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How To Create A Massive Spike of Traffic
Everyone knows that social media drives crippling traffic, especially if it’s from Digg or StumbleUpon. Get onto the frontpage of digg with 200 votes and your server easily overloads. This is often the case if you’re not on dedicated hosting. Are you prepared to experience this kind of traffic? Then you want to Subvert and [...]
10Feb2008 | Joseph Plazo | 5 comments | Continued
The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest
In the next two weeks I’ll host the biggest contest ever on The Beta News. Actually it’s the first contest ever here, but who’s counting?!
Now the rules to participate are developed by my twisted brain, so hopefully this will be a contest unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
The rules are fairly simple.
Added Two New Comment Plugins
I’ve just added two new WordPress plugins to my site that will make it easier for users to leave comments:
WP-Ajax Edit Comments: WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit and delete comments on a post for 15 minutes (user-defined). Great little plugin that worked straight ‘out [...]
7Feb2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
Growing Tired Of Anchor Text In Comments - Switching Off Dofollow
Apologies to my regular readers who haven’t been abusing my generousity, but I’ve been forced into turning off ‘dofollow‘ on comments. Too many users are trying to take advantage and it’s taking too much time each day to delete or edit their comments.
If users still want to receive a link back from this site, [...]
WidgetBucks - Worth Considering As An Adsense Alternative
The CPM of the google adsense unit that was below my posts has recently fallen to below the $1.50CPM threshold I have set for banners, so I have removed it.
Removing poorly performing Adsense units quickly is very important, as they will drag down the earnings of your better Adsense units due to Google’s Smart Pricing. [...]
Early Days But Pay Per Play Ads Payout Is $4CPM
Pay Per Play is a new advertising method that has started trials this week before full rollout. The service works by playing 5 second ads to site visitors with a maximum of one ad played per visitor, and with a payout per play not per click.
Yesterday Pay Per Play ran the first test campaigns [...]
What Security Applications Do You Use On Your PC?
Most of my regular readers know that my ‘day job’ is working for an ISP in the UK. One of the projects I’m working on is looking at PC-based security applications. I realised today that I’m a bit out of touch as to what applications people are running on their machines.
So, I thought rather than [...]
Show Me Your Desktop Rebecca Bollwitt
Researching for this round of Show Me Your Desktop, my wife asked me how come I didn’t have many women in the interview series. This opened a whole new world for me. The world of Canadian bloggers.
Rebecca Bollwitt is a Canadian blogger. She is among the top Vancouver bloggers, a Canucks fan (NHL ice hockey [...]
Tag Cloud - Do You Have One On Your Site?
WordPress 2.3 added much needed tag support, but I haven’t seen a lot of sites making much use of the capability. One feature I haven’t seen many live examples of are Tag Clouds. I tried adding a tag cloud to my sidebar today, but I ran into a few problems which exposed problems [...]
3Feb2008 | Everton | 16 comments | Continued
Pay Per Play Ads Ramping Up - Sign Up Now
Over the weekend I’ve been getting a series of emails from Pay Per Play giving the latest on their progress with turning on their new ad system, which went live on Friday. Pay Per Play ads are short 5 second audio ads that will are played only once per visitor, where publishers are paid each [...]
3Feb2008 | Everton | 10 comments | ContinuedSubscribe Now!
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