Archive | June, 2006

Experimenting with ad placements

15 June 2006

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My Japan job site is getting some half decent traffic now. It currently has over 100 jobs and 122 people registered. It is making very little revenue, which I don’t mind too much, but I thought I could possibly do a little better with some ad optimization. The ads are a bit more obtrusive, but [...]

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Who are you sharing with

15 June 2006

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Unless you are running a big site or you have your own server, most people run their sites with a shared hosting account. If a site you are sharing with is having problems, it could effect your website. To see what other sites are on your server, take a look at Domain Tools. It is [...]

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Ebay to offer contextual advertising

13 June 2006

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It is probably not much of a surprise but eBay have announced that they are launching a contextual advertising program. I don’t know if it will suit any of my current sites, but I think I could start a new site with all of the pictures and information I still have from when I used [...]

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Podcast on selling eBooks

12 June 2006

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I must say I truly underestimated eBooks. I could never understand why people would pay money for information they could generally get for free on the Internet. The fact that eBooks are so successful, goes to show that not everything is freely available, or at least it is not in an easily consumable format. I [...]

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Adsense Inspiration

12 June 2006

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If you are looking for inspiration with making money from Adsense, check out this post from the creater of the free dating site plentyoffish.

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How to get a free site with PR

11 June 2006

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Just as there are hundreds of new blogs created everyday, there are probably just as many that people give up on. I am sure the majority of the people creating blogs on free services, like blogger, do not realize the value of their content, inbound links or PageRank. I found an abandoned blog yesterday, just [...]

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First ebook sold

10 June 2006

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With almost no promotion of my ebook, I sold my first copy. It feels good knowing I receive almost 100 per cent of the sale price. How many writers can say that?

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Aussie comedy available for download

8 June 2006

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I believe it is the first time an Australian TV network has made available one of its programs available on the internet. The program is called Thank God You’re Here. Living in Japan I miss a lot of this stuff, so I hope networks start doing this more often. The idea for the program is [...]

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Possible danger of selling unrelated links

7 June 2006

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This was posted a couple of weeks ago on Matt Cutts blog. He gives a couple of examples of sites whose webmasters were complaining that they have had the number of their indexed pages greatly reduced. He gives an example of a realestate website that has links to a “free ringtones site, an SEO contest, [...]

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First Google Video

7 June 2006

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I have uploaded my first video to Google. I took it in Harajuku, Tokyo, last Sunday. I converted it to MPEG1 to reduce the file size, but it has also reduced the quality a fair amount. I have taken a few hours of footage already, so it is just a matter of trying to put [...]

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