Archive for June, 2007
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007By now the parallels between the internet and real estate should be obvious. Domains names are like raw land, and good ones like sex.com can be very valuable even if they aren’t developed. People are even flipping websites for profit. In the offline world large real estate companies are called REITs. The company iREIT.com caught […]
Continue To Earn Even After Selling Your Website
Monday, June 11th, 2007There may come a time when you wish to sell your website. If your income is coming from several ad networks, there is a chance that your buyer won’t have an existing account with each of them. This is a good opportunity for you to collect some referral bonus money when he sets up […]
Transferring Databases - How Do I Transfer A Website? - Part 3
Sunday, June 10th, 2007If your database is too large, then you’ll probably have trouble using the phpMyAdmin interface. There are two problems with large DBs and phpMyAdmin.
First, you have to download the exported file to your own personal workstation and then upload it to the new server. That can be pretty slow going if your DB is […]
Transferring Databases - How Do I Transfer A Website? - Part 2
Sunday, June 10th, 2007Most websites these days come equipped with a few databases to run whatever software might be powering the site. All wordpress blogs use databases, most forum software uses a database, and so do plenty of other apps. In my opinion database usage has gotten a little out of hand. You’ll find even the smallest applications […]
How Do I Transfer A Website? - Part 1
Friday, June 8th, 2007I had a good question come up today about the details of transferring a website. Joey wanted to know if I transfer a site to my own server or just assume hosting.
The answer really just depends on the size of the site and the previous owner. Often a webmaster will run several sites on […]
Watching For The Cheap BINs
Friday, June 8th, 2007I was browsing SitePoint today when I saw this sale. The owner was asking for $525 Buy It Now (BIN) for a site which receives 10,000 uniques per month. That works out to over 300 unique visitors per day. A site with that much traffic can usually can get about $50 per month from Adsense […]
Using Yahoo And MSN For Search
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Most of the people who visit this blog are webmasters or aspiring webmasters. I imagine that webmasters tend to use google for 99% of their online searching. They are recognized for having some of the best search results, and they are the industry leader. But being the industry leader, is exactly why you should use […]
Does Feedburner Work With Yahoo?
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007I finally got feedburner installed on this website. I heard it was all the rage among bloggers, so I signed up. You can grab my feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HowToBuyWebsites
There is just one problem. When I tried to add it to my Yahoo news reader, I got an error.
After contacting Feedburner support, they pointed me to their […]
Launching A New Site - iPhoneHood.com, iPhone Forums
Monday, June 4th, 2007Yesterday Apple announced that they are going to be launching the highly anticipated iPhone on June 29th. When I purchased the ipodwizard site a few months ago, part of my growth plan was to leverage the existing user base of ipod fans into joining a new forum site relating to the new iPhone. While the […]
Monetizing Traffic - Optimizing Ad Revenues
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007This month I want to increase my revenues. There are a few things I am going to do which I think will boost the earnings of my sites. Getting more traffic is a very difficult thing. It is far easier to increase the monetization of existing traffic. This doesn’t always include increasing the number of […]
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