September 2007
The Archives
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09.21.07Text-Link-Ads screwing with me?So far my overall experience with TLA have been pretty good. I've sent them several mails, and I've always got the respond within 24 hours. Until lately. A week ago, I new link suddenly pop'ed upon on one of my forums. Happy to have a new sale, I logged in to TLA to see my current account balance. To my big surprise, it hadn't changed since the last time. I gave it a days wait, but nothing changed. I tried sending them a support mail, but no respond. After two days, I sent them another, but I still haven't goten any ...
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09.18.07Dealdotcom goes live todayDealdotcom opened for business today. Many bloggers and forums have been discussing this site for the last couple of days, and people have been wondering what the first product would be. Now it's official, the first product is - EasyMemberPro. This is a PHP script you can use to build, manage and promote your very own proffessional membership site. On the EasyMember Pro, the scripts sells for $297, but from Dealdotcom you can buy it today (and only today) for $148,50. That's an amazing 50% discount. What really makes EasyMemberPro stand out is the builth-in affiliatesystem, allow you to have ...
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09.13.07Usability tips #2: Speed up your siteLoad time is an very important factor to any site, since your users won't be waiting around for your pages to load if it takes forever. This especially goes for your new visitors. There are of course several things you can do to speed up your website, both easy tricks and harder ones. Tips to reduce your page load time Use CSS for faster pages. Learn to seperate the content from the design. By using CSS you allow the browser to cache all the formatting and stylizing so it won't have to go through each and every single tag over and over ...
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09.12.07Building an SEO empire (The Eli-way)I've just finished reading Eli's last post, SEO Empire part 1. This was an very interesting post, but I see a few holes in the strategy. Every Site Must Pay It's Own Rent. A quote repetated several times in the post, is that every site must pay it's own rent. This means that the income from every site you make must be able to cover the cost of the domain and hosting, to be profitable. By adding, for example, adsense you your site, your leaving "footprints" on your site. These footprints makes it a hell lot easier to discover your little empire ...
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09.10.07Finally Google has indexed meThe blog has been running (without any activity worth mentioning) for a couple of months now, and I could never figure out why Google wouldn't index my blog. I even builth up a couple of PR 6 and PR 7 inbound links, but Google still would'nt index the damn blog. Desperate for advice, I seeked information from a friend of mine asking for advice. The first respons was of course that I shouldn't expect Google to index it the day I launced. Then I had to tell him that I launched the blog and started sending crawlers too it months ...
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09.08.07I’m not smart enough to work for GoogleWhen browsing trought my RSS feeds I came across a very interesting post. Ariel from Today Is Not Over Yet posted a post including some questions you might be asked in an interview when applying for a job in Google. For most of the questions in the post, my answer would start with something like "That depends on <fill in some unrelevant garbage>". Really, how smart are you suppose to be to answer these questions in a good way? How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? That depends on the size of the bus, of course. You are shrunk to the ...
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09.06.07Usability tips #1: BreadcrumbsHave you ever seen this kind of navigation on a website? Home > Destinations > Europe > Norway > Oslo It's called breadcrumbs. The term breadcrumbs comes from the tale of Hansel and Gretel where they wander through the forrest and leave breadcrumbs to find their way home. Of course, in the tale the breadcrumbs represent the actual path Hansel and Gretel took, but the breadcrumbs navigation we know from the internet does not. It just present the optimal path from the home archive to the current page in the hierarchy. Breadcrumbs trails are used for navigation on websites. Breadcrumbs won't ...
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09.01.07Affiliate Earnings for August 2007Boy, I'm excited to report my first earnings. Considering that I'm pretty new to the affiliate market, I must say my income has been pretty good. I currently in two different affiliateprograms, due much time spent making my other sites that isn't included in these reportings. Anyways, here it goes.. Earnings breakdown Google Adsense: $212,32 Text-Link-Ads: $2.76 Total: $215.08 Last months earnings, $215.08, isn't really much if you compare me to the big fishes. For those of you who know I make a living from the internet, you do also probally know that I also run a company. All sites that are owned ...
