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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Domainers Beware - Don’t Be The Greater Fool
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007I have been reading a lot about domaining lately. I understand the basic idea. Register a www.xxxxx.com domain that someone might just type that in to their browser directly rather than searching. (type-in traffic) Then earn cash off the traffic when they click on one of the 50 advertisement PPC links.
It sounds like a great […]
Yahoo Search Results
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Yesterday, I said you can tell when your site has been discovered on the internet when you start receiving SPAM. Today, after checking my stats, I think I know why. Yahoo has decided to include me in their search results for some nice keywords relating to my topic.
I appear on the first page of Yahoo […]
Found By The Spammers
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007“How To Buy Websites” has finally arrived. You know your site has been discovered on the internet when you start to receive a ton of SPAM comments. I returned from Mexico to discover about 20 SPAM comments in my moderation queue. Thats ridiculous. I wonder how they found me? Some jealous reader must have put […]
Increasing Links
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Obviously the best way to get links to your site is to create useful content that will drive people to link to it. Unfortunately, this is a chicken and egg type problem because if you have no traffic, no one will link to your content no matter how useful it is. They won’t ever find […]
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