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The costs of advertising to a blog How the top bloggers display their ads - Percentages and numbers Stumbleupon traffic bounce rate observations Ad placement on blogs - How advertisers see your site...
What to do to promote your gaming site
Lets say you have a big gaming site. And let’s say that you want the individual pages on your site to show up on the top spots on Google for some queries. Of course the obvious solution would be to register a bunch of crappy domains about the g...
Well, here’s a weird problem with dreamhost’s mysql settings
The default mysql host is at mysql.{whatever_domain_you_registered_with}.com. If for whatever reason that domain expires (or dns records change) you need to create new mysql hosts for any other sites you might have on that account. Had a few sites do...
Catching the dofollow jerks, continued
Is this what we’re supposed to expect from all the smart bloggers looking to gain more free backlinks in the future? I wonder how long it will be before actually paying people to post comments on dofollow blogs using your URL becomes mainstream...
Running ads on tnx.net - a month later
I spent some money advertising another blog i run on the tnx.net ads network. I ordered a small number of PR1 and PR2, as well as a larger number of PR0 link pointing to a specific post that i wanted to promote. My only goal was to pass some PR juice...
8 ways to kill your blog (and make sure it stays dead).
1.) Stop posting for weeks at a time, then only post to say that you haven’t been posting much. 2.) Stick to a stable diet of paid posts and sponsored reviews. 3.) Stick enough ads to your RSS feed to drive away even the most dedicated visitors...

