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CES 2008: Part 1 Intro and Being Green

I just got back from CES this year, and while everyone is probably quite tired of CES news, I figured I would put a little different spin on it. No huge LCD stories, blacker blacks, BluRay/HDDVD, or any of that stuff. Just the CES as a whole and little gems of the good, [...]

11Jan2008 | Kline | 8 comments | Continued
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5 Professional-looking Free Wordpress Themes

Great content can lose momentum if it’s wrapped in a brown paper bag. Your site design impacts content layout, advertising space and most importantly, it influences how your readers perceive what you have to offer.
There are no shortage of bad looking Wordpress themes. Many times I will pass by a site without really scratching the [...]

10Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 12 comments | Continued
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Is Akismet The Best Tool To Block WordPress Comment Spam?

I’ve just decided to switch back to using Akismet to protect this site from comment spam. In the past I wasn’t a big fan of Akismet, because it didn’t provide a lot of ways to deal with false positives, but I feel that I need to try something new as too much spam has [...]

7Jan2008 | Everton | 24 comments | Continued
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Spy on Your Competitors

Ever wonder why you’re not making sales despite the sizzling webcopy and the affiliate army promoting your product? That means some other blokes may be reeling your customers. Now don’t fret. Your solution is to do a bit of sleuthing. None of the cloak and dagger subterfuge of course- a bit of web snooping is [...]

7Jan2008 | Joseph Plazo | 4 comments | Continued
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Are You Directing Traffic Or Just Watching It Go By?

Your web site’s home page is going to see more hits than any other section of your site. Even people surfing in from Google will make your homepage their second stop if they are going to stick around for multiple page views. If your home page is all you are concerned about people seeing, then [...]

7Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 6 comments | Continued
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How To Churn Tons of Unique Content

If you’re a shady article marketer or splogger (the folks who fill up sites with crap content for Adsense), you want lots of unique content. Unique content provides the backbone for thousands of your pages that handily bypass duplicate content filters.
Now there’s a problem with creating unique content: it’s taxing to create yourself, and expensive [...]

4Jan2008 | Joseph Plazo | 8 comments | Continued
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Feedback: New Year’s Resolutions For Driving Your Blog’s Growth

Well, another year is in the bag. 2007 was a good year for me and my family, and I hope you all prospered in 2007 as well. Now that 2008 is upon us, I’m sure that we’re all looking ahead, thinking about things we’d like to improve about ourselves, our careers and our web sites.
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3Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 6 comments | Continued
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MyBlogEarnings For December 2007

December saw the end of my first full year of trying to make money from this blog. Although December wasn’t a strong month, when I look back at the growth I achieved over 2007 I’m very happy.
If you’re new to the blog my old MyBlogEarnings reports are available, as well as my Guide To [...]

3Jan2008 | Everton | 28 comments | Continued
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Feedback: How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary?

Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]

27Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 25 comments | Continued
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Rubicon Project - Are You On The Beta?

The Rubicon Project sounds like it could be the answer to a problem I face every month or so, when I am approached by a new ad network wanting me to try their ads. The problem is there’s no way of working out which network will perform the best.
For instance in the past Adsense [...]

22Dec2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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