Took me long enough, but one of my aff sites finally made a sale, resulting in a commission of about $20. Considering it gets about 50 visitors a month, I’m pleased! This was a site I was about to give up on, because it turns out it’s a much more competitive market than [...]

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SEOpen offersa really cool Firefox extension for search engine optimization which is getting addictive for me. You just right click a page that you’re looking at, pick “SEOpen” from the list, and then it has submenus with all the info you could want. Backlinks and indexed pages in Google, Yahoo and MSN, Page [...]

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Time for an update on the blog site I nicknamed the “B-2 Bomber”: it’s beating the crap out of this one. I wish I knew what I did right, so I could offer you some sagely webmasterly advice (yeah, right, like I’m now a guru), but I’m not sure what I did. My [...]

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I know I talked about using Mambo on something, but I opted for Drupal instead. You can see it in action at my new directory/articles site, ChillyCool. My main reason was, I kept reading about how SEO-friendly Drupal was. And they’re right.
Getting Drupal to generate static urls in place of dynamic ones [...]

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Instead of doing the 58 other things I had planned on doing in the past few weeks, I’ve instead built a new directory of sites.

ChillyCool.com

So start submitting your sites! I don’t think I have my submission rules up yet, but they’re the same as on the BlueMushrooms directory. I’m going to be a [...]

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As I mentioned yesterday, I started playing with Mambo in May and immediately noticed some security issues on the site hosting the installation. Namely, a non-existant authorized user showing up in AwStats. I realized the timing might be a coincidence, but I backed off from Mambo until I had time to do some [...]

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Remember a while back, I said I was going to convert one of my underperforming affiliate marketing sites from straight HTML to a CMS format, just to see how it worked? Well, I didn’t forget. Nor did I get busy doing other things. What held me up was: security issues.
I was running [...]

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I spent this weekend looking at my hosting situation. This site is doing great, and so are some of the others. But some of them needed new hosting, so I decided to take care of that.
I was also supposed to be building a new site, adding articles here, doing all my daily tasks [...]

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Here’s a really good site to bookmark or add to your RSS reader: SearchBrains is a really nice one-stop-shop for SEO information and resources. It’s essentially just a portal, but it’s everything you need at your fingertips. The blogroll could act as your bookmarks page - it’s got a ton of resources for [...]

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