Whether you are advertising on the web using PayPerClick systems (Google Adwords, Yahoo Sponsored Search, MSN AdCenter and such), there’s something else you should investigate.
Not only can you post messages and links in your own blog, there’s an advertising blog that exists so that you can post your ads!
Read more about free web advertising [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Advertising Costs Money – Doesn’t it?
October 31, 2006Chitika’s New ShopCloud$
October 30, 2006Chitka has a new PPC advertising system – their ShopCloud$.
A click on any keyword in this new “cloud” of tags – the group of pertinent keywords- results in a new web page with vendor listings. No credit for the click on a tag in the cloud – the PPC comes into play on the [...]
Linking for Traffic
October 19, 2006One of the best ways to get traffic is to trade links with other sites.
To get started, you don’t have to spend a lot, maybe not even spend a cent.
All you have to do is… read more in Getting Traffic to Your Web Site, part 2
Web hosting – shared, dedicated and virtual
October 18, 2006Wondering what the difference is between shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting and virtual web hosting?
How about the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Read my article Dedicated Web Hosting, Virtual Web Hosting & Shared Web Hosting
And, check out Powweb’s October 25% OFF Special at $5.77/month for their super One Plan shared web hosting package.
Web Hosting at a Great Price
October 14, 2006The web host that I use (Powweb) is temporarily offering a much better deal than usual.
Their usual pricing is $7.77 per month, but during October, they’re offering their packages at $5.77 per month — whether you buy1 year or 2 years of web hosting services.
With their “One Plan,” Powweb offers 20GB space, 13GB through-put per [...]
Can misspellings help?
October 9, 2006You bet they can. I’m amazed at the search engine results I get from one accidental misspelling.
Read more in The Power of (Mis-)Spelling at my “Drawing on the Web” web design blog
Don’t you just love web browsers?
October 9, 2006Don’t you just love web browsers? Especially the inconsistencies between them?
I just posted some image tests in this blog at wordpress.com, which uses the “Contempt” theme. The images were 512×384 pixels.
WordPress properly set the image sizes in the HTML to 512×384.
However, the fixed width of the web page body plus the [...]
Image posting test
October 9, 2006Here’s another image test. Since I can’t upload a file into wordpress.com, I’ll have to link to an image elsewhere on the net.
Just like in a Word or other wordprocessor document, in order to type below, I have to select the image, press the right arrow and then the Enter key. That puts [...]
Install your own Apache+MySQL+PHP+Perl server
October 7, 2006A little more on XAMPP — first, I didn’t mention how easy it is to get XAMPP, the cross-platform web server platform.
You might want to use XAMPP for production, that is, real access via the Internet. If so, be sure to check its Security settings and security comments.
Personally, I use XAMPP for development [...]
