If you’ve been on this site investigating various links and things, then maybe you figured out that I do a bunch of various kinds of writing around the web, and own a few blog projects about things like restaurants in Portland and hotels and travel, in addition to my green blog where I talk mostly about issues pertaining to sustainability, recycling and the environment. But as a professional artist, here on my personal website, I tend to only focus on what’s been going on of late with either my writing or my painting. After this move up to Portland, as is often the case for people picking up all their belongings and moving to another city somewhat far away, I dug up a lot of things, took them out of old drawers and put them into moving boxes. During that time, I found tons of old, obsolete bits of technology, and have been researching what to do with them. Can I recycling my old mobile phone, or sell my phone online and have it end up somewhere that won’t harm the environment? I mean, I’d be a hypocrite, right? Were I to be the guy running a green blog, but then just throwing my phone into the trash because I had moved on to a new phone? So that’s the question. Can you sell your phone for cash? After not too much research, the answer is definitely yes, especially if you are overseas, where websites dedicated to safely disposing of obsolete and potentially toxic e-waste exist in droves. (more…)
September 20, 2010
Talking About Recycling Mobile Phones
September 10, 2010
Buying Gadgets and New Technology
I do my best not to spend money on things all the time, but it’s hard not to. I just started putting a lot of money into my record collection, and then in order to get the best fidelity in terms of the audio, well, not two months into this little experiment / habit, I start thinking I need new and better studio-sounding speakers. So then it’s how do I create a budget for that, and should I really buy these, and how much better will my life be because of them, etc. Lots of people have their lives centered around gadgets and put tons of effort into needing to have the latest technology and then some. Though I’ve never really been that way, I do see the merits of some of it. I spend a lot of time getting really irate at the iPhone, but I’m reluctant to get rid of it. I never used to want to have my phone do more than just give me the ability to talk with others when it was absolutely necessary, but after I finally relented and got the iPhone, and then a couple of years go by, it suddenly becomes indispensable. I take pictures of food when I write the restaurant reviews up here in Portland. I have cataloged the development of the kitten. I use the maps on the phone to navigate through a brand new city. You know the drill. We all do it to some extent, become beholden to these things that appear to make our lives at once both easier and then somehow more difficult. (more…)
September 3, 2010
Cash for Mobile Phones Phone Recycling Online
Recycling Mobile Phones Website for My UK Friends
If you have an old mobile phone lying around on a book case or in an old sock drawer, then go find it and get ready to make some extra cash. There is a reason why there is so much new competition among companies trying to get you to sell mobiles for cash these days. Not only is the act of recycling your obsolete mobile phone an important one, it’s pretty vital to the proper treatment of the planet, which is easy to understand as soon as you do a bit of research on exactly what is contained within these things.
There are a ton of toxic metals and elements that are not very cooperative with the soil, especially if you just throw them in the trash and they end up in a landfill. And because technology is always evolving and new phones and gadgets are always being introduced to the market where we covet after them so viciously, well — you see how this goes. More trash that is being unsafely disposed of and more damage being done to the environment. Technology evolves rapidly, making gadgets such as mobile phones completely obsolete, often in just a matter of months. But the truth is, you don’t need to throw away your old mobile phone this time, when you can get paid cash for mobiles, receive money for your unused mobile phone, and in the process, do your part for the environment.
Enter: Cash for Mobile Phones UK, an Explanation of How It Works
This is as simple as a four part process: here’s how anyone can get cash for mobile phones, while simultaneously doing their part for the health and safety of planet. Go online to the site and search for your old phone by name and model. Once you find it, you’ll be able to see what it’s worth. At that point, you can request the mailer envelope for free, with included postage. Simply pop the phone into the envelope and the envelope into the post. Your phone will be tested and if you meet the basic terms and conditions, then you will receive your cash. Simple as that.
November 1, 2008
Get Your Website Reviewed: Here’s Why
When you pay for your site or blog to be reviewed, you are simply paying to have me look over your blog and highlight areas where you are doing outstanding work, and other areas where you could improve. Ideally, getting a review from me will get you noticed some in the Blogosphere, bring you some targeted traffic and establish some high value backlinks to your site.
