Mark at 45n5 wrote about establishing a metric for what blog advertising is worth. I think this is really important - so much so that my comment turned short story length and I decided to bring it over here. Mark talked about pageviews and other stats, wondering which numbers to crunch, and how.
In traditional advertising, [...]

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A few months ago, I wrote about my BlogHer earnings, and how far off the pageviews according to AwStats were from what BlogHer calculates, which resulted in around $200 of actual earnings for over 341k pageviews (according to AwStats). Of course, no stats package is 100% accurate (it’s a matter of opinion what counts as [...]

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I’ve never been great with graphics. My usual banner consists of an image I’ve bought from someone else and some neat-o text I’ve applied. I can do drop-shadows, too, woohoo! My logos were always rectangular and separated from the site. Never any flow.
Yesterday I sat down to make a new template for one of my [...]

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One of my sites looks perfect in every browser, but Firefox was plonking a horizontal scroll bar down at the bottom. There was nothing for it to scroll over to, so this was a real head-scratcher. (In fact, I hunted for the solution several times over several months.) Now I found it.
It’s a very simple [...]

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I’ve found a very quick way to get through my feedreader these days. When I look at a post’s title or first paragraph and figure out what it’s promising to reveal to me, I ask myself:
“Does anyone really know this, and if they did would they tell me?”
I almost always get the answer “no”, so [...]

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I’ve finally found a to do system that inspires my creativity, keeps me on track, and makes me feel like I’m getting stuff done - all of which reduces my stress. I got the idea from reading about Zen to Done, but I never finished reading the article (because stress gives me a severe [...]

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Guest post by Honest Ed, author of the Make Money with Adsense Blog
Color Blend your Adsense Ads
Everyone knows the adsense blending basics: match the background of your ads to your site’s background, make it borderless, etc. There are however, more useful ways to blend your ads into your content.
Most people go with the idea that [...]

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Blue Mushrooms is now accepting posts from guest writers. For more info, click here.
For you, this is a chance to get your name and a link to your site out there in front of people. For me, it’s a chance to provide more great content for my visitors than I’m capable of writing alone.
I’m really [...]

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One tip I rarely see mentioned (or maybe I’m just reading at the wrong places) when people talk about making Wordpress SEO-friendly is: make sure your theme loads content near the top so your bots get to the content quickly. In the source code, you do not want tons of header, sidebar or javascript code [...]

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Mark’s ShowYourAdHere has opened (yeah, I’m a couple days late to break that news). This is a third-party service to let you set up your own ad zones and sell ad space to customers. Mark is only taking a 25% cut, which I feel is quite fair considering (a) how much the other guys take [...]

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