Monthly Archives: June 2009
Adsense Tricks
This Adsense trick might even be bordering on Adwords trick territory, but here goes anyway. When you create an Adwords advert, you can specify what URLs you want your ad to appear on in the content network. In other words, if you know of a very popular site in your niche, you could try and direct some of its traffic to your site by specifying that your ad will appear on that site only Continue reading
Flippa And Sitepoint
So far, the move of Sitepoint to Flippa has been met with widespread criticism by Sitepoint members. I’m not surprised. There are several causes for this unrest:
* the changes in functionality introduced
* how those changes were introduced
* response to feedback from users
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Create A PR7 Site
This here is a clever chap. I don’t know where he got his brilliant idea from but what he’s done is pure genius. Either he’s created himself, or he’s got someone else to create, translations of some core pages on the W3C site. W3C are always looking for volunteers to translate certain pages on their site, so I’m sure his offer of translation services would have been gratefully received. Continue reading
Use Expired Domains For Affiliate Sites
Back in April 2009, I was watching an expired domain that was won by someone in the Godaddy Expiring Domain Auctions, and recently I decided to check on the progress that the new owner had made since their purchase. Doing this is a good idea if you want to get ideas of how to monetise expired domains. The domain in question is mistertab.com and the statistics that the domain claimed in the auction were:
* Traffic – 4037 unique visitors per month Continue reading
Sitepoint Marketplace Relocated To Flippa.com
The Sitepoint Marketplace is all grown up and is leaving home to reside at flippa.com. Sitepoint’s decision for the marketplace to have its own identity prompted the move. Reading between the lines, what does this mean? Is this a rebranding exercise to remove all links to everything that is bad about the Sitepoint Marketplace? Technologically, I’m sure they could introduce all of Flippa’s new functionality to the existing Sitepoint framework. So what’s so bad about the Sitepoint Marketplace that they (might) want to sever ties? Continue reading
Using Your Website Traffic Statistics To Create New Content
I’ve been monitoring the traffic statistics for this site and I’ve noticed that people are searching for the phrase “what makes a good presentation” and are finding my page on…. what makes a good presentation. This may or may not be good news. That page is an assessment of someone’s youtube video presentation, and might not be what the average searcher is looking for when they search for material on good presentations. Continue reading
Google Adsense Competitive Ad Filter
So you’re sick of the Muslim dating site advert that Google Adsense, in its wisdom, keeps displaying on certain pages of your “make money easy” blog and finally decide to do something about it. You have two options:
1. Change your content to give the very clear message to Google that your site is as far away from the Muslim singles dating game as you can get. You can do this by using more “keywords” in your content and emphasizing them with the appropriate markup (, , headings – you know the drill).
2. Use the competitive ad filter in adsense. Continue reading