I’ve been playing with CrispAds and AdBrite as PPC networks for two of my blogs. I’ve done my best to give them all equal opportunities to score, and here’s where everything sits:
CrispAds and AdBrite seem to yield similar click-through rates, but CrispAds pays higher, with 25 cents per click. AdBrite’s clicks vary - [...]

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This is a real “duh” moment, but worth an entry. If you run a PHP-driven site - blog, CMS, etc. - double check to make sure your metatags are in place. At least the important ones according to SiteReportCard, which would be: title, description and keywords. When I last ran one of [...]

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Anybody else getting tipsy from all the back and forth on Google’s latest pagerank update, Bourbon? Actually, it’s the little post-bourbon mini-update that only seemed to affect a few sites that’s here today, gone tomorrow, back again, oops you just missed it.
One of my domains was too new to score in Bourbon, but a [...]

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I’ve been using five blog traffic exchange networks for a few weeks now, and I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re worth using, when your site’s new and you want to boost exposure.
Traditional traffic exchanges - not blog-specific ones - give you “garbage traffic”. Very non-targetted visitors who rarely click anything on your [...]

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I added a section of free webservices to the site. It’s a collection of scripts hosted by Bravenet, so you don’t need to know any php or CGI or any of that neat stuff to use them.
I’ve used them for at least 5 years on various sites, and I know them to be good [...]

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A while back, I did some research on tagging your blog entries, and what it might do for your blog and its visitors. Today I discovered another unexpected benefit:
After a month or two of tagging, Google has indexed pages based around each of the tags I’ve used in my site. You know how [...]

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Ctabuck at WebProWorld recommended a great tool for checking your site’s quality. It’s called SiteReportCard, and all you do is plug your url in, click a button and get a report. The information they give you is terrific.
It checks for:

* Broken Links
* Misspelled Words
* HTML Validation
* Load Time Analysis
* Meta Tag Optimization
* Image [...]

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Yesterday, I said I was going to do some revamping on an affiliate marketing site that looks like it has some potential. Today I’m going to list a few of the things I plan on doing with it… and we’ll see how fast I do it, how often I change my ideas in mid-process, [...]

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Between December 2004 and February 2005, I created two affiliate marketing sites geared to two very different types of products. I tossed them on the net with equal amounts of promotion and decided to see what happened. Today, I’m starting a new phase.
Despite the miniscule amounts of traffic both sites are receiving, it’s [...]

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About a month ago, I put a directory on this site for webmaster-related sites. It’s had one submissions so far, so I thought perhaps some revamping was in order.
Actually, I took the link down and was about to trash it. Then I started typing an entry about why it didn’t work, and realized [...]

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