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Link building strategy evaluated

The other day I ran into Jim Karter’s post explaining his link-building strategy.
It caught my eye for a number of reasons, first of all it looks like a very well structured, systematic process. He clearly explains what he is doing from day 1 to day 180 and later. Secondly, it involves a number of different actions, which together result in higher rankings. Finally, his fairly slow, time-consuming method seems all the more credible to me. (more…)

How many active visitors can my server handle?

Although I didn’t plan this to be an experiment, it fits well in the Experiments category. Having recently moved to a dedicated server for the very first time, I had no idea what to expect in terms of performance, server crashes, and a host of other things. I certainly didn’t expect that the server would crash due to a high volume of traffic. (more…)

My experience with BlueHost

If you’re a beginning blogger looking for a hosting company, chances are the main factor deciding on which hosting company you are going to use, will be the price.   Almost every hosting company guarantees 99.9% up-time and those that don’t, well… you still assume that their servers will be up.  At least I did. (more…)

All traffic is not created equal: StumbleUpon

To some, traffic is traffic, one page view is equal to another page view. The more you have, the better. That’s absolutely right if you’re simply counting the number of visits to your site, but various sources of traffic, will provide extremely different return in terms of click-through rate (CTR) and your ad revenue. (more…)

Results: In-Text Ads Experiment

A few days ago, I got an idea to run an experiment to see if in-text ads provide similar click-through rate as other forms of advertising. Although personally I am not a big fan of in-text ads, I thought it would be interesting to see if they can provide some revenue for my site. (more…)

What’s the CTR from a website with a different niche?

For some time now, I wanted to see what kind of click-through-rate can be achieved from ads placed on websites with a completely different niche.  Knowing what kind of CTR to expect from this arrangement, I may be able to find inexpensive ads on sites that are completely different from mine.  (more…)

Managing comments on your blog

Personally, I was never interested in either reading or writing comments on any blog. They could not exist and I wouldn’t feel the difference. As one of my sites grew, I had to make the jump from static html to a dynamic content site. I chose WordPress. Being new to WP, I knew very little on how to customize it. Since Comments come with WP as a default, I kept them, thinking that they can’t do much harm, because nobody will leave any comments, anyway. (more…)