Posted on 17 June 2008
We all know that Digg’s algorithm is very complex and they are changing it frequently, so that spammers cannot get their stories popular. Digg states that all the content is only promoted by users and they have nobody implied in the process, but this doesn’t seem to be true.
I have been an active Digg user […]
Tags: Digg, Social Media, Social Network
Posted on 14 June 2008
A simple SEO guideline says that you should end your urls in .htm, .html or make them as mine. Some do not follow this and end them in .php, .asp and other programming languages. It might not be as good as the ones ended in .html, but Matt Cutts say they are and there’s no […]
Tags: Google, Search Engine, URL
Posted on 11 June 2008
Google has just added a new feature to the Trends tool. Unfortunately, it wasn’t what a lot of us were expecting: the search volume in numbers.
Now it shows how much a keyword is searched, in comparison to the average searches since 2004 until the time you perform the query. For example if today the keyword […]
Tags: Google, Google Trends, Trends
Posted on 03 June 2008
ReadWriteWeb has written a very interesting post about Mixx. Now it’s one year old and traffic seems to grow really fast, but still can’t be a liable competitor for Digg, receiving less than 5% of Digg’s traffic.
Still, it seems to be on the good road and might grow, especially that Digg is full of spam […]
Tags: Digg, Mixx, Social Media
Posted on 30 May 2008
????????Google made an announcement that they opened the Adsense network to other third-party advertisers. This is good news for both publishers and third-party advertising network. Publishers have more monetization possibilities and advertising networks deliver more traffic to their advertisers.
Currently, this only works for image ads, so you will see no change if you are opted […]
Posted on 20 May 2008
I do have websites with traffic based on social media, others based on search engines and others combined. I have been doing a lot of research and comparisons between all of them. Of course it’s hard because of the niches, but I do have some that are on the same niche that are some based […]
Tags: Monetization, Search Engines, Seo, Social Media, Traffic
Posted on 16 May 2008
We all know how hard it is to start a new website, when nobody knows who you are. Some are facing this right now and others in the past, when they entered this industry. You have to work on link building, make strong profiles on social media websites and everything is so hard when you […]
Posted on 28 April 2008
I have been very stressed lately and worked a lot, now I really need a vacation to relax a bit. Maybe you don’t know, but I love the sun and hot weather, so I will go to Greece and hope I can enjoy a nice weather.
Hopefully I will come back with new ideas and less […]
Tags: Beach, Greece, Me, Personal, Summer, Sun
Posted on 25 April 2008
Wordpress 2.5.1 was just released and includes over 70 security fixes. Visit the download page to get it, because it improves security and it’s very important for your blog.
Here is some of what they improved:
Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have many categories
Media Uploader fixes
An upgrade […]
Tags: 2.5.1, Wordpress, Wordpress 2.5.1, Wordpress Upgrade
Posted on 23 April 2008
One of the biggest problems when working online is that there are a lot of distractions that will keep you away from working and decrease your productivity. One of my biggest problem is that I get distracted from something and sometimes I forget what I was doing, losing a lot of time.
To prevent this from […]
Tags: Productivity, Self Improvement, Time Management, Work