The definition of Jared Barden
Archive for March, 2008
Greed in Action
Mar 19th
The definition of greed was on display over the last couple of days in the form of the Boston Red Sox players.
A little background on the story for those of you who aren’t sports nuts. Boston is playing their season opening game in Japan, which is a huge deal, due to the popularity of baseball in Japan, etc. etc.
Supposedly a deal was struck that the players, coaches, and staff would receive a $40,000 stipend (more than yours truly makes in an entire year) to make the trip to Japan. I have no complaints with that fact. We live in America. We all enjoy the benefits of capitalism. If someone wanted to pay me $40,000 for a trip to Japan, I would most likely gladly accept.
Apparently MLB reneged on part of their deal, and they were only going to pay the coaches and staff a measly $20,000 for the trip. Now, it wasn’t right of MLB to back out on their part of the deal, but come on people, you’re getting paid $20,000 to go on a trip to another country to take part in a GAME.
But, all is not lost, a deal has been struck, and Boston will be making the trip to Japan, and all is right with the world. Or something like that.
Write About Google, Drive Traffic to Your Site
Mar 4th
A post I recently wrote about the test of Google Health drove some unexpected traffic to my blog from an unexpected source – none other than Google itself.
The following is one of my “Jedi Web Geek” tips on how to drive some traffic to your site from the world’s biggest search engine.
The steps are pretty easy.
- Read a blog post on one of Google’s many blogs.
- Write a post on your own blog reflecting on the post you’ve just read. Write it as soon as possible after reading the post.
- Wait to show up in Google’s “Links to this post” section of their post.
- Hopefully get some unlikely traffic to your site.
It really does work. See the “Google Wants Your Medical Records?” link in the screenshot below? That link points to this site, and has driven some traffic over the last couple of weeks that I wasn’t expecting when I first wrote the post.
Give it a try. You just might get some unexpected results.