Archive for the 'Site Management' Category

Commenting on other blogs could hurt yours

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Darren wrote a good article about “10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs.” Here are his points (visit his site for details)…
1. Excessive use of Signatures
2. Excessive Self Linking
3. One or Two word Comments
4. Not Reading Posts Before Commenting
5. Flaming and Personal Attack
6. ‘Anonymous’ Flaming
7. Always Being First To […]

Make your website searchable

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

I am not talking about searchable on search engine here, it’s search-ability within the website itself.
It’s important to make the contents searchable from your website. Most Content Management System (CMS) these days are built with the function, so it’s not really a big issue.
Problem is some webmasters decide to substitute their CMS search with […]

Trial and error for Google Adsense Optimization

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

There are numerous Google Adsense Optimization tips available online, most of them are generally applicable but if you want to fully optimized Google Adsense earnings, you need lots of trial and error for your website.
General optimization tips include blending your ads color with your website design, put in appropriate location, blend ads within contents, use […]

Google Webmaster Help Center

Monday, September 11th, 2006

One of the best place to explore as a newbie webmaster.. Google Webmaster Help Center.
It would take a few days to read through all pages and links in the help center, but it’s definitely worth some reading as it covers most of the basics about getting your site noticed from a search engine perspective.

Ads optimization tips for blogs by Google Adsense

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Google Adsense have updated their ads optimization tips with a bigger and better version [link].
The common Adsense tips are like blending ads with content, using multiple ad units and ads positioning etc. One of the new addition is the page of “Blogtimize - Optimize the ads on your blog” [link].

Automated link exchange scripts work poorly

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

There are many websites that use automated link exchange scripts for their link exchange campaign.
I’m not talking about link crawler or link farm, but those scripts that help in managing link exchange request by verifying reciprocal links and automatically add links after the reciprocal location is identified and verified.

Don’t hesitate to link to others

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Some webmasters are worry about providing links to other websites, thinking that it would channel away their visitors and/or lower their Google PageRank.
Frankly I was having the same mentality when I started being a webmaster, but later found out that it’s a good thing to provide useful links on your website. Your visitors will […]

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 […]