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Make Your Presence Known.

Shark — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:57:09 +0000

There are many ways to promote your website, some of the more popular ways are, link exchanging with other websites, search engine submission, and paid advertising. I recently tried helping a friend promote his business/website in a way I had never thought of or even tried before, promoting locally by using search engines. By promoting [...]

How to Make a Favicon.ico

Shark — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:00:47 +0000

A Favicon is a small 16×16, or 32×32 pixel image that adds a graphical icon next to your website bookmark link. This is a handy feature that can help your users identify your website in their pile of bookmarks and it’s also a great way to help get your brand out there. Most out of [...]

St Patty

Shark — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:13:46 +0000

Happy St. Patty’s day folks, have a safe and fun holiday… I’m working on a few things for the site at the moment so stay tuned for a tutorial for tomorrow.

The Secret To A Popular Website

Shark — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:00:10 +0000

There are basically two ways you can get content for your website. You get content from someone else or create it yourself. I’m speaking about content in the form of articles, posts, comments, but it could cover pretty much anything. What is Automated Not Unique Content? Here are a few websites that utilize automated content [...]

Got Malware? Use a Hosts File

Shark — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:00:44 +0000

Even though this isn’t directly related to blogging or running a website, it is needed to have a well running PC. After all if you can’t use your PC because it’s bogged down with bloatware, malware, adbots, or any other dang thing out there, you very well can’t do any website work. What is a [...]

Free Article Directories for Traffic, Worth It?

Shark — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:00:35 +0000

Article Directories, Yay or Nay? I recently tried using an article directory to drive some traffic to SharkFOO. An article directory is a website designed to help websites get free content, or for authors to get traffic for writing. Basically what I did was go to EzineArticles and submitted the first part of my How [...]

Theme Implemented

Shark — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:42:32 +0000

I think I found a theme that will work for now, it’s a 3 column theme like I wanted, with some advertising areas implemented and two sidebar widget areas. So Far I think it looks pretty good, Ill have to add some shark logos here and there, but that goes without saying with a free [...]

Never Again Forget That Amazing Idea

Shark — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Ever come up with a great idea, but don’t have anything to write it down on? Ever wake up in the middle of the night with a great idea but put off writing it down till the morning? We all do that, and most of the time that great idea slips through our fingers. Fret [...]

Traffic Experiment, Ep2

Shark — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:00:36 +0000

A few days ago I wrote about a few blog promotion techniques I would try, to see if they would get me any more traffic. Turns out they did, slightly. Here’s a list of the things I tried. Stumbleupon – Submitting my site and giving it a review has not brought me any traffic in [...]

Theme WIP

Shark — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:57:48 +0000

I’ve decided to start working on a new theme for sharkfoo.com. The 2 column layout is not working for me, I’d much rather have a 3 column which would enable me to put ads in the sidebar instead of peppering them around in the content. So stay tuned for that, also I have some new [...]