http://www.martinbrinkmann.com Online Journalist Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:13:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MartinBrinkmannhttp://feedburner.google.com Wordtracker is one of the online services that webmasters use for keyword research. The service basically allows webmasters and search engine optimizers to enter a keyword and get estimations of how many times that keyword and related keywords get searched by users in search engines. Many webmasters optimize their websites ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/webmaster-tools/wordtracker-seo-blogger/ Webmasters who add advertisement to their websites face the difficult challenge of having to choose a design and location for them. Design might not always be offered as a choice especially when implementing banner ads or intext ads but popular advertising schemes like Google Adsense offer a wide variety of ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/earn-money/ad-design-and-location/ Keyword research describes the process of evaluating keywords in terms of search engine competition, projected visitor numbers and advertising potential. A company that does not start with keyword research needs to have lots of patience and deep pockets to make up for this error. Most companies want to compete for ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/traffic/why-keyword-research-is-essential-for-online-businesses/ Buying a website is a complicated process and it should not be done by someone who has no clue of what he is getting into. The real price of a website is determined by many factors and definitely not by the seller of the website who, more often than less, ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/earn-money/website-buying-guideline/ Godaddy offers a system called Total DNS Control that makes it very easy to change DNS settings of domains bought at Godaddy. I use it mainly to redirect the domain name to the correct server using Godaddy's nameservers. It worked fluently for several years until I recently ran into a ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/webmaster-tools/the-total-dns-control-manager-for-this-domain-is-temporarily-unavailable/ I recently purchased a software called Directory Submitter which aids in submitting your websites to directories. The major problem I had with directory submissions was that it really took a long time to submit your websites even if you had a list of directories at hand. The usual process was to ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/traffic/directory-submitter/ Wordpress 2.5 has been released and I really can't help it but I don't like the admin interface at all. The use of low contrast colors in several menus and some other usability issues make me wish there was a way to select the old admin interface instead of the ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/two-must-have-wordpress-25-admin-plugins/ Wordpress 2.5 has been released just two days ago and I have updated all of my blogs with the new version. I think that we can agree on the fact that the update procedure itself worked flawlessly for almost everyone. This might have come as a surprise especially to those ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/wordpress-2-5-is-so-so/ If you operate a blog you always compete against other blogs in your niche. It can be a nice competition where everyone is citing the other blog if the story appeared there first or it can be a niche where no one is linking to blogs of the same niche. It's ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/be-among-the-first-to-write-about/ Google Datacenters are servers that deliver content to a user who is requesting the data. This can be a search for instance. A user performing a search will get the results stored in one datacenter which does not have to be the results that other datacenters would deliver. This can be ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/traffic/check-google-rankings-in-multiple-datacenters/