Recently I was looking for the site of someone I met at Elite Retreat last year and ended up typing www.cpaaffiliates.com to get to his site, CPA Affiliates, instead of the correct address, www.cpa-affiliates.com. What I got was the old Server Not Found error. I realized that I had forgotten the dash in the domain name, but it got me wondering who owned the better, non-dash name. I knew ... Keep reading »
Guest blogging can be a great boost for your blog or website (more on that later), and Blogging Experiment put out a call for guest bloggers on their site this morning.
When trying to drive traffic to your site, bloggers are your best friends. Not only can they drive some great traffic with just a mention on their site, but when they link to you search engines take notice. Right now, nothing beats a good link from a blog. So how do you get them to mention your site? Get Their Attention If you've got a great site, this might be all you have to ... Keep reading »
Alright, I know I said you need to think beyond AdSense, but I'm also all about grabbing all the low-hanging fruit you can. This is one of those cases. If you haven't read Joel Comm's AdSense Secrets, you need to get a copy. I bought it back when it was $97, but I made that back in a week with a site that was getting less than 100 visitors/day. Now ... Keep reading »
No one. That's who. So use these 27+ resources to turn your site from 1.0 to 2.0 just like that!
I've worked closely with nurses for almost two years now, but it wasn't until recently that I realized a fundamental difference between them and me. I fail much more often than I succeed, mostly because patience and planning are not strong suits of mine. The Internet makes it easy to just throw something out there and see if it actually works in reality -- rather than just in theory -- so that's ... Keep reading »
According to HP, 48% of printouts on home printers are web pages. That's a very surprising number. Maybe I need to be looking more at printer-specific stylesheets.
Peter gives away some great advice in Domain Name Shopping at DMOZ & ODP -- so good that I hesitate to draw any more attention to it. Seeing as how it's already out there, though, I thought I'd go ahead and add one thing that he left out. Sometimes the whois information for a domain can be worthless. Either the domain owner has decided to pay for a private registration or the ... Keep reading »
I track everything. Success for my sites is always a math problem. "If I move this AdSense ad here, what happens to my overall revenue per visitor." Things like that. I'll write more about that later, but this post from Scott is worth a read simply to see how a successful affiliate makes business decisions.
One of the best ways to figure out the model that will allow you to go from day job to independent business owner is by looking at the specifics of other people's models -- particularly those who are very successful. By looking at what actually works for them, and other detailed information that they give out, you can determine what's realistic and what's not. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shoemoney has one of ... Keep reading »
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