A few days ago, a friend asked how much he should charge for someone buying a typical 125×125 ad block on his blog. I had just answered a similar question in a forum and realized that I’d often asked myself the same question over the years. And the funny thing is that there is very little information out there to help anyone make that determination. Over time, I’ve done some...
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When I was toodling around the ‘net searching for design inspiration for the new design for this blog, I ran across a tool from Logicsmiths Custom Web Applications that allows you to add a free time tracking gadget to Google’s personalized homepage (‘iGoogle’). I thought that was pretty cool, but I don’t use iGoogle, so I started looking for other free time tracking apps out...
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Which search engine should you use to search for images? My opinion: all of them! If you only use one search engine to search for an image, you could be missing out on some spectacular images. But I don’t expect you to waste time going from one search engine to another. That’s what metaengines are for, and my favorite is Zuula.
I use Zuula 100% of the time as my web search engine, but I...
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Think blogging and participating in online communities cannot bring about powerful change? Think again! After reading one short forum thread post, a blogger was able to pick up a big story, tell his readers about it, thereby causing a cascade effect that changed the way, not one, but TWO huge companies practiced business.
For quite some time now, registrars were required to allow a 5 day grace period, in...
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We all share a common goal – increasing traffic to our site or blog. Without traffic, our sites are invisible. Traffic, however, can come from many sources. Some of those sources are gold mines of highly targeted traffic consisting of visitors who are wanting to consume and interact with our content. Some sources are next to worthless and our sites would be better off without the waste of...
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Jim Kukral has just opened up his new Scratchback system to beta users. You may remember that I wondered what it was going to be all about a couple of months ago. Now we know, and I gotta say that this looks extremely cool from every perspective.
Look to the right. See the widget that says Are You In My Top Spots? Of course, you do, how could you miss it?
That is the Scratchback widget. It...
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My first thought was to title this, “Research Your Competition”, but I decided that sounded all wrong. If you recall, back in Part 5 of the How To Make A Living In Your Pajamas series, I said:
The only thing missing now is an actual web site. In the old days, that would have meant hiring a designer and spending lots of money and time developing a nice-looking site. Those days, luckily, are...
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Lately, I’ve been guiding you gently into the process of creating a decidedly Web 1.0 flavor of content creation – ebooks. Because the world is comfortable with ebooks, you should be comfortable creating them. But Web 2.0 has brought about a plethora of ways that you can create unique, profitable content that goes way beyond the old-fashioned ebook, and you should explore them and use them as...
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10 Ways To Make Money Online
The following is a list of 10 ways to make money online, but this also includes a quick glossary of terms used when speaking about online income generation. A list of ways to make money online is useless if the terms and acronyms used have no meaning.
CPA
CPA stands for Cost Per Action. CPA programs include affiliate and referral programs which pay a commission based on...
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Yesterday, I mentioned that I would be pointing out some noteworthy widgets in the future, and the future is here today. Today’s noteworthy widget is Plugoo. Plugoo lets you very easily chat with your website’s visitors via your own every day IM client. Whatever instant messenging client you normally use – Yahoo Messenger, MSN (Live) Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, or ICQ –...
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