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Archive for the ‘Web Tips’ Category

May 15th, 2007

Google Reader Hacks for Time Effectiveness

Reading feeds can be one of your longest tasks of the day especially if you have upwards of 100 (or many, many more) feeds that are being constantly added every hour. The task of reading can be overwhelming, especially without proper management and hacks to increase you time effectiveness:

Learn the ins and outs of your […]

By kris -- 0 comments

May 11th, 2007

Stay in Touch (And Keep Your Info Private) With Contactify

Contactify is a free online service providing contact pages to keep you in touch with your readers, business contacts, or anyone you give the link to but the benefit of the service is not just the simple contact page but how the page is delivered.
Getting started with Contactify is simple. All you have to do […]

By kris -- 0 comments

May 2nd, 2007

Use Toggl to Track Billable Hours, Productivity

Toggl is a new service which offers a real time online timer for you to use to track billable hours on client projects, among other things. I decided to sign up for the free service (you can’t beat that price) to give it a try and test its features. The sign up was very even, […]

By kris -- 0 comments

January 1st, 2007

The Elin Nordegren Secret To Web Success

You may not know who Elin Nordegren is. But you sure know who Tiger Woods is. I’m sure of that. Well Elin Nordegren is the wife of Tiger Woods. And she’s pregnant. You might be wondering what this has to do with the internet. But it’s the story that’s important. See in her own circles […]

By David Krug -- 2 comments

December 9th, 2006

Workboxers Guide to Chrismas

The facts are in. Blogging has just paid for all my Christmas shopping .. and I even managed to pick up a little present for myself, the new Nintendo Wii console. This year I decided to get in early, so with my Christmas shopping done, I thought I’d whip up this little guide for the […]

By admin -- 0 comments

September 14th, 2006

Text-Link-Ad Buying Tactic

Over at college-startup, there’s a fantastic new post about a kink (loophole?) in the Text-Link-Ad system that allows high ranking sites for a low cost. The idea behind it is that Text-Link-Ads don’t update their pricing after Google has their PR update. I think what David (the author) doesn’t realize is that PR is NOT […]

By admin -- 4 comments

September 5th, 2006

Adsense Tweaking - It’s all in the Content

Lets set the scene.

Correct Ad placement - check
Blended colors - check
Good traffic - check

No clicks. What the?
If you’ve been playing with the Google Adsense program, you’ll know that advertisements are served contextually, meaning ads appear that relate to the content on your website. A major mistake some web publishers make is that the content is […]

By admin -- 5 comments

August 21st, 2006

Developing Traffic Revised

Bob: How come people don’t visit my blog?
Me: Well Bob, do people know about it?
Bob: I’ve read all the articles on Problogger and Performancing. I’ve created pillar articles just like Yaro said and I do what everyone boasts is the key to gaining traffic, I post content on a daily basis!
Does this sound like you?
I […]

By admin -- 4 comments

August 2nd, 2006

The Secret to Success - Be the Turtle

The problem with the web is that there’s too many pages, something I’ve already established. However, it’s something so simple that allows you to succeed. Persist.
If you plan on making money online, don’t be the rabbit.
Be the Turtle.
A quote to leave you with.

Of 100 people who start with a plan today, 80 will drop out […]

By admin -- 2 comments

July 8th, 2006

Why forums fail to take off

My biggest gripe with people who start forums is the vast topics they impose on their readers. I came across somebody who was starting a webmaster forum (because we don’t have enough of those) and was immediately turned off by the 20+ subforums.
There was a subforum for php, asp, html, javascript, seo, google, adsense, yahoo, […]

By admin -- 5 comments

June 29th, 2006

Improve your Conversion Rate

Dave Child posts an interesting article that offers “Ten Ways To Improve Your Website Conversion Rate“.
If you’ve been in the Internet business at all, you’ll know that converting vistors to sales is important to earn profit. Whether you run with affiliate programs or an online e-store, Dave’s post offers some useful insight.
My personal favourite (and […]

By admin -- 0 comments

June 27th, 2006

Lessons to be Learnt

I came across a blog by the name of blogtrepreneur, authored by a UK based fellow named Adnan. I had found his website via Yaro’s forums and was curious to read some of the content that can be found on his blog. Adnan is your classic entreprenuer, he has passion and a willing to learn.

By admin -- 2 comments

June 3rd, 2006

Bloggers Don’t Click Adverts

A friend came to me recently and asked me why he wasn’t making much money from adsense. I asked him what his blog was about and he said blogging and how to make money online. I then proceeded to tell him the following;
BLOGGERS DON’T CLICK ADVERTS
If you’ve had any experience with running websites, tweaking ads […]

By admin -- 7 comments

May 29th, 2006

Blogging from your phone

Ever since I setup a system on my personal blog that allows me to post photos from my phone straight to WordPress, people have been asking me: how exactly do you do that?!?

By admin -- 12 comments

February 20th, 2006

eBooks, are they worth it?

You know what I’m talking about, those 1 centered column pages filled with “BUY NOW”, “BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE” and tons and tons of testimonials, attached with photos that look they were stolen from Google image search. These pages shout “CLICK HERE YOU IDIOT“. They claim their eBook can make you thousands of dollars per […]

By admin -- 8 comments