As the bright light of a new decade streams through the bedroom window to suddenly focus what now appears to be an acute case of hangover I wanted to post this advice.

Normally at this time of year the net is suddenly filled with predictions posts and tweets (I even considered making a Twitter web app where you could add filter words to remove any tweet that contained “prediction”)

Rather than make any pointless predictions myself I would rather just share some commitments and plans for the coming year. This is a task that I would normally do at this time of year anyway.

2009 Goals

1. Move to entirely self employed (Done – March 09)
2. Diversify income as the first stage in long term plan (Done)
3. Start a new business with a friend (Done – Kerboo)

And my 2010 Goals are

1. Sell my Adsense flat to nearly clear my main mortgage (1st / 2nd Qtr)
2. Get Kerboo to 500 customers
3. Make 80% of my income location independent

And the sub projects for this year are all around the theme of

AUTOMATION

AUTOMATION

AUTOMATION

We have a 3 week trip to California planned in for August this year to look for somewhere we can relocate to (Planning for 2012 ish)

Heres the incentive for that…

Have a great 2010, make sure you have a plan and that you ACTION it

Rob over at InverseSEO pinged me an email to ask if he could use elements of my design on his redesign.

I dont know if it was the comments I have in my stylesheet or just that hes a nice chap… anyway the new design he created looks great – much better than mine anyway.

Well as many will know I am on Adsense account number 8 now and I have
never had any success with an appeal but a recent post by Shaun over
at Hobo will give hope to many…

http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/google-adsense-banned/

Id suggest keeping Hobo Web in your feed reader as Shaun really knows
what hes talking about…

Spotted this list of the top 150 SEO blogs, although im in some friendly company id doubt im really 128th material am I?

Just a quick one, spotted this site from a tweet by @seanfee80 promoting his excellent Vidschool site.

Really interesting ad format and placement, normally I would suggest that adverts need to be in an obvious place and that they are one of the most obvious and enticing things on the page to click on the page. These ads break that final rule but I still think they look like an effective ad placement and implementation to me.