Today is the day of lame half-baked announcements and half-made community sites. Today is the day of alcohol-free beer and marijuana-free joints. Today is the day when I give you this url: http://seoprecio.us to drool over and curse me for lamest domain hack ever.

Enjoy the random quote assortment, because it is quite limited and will run out soon. Don’t forget you can leave me your email address if you want to know just what happens to poor Gollum in the end.

Also, you may notice some weirdness, like some other The Precious Group goons announcing the same thing. Don’t worry, it’s not a deja vu; it’s just them changing something in The Matrix.

So long and thanks for all the fish,

Jadehat.

So, the stealth startup I hinted at in the last post is slowly gaining momentum. I’m still not saying anything about the project except it’s going to be a SEO community on steroids, but here is the announcement I have to make.

The Precious Group, the team that develops the site (and I’m a coder in there, oddly enough), gives the privilege to fins four angel testers, and I’m allowed to invite any two persons. Angel tester is a person who represents community and thus, an end user, and who participates directly in development with the dev team providing essential early feedback.

Comment here or drop me a mail at precious@jadehat.com only if you’re really interested in where SEO communities can evolve - and I will choose two random entrees on weekend.

Thanks for your involvement

Currently, SEO industry is not an industry - it is a playing field for many bastards like myself to exercise in vanity. Talk with any kiddie-webmaster-turned-shitty-seo and you’ll see just how vain and self-indulgent me and my colleagues are.

Thus, every SEO community there is at the moment is either filled with too many dumb/incompetent/noobish people to be useful, or too vain in their elitism and trying to rid of those dumb/incompetent/noobish people to be useful.

That’s why SEO forums fail - and we either have Syndk8-like town-pub-gone-online, or webmaster junkyard like DP.

It is kind of boastful to say that before we even have any running code, let alone society, but current progress indicates that we’ve done impossible: we’ve made Web marketing community that does not suck. As we’ll have any major news — I’ll make another post.

As 99.9999% of my audience are practicing webmasters/SEOs - just what we need - I ask any of you who are interested in participating in top-secret private testing of our thingy to drop a mail at precious@jadehat.com. Cheers!

Yet, now I rank for it

It seems that I’ve been asked about this hundreds of times already — what’s going on with your startup?

Well, the idea was of RSS recommendation service — you provide feeds you read or credentials to your online feed reader, and our system provides you with feeds you may find enjoyable based on your current preferences.

We started developing it and in a week or so Google Reader rolled out a RSS recommendation system based on pretty much the same algo we had in mind, only based on a much, much larger dataset.

Thus, the site was scrapped, I was dissapointed and decided not to jump at Web 2.0 bandwagon for a time. That’s the fate of the project I was concentrated on for some time.

What’s the market share for Ask?

1.27%.

I’ve bought some web property today, and now fiddling around with display ads for it. Considering that I’ve last monetized anything not via affiliate or via paid links in 2006, my ad network knowledge is a bit… outdated (for me, Chitika is still hot - you get the idea).

So, question is - what is the new rage today? AdBrite? Bidvertiser? Azoogle? What else? What are pros and cons of the ad network of your choice?

Dudes, I respect your rights to yummy dofollow linkage, but it just seemed to be too much to me, so I erased some comments (the last entry alone saw 80 comments deleted).

Now, proceed to spam - dofollow blog comments is a hot way to make good links, so I encourage you to use my PR2 as much as you want.

Not Web 2.0 startup, that’s for sure. Something actually useful, something I would be able to support and something that will yield me nice bucks.

So, get ready to see some nice cool site from me in several weeks or months… and if anyone of you want to yield a helping hand, or brain, or whatever, go ahead. (remember? jadehat@jadehat.com)

• not having anything important or useful to say;
• having a 100-hour work week.

And it is strange, because while I charge $X0 to $X00 per hour, I do not make as much as it would seem by a large margin. I’m bogged down by overtime, inefficient time spending, and complete refusal to organize my life. So, while I spend more time on various distractions than I’d like to, I’m still having no time on my own. When you’re trying to find a Getting Things Done guru, write me off the list. Immediately.