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I’ve been reading a lot about SEO lately.  If you don’t know what SEO is, it’s basically a way to get your websites ranked the highest in search engines, with Google as the most important.

I’ve built a handful of websites already, but I have done nothing in terms of SEO for these sites.  As a matter of fact, a few nights ago, I realized that there was a problem with this blog.  I had the Metatag plugin and the “All in one SEO” plugin enabled at the same time, so there were two entries for both Metatag Keywords and descriptions.  When google indexed this blog, it was showing the same title for all posts, so I had like 5000 duplicate titles.  In indexing terms, this is bad.  I realized this through google’s webmaster tools.

Anyways, without going into too much detail, since it’s kinda boring for those of you who are not interested, I’ve begun “optimizing” my sites, so that people may stumble upon my site in google searches.  The end result, of course, is me having more hits to my sites, and in return, I make more money.

There’s a lot to learn, but I have a good based, along with a ton of content already written in this blog, so it’ll be easier for me.  I guess the whole reason why I’ve been reading up on SEO is because the google adwords campaign that I started last year made me some good money.  Naturally, I want to learn more about the things that make me money, especially when it took very little effort to make that money.

So, I’ve got some SEO ideas here.  Just thinking of some ways to implement them.  No clue if they will work or not, but I’ll report back once I get everything setup.

There are so many ways to make money.  I was thinking about putting some money to work in real estate, but every time I think about it, it’s so much easier putting money to work in the stock market or building a website or something.  So much easier.

Played my heart out, but as with all tournaments, you need a little luck and you have to not get unlucky…if that makes any sense.  I played well the entire day.  Picked my spots, made some good laydowns…built my stack to around 52,000 chips, well above average.  There were 1,100 players that started the tournament and we were down to about 220.  I figured that I needed about 100,000 chips to make it to the cash at 100 players.  10% of 1,100,000 starting chips is roughly 100,000 chips.  I went card dead for an entire two levels, literally paying zero pots and dropped down to about 40k chips.  Then, on the big blind, I get dealt TJ.  Limped all the way around, the flop came 9-Q-K rainbow.  Dream flop for me, giving me the nuts.  I checked and it went all the way around in a 4 handed pot and the dude pushed, to my delight.  I had him covered, so I was licking my chops.  I hollywood-called and he turned over K-Q.  4 outs.  He hit a Q on the river and I was down to about 10k chips.  Dagger.

That was pretty much the start of the end.  I was able to double up once A-8 vs. A-9, when I hit my 8 on the turn, but my night ended in a 3-way pot with me holding K-J to pocket 4s, and A-9, with two of us all in.  No King or Jack and IGHN.  I was pretty close to the money too.  There was probably about 150 left.  Sucks.  11 hours of playing and nothing to show for it.  The life of a tournament player, I guess.  Some people love it, some people don’t.  I like to get rewarded for my efforts.  Instead, I play brilliantly, make minimal mistakes all day, and I get punished.  It doesn’t make sense.  I guess it’s that hope of making the final table and that $39,000 first place prize that makes me continue to play in tournaments.  One day, one day.  Makes me bitter when I bust out of a tourney.

Reentered my BBY short this morning with 300 shares.  I forgot that I was doing a pair trade with AMZN, so I gotta keep this BBY short.

I’ve been trying to decide what to do over the next few weeks.  Gold has had a nice pullback over the past few weeks.  I think I will start accumulating gold sub-$100 on GLD.  I will probably do the Proshares Ultra gold (UGL) to get more bang for my buck.  GLD is still trading near $108, so I’m gonna wait until we get sub-$100 to start accumulating.  I will also get some NEM or GG.  This gold trade will be in my longer term portfolio.

I still want to get into AAPL & GOOG longer term, but I have a feeling that we will probably consolidate for a while after these big runups in both companies.  Then, I’ll get bored, sell my ” long term” position, and it will skyrocket.  Always happens with my “long term” positions.  I never have enough patience.  I should probably stay away from these two.

I still like AMZN, so I will be accumulating if we go lower.  And maybe pairing it up with more BBY short.

Gonna look to get back into my SBUX short too.

McClellan oscillator closed below -200 on friday, but managed to squeak back up above -200 at the close today, so who knows what’s gonna happen from here.  The MO is just a gauge telling me that we’re probably oversold here.  It doesn’t usually lie, so I’m not gonna fight it here and short some stupid stuff.

Heading up to AC tomorrow to play in the $100k guaranteed at the Borgata.  It’s a $170 + $30 with 1 rebuy.  that shows you my confidence in tournaments.  I play in the cheap ones.  Actually, it’s probably gonna end up costing me $370, so I guess it’s not really that cheap.  I just need one cash in these tourneys and I’ll be back in business.  My plan is gonna be to play tight, and avoid all-ins without the nuts.   Let’s see what happens.

