One of the interesting trends in the Internet has been that of free information.
Back when the web just started out, everything was free. As the web commercialized, you had to pay to get access to information. Now that competition is fierce for your web dollars, free information is back as a marketing tool.
The [...]

• 1 Comment

You may have noticed the I’ve Been Tagged band across the right side of the blog’s logo.
I don’t normally talk about directories I’ve added the blog to, considering that to be just normal SEO for the site. But the Tag Society is a bit of a different beast.
The Tag Society looks to keep a [...]

• 15 Comments

Signup for any free service on the Internet these days, and the chances are good that you’ll immediately see a one-time-offer (OTO).
OTOs are a widely used marketing technique that tries to build on the action that you’ve already taken to get more money out of you. For example, let’s say you’ve signed [...]

• 0 Comments

After installing DoFollow, the blog started getting hit by a peculiar sort of spam comment.
Akismet had always been catching the porn comments, and those submitters didn’t care whether DoFollow was installed or not. The latest spam comments are from someone using a tool called Trackback Submitter. The comments were obviously auto-generated, and included [...]

• 23 Comments

I don’t recommend the use of Blogger.com for blogs you intend use to make money.
The reason is that blogging is more than just writing interesting posts. You’re going to do a lot of work building backlinks to your blog. If you eventually outgrow Blogger.com and want to move to your own domain name, [...]

• 21 Comments