Archive for June, 2006

Summertime traffic on the internet - is it worth more?

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Less people tend to surf the internet in warmer months. This means the search traffic you get should be more dear in the summer months, right? It's worth checking into the trend. The same applies to weekends. On weekends many peope will forgo their normal web ...

Massive click-fraud botnet closed

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Here's an interesting article about click fraud botnet being shut down. What's interesting is the size of the thing. It also makes you wonder, just how many of these things are out there operating. This botnet has 50,000 computers infected. That's to say that 50,000 "zombie" ...

YPN nearer to becoming an Adsense Killer

Friday, June 16th, 2006

All new features are making the YPN (still in Beta) look very impressive. Adsense used to be way out in front, but YPN is quickly narrowing the gap. Recently YPN introduced direct deposit features. That's great news because the deposit from them is now much earlier than ...

Incoming links checklist for search engine rankings

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Everyone wants to get traffic to their websites. Search engines send a lot of qualified traffic, if your website meets certain criteria in their eyes. Let's take a look at a checklist of signs of quality. How many does your website have? If the signs of ...

No sign of improvement for sites having Google indexing problems

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

This has gone on for a long time. Wait, that's a bit understated. Troubles with Google's index have gone on for a long, long, long time. We're talking months getting ready to slip into years. For years Google maintained a reputation as a company with technical ...

Setting your online advertising budget requires careful planning

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Big companies drop big bucks all the time on branding campaigns which make their brand names a household word. If small businesses could do the same, they would. But most small businesses just don't have the requisite budget to start hitting the internet air waves with reckless abandon. ...

Unique selling proposition plus scalability equals big success online

Monday, June 12th, 2006

On the internet, it's great to have an original idea, but it's not enough. Even if your idea is unique, it doesn't mean someone else can't take it and make themselves even more famous than you! You need to be able to scale fast, if you want to ...

7 ways to build instant traffic to your website

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

There's a ton of talk on the internet about getting search engine traffic. That's great, but it takes awhile to come to fruition. What about people who are impatient and want traffic to their websites today? Here's a few methods that bring the bodies to your website ...

My experiment with Google Adsense and YPN

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I've been in both the Google Adsense and YPN programs since they began. The fact these program provide income and detailed stats has made it so I've become addicted to looking at my stats. Despite the fact I know better, I spend way too much time analyzing essentially ...

Google spiders certain sites a lot - but doesn’t add the pages to the index

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

This is something I see as a big change that occurred because of the "Big Daddy" update. Google used to include most pages in its' index fast, even if they didn't rank quickly for the desired search phrases. But Google has gotten tough on new pages and new ...