Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The Demise of Borders Books: Death by Internet
Although the company used last week’s announcement that they’re seeking a buyout as an opportunity to blame a tight credit market and competition from discount chains like Wal-Mart, Borders’ disappointing performance stems from a failure to take e-commerce seriously.
I used to love Borders. That chain really had everything going for it, except that in the late 90′s they scrapped plans to make an ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
What Is A Favicon And Why Use One
Visit almost any popular website and have a look in the address bar. To the left of the URL you will see a 16×16 pixel image or icon. If you then bookmark or favorite it you will see that icon when you scroll through the list. If your browser supports tabs you will also see the icon in the tab. In most cases ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Catching 404 Visitors
Running a site requires maintenance from time to time, perhaps an upgrade to the file structure too. Even if you’ve not altered the file structure from the original set up, a simple mistake such as an incorrect link in your content, can cause a 404 Not Found error. Unless you’ve set up a custom 404 error page that offers a correct navigation to your main site (which I ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Be sure to check out this fanatastic Lord Matt Link – Make Money from UK Traffic – A Guide for Americans
When I purchased The Flip video camera in the US I paid $160 for the camera.
When a person in the UK purchases the same camera from a store in their land they pay the equivalent of $382 American dollars
Who would you prefer to sell the camera to if you ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Excluding Posts from Your WordPress Feed
That will keep category with ID 5 out of the feed. You can get the IDs by looking in the wp_terms table in your database. With wordpress 2.1, these terms are tags and categories, and while I haven’t tested it with tags, I have seen that it does work with Categories.
Click over for complete instructions. I’ve always wondered how to do this! You may want ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Dangerous Mistakes Experienced Affiliates Make
Experience can lead to over confidence. Think about the last time you went into the doctor’s office… chances are they diagnosed you before you even finished describing your symptoms. This can have serious consequences, from prescribing the wrong treatment to worsening your condition.
Even if this is preaching to the choir for you, the examples he gives of experience getting in his way are well worth reading. ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Top 10 Most Egregious SEO Mistakes
The name of the game for search engine optimization is extremely simple. Once you’re up and running with the right tools and systems, all you need to do is….
Publish new GREAT content on new pages on your website REGULARLY.
People get so confused about SEO. They are usually just wrapped up in all of the details.
But, if you want to do SEO correctly, there’s one thing ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The easiest way to find an SEO WordPress theme for your blog
Based on the response from Wendy Piersall’s Problogger post, I realized that many bloggers want to use a search engine optimized theme but don’t know how to evaluate the code. I also got many requests to review specific themes. Instead of writing “Best themes for SEO” posts forever, it seemed like a better idea to create a site for this, ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Text Links vs. Banner Ads
Another common use of text link: they are placed into the body of a webpage. Content is built around the text link. It much easier to built a value proposition, or tell a story when you have content build around a link then it is to tell that same story with just a banner/picture with a short tag line.
In other words, if we’re painfully honest with ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Affiliate Marketing Dictionary
The dictionary is a work in progress, so if you have a suggestion for what should be there or an alternate definition for a particular word, please let me know.
There are still plenty of times when I could use this. Because I don’t do AdSense, I went several months without knowing what “MFA” sites were.
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