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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…)

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…)

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…)