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Yes, you can get a ton of extra traffic to your site…with a simple change, using hyphens! Did you know that how you name files and directories on your site can have a huge factor on your search engine rankings? Now before we go into details, you have to understand that search engines are essentially “software robots” and therefore they need things to be easy for them to understand. Say for example you name a image “IMG_2493.JPG”. Most search engines will rank your image’s name as “IMG_2493″. Now, if that image was of kids playing with toys and you had an article on child safety…well, the article would probably get indexed properly by the search engines, but you’re also losing a ton of potential visitors because your image wasn’t named properly. [Read more →]

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So, at the moment you may be looking for additional methods of monetizing your website or blog.  There are many different options out there for you, but we will be focusing on one at the moment - AdBrite.  I should also mention that AdBrite is not just good for monetization, maybe you want new people to visit your website, it’s also great as an advertising network.

AdBrite started in 2002 and has already caught-up to the big media giants on the net.  You can actually make money from this network and most of their ads are high-quality so I don’t feel bad endorsing it.  I’ve been with some ad networks where even after a month of advertising on my sites, I fail to make pennies on the dollar.  AdBrite is NOT one of those networks. [Read more →]

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Yes, this post is a rant! Well, an educational rant of sorts. I’m tired of seeing blogs doing link trains. If you have a link train currently running, this isn’t anything personal against you…it’s against the link train! I decided quite a while ago that I would never do a link train. Link trains are the blog equivalency of unsolicited “put your choice body part here”-enlargement email spam.

Ok, so many people may be asking what a link train is. A link train is basically a list of links that someone starts on their blog and asks that other blogs copy that original list and add their own site at the bottom. Once you’ve copied the list and added your own link to the bottom, you would ask others to do the same. Usually there’s some lame article or short description at some part of the list so people don’t get penalized from search engines for duplicate content. I’ll give you an example of what a link train looks like… [Read more →]

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Want a cool and easy way to market your website? You need a favicon! If you don’t know what that is, it’s that really small icon you see in the address bar when you visit particular websites (like joemidway.com).

There are a couple of ways to design your own icon. There are a few services on the Internet where you can convert a picture into a favicon (such as http://www.flavicon.com/converter). You can also create your own icon in Photoshop or The Gimp by making it 64×64 pixels (minimum is 16×16, while 64 is a multiple of 16) and saving it or exporting it as a .ico file. For Photoshop, you will need the .ico plugin from Telegraphics. The reason you will create the icon in 64×64 pixels is because the .ico format is automatically resized or compressed. When the most common 16×16 format is called from your website, the .ico file is just automatically resized. [Read more →]

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So, I follow along with a lot of blogs online and while most aren’t too bad at their writing, there are a few that are horrible! I mean they have bad spelling mistakes, missing capitalizations and missing punctuation among other things. I do know that the last thing people want to read is a lesson on spelling, so don’t worry - I’m just going to be giving some easy tips! I think these tips will not only help your readers through your writing, but also help you enjoy writing more. So, with that said, onto the tips! [Read more →]

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