(Actually, 100,000 of ’em) At the current pace, this blog will log its 100,000th page hit sometime later this month. Thanks for visiting — er, reading!Read More
New Name for City Lakes Real Estate Blog In a shameless ploy to goose traffic, I’m hereby announcing an official change in this blog’s URL. Instead of www.RossKaplan.com, effective immediately, the new address will be www.TwinCities-housewives.com. Just kidding (kind of). #1 — With a Bullet After over 2,000 posts spanning almost four years on subjects...Read More
Approaching: 2,000th Blog Post So, after 3 1/2 years, almost 2,000 posts, and two different blog platforms . . . am I? “Blogged out,” that is? Surprisingly, no — at least not for anything more than short intervals. Having your own, virtual soapbox is strangely addictive — and oddly enough, actually seems to stimulate (vs....Read More
“Hey, Guys, I’m Over Here!” What’s a “zombie blog?” A blog that, weeks or even months after the last post appeared, continues to attract visitors. Exhibit A? The earlier incarnation of this blog. In fact, three months after switching from blogspot (“Model T”) to WordPress (“Porsche”), the older version of the City Lakes Real Estate...Read More
Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Blog “Plumbing” Want to know why — amongst other reasons — Google is a $200 billion behemoth? Because it collects big bucks from advertisers to place their ads on millions of big and tiny Web sites, blogs, etc. (mine is decidedly in the latter camp). Meanwhile, Google essentially...Read More
City Lakes Real Estate Blog 2.0: Due Early 2011 A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. –Lenin I suppose the blogging equivalent of Lenin’s famous line is, “a blogger whose ads are served by Google will end up promoting that which they denounce.” Which explains all The Wall Street Journal ads...Read More