Description of a Typical Blog or Site Review
Everything I do, I take very seriously, and blog reviews are no exception. I guarantee you that I will spend as much time as is necessary before I formulate an opinion and write an evaluation. The review will be in-depth and based on any or all of the following criteria:
* Content
* Navigation
* Aesthetics / Appearance
* Organization
* URL Structure
* Do Things Make Sense?
* How Efficiently You’ve Used Your Real Estate
* Search Engine Optimization Elements
* General Quality and Level of Entertainment or Interest
* Writing Proficiency
* How Thoroughly You’ve Covered Your Topic
Click Here to See a Sample Review to Get a Better Idea of What I Will Do for You
Ready for Your Blog Review Now? Scroll down to the bottom of the page & fill out the comment form.
What Will Be Included in Your Blog or Site Review
* The complete review of your blog or site, published permanently to my site (Page Rank 4)
* An image from your blog (most likely your logo) somewhere in the review
* An ad tile to place on your site saying that you’ve been reviewed here
Reasons to Get Your Blog Reviewed
The reasons why you should get your blog or site reviewed are many – and if you’re new to online marketing, then here are the basics. First and foremost, in my opinion, if you’re operating a site online, then as with any other venture, you should strive to do your best. The only true way to figure out what is or is not working with your creation, is to humble yourself and open up to the process of constructive criticism. We all want to improve, and to create something successful – online, that means getting traffic, subscribers, comments, listings high up in the search engines, sales, whatever. Finding out what your site looks like to someone else who spends a lot of time examining other sites is valuable information.
Another great reason to consider getting reviewed is the potential for traffic. You have the opportunity, when you get your site reviewed, to acquire potentially hundreds of new readers that you might not otherwise have access to. In the process of reading your site review, new readers will learn interesting things and be exposed to the topics that you cover. New traffic is like Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket; without traffic, you don’t have much.
Every review that I do here on this site will contain between 2 and 5 backlinks to various pages on your site. Quality backlinks from sites with high page rank (as of 11.17.09 this is a PR4) are a valuable component in every search engines’ evaluation of a website. High value inbound links to your site increase overall link popularity, which somewhere down the line of dominoes, ends up helping your site to achieve better rankings in the search engines. Think about it like this – a link pointing to your site is like getting a vote in a high school popularity contest. The site with the most votes, or links pointing to is….(?) You guessed it. The winner of the popularity contest. Which is not to say, hey! I’ve got the most popular site! Instead – this means more traffic, and everything that can come with it.
Lastly, and possibly the least tangible result, is the ever-mercurial notion of branding. Create some buzz. Have the blog review end up in syndication through RSS feeds, email subscriptions, or other sites, who might also pick up and re-publish the content.
Ready for Your Blog Review Now? Scroll down to the bottom of the page & fill out the comment form.
Getting Your Blog Reviewed – What It Costs You
I use this blog for a lot of things, and given my experience in online marketing and my background as a writer, doing site reviews is one of those purposes. I critically evaluate as many facets of your site as possible, from the aesthetics to functionality, URL structure to search engine optimization, writing proficiency to topical interest. Regardless of my background, in the end, it’s just an opinion – take it or leave it.
If you would like to have your blog reviewed, fill out the form below. In exchange I ask for a fee of $50 and a permanent text link back to my site. You can write an article reviewing this site or write one talking about how you were recently reviewed on my site, or do something entirely different. Copy the image below, place it on your site to show others that you’ve been reviewed here, and link it directly to the page where your blog or site was reviewed. All these methods are fine by me.
So the process will go like this -
1) Fill out the form requesting a review
2) I will contact you with any questions before starting
3) Send money ($50) through paypal (mattybyloos AT gmail DOT com)
4) Notify me via email with a link to the page on your site where you’ve placed a link back to me
5) Give me 10 business days and I’ll notify you when your site review is complete (URL included)
Ready? Fill out the comment form to get your blog reviewed now (I will not publish these comments to the site, so don’t worry!)
