Category | Misc.

Put yourself in your visitors shoes

Posted on 14 August 2007

When building a website, you can’t just place random sections of it until you fulfill all the space. You have to think how is better for the visitor and how can you make him stay longer, read more pages and maybe buy your product or subscribe.
So, before building it think how would it be better […]

Google testing new ads ?

Posted on 08 August 2007

In the last few days i have seen on forums and blogs that people found a new type of Google Adsense Leaderboards. The Leaderboards seem to include link ads, that once clicked on, they show different ads.
Google seem to have integrated the link ads into Leaderboards to be more effective, but until now they stated […]

Will be away

Posted on 26 July 2007

I will be away until August 5th, while being at the seaside and probably won’t have an internet connection. So i won’t post anything until then.

Content is link bait

Posted on 19 July 2007

There are lots of link bait techniques out there, but the content is the most important factor. And it doesn’t have to be text, you can also use a video or image as content.
Content optimization for link baiting

1. I have started with the one I currently used. This means content formatting, with ( in […]

Google turns Feedburner’s paid features free

Posted on 04 July 2007

Google has made a lot of improvements lately and it now continues by turning Feedburner’s paid features free. Yet, everyone can use MyBrand and Total Stats for free, that are very useful features for Feedburner’s users.
Both paid and free users can now enjoy the ex-paid features. Paid users won’t be charged anymore as of June.

Finally i bought a car

Posted on 28 June 2007

Yesterday i’ve been out of town to buy a car, a 2006 Ford Focus Hatchback and i was very happy. But my country’s laws suck so i have a lot of trouble with the documents, i have to get back to the town i got it from to the mayoralty and then to the one […]

New adsense features: Corner styles

Posted on 27 June 2007

Google Adsense now offers the possibility to the user to choose from three corner styles: square corners, slightly rounded corners and very rounded corners. The new option can be found in the “Adsense Setup” tab from the Google Adsense account.
Google has done some improvements lately to improve the look of ads, but the CPC rate […]

Chitika is trying to expand

Posted on 26 June 2007

The so called “blog dollars” company is trying to expand and has announced both through a press release and on their blog that they are looking to acquire blog networks. The company states that it has ads placed on 12,000 blogs that generate over 1 billion monthly impressions and they want to grow bigger by […]

Yahoo redesigned search results pages

Posted on 10 June 2007

Yahoo has redesigned it’s search engine results pages and it seems to look much better, web 2.0 style, with AJAX and modern functions. See for yourself here.

Live.com grabs more of the search engine market ?

Posted on 10 June 2007

Relying on Alexa’s stats, Live.com’s traffic has considerably increased in the last year and it seems like it will soon reach Yahoo and Google. But if we look at mostly used search engines stats, it didn’t grow much, so Alexa is wrong or the users are using Live.com for everything else, excepting searching the web […]