Archive for July, 2006

Rome is not built in one day

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Rome is not built in one day, nor will your webmaster success. One issue for newbie webmaster is over-hoping of success overnight, which is very unlikely.
Many of us read stories of webmaster launching new websites and got success with traffic and revenue in just a week or a month. This could happen but […]

Trying Amazon associate program

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Amazon.com has been here since the dotcom boom in late 90s and is one of the largest online store currently, if not the largest.
Amazon has introduced their associate program for years, and I joined as member last year but didn’t really utilize on it after reading some forum comments on how difficult it is to […]

Beautiful vs ugly website, never ending story

Friday, July 14th, 2006

It’s a life long argument on whether to build a beautiful website or keep it simple and ‘ugly’.
I am the kind of webmaster that believes in KISS, Keep It Simple and Stupid. Well KISS can still be beautiful but for a below average artistic person like me, it’s not easy to build a simple […]

Keeping track on site stats

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Some experience webmaster will say that newbies are wasting too much time on keeping track on site stats, partly true but in my opinion it’s important to keep track of your site traffic especially when your site is new.
A few things that I normally analyze is where are the traffic coming from, and try to […]

My web hosting advice

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

I have experience with several web hosting company before sticking with the current webh osting service. The current web hosting is the most expensive I’ve ever work with, but the service is excellent and almost trouble free.
So what determines a great web host? For me it’s great customer service, stable server, fast loading […]

Advanced Link Building Tactics from SEO-moz

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Link building is important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and to generate some decent traffic. Seomoz.org wrote an excellent article regarding link buildings.

Google Adsense, how it works?

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

One of the easiest ways to make money online is to build a useful website, attract visitors and join advertising programs like Google Adsense to monetize the website.
Google Adsense is among the best advertising network, with excellent track record and great technology behind their advertising system that make them the best in contextual advertising.

What’s so special about Google Page Rank?

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Some people are getting excited whenever Google Search Engine is doing their updates on Page Rank (PR). What the fuzz about PR that makes some webmaster went crazy about it?
For me Google PR is simply a representation by Google search engine as a specific value for webpage, with PR 10 being the highest while […]