Forget your own sites for a minute, and think like a searcher. The web was designed for academics, originally, posting stuff to be archived. It wasn’t meant to be up-to-the-minute info. But thanks to dynamic programming and some people keen to make a profit, we’ve come to expect the net to give us immediate info.
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Continuing the experiment: Google’s AdWords PPC v. MyGeek’s PPC. I’m giving them both a whirl at the same time, and here’s how they’re measuring up so far.
To be completely honest, I think I’m sucking at this on both engines, and that’s neither of their faults (obviously). I’m pretty sure the site I’m promoting has [...]

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Here’s an article that makes sense of what I told you about yesterday about Google unexpectedly withholding taxes from some AdSense revenue checks: Google AdSense withholds 28% of February earnings for tax purposes - JenSense.com

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If you work with AdSense, you need to know about this: Google Tax Withholding
People are trying to figure out the rhyme and reason behind Google withholding taxes on some people’s AdSense income checks, and not on others. It seems to far only to be happening to US residents, but beyond that, there’s little rhyme or [...]

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Bookmark this, if you use a Mac for your web development: The Macintosh Webmaster forum at WebMasterWorld. It’s a great place to find all sorts of freebies and Mac-specific tips and news. One of the best threads is Mac Necessities, where people post about tools they can’t live without. I’ve found all sorts of free [...]

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Here’s a nice Friday tidbit - I’m not the only person who gets confused when people start talking about MAC and mean “MAC address” as opposed to “Mac Apple” or “Mac ‘n’ Cheese”. Okay, so I can usually drum out Mac ‘n’ Cheese by context.MAC Address vs. Apple’s Mac: An AdWords Tale
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If you really want to build your site up, there are certain totally innocent things you might want to do that could hurt it in the search engines. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced anyone’s sure what those are. For the most part, I do think if you are building sites with your visitors in mind, that [...]

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I know you can go a search and find php script archives on your own, but when I first started doing that, I wasted a lot of time wading through ones whose scripts just didn’t quite work as advertised, whose links didn’t really go where they were supposed to, etc. So here are two I’ve [...]

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Everyone’s looking for that holy grail of search engine optimization, that magic key you plug into your site and it takes off like a horse stung by a bee. There are quick fixes, like spamming blogs for porn sites, but those keep you running - you’re always having to outwit the people trying [...]

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If you’ve ever wondered what the hell anyone has to gain by spamming your blog, or even felt it was something to take personally, here’s a great article on the topic from The Register.
Sam - let’s call our interviewee Sam, it’s suitably anonymous - lives in a three-bedroom semi-detached house in London, drives a vintage [...]

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