Last week I mentioned Project 2168, in which I will be building as many new sites as I can along the lines of the low-maintenance sites I have that bring in between $21 and $68 per month in ad sales.  I started on this project over the weekend, and there’s good news:
I can use subdomains [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk around the web about the search engines not valuing or even penalizing for paid links from services like ReviewMe or PayPerPost.  According to SEOMoz, that’s just not true.
Tim answered first and said that Yahoo! wouldn’t try to pick one post out of twenty or fifty on every blog that [...]

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Duplicate content is a plague for webmasters.  Scrapers parrot our own content right back at us, and years ago they used to sometimes rank higher than we did!  Webmasters have a ton of questions about this stuff.  SEOMoz has done a good job laying it all out in this rather amusingly illustrated guide to dupe [...]

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I’ve got all my hosting and theming stuff done now. I took a good look at all my sites and realized a few things.

A sort of link-cloaking thing I had going on two affiliate sites was broken. No wonder I wasn’t getting sales. I dumped it and went back to the naked [...]

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I’m trying to move all my sites to the new host today.  But the old host had an awesome idea: “hey, why don’t we go down and stay down and kiss the pavement while we’re down there?”
At least there’s no doubt in my mind I made the right move.  I’m saving $4/month with the new [...]

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I’m moving hosts again.  Not Project B-2 Bomber that had the Site5 disaster a month ago - I’m still pleased with Fluid now that we’ve got the initial kinks out.  If it continues to do well, I think we have a permanent new home.
It’s another batch of sites I’m moving.  This time, just to save [...]

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Here’s a good tip from the Marketing Pilgrim: ping Google’s blog search service and get your site indexed faster.  Does it work?  MP thinks so - and so do some posters at WebmasterWorld (click over and follow the link).
iBrian was kind enough to spell this tip out for newbies and non-techies: in your blogging software, [...]

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After months of speculation, I reported last week that yes, the reason my Project Mai Tai domain is banned from Google is that it used to be owned by someone else. That left me with two choices: wait - perhaps more than a year - and hope it gets indexed, or port the pages [...]

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The site was down for hours this weekend, so I took the time to create a new theme for it.  This one’s designed for fast-loading and readability, pure and simple.

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A couple of months ago, I posted about PayPerPost’s change in terms. One of those changes was that opps now had to pay at least $5. My initial concern was that they might be pricing themselves out of the market, and the number of available opportunities would drop. One of the other [...]

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