80 … I’ve played prob about 40 rounds, I have yet to do it … I was close a few times – 83, 81, and 82 the last time out.
What are the chances of you coming down to Wisconsin and playing SentryWorld?
Grizzy! 8(
Grizzly, it is so nice to hear from you again in your blog. Thought there were not going to post any more updates.
On a sidenote, i got my adsense account banned a few days ago. The traffic was legit but like you had posted a few months ago, i think it has to do with big bucks and spammy links. Do you think i should get a new adsense account? Or try other monetization methods? I am sure other monetization methods will not work as good as adsense in my niche. Any info will be very helpful for me. Thanks a lot in advance.
Nothing converts as well as Adsense. Get a new account if you can – you’ll need a different identity to do it or use a business (the easiest method)
Thanks a lot for the quick response, grizzly. I think i will go the business route. I am trying a few other ad networks atm though. I was nearing 6k per month using a very authority site. But the problem was when i was starting out, i thought comment spam and adsense would go along just fine. Only later did i realize i was wrong. When i read the post where you had mentioned your sites getting banned because of the comment spam, i literally freaked out. And here i am , losing my account. Do you think people who are using comment spamming are going to face the same fate as me? I guess only if they hit the big numbers, eh?
Anyway, i really appreciate all your help, You were an inspiration to me and will always be. Thanks.
Welcome back! It’s great to know you are still kicking. And congrats on the golf game! Also, thank you for getting rid of the new MMOFB guy. He is annoying.
Hi Grizz, Great photo! Two kids in a pool are worth more than a fish in the hand.
Love the hat in the water! Glad to have you back, glad to have the spam stream stopped, and glad you had a great summer.
so let me get this correct:
Griz is crocodile dundee and mr hogan plays golf with google and now he is par +1
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Length of course you broke par on? I only shot par once in my life but it was on a 5,800 yard course so I really don’t count it.
6800 (ish) yards…
ei Grizz, glad to hear from you again!
it’s great to see you and your family enjoying the sun, unlike here in my end where every day is like 48 degrees c =)
and oh… congrats on breaking par! maybe it’s time to say – ei Tiger watch out, the Bear is coming! lol
Hey Griz!
You know, all you really missed was a complete, utter stalemate of the government to get anything done. Maybe this group could teach them a thing or two about driving revenue – hmmmmm……
Good time to go golfing, though – something I’m really missing out on this year. How you broke 72 is amazing!
Welcome back!
I took 5 days off the Internet and felt guilty as hell but found it was quite good for my head – you took 5 bloody months off – you slack Bear!
Slack???
You obviously are NOT a golfer!
Do you know how hard it was to break par?
hmm – do you take a hack saw to it? or can you break it over your knee ?
Blasphemy!!!
The mighty alter of Par is not to be trifled with!
Heathen dancers…. harrumph…
Hmm golf as a religion – you could have something there Griz – oh and that’s Atheist Dancers to you golf – boy!
Hi Grizz,
I knew immediately that was not you sending those emails, but it had me worried there for a minute, I thought you had fell on hard times and sold your list to a spammer. :-0
Only kiddin’
Good job I never believe anything I read.
It’s good to know you are still around.
Nice to see your pic and know you are well. Glad you enjoyed your summer too. The summer here in the UK is almost over (did we even have one?).
Hey Griz, I’m almost on page 1 for a pretty big keyword. Right now I think it might be at or close to the top of page 2. Problem is… It’s not a self hosted domain. I’m extremely nervous about using Adsense. It would be close to 3 years work gone if anything happened. When i started a few years ago the plan was to throw adsense up if it ever got to page 1, now it doesn’t seem like such a good idea. I was thinking about creating a related site with it’s own domain and linking to it from the site that is on page 2. Problem is, would that take another 2 years to go anywhere? Would it only put it on page 8 or 9 or something?
Then the other question is… If the self hosted domain ever made it to page one, Do I throw up adsense or other ads. If I didn’t the only other way to make money from it would be to make that new domain a drop shipping site. Which right now, I don’t believe I have the money/time to do. Anybody got any suggestions or had any experience with something similar? Griz you ever ran drop shipping site? From what I read it seems like it could be a headache.
Red – funnel the traffic from your main site to a second site that is monetized with Adsense (or whatever works best). I’ve never run a drop shipping site.
DOH! I just realized half of what I typed got removed. WTF? Where was my important announcement about how you shouldn’t run off and leave us ever again. *flounders*
I missed you! And there’s just no substitute for the Griz advice. Plus… golf… really? =(
Glad you’re back!
Alexis, Missed you too! And… Golf… Yes… Really!
Hey what happened to that cute picture of you with the lollipop?
haha not so much cute as pornographic? (It’s a popsicle btw).
How do you play golf for five months without LITERALLY dying of boredom?
=D
I am glad you’re back though, I need all the help I can get. I’m about to launch a website (well it’s launched, just not finished) to coincide with the publishing of my first book. I need GURU inspiration!
Alexis
One man’s porn is another man’s art…
Golf is not boring… shopping for shoes IS boring.
A Book? It seems everyone is publishing their own book these days – I must have missed the memo during my Golf hiatus. Do tell – what is yours about?
*GASP* You take that back! Shopping for shoes is the only reason worth living!
And yeah, a book. I’ve been writing it for nearly 11 months now, workign on editing it. It’s fiction, though I’m not sure it’s up your alley =D. (Gay protagonists). It’s a detective mystery/romance (maybe half-half with a dash of thriller tucked in).
Anyway it should be done relatively soon (editor has it atm and we’re making changes constantly) heh.
Also, you should write a book about golf. Then we’ll send it out and all the men and women can play golf, fall asleep from boredom and I shall ASSUME TAKING OVER THE WORLD! *cackles and drags Pinky away*
PS: I’ve veered off the making money online subject – unless you count the amount of shoes I buy online…
Griz – slap me for missing this one, and shame on the world for not telling me you were back. I was wondering what happened to you, makes perfect sense you were out swinging clubs (not “out in the swinger’s clubs,” that has a different connotation).
So let me catch you up on earth-shattering news:
…G+….
Um. I think Google actually is ranking sites with a LOT less links than before (I’ve been happy to discover)…
…yup. Pretty much it.
Hi Griz. We would love to hear from you on the panda update that has been going on recently, especially the 2.5.2
You have a broken link on your sidebar.
The sidebar title “Recent Posts” leads to https://makemoneyonlinegrizzly/blog
404 page
OH CRAP! I didn’t that entering a link without tags would get converted into a clickable link. Now you have 2 broken links
Sorry
Found your “hacked” website this week and totally enjoyed reading all the posts. I didn’t realize you were not there until I went to sign up for email. Thought I’d post first, after I finally tracked you down. I was starting to panic, thinking that everyone had left and moved on to greener pastures after I had just gotten used to reading fun posts. Glad to see that you were just off line having fun and everyone is still here. I put my website in the form, even though it has been static (abandoned for a few years). Getting ready to revive it for fun. Was grateful when my Googled “SBI spam?” turned up your opinion of it. It sounded fishy, lol. Hi all!
Hi Grizz,
How is it going, golf summer is over and we are waiting for new blog posts
Or are you going directly into hibernation? SY
Merry Christmas! What? No Christmas posts?
Happy HoHo, Griz!
xx oo xx
R.I.P. Griz
We will miss you so…
…for the love of-
What really happened to Griz?…anybody?
Griz is Matt Cutts in disguise.
Just droppin by.
Happy new year btw, you silent, silent man.
Do grizzlies eat penguins?