Most of my sites I have built myself, but at only $100 I couldn't pass up my latest find GPS Find. I purchased this site on the Sitepoint Marketplace.
The site is monetized with the eBay affiliate program and Adsense. The site is brand new so once I can build some page rank, I'll try [...]
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "I'd like to be robbed today". But if I just have to be robbed, it be nice to for the perpetrator to be kind, courteous, and only take what he needs.
That's exactly what happened to an eighteen year old teen as he was walking out of [...]
A couple of months ago, I ran across a post that got me curious. The poster mentioned he had sent out link exchange requests on one of his domains. Obviously, one of the recipients of his request regarded it as spam and reported it to his registrar Godaddy.
This poster claimed Godaddy locked not [...]
There are tons of free WordPress templates available. You only need to do a Google search to find them. But it never fails, I can never find a template with the specs I want. Searching for a free template can be frustrating and paying for a custom template can be expensive.
What if [...]
Google Analytics - In April of 2005, Google purchased a software company named Urchin Software Corporation. Urchin provided web analytics software that was reportedly used by millions of customers including 20% of all Fortune 500 companies. Google added new features to the software and eventually allowed anyone to use it for free.
GA is free and [...]
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post on using Google Analytics to track all of my websites. Even though GA is top shelf and is packed with features, I have no plans of using it.
My primary concern was even though I don't engage in black hat tactics, I still don't want to [...]
I'm using Google Analytics on a couple of my sites. All the features of Google Analytics are completely free. It isn't one of those free softwares that give you only half of what you need in an effort to entice you to purchase a paid version.
There is also no arguing that Google Analytics [...]
I love free software. But does anyone really spend the time developing and debugging software only to give it away? Not really. Most of the time when I use a free software it is very limited in its functionality. Ususally, the other features I need are readily available in a paid [...]
If you read my previous post, Keyword Rich URL For Targeted Adsense Ads, my expectation came true. When I first created the test pages, the adsense ads displayed had everything to do with the keywords used in the url and nothing to do with the page title or content on the page.
A few days [...]
I wanted to see what factors google used when displaying adsense ads. What I discovered today was a little surprising. According to google, the adsense ads that show on a page have everything to do with the content of the page. According to my test results, not so much....
I put this idea [...]
