Who Is Behind This Blog?
Welcome to my blog! My name is Nate Whitehill and I am the co-founder of Unique Blog Designs, a company that provides blog design and marketing solutions to individuals and small businesses, and Highlighter.com – a new startup in the e-reading space.I have been self-employed/running Internet businesses for over four years, since January of 2007.
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Category Archives: Featured
The Internet Wins.
With the recent election of Barack Obama, there is going to a new Presidential precedence in using the Interwebz to communicate with the US citizens. There was no question Obama’s Internet marketing was top notch. He and his team had the most effective marketing of anyone who ever ran for office. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr – Barack Obama’s team has and is participating in all … Continue reading
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T-Shirt Friday: Fat Man Unleashed
Thanks to Israel Lagares, aka Fat Man Unleashed, for sending me this awesome t-shirt. Israel started Fat Man Unleashed in May of 2007 – a few months after I started my blog (January of 2007). UBD redesigned Fat Man Unleashed in October of 2007. Back then, FMU had only around 400 RSS subscribers. Today, Fat Man Unleashed has nearly 4000 readers! Talk about an online … Continue reading
New UBD Website + Our First Plugin
I wanted to make a few quick announcements. First of all, my team and I have been hard at work redesigning the UBD site and fully integrating it into WordPress. I am happy to announce that this is now complete – our new company website runs off a single installation of WordPress. WordPress serves as a great platform for not just blog content, but showcasing … Continue reading
PageRank Update Underway?
Some of you may have remember that when I first started my blog back in January of 2007, I was awarded with a PR5 during my first PR update. Unfortunately, when the Google PageRank slap hit everyone six months ago, I was bumped back down to a PR4. Today on I read on Courtney Tuttle’s blog (nice blog, Courtney that Google is undergoing its quarterly … Continue reading
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Tagged authority listing, google, page rank, pagerank, pagerank update, pr
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Twittering Up a Storm
It seems like everyone these days is now Twittering – the micro blogging platform in which people “follow” each others’ updates via a live, instant message-like chat stream. You will see my recent Twitter updates on the top of the sidebar on the right-hand side of my blog. I first started Twittering in November of 2007 when UBD attended the Blog World Expo. I used … Continue reading
Microhoo! Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion
No joke. Microsoft made an offer of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo, thus FINALLY creating a competitor to Google. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, publicly released the following letter discussing the merger. January 31, 2008 Board of Directors Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Attention: Roy Bostock, Chairman Attention: Jerry Yang, Chief Executive Officer Dear Members of the Board: I am writing on behalf … Continue reading
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Las Vegas Pubcon Recap
It’s hard to describe the feeling that is *being* in Las Vegas. The places, the people, the parties… it’s quite extravagant. One month ago, I had never even been to Las Vegas, but now, I have been twice thanks to the recent Blog World Expo and most recently, Pubcon Webmaster Convention. What do you get when you combine Las Vegas, with a professional networking event … Continue reading
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My Experience with Facebook
When the whole “social networking” thing first started to become popular in the summer of 2004, I was one of the first persons in my class to sign up for MySpace. At that time, it was the only “must join” social network because Facebook was only available at select colleges. All of my friends thought I was stupid for signing up for a MySpace account … Continue reading
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Golf + Fitness + Authority = Meet Mike Pedersen
What happens when you mix golf, fitness and the dedication to be an expert in a particular niche? Meet Mike Pedersen, the golf fitness expert. Mike Pedersen is a well-known golf blogger in the golf and fitness communities. Don’t be fooled by his excellent search rankings – Mike doesn’t practice any Blackhat SEO. Mike is simply a great example of how to build authority in … Continue reading
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