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Ode to a Forum

I love forums, they are excellent tools for website publishers with almost no downside and tremendous upside. If you have a site that you think would benefit from a forum, wait not another day, and get it done now.
Why are forums good? Well, there are many reasons, lets start first with how they provide a [...]

Behind the Scenes at Google, the Human Reviewer Playbook

You can optimize your site for search engine algorithms perfectly, but if a human working for a search engine comes in and makes a snap judgement that your site looks spammy or isn’t useful, and you’ll suffer.
I think, many of the unexplained rankings we see are a result of these human reviews and it [...]

Video Production, The Wave of the Future

Video is becoming a larger and larger part of the Internet and I’m getting my feet wet with producing my own.
But, this is virgin territory for me and I need some help. I’m hoping to get advice and recommendations from those of you who have already done this.
The first thing I need is the technology. [...]

To our hosts and registrars, may they never meet

This post, I’m sure, will have many of you saying “Duh!” and rightfully so, most of you, I hope, know this, or realize it is common sense, but many people out there don’t and they get misled, confused, and screwed because of it.
I speak of course, of bundled services where your registrar is your host [...]

My New Nutrition Site

I finally have something to blog about, after awhile of not getting any inspiration. I’ve finally launched a new site (more or less).
Nutriquiz.com a nutrition quiz site.
I am really into nutrition, both as I like to cook and I like to look good naked. So I’ve been “into” nutrition for awhile and was hit with [...]

Using Google Alerts to Monitor Your Business

Google has a very nice, yet I think unsung feature, called Google Alerts which makes it very easy to monitor aspects of your web business. It isn’t a new service, and if you’re a dedicated reader of this site and forum you’ve undoubtedly heard it mentioned before, but I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted it [...]

Been Getting Hosting Company Forum Spam

Over the last couple months seemingly innocent posts have been appeared in the Website Publisher Forums that taken individually would look normal, but as a group they are very suspicious.
One new member would first post in the introduction folder, and then in the web hosting reviews area (the right forum, so they aren’t dumb spammers) [...]

Why Build 1 Site, When you can Build 2?

Horizontal expansion in your niche is a very good thing. So good of a thing that you might as well do it from the get go. Have a neat idea for a site? Great, build it and a related site at the same time. Cross promote, cross link, and you’ll do better.
I’ve talked about [...]

The Digg Effect Revisited

More fun in traffic analysis…..
A few months ago one of my sites made it to the front pages of Digg & del.icio.us and since so many people optimize, work, and dream to achieve the same, I did a writeup about how much traffic it provided. Visit the link to read that.
Well I just got [...]

Various Google Updates

The Googleplex has been buzzing with lots of little busy bees so far this week.
Adwords advertisers now can see performance data for individual sites in the content network (Adsense) and then exclude the bad ones and or do site targetted ads on the good ones. This should, hopefully, benefit quality Adsense advertisers (most of [...]

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