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]]> Comment on How Much Is Your Blog Worth? by Wolf Halton http://alchemistmagazine.com/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-5 Wolf Halton Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:10:36 +0000 http://www.alchemistmagazine.com/?p=56#comment-5 I have seen this widget before. It is a great morale-booster, but not too helpful to know that by some algorithm your blog is valued at $0. Do you have any examples of any blogs that have a value above $0, or does it have to be as popular as cnet or yahoo to have any value at all? FYI, I put in yahoo.com on the test site and the value was..... ............$0. Google is also worth $0. Maybe you are doing better than you think. Your site has an Alexa rating for the day in the low 2 millions at 3 am (yahoo and google have traffic ratings of 1 and 1 respectively). The lesson there is that both of those sites provide information that is useful to a large slice of the web-public and they advertise all the time. They advertise so much that now their customers advertise FOR THEM. alchemistmagazine is in a smaller niche. My site, wolfhalton.info, has an alexa rank of 3.9 million. I have been higher - when I was commenting a lot of blogs and writing more articles - and there is a direct correlation between targeted niche-based advertising and traffic flow. Keep up the good work. I really like the alchemistmagazine domain name choice. I have seen this widget before. It is a great morale-booster, but not too helpful to know that by some algorithm your blog is valued at $0. Do you have any examples of any blogs that have a value above $0, or does it have to be as popular as cnet or yahoo to have any value at all? FYI, I put in yahoo.com on the test site and the value was….. …………$0. Google is also worth $0. Maybe you are doing better than you think. Your site has an Alexa rating for the day in the low 2 millions at 3 am (yahoo and google have traffic ratings of 1 and 1 respectively). The lesson there is that both of those sites provide information that is useful to a large slice of the web-public and they advertise all the time. They advertise so much that now their customers advertise FOR THEM. alchemistmagazine is in a smaller niche. My site, wolfhalton.info, has an alexa rank of 3.9 million. I have been higher - when I was commenting a lot of blogs and writing more articles - and there is a direct correlation between targeted niche-based advertising and traffic flow.

Keep up the good work. I really like the alchemistmagazine domain name choice.

]]> Comment on The Last Alchemist by Lifestyle Alchemist http://alchemistmagazine.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-3 Lifestyle Alchemist Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:52:21 +0000 http://www.alchemistmagazine.com/?p=3#comment-3 I think that's a very realistic and well defined viewpoint. And I agree I think what you touched on about getting rid of emotional baggage may be the biggest part of finding your point B. You can't move forward until you deal with where you are now. So maybe that's the biggest part of the secret: Dropping all the dead weight that's dragging you down. -It might be negative people. -It might be childhood trauma. -It might be fear of failure. But until you make the conscious decision to accept it or solve it you can't move on to your true greatness. Would you agree? I think that’s a very realistic and well defined viewpoint. And I agree I think what you touched on about getting rid of emotional baggage may be the biggest part of finding your point B.

You can’t move forward until you deal with where you are now.

So maybe that’s the biggest part of the secret:

Dropping all the dead weight that’s dragging you down.

-It might be negative people.
-It might be childhood trauma.
-It might be fear of failure.

But until you make the conscious decision to accept it or solve it you can’t move on to your true greatness.

Would you agree?

]]> Comment on The Last Alchemist by Scott http://alchemistmagazine.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2 Scott Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:50:08 +0000 http://www.alchemistmagazine.com/?p=3#comment-2 I think there is truth to it, but, it doesn't give you the full "how to". There are a lot of people that do have the "midas touch", where they always come out on top, and it's not a "by chance" happening. What "The Secret" does is tell you how to get from point "A" to point "C", but leaving out point "B". It's like giving someone a microchip and saying "This will make you happy and answer your dreams", but they don't tell you how to take apart the computer and where to plug the microchip in. Someone that has been unhappy, frustrated, depressed or financially insolvent is not going to just release all of their inhibitions and become positive, happy and project positive vibes all of a sudden. It's more complicated that just flipping a light switch. People are the way they are for a reason, where it was something tramatic from their childhood that they may or may not consciously remember, or whether someone is strong minded versus weak minded. We can all stay positive and visualize positive things we want for a short period of time, but it's human nature to leave that when something crops up or comes out of left field at you. The human mind is a very complex thing, and most people deal on the negative or skeptical side versus the utopian or positive side. I think, before you can truly use "The Secret", you have to figure out what make you tick, why do you have the outlook you have, why do you have certain tendicies, why do you make the decisions you make, etc,etc. I don't know if true self discovery alone is enough to fill the gap needed, but I have to believe it's a big part of it. The way I know it's a big part is this: we all want to be happy and experience true joy, yet we tend to spend a lot of our time gossiping negatively about people or things, and being closed minded about things we don't know or understand. I know I don't have all the answers, but I feel I have a glimpse. I think there is truth to it, but, it doesn’t give you the full “how to”.

There are a lot of people that do have the “midas touch”, where they always come out on top, and it’s not a “by chance” happening.

What “The Secret” does is tell you how to get from point “A” to point “C”, but leaving out point “B”. It’s like giving someone a microchip and saying “This will make you happy and answer your dreams”, but they don’t tell you how to take apart the computer and where to plug the microchip in. Someone that has been unhappy, frustrated, depressed or financially insolvent is not going to just release all of their inhibitions and become positive, happy and project positive vibes all of a sudden. It’s more complicated that just flipping a light switch.

People are the way they are for a reason, where it was something tramatic from their childhood that they may or may not consciously remember, or whether someone is strong minded versus weak minded. We can all stay positive and visualize positive things we want for a short period of time, but it’s human nature to leave that when something crops up or comes out of left field at you. The human mind is a very complex thing, and most people deal on the negative or skeptical side versus the utopian or positive side. I think, before you can truly use “The Secret”, you have to figure out what make you tick, why do you have the outlook you have, why do you have certain tendicies, why do you make the decisions you make, etc,etc. I don’t know if true self discovery alone is enough to fill the gap needed, but I have to believe it’s a big part of it.

The way I know it’s a big part is this: we all want to be happy and experience true joy, yet we tend to spend a lot of our time gossiping negatively about people or things, and being closed minded about things we don’t know or understand. I know I don’t have all the answers, but I feel I have a glimpse.

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