Looks like the S&P retraced from the 1150 level as my trading buddy had predicted.  Every time I talk to him, he’s talks about “being lucky” in predicting what will happen with the markets.  I mean, I know that no one really knows what’s going to happen in the markets, but I am a firm believer that with the proper analysis, you can put the odds in your favor of making money.  My trading buddy obviously has done his homework in regards to the markets.  I imagine that he’s probably reading the analysis of others and regurgitating this information to me.  Whatever the case, the dude is good.

I think I’m already up about $10k from the start of the year.  On paper, of course, but it’s only been 22 days.  I made just a little over $12k last year, for the entire year.  WTF?  Maybe I’m just getting a little “lucky” myself?  I don’t know.

So, I dumped half of my FXP yesterday, while sitting on the Throne at Target…dumping.  Yeah, you read that right.  Stomach problems.  TMI. I fired up my iPhone 3GS and the free app iStockManager, which integrates into my Ameritrade account.  With the click of a few buttons, I sold 500 shares of FXP for a profit of around $800 or so.  20% in 11 days, so I said F it, I should probably take some profits.  Shocker that we are up another 2% today.

Alright, I just covered all of my shorts/inverse ETFs.

• Out -500 SBUX for +$139
• out -200 GLD for +$1,194
• out -500 BBY for +$1,222
• out 900 SRS for around +$680
• out 400 FXP for +$870

My trading buddy said on 1/15:

“Not really understand how this market work but just have some luck. I think the consolidation is coming.  Based on Q4 earnings and Q1 forward PE. SP should be around 920-940. Let’s see…”

If history repeats itself, then I most definitely covered my shorts too early.  90% sure that I won’t get to reenter my shorts any time soon…at a higher price that is.  All good, I wanted to lock in the gift that was given to me over the past week.  We’ve had a nice drop.  The Dow dropped 4% this week.

So, now I’m holding:

• 100 AMZN @ 127.35
• 300 VCLK @ 9.70
• 500 UNG @ 10.03
• 200 IBKR @ 17.35
• 100 FXP @ $7.75
• 100 SRS @ $7.42

That’s it.    I’m holding 100 each of FXP and SRS because of the 10% idea that The Fly had.  I’m just gonna leave those and see what happens.

That’s about it for now.

Wish I would’ve seen this before I bought my HP HDX16t:

Just downloaded Firefox 3.6, but I soon realized that my fingerprint reader was no longer working.  I remembered that there was a fix out there somewhere because DigitalPersona didn’t initially work on Firefox 3.5 either.  Anyways, I modified the Firefox 3.5 fix, so that it works with Firefox 3.6.  Basically, I changed the “maxVersion” variable to “3.6.*” in the install.rdf file.  Here’s the modified file:

Digital_Persona_patch.zip

Just download, rename it to Digital_Persona_patch.xpi and drag it into your Firefox browser, then install the plug-in.  Should fix your problems.  Don’t blame me if your computer brick’s though…

Not only did I not hit the Bad Beat jackpot at Caesar’s, but I managed to dump $990 at the $2/$5 NL game as well.

Man Sets New Poker Bad Beat Jackpot Record

Oh well.  I’m not lucky enough to win one of those bad beat jackpots anyways.  Beatch.

Got my car back.  Total damage was a little over $10k.  Lady told me that they consider it totaled when the cost to repair is roughly 80% of the KBB value.  Oh well.  They replaced a ton of things, so I’m content with what they did.

+$350 at the $2/$5 NL game last night.  I got unlucky one hand, which costed me a $700 pot.  I had 8-9 suited and called a $25 raise in position.  Flop came 2-3-8 rainbow.  Dude checked, I bet $40, and he min-raised to $80.  He had $175 behind him, so I did the calculations and realized that I was about even money to call the min raise.  I called and a 9 hit the turn giving me two pairs.  He led out of $80 and I pushed.  He called  with his remaining $100.  Three came on the river counterfeiting my two P’s.  Oh well.  Still ended up a winner though.

Looks like the Bad Beat jackpot is over a half a million at Caesars.

http://goac.com/goplay/article_9d274fa9-b3c5-54ea-8f29-2845b897dadc.html

The guys at my table at the Borgata were talking about it last night.  Supposedly, there’s a million people on the waiting list.  I’m hoping that since it’s tuesday, it won’t be as crazy there.  Anyways, I’m gonna go over there to see if I can get lucky.

I sold half of my AMZN this morning at $128 for just about breakeven.  I think I panic’d a little bit.  Oh well…I want to be net short here, so that’s where I’m at right now.  Still long a few names, for the longer term, but that’s about it.  I’m just gonna let my shorts do their work.  No exit plan for now.  Just wait and see.

That’s about it for now.  Time to squeeze some cards, and maybe roll some dice…definitely no BJ though…

Just dumped all of my index longs this morning. Not exactly sure how much I made, but probably around +$2.3k or so. I was trying to decide whether to sell my AMZN or not, but I opted to short BBY instead, sort of a pair trade. So, I got $26k long of AMZN and $12k short of BBY. I could get pwned if AMZN tanks and BBY goes higher. It’s a risk I’m willing to take though. I buy everything from AMZN, simply because it’s the best, hands down.

