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How to Handle Old Directory Listings, Links and off Topic Traffic

{ Posted on Mar 12 2010 by admin }
Today’s post is another answer to a question–this time from Nathan Schubert, who wants to know what you should do with old links from directories and websites that still drive traffic if you’ve changed the content on your website. OK. First ...Read More »

Developers VS Users

{ Posted on Mar 09 2010 by admin }
Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And ...Read More »

Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic

{ Posted on Mar 05 2010 by admin }
When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don’t make direct sales yourself or commissions via affiliate traffic, you almost always look for other revenue streams. The most common revenue stream is CPM based ...Read More »

Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step

{ Posted on Mar 03 2010 by admin }
I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, ...Read More »

When Google Local Gets it Wrong

{ Posted on Mar 01 2010 by admin }
Now, don’t get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong–so wrong, in fact, that I’m not sure where the wires got ...Read More »

Hey! Editors! Leave Them Links Alone!

{ Posted on Feb 26 2010 by admin }
There’s a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out. A friend in the industry who guest blogs recently told me that he was told by his editor he couldn’t promise links to contributors who participated in ...Read More »

Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – February 2010

{ Posted on Feb 26 2010 by admin }
I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month. Without them, there wouldn’t be regular posts here. Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links. CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action ...Read More »

How to Set up Caching on Your Blog

{ Posted on Feb 25 2010 by admin }
The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on Wordpress. Ok, let’s get the big question out of the way. What is caching and why do you want it? ...Read More »

How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages

{ Posted on Feb 23 2010 by admin }
Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it ...Read More »

Creating Better Auto-Generated Text

{ Posted on Feb 19 2010 by admin }
Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a look at different aspects of copywriting, including aspects such as the value of good copy, outsourcing your content, and tools to make your content better. To round out the series I thought ...Read More »