Mambo, Joomla, and WordPress Tips

Get more traffic with StumbleUpon

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:24:30 +0000

I my opinion, social media sites tend to be severely overhyped. Facebook, MySpace, etc tends to be frequented by horribly invaluable traffic. There are a few exceptions to this, and StumbleUpon is a big one.

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Why I like Neverblue

admin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:09:08 +0000

In the last year I’ve been doing a lot of work with affiliate marketing. In that time I’ve run campaigns through Commission Junction, Azoogle, Neverblue, Rocket Profit, CPA Empire, and World Dating Partners. While each network has it’s own strengths, in my experience Neverblue seems to be the best for the beginning marketer.

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5 mistakes to avoid when starting your new site

admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:49:33 +0000

This post aims to cover a few mistakes to avoid when starting a new site. They are mistakes seen all the time, and have been committed by most people.

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Never get caught spamming again!

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:07:02 +0000

Shoemoney has a great post about a new (well, kinda new) way to spam your links and not get caught. Basically, you get your site ranking first for any random keyword, then pass your link as the "I’m Feeling Lucky" link through Google. To show an example, see the following:

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Interesting results when searching for “search engine”

admin — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:57:32 +0000

Just for fun I thought I’d search for "search engine" at the major engines. Here is what I’ve found.

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The importance of leveraging link juice

admin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:00:51 +0000

We had a website ranking #2 for one of our targeted keyword phrases in Google. We ranked #1 way back when, and have been at #2 for a few months. Last week I decided that I needed to do something about that. We have a main site, with a page at www.site.com/xxxxx_xxxxx.html. We also own xxxxx-xxxxx.com which was a forward to our www.site.com/xxxxx_xxxxx.html page, and that is what was ranking.

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If I were the Joomla God

admin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:45:37 +0000

With Joomla 1.5 fast approaching, they are in the middle of a template contest. All entries have been submitted, and now it’s up to the core team to whittle it down to 5 templates for the masses to vote on. If I were in charge, here are the 5 I’d choose:

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Getting AdSense onto your Mambo or Joomla site

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:56:02 +0000

AdSense can be a great way to add some additional revenue, and fortunately adding AdSense to your Mambo or Joomla site is very easy. Some people prefer to use one of the ready-made modules, but I prefer to do it more manually. There is no real reason, but I like as much control as possible.

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Get more traffic to your WordPress blog

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:04:40 +0000

BlogRush is a new service that allows you to gain more exposure and traffic to your blog. Like many of these traffic exchange type systems, there is a chance for abuse, but it is being developed by internet marketing giant John Reese, and is getting positive reviews from Shoemoney, Andy Beal and John Chow. BlogRush works by showing headlines from 5 other blogs in the same general field as yours on your site, and giving you credit for showing them. It then shows your headlines on other blogs.

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WordPress 2.3

admin — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:38:48 +0000

Well, WordPress 2.3 has now been released. This blog is still running on 2.2.3, but I did give 2.3 a little trial. The feel is exactly the same as we’re all used to, which is very nice, but they added in a few great features.

Tagging is now included in the core.
Update notifications of any plugins hosted at wordpress.org
Automatic rewriting to www or non-www version of your site based on your settings.
Improved draft management
Updated blogroll - Matt’s gone

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