Married Leos

If you are looking for a huge traffic spike for your website here is a suggestion, I found this accidentally when a buddy and I were posting articles for a dating website we ran. Your results may vary.

Digg.com, if you are not familiar with it is a social bookmarking site where users “Digg” their favorite articles for others to read, the more people who “Digg” it the higher it goes in the list. Pretty simple concept.

For this to be most effective you should have some sort of Digg.com widget / plugin on your article so users can “Digg” it while reading it. People on Digg seem to love lists, actually most readers love some kind of list and they seem to generate a lot of comments since they are usually someones opinion, and people love to voice their own opinions to agree or disagree.

If you want to get the most out of your list, try posting a controversial list, sex related lists seem to do very well, these seem to get the most response. The subject of the list we posted that got the most play was: ” Top 10 Orgasmic Position for Women “. This generated such a buzz that we got 36,000 visitors to our site in about 18 hours and produced a steady flow of traffic for well over 6 months. If I remember correctly we had about 2000+ Diggs and we had the #1 ranking on the home page for a good part of the day. Over the next couple months we had 2 more posts that hit #1 on the front page and had lots of traffic coming to the site. For over a year we were making over $100/month from Google Ads from those 3 posts.

Digg.com has an Upcoming section of the site and many user watch this to see what’s new and hot. So if you have friends that have Digg accounts its good to let them know you posted something so they can Digg it also to help get it to the top of the upcoming list as quickly as possible.

As a warning though when posting sexual related articles you do need to be a bit careful, after our third trip to the top of the list someone must have not like the articles because our website was banned from having further postings on Digg.

Driving into work today one of the radio stations gave the dates of when to expect your Economic stimulus payment. In order to pass on the correct information for those of you wondering, I did the research for you.

Economic stimulus payments will be issued according to the last two-digits of the main filer’s Social Security number. People who use direct deposit also will be among the first to receive the payments starting May 2. Paper checks will be put in the mail starting May 16.

For more information and to see the actual schedule here is the direct link - http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=180250,00.html

Cha Ching!!  We got our income tax check, I love this time of year.  Time to start getting prices for my deck.  Cannot wait to be able to sit outside on my patio and cookout.

This weekend we made our annual trip to get our taxes done.  While most people dread this we actually look forward to going, not because we are sadistic but because we most always get money back and could use it to get some projects done around the house.

Words cannot describe our tax guy, you really need to see everything to fully appreciate the wierdness.  He is a crotchety older man, unkept, gray hair, pants pulled up way too high, you know the look.  His office in a based in a part of town that is mostly less than middle income, reaking of incense and stockpiled full of Native American art.  But I cannot forget to mention the Elvis memorabilia also, most notably the 10 or so singing Elvis teddy bears still in boxes.  I told the Queen that we need to get all this stuff and sell it on eBay, we could make a fortune.

This year when we went in, there was a younger couple in there ( well younger than us ), it was their first time, you could tell by the apprehension in their voices to do what he was suggesting.  Their previous accountant was from what I could tell by overhearing him talk was also a Travel agent.  No I was not purposely trying to ease drop, our accountant just talks that loud.  He went on and on about how their previous accountant was a moron and idiot, a bad travel agent much less an accountant.  $80 to do your taxes?! He did an $80 job too! I have not charged $80 in 80 years!  His going rate is about $250, I know seems high to me too, I really like the $80 figure more.  The first time we went there he charged us $400 and I swore we were never going there again, that was 5 years ago.

I asked the Queen what she figured we were getting back, she asked how much do you wanna get back, I told her some insane number and she shot it down.  I told her I know, but I can dream can’t I?

Since tax guy was still busy he told his secretary to take us, nice woman in her mid 30’s to low 40’s I would imagine, have no idea how she stays working for him.  She punched the numbers into the computer and gave us a number that was $2000 higher than the ridiculous number I told the Queen I wanted. ( I guess it pays to have too many kids )  Nice!!  Looks like I get my deck and the kids get their swimming pool this year.

We exchanged pleasantries with everyone and left VERY happy.  Cannot wait to see what type of entertainment he will have for us next year.