The other day, I signed two sites up for 7 different ad networks. Remember, I warned you they might not even accept me, but hopefully we’d all learn something from that anyway.
Here’s an update on how that’s going:
AdBrite accepted me immediately and gave me code to use, which you’ll see here on the site. No [...]

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Thanks to pmkpmk at WebMasterWorld for this great tip!
As you may have noticed, when you check your backlinks at the search engines, Yahoo, MSN and others show a lot more for you than Google does. This is because Google is terribly picky about what links it will count, which presumably delivers better results for searchers. [...]

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The title pretty much says it all. If you’ve been reading the PPC Category, you know that I’ve been experimenting with AdWords to find out just what it can do for me, with very poor results at first. But the ideas I had recently on improving my AdWords click-through rate are panning out. By eliminating [...]

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As great an idea as Google AdSense is, to the point that everyone’s trying to copy it, I think we’re oversaturated. I know I don’t even see them anymore. As soon as I recognize that box, or see “Ads by Goooooooogle”, my eyes glaze over, and I move on. So it’s time to look for [...]

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I’ve been struggling to learn AdWords lately - just check out the evidence of my travails in the PPC category. Yesterday, I created my second campaign and made some changes to the first. And I think I’ve discovered a pretty good trick:
Don’t even bother with general keyphrases.
I had wanted to see how my [...]

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I just joined a couple of Blog Traffic Exchange sites, and will let you know how they work. In the meantime, if you want to try them yourself, here are the links:
BlogExplosion and BlogClicker.
Good luck! I don’t see how these can hurt you, aside from possibly wasting a bit of time. And you do actually [...]

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There’s a new directory called BlogWatch that you should submit your blogs to. It’s currently a PR0 because it’s so new, but it’s run by the same guy who runs BetterWebMaster, which has PR4 (and which actually sends me some traffic, unlike a lot of the directories out there). By the time the next PR [...]

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Today, I decided to get territorial. I have one site that’s doing much better than I expected, and it’s a .info domain. I just bought the .com, .org and .net at Namecheap.com and put redirects on all of them to the real domain. I was getting a lot of searches for the domain name itself, [...]

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A few days ago, I signed up for the BlogKits/Overture partnership that allows bloggers to put Overstock “Support This Blog” banners on their sites (look to your right). I think it’s a good looking banner, personally. Due to the layout differences, I stuck one like this on my other blog:

And we should get to see [...]

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I ran my first AdWords campaign on an affiliate marketing site in March and April, with very mixed results. Mostly, bad results, really. And it brought up more questions than answers.Â
But I did some reading and came up with a theory. I eliminated all my general keywords and left in only the very, very [...]

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