With the ever increasing emphasis on quality-of-content in the search engines’ algorithms, making sure you update or clear out articles which are either out of date or of little value is important. So I spent a lot of time recently reviewing and either updating or trashing old articles on this site. I wrote back here [...]
I wrote back here about the benefits of using 301 redirects to both pretty-up and more easily manage your affiliate links. This video goes step-by-step through the process of setting up the new folder and creating the index.php file, complete with the redirect code you need. The actual redirect code, that you can grab and [...]
For some time now Google has taken website (or, rather, page) load-times into account when ranking pages in their search results. The reason is simple: fast page-load speeds give your visitors a better experience, and Google is all about improving web users’ experience. Because of this, I’m not surprised to see questions in the forums [...]
What kind of website is yours? This site has, for a long time, been purely about delivering information and building an audience. Now, however, its purpose is changing to building a list in readiness for products that I’m planning. In the next couple of months you’ll see a move towards emphasising what I call my [...]
I finished the first draft of The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Setting up a Business Online today and tried to convert it into a PDF so I could pass it out to my reviewers. Unfortunately Windows 7, Office 2010 and Adobe Acrobat Standard 8 don’t work together (at least not on my machine) and Adobe [...]
I recently tried to register on eBay – and the user experience was ghastly. The same when I tried to set up a Hangout on Google+ a few weeks ago. Why do these (and other) big sites think they’re so clever by presenting me with a Chinese user interface just because my IP address indicates [...]
I was asked last week to write something on branding, and I remembered a branding article I wrote back in 2007, which you can find here. A lot of what I said in that article still holds true, but this article contains the benefit of 4 more years of online experience! Branding is about creating [...]
I’ve struggled with this problem for a long time: how to attract targetted readers to this site and, as a result, make money from it. I’ve read books, joined forums and tried a whole bunch of different things, and nothing really worked. I stumbled along doing the best I could, not really getting the results [...]