By Colleen, on September 29th, 2010%
I hate doing Google Adsense. I actually hate doing anything even remotely connected with internet money grubbing, because I have to crawl out of playful mode and face the upleasant reality that degenerate stupid things make money and fun interesting things don’t. As a result of extreme laziness I had let my . . . → Read More: AdBlock Plus Breaks Google Adsense
By Colleen, on May 9th, 2010%
Facebook, as you may know, is attempting to own a greater share of the web by allowing you to put a facebook “like” button and other social widgets on any web page. Think what you like about Facebook, their questionable privacy, and their evil plans, but the fact remains that it is the #4 most visited website today and growing. I’ve just sort of accepted that if someone really wants to they can know pretty much everything I’ve ever done online. Meanwhile, getting Likes in lots of people’s profiles could be some some potent leverage for me.
I’m not going to reiterate the details. I’ll just link to them and/or quote them if necessary. It boils down to this: There are two ways to do a “Like” button, either insert an iframe in your site (with all the attendant ugliness of iframes), or actually enable your page and use the facebook SDK yourself.
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By Colleen, on December 23rd, 2008%
Is “shrinkage” ever a good thing? Actually, Jerry Seinfeld notwithstanding, yes! If you don’t know about shrinkage as it applies to the internet, learn the basics first , then come back and learn how to make money with it. I’ll wait.
There are rumblings that TinyURL, the oldest and probably most well-known URL shortener on the ‘nets, may not be the best link shrinker to use any more, mainly because you can’t track clicks. There are many other free shorteners that allow you to track your clicks. Adjix.com gives you the option of monetizing your clicks as well.
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By Colleen, on December 15th, 2008%
This amazing free SEO analysis website deserves more than just a feeble fleeting tweet lost among all those 500 lb. canaries on Twitter. The mostly nontechnical website owners in our local Etailing group really liked it. Why? Because it not only flags SEO issues, but it tells you in non geek what you can do about them.
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By Colleen, on July 18th, 2008%
Want to know a little secret about bloggers? We bloggers all have a bad case of verbal diarrhea! We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience. Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it.
The downside to blogging
The way most blogging software arranges the posts in reverse chronological order guarantees that only your most recent post will get much attention. Sure, visitors are free to break it out by category or to search for a particular topic, but the fact remains that most visitors see the home page when following a root link to a blog.
Continue reading HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea
Not all dofollows are created equal
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