Archive for the 'WebMaster' Category
Do You Time Your Blog Comment Responses?
Friday, March 14th, 2008
First let me get a disclaimer off my chest. I have no proof of this. This is just me theorizing or rambling. With that out of the way let me say what I’m currently debating.
One of the goals of every new blog is to get Google to index its content every day (more than a day if you [...]
Hide That Affiliate ID In Your Link
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
If you haven’t done it yet then you are in all probability leaving money on the table especially for your blog’s focus is predominantly on affiliate income. Having your affiliate id as part of your URL is a complete turn off for many readers. Read my previous posts about niche user behavior and also about how your blog or web site url should [...]
Another One Of Those Adsense Optimization Tips
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Google Adsense, people either love it or hate it. Every webmaster at some point or the other would have experimented with Google Adsense with mixed success. Those with persistence will constantly fine tune with Ad types, design and placement until they see a jump in conversions and as a result, revenue. In many cases optimization must be done to the page and content itself before you can expect [...]
Ready To Advertise Your Website, Wait, Do This First.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Your site is finally ready and you can’t wait to launch it. Before you go ahead and sign up to spend major advertising dollars it might be worthwhile to do a quick sticky check, especially if your revenue generation model is to sell ads. The big question is will your website cut it? Does it have a good enough [...]
4 Quick Checks To Qualify A Website For Sale
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
It’s the weekend and as usual time simply seems to fly. I have been planning to start another blog for a while now, somehow simply not finding the time to do it. I thought I’ll get started today but nada so far.
Anyway I was aimlessly surfing when I found an interesting website for sale. Actually [...]
Picking A Niche, Single Most Important Factor To Keep In Mind
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Two most basic and widespread forms of generating revenue for a website owner is either by
Selling Advertisements.
Affiliate earnings from sale of goods or services.
Do it right and you have a winner on your hands, one that can keep you going for a while and even fund your other venture(s), who knows it could be the one that you [...]
Fake It, Flip It, Fast Forward To Next Flip
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Have you ever come across websites for sale that have nothing going for them except impressive traffic statistics? Below is a typical ad you would have definitely come across in one of the many webmaster forums.
Selling my blog/website on custom WordPress themes
Url - SiteForSale.com
Launched on Jan 1, 2008
Unique Visitors/month - 10,000
Total Page Views/month - 25,000
Reason for selling - [...]
What To Exclude From Your Site URL
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Follow these tips and avoid common mistakes made by many webmasters in structuring their website url path.
Do not include the file extensions as part of the url.
Avoid using .html, .php, .jsp etc as part of your site url. Configure your webserver to not use file extensions. You never know what technology you will be using 5 years [...]
Are You Losing Traffic Because Of Your Website Font?
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Far fetched? Maybe, but when you have about 2 - 3 secs at the most to engage a first time visitor to your website, even the slightest of advantages must be given its due consideration. Some very interesting observations were made by the Software Research Usability Laboratory, Wichita State University based on a usability study conducted a while [...]
Discredit Your Competition - Dirty Tricks You Need To Be Aware Of
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
How far would you go to kill off your competition? How willing are you to cut across ethical boundaries for the sake of profit. Unfortunately many would go to any length to gain a competitive advantage. Let’s hope the following does not happen to you.
Two Companies, GoodGuy.com and BadGuy.com both offer the same service; let’s say “Hosting”, [...]
