If any of you are interested in contextual advertising you should watch Jeremy Schoemaker’s (Shoemoney) presentation at the Search Engine Strategies Conference 2007.
Jeremy has been in the online business for a very long time and he really knows his stuff. The emphasis in this presentation is on Google Adsense but he does make mention [...]
The worst mistake I’ve made with this blog was not choosing a more appropriate domain name.
These should be the steps when making that decision.
Select a niche or core topic for your site.
Clearly define the purpose and goals of your site.
Choose an appropriate domain name.
As you can see I missed the boat on steps 1 [...]
Why would you want to set up a redirect?
To preserve search engine ranking on a page which has moved.
If your website has moved to a new domain.
To redirect incoming visitors to www.yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.com, or vice versa.
The last point is the one I want to address in a little more detail, as it [...]
The Thinking Blog has a list of the five most addictive flash games. Be careful, you will get hooked on these.
Sugar + Flour + Game = Delicious! Thanks Ariel for finding this.
Pro Blogger talks about a new design for Google Adsense units. The change is subtle but I like it.
Menguzar has created a nice plugin [...]
Building quality backlinks is an important step in the development of your blog, or any type of website for that matter.
It can be a boring and time consuming process but the success or failure of a site can depend on it.
What is a backlink?A backlink is a link from another website to yours.
Why do I need backlinks?Backlinks [...]
I finally got around to playing with some feed readers today and I must say I’m impressed. My experience with them in the past has never been good but the fact that my daily reading list has grown so big has forced me to start looking for a more efficient and streamlined way of getting through [...]
In a word: Nothing.
But that’s going to change.
I’ve read over and over again on numerous sites how Technorati is the Google of blogs. Is this really the case? In my experience, not so much. So far I’ve seen about two hits from a Technorati search, compared to the bucketload of hits I’ve been getting from [...]
If you’ve only recently started a blog, or any other type of website for that matter, your Google PageRank will be at zero. But that doesn’t mean you can’t track your progress. iWEBTOOL have a really useful PageRank prediction tool that I suggest you have a look at.
I gave it a run today and was surprised to [...]
I’ve had the chance to talk to quite a few fellow bloggers recently, some new to it, others more seasoned, and I’ve been really surprised to find that so many of them don’t know as much as they should about some important web fundamentals.
A lot of you may know these inside out, others may have heard them used but never [...]
I was just checking what pages Google has indexed from this site and I noticed that pages created by the Gregarious social bookmarking plugin were being crawled by the Googlebot, and have been indexed instead of the actual post.
Very annoying.
I think what is happening is if javascript isn’t detected the plugin will send the user to a separate page containing all [...]
