Archive for September, 2007

The Best Part Of Search Engine Traffic

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I have a one-word summary of why search traffic rules so much. That word is: FREE! Since you don't have to pay out on gaining the traffic, and you can always monetize it, it's an incredibly useful ally in the war on paying the bills. Tons of ...

Consistency Counts In Blogging

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Making money from your blogging is not as hard as rocket science, but it still is a bit of mystery to many people. But I've found one thing that can move your blog to profitability quicker than anything else: consistency in posting. If you can maintain posting schedule ...

“Classy” Companies Can Get Away With Crap Advertising

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

If you're a big hitter like Forbes, you can block access to your articles by making people click on a "Welcome Screen", which most sane people actually call "an interstitial ad". If you were regularjoeswebsite.com, you could never get away with something as crappy as that. And therein ...

Netscape Becomes Propeller

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Now that is sort of comical. The former portal at Netscape.com has now been moved to Propeller.com and the Netscape domain has been re-directed to a subdomain at AOL. That really is progress. The one-time brainchild of Jason Calacanis is still ostensibly alive at the new address, ...

Finding News For Your Niche

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Lately I've been finding that "Google Alerts" is about the easiest way to consistently find news for your niche. Sure, it helps to have a number of RSS feeds set up for the main players in your field, but it also helps to have Google constantly scanning for your ...