Archive for February, 2008

Stumble Your Way To Traffic

Friday, February 15th, 2008

One of the basic things about monetizing a blog (or any website) is the fact that no matter how good your SEO is or how great your content is, if you don’t get traffic to the site nobody is ever going to see it. And of course, if nobody sees the site, then nobody [...]

So I haven’t posted in a while…

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

… and I know that’s not good for a blog, especially a new one that’s totally starved for traffic. So now its time to start doing something about bringing traffic here. One of the many things that you can do is to join online communities such as MyBlogLog. It’s another point of [...]

Election Confusion

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Well, Super Tuesday is over and I suppose sometime in the next few days all of the news media people and the political experts will get everything figured out as to who won what and who is going to continue their bid for the presidency and who’s going to end up dropping out.
On the democrat [...]

Super Bowl XXLII

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

It’s once again time for the super bowl as super bowl XXLII (that’s 42 for those of us that don’t read roman numbers!) and everybody’s getting ready for what is expected to be a really good game.
On the one side, you’ve got Eli Manning and the Giants. They’ve not had a shot at a [...]

An Observation About Content Length

Friday, February 1st, 2008

I’ve noticed something already. It seems that in posts with less text in them the advertising isn’t nearly as “targeted” as it is on the longer posts. Apparently adsense needs some minimum amount of text from which to draw conclusions concerning the topic being discussed. For example, this post is rather short [...]

Technorati and Blog Traffic

Friday, February 1st, 2008

One of the things that need to be done for any new blog is to start getting its url out there where it can be found. You can’t get any traffic if people can’t find links to your blog. One of the many ways to do this is to claim your blog on Technorati.
I’m [...]