Archive for the 'Quick Links' Category

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The 9 Personality Types of a Comment Spammer
Funny and real summaries of the types of blog comments spammers that exist

Google Adsense Secret Tips & Optimization Tricks
The title says it all.

How to Make Money with Your Blog Site
Adsense and Amazon aren’t the only ways to monetize your blog, they just happen to be easiest.

Promoting Your Blog
Some good advice on different ways you can easily promote your blog

10 Steps to Guarantee You’ll Never Make More than 0.14 cents per month with AdSense
It’s always good to look at what not to do once in a while

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DMOZ Directory - How Much Money Is It Worth To You
Personally I don’t believe it’s worth much right now. There seems to be a lot innactivity and corruption going on. Just read the comments in that post alone!

PHP 101: PHP For the Abosolute Beginner
Some great tutorials here for those who want to learn PHP.

10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog
Only 1 out of every 100 readers of this post are likely to interact with it by leaving a comment…

How Google Should Monetize YouTube With AdWords & AdSense
Some interesting speculation on how Google is going to monetize YouTube.com

How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
Very good explanation through his experience of how to snap up expiring domains. Very similar to what I’ve personally experienced!

hacked .htaccess
This is probably the most effictive hacking idea I’ve ever seen to monetize the website you’re hacking!

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Blog Pulling Power - Creating Flagship Content
Some decent tips on how to create “anchor” articles, articles that attract attention for the rest of your blog

10 things I learned from my stats tonight
Dustin from Rain City Guide shows us some of their web stats. There’s some very interesting numbers and lessons to be learned here.

How Many Articles Can a Blog Handle?
There’s a good debate going on in the blog comments of this post as to how many articles a blog can really handle. What’s information overload? How many posts are too few to keep interest?

3 Reasons Why Delicious Bookmarks Beat Digg Traffic Hands Down
I don’t fully agree with him but he does pose some interesting arguments…

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Total Users Does Not Equal Total Usage
Sometimes you should be skeptical of some of the stated number of users.

Subliminal advertising in spam?
Interesting new method being used when sending spam!

Court Denies Target Corp. Request to Dismiss Suit
Visual-Only Websites May now be illegal for Americans…

The #1 Dumbest AdSense Mistake or How NOT to Earn $10,000/Month
Someone has gone through the trouble of calculating the difference in potential earnings between the 100 most expensive keywords versus those with the more profitable. It’s a huge difference!

“Amazing”, “digg”, “revealed”: Top 100 digg.com attention grabbing words
This article tries to extrapolate what a story on Digg might be worth in terms of dollars. Very thought provoking considering this is only one site!

How to get 14,644 visitors from digg.com in 8,5 hours: live social bookmarking experiment
Example of the effects of getting on one of the major social network sites.

Characteristics of Top Reddit Submissions
Some good statistics on the top rated submitted Reddit articles

An Introduction to Linkbaiting
A very quick but good introduction to the term “Linkbaiting” and it’s increasing usage online.

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Why Use Affiliate Ads Rather Than AdSense or YPN?
Quick little example of why sometimes its worth seeing which type of website monetization is better.

One Year Anniversary Review: Blogging and Blogging Tips
All I can say is that this article has a lot of amazing and valuable content. If you’re planning on blogging, definitely check it out!

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006
Some great advice on how to build links for your website

Essential SEO-Related Plugins for WordPress
4 good plugins for WordPress if you’re inclined. The only one I’ve had issues with is Sociable because it took a lot of processing, but that could be something I missed when installing it.

Google Adwords & “Quality” Scores - Its NOT all about content.
Interesting little article on Google Adwords bidding.

One Year Anniversary Review: WordPress Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Some great WordPress tips, tricks, and techniques from Lorelle.

Today’s Lesson: Domain Expirations and Emails
In the seminar we talk about how it’s possible for people to forget to renew their domains, here’s a perfect example!

5 + 1 Tips Towards Being An Efficient And Successful Biz-Blogger
Some good tips on how to blog successfully

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21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
Very good list of ways to increase your blog traffic. I mention almost all of these items in our seminars.

The Search For A Domain Name
Some very interesting statistics on the domain industry

5 Ways to Improve Your Affiliate Sales
Quick and easy ways to improve the odds of converting the products you promote through affiliates

10 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Your Blog
For those of you are trying to generate traffic through blogs, here’s a good list of what not to do on your blog.