I shorted a little GLD here. 200 shares at $113.04. I also bought 1000 shares of FXP & SRS each…just because. They are both “due”, I think. I’ll give them a week or two. Also, added to my SBUX short. I have 500 shares short now. Definitely biasing myself to the downside here. I hope I don’t get pwned by AMZN.

Heading up to ac to get my car back. Gonna play some poker. On my new years trip, I won almost a thousand playing 2/5, but lost it all back on penny slots and craps. What a show.

Out for now.

Here are the numbers:

• Trading: +$12,045
• Poker
  • Cash Games: +$4,199
  • Tourneys: -$159
  • Rakeback: +$377
• Casino: -$1,285
• Sportsbetting: -$735
• Blog Revenue: +$1,852
• Keyword Campaign
  • Affiliate Revenue: +$3,011
  • Google Adwords: -$304
• B–space
  • Affiliate Revenue: +$2,427
  • Google Adwords: -$2,078
  • Other Advertising Costs: -$380
• Webhosting: -$84

I spent very little time with my trading this year, especially compared to last year.  Plus $12k is not that good, but after what felt like a pummeling last year, I guess any kind of green is good.  I traded lightly, and very patiently, and ended the year in the black.  Shocker that my biggest losses in trading were from futures trades.  I think I might just banish futures trading all together.

Also, shocker that I continue to donate my money to the Borgata via table games.  Craps is a losing proposition.  Blackjack is a losing proposition.  I know that, but I continue to do it anyways.  Why?  Maybe it’s because I long for that one hot shooter when every roll nets me a few black chips?  Whatever…I probably spent more money on beer and other forms of alcohol last year.  I’ll just chalk it up as an entertainment loss.

Same with Sportsbetting.  I seem to make all of the wrong picks, every time.  I mean, I am betting on Alabama -4.5 tonight.  Lock it up that Texas covers.  LIU.

Blog Revenue, over $1.8k.  Pretty good for barely doing a lick.

My one google adwords campaign made over $3k last year.  Hah.  Talking about easy money.  Easiest $3k I’ve ever made.  I’ll use it to support my golf addiction for 2010.

B–space.  That’s my other website.  Just about broke even on that puppy.  Gross revenues up over 3 fold from last year though, so I’m content.  This one will be a slow mover, but 4 years from now, I think it’ll just be a real secondary source of income.  Maybe even primary, if I do things right.  We’ll see.

That’s about it.  Gonna push a little bit harder with my trading this year.  Gotta put my money to work somehow and I’m too hesitant with real estate, so the stock market it is.  I’ll definitely need to put more money to work than I did last year though.

I did some cleaning today. Got rid of half of my all of my index longs for about +$2,400 or so. I’ll have to get the calculator out. I also sold out of SIBE on December 31st for -$3,000 or so. Someone shoot me if I buy a stock under $1 ever again. I think I had 10,000 shares at an average of $0.3765 and sold at $0.041. What a show. Anyways, I’m glad to be done with that thing. I’m gonna delete the ticker and not look at it again. I obviously got caught up in a pump and dump scheme. BTW…SIBE is the company linked to M-1 Global, the MMA company that has the rights to Fedor.

I’m still not sure what the numbers are for this year, in terms of trading, but I’ll run them soon. Instead of selling my 200 shares of AMZN, I think I’m going to short BBY instead. It’ll be pair trade. Long $26k of AMZN and short $15k of BBY or something like that. I’m gonna hold tight for now though and see if we can get to S&P 1150. If we can get up there, I will look to get into my BBY short, and add to my SBUX short. So, here’s what I’m holding now:

• 100 DIA @ 97.85
• 125 QQQQ @ 41.47
• 125 IWM @ 57.50
• 200 AMZN @ 127.35
• 300 VCLK @ 9.70
• 500 UNG @ 10.03
• 200 IBKR @ 17.35
• -200 SBUX @ 23.05

I’d like to add to VCLK and IBKR eventually, but they haven’t moved in a few months, despite the markets surging higher, so I’m holding tight.

I’m almost always wrong on my exits, so if history is any indication, we should surge higher over the next few days.  It’s already pretty crazy how long I’ve held onto these positions, but most likely we get more more push to the upside starting today.

Look for 1150 on the S&P like my trading buddy is saying.  That’s about it for now.

104 recorded rounds last year.  Probably more like 125, since I did not input all scores.

I started the year at a 17.8 handicap and ended at 14.4.  My goal was to be in the low teens, so I guess I came pretty close to meeting my goal.  More importantly though, I feel as though I truly did improve my game.  I have a better sense of where my ball is going now.  My new goal is to get to 10 before 2010 is over.  Preferably single digit.

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