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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…)

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…)

How much traffic to expect from BlogBurst?

Over a month ago, I signed up one of my sites to BlogBurst. For those of you who are not familiar with it, it’s a free service that makes your blog posts available to a number of organizations, including FoxNews, Reuters, IBS, Chicago Sun Times, Wall Street Journal and more. You simply provide BlogBurst with your RSS feed URL and people from websites affiliated with them pick their favorite posts and place them on their sites.

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Is FeedBurner advertising worth the money?

Having already been subscribed to FeedBurner, I decided to see if their advertising will prove to be cost effective. I bought a week-long run of a banner displaying one of my site’s five most recent posts.

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Experimenting with In-Text Ads

For the month of April, I will be trying out Kontera In-Text advertising. Since their ads are somewhat unusual by being placed within the text of each post, I want to see if there are any notable differences in CTR and total earnings, between In-Text advertising and conventional banners. (more…)

How to get private ads?

When one of my sites reached roughly 200,000 unique monthly visitors, I thought it may be a good time to start getting some private ads.  So, two weeks ago we introduced private ads.  I wasn’t expecting any quick sales immediately and I will be happy if we make a single sale in the first 30 days.  In other words, I have no idea how long it may take to generate some private ad sales. (more…)

Domains, domains… worthless domains!

I currently own between 100 and 150 domains, which at one point or another I thought were great, and therefore bought them.  I don’t have a specific number, because I lost interest in some of them and they have simply expired.  I bought others in the meantime, so the number changes on a weekly basis. (more…)

What kinds of experiments will I run?

Ever since I started running my own websites back in 1996, many things that I have done, services I have used and money I spent, have thought me lessons. Over the past 12 years and especially over the last 4 or 5, the internet has changed and I have learned a great deal more. (more…)