This is the first post in a series about lessons I’ve learned in choosing and dealing with hosts. Expect it to be fairly random, but possibly useful.
Today’s lesson, “Better doesn’t mean better” came from the time I set up Project B-2 Bomber on an expensive, well-reputed host. I was tired of the downtime with cheaper [...]

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Once I got done reading about the sites that lost pagerank because of link selling, I started taking a look around and noticing the ones that didn’t lose pagerank, or even gained pagerank, despite prominently selling links.
That’s all I’m going to say on that - you can look around for yourself and notice that Google [...]

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From now on, all my posts about affiliate marketing will go to this site. Tips and tools, my experiences, all of it. My ChillyCool posts will all be the new link posts I discuss here. Kind of  like a personal bookmarking site that I share.
Personally, I like the idea of sites that digest other sites [...]

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Other blogs have covered how Google’s lowering pagerank on some very popular blogs that don’t sell text links. I’m going to cover this:
People, get a clue.
Why is anyone even paying attention to pagerank? It updates maybe twice a year. It’s really just an internal Google thing that they make public just to freak you out. [...]

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Something’s been nagging at me for a while now, and I finally realized today what it is. My current business model seems to be:

Blog,
blog,
blog.

The idea being if I post often enough, I’ll eventually have enough traffic and my ad space will eventually be worth… what? A few hundred? Right now I have four sites I [...]

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Thanks to Empress for notifying me the feed to this site had stopped working. I forgot to fix up the CNAME entry for Feedburner when I moved hosts a week ago. It’s now working fine.
(You’d think the fact the feed stats dropped by about 75% percent last week would have clued me in!)

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It’s been a crazy ten days since I last posted. As soon as I’d get one thing done, ten more things would jump on my to do list, and half of them would be emergencies that needed immediate attention. A lot of what I’ve been up to was switching hosts around.
One of my hosts, Nitrozone, [...]

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I’m venturing into the world of selling text links directly and cutting out the commission. You can buy a text link ad for considerably less this way than by going through /* or LinkWorth. The catch? They’re no-follow.
You can check out the Marketplace for all sorts of info about advertising here, but be aware [...]

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As I mentioned before, when I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, my “is_home” tag started returning the homepage-only stuff on not just the home page, but every “page” you get by clicking “previous entries” - “/page/2″, /page/3″, etc.
I searched for a week, combing the Wordpress forum, leaving a post that got no responses. Finally, I found [...]

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I had a record month in September - $424. The biggest chunk of that was BlogHer.
My TLA and LinkWorth earnings have stayed almost exactly the same for a couple of months now. Actual affiliate marketing sales remain, as usual, dismal but at least I had one last month. PPC type ads are bringing in around [...]

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