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Here are three tips on how to make your cash register ring with your Google Adsense: Maintain a Google Sitemap for your site and keep them up to date. Place a bookmark(s) for people to come back. Use only the social bookmarks that can really drive traffic. I recommend Technorati, DIGG, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. Make contents that people really want to see. If you find a good article to put in your website, don't copy it but do an article rewrite. If you have ways of doing things better than the usual, make an article about it. Keep on doing these things at all times. Put in two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening. That makes it 10 to 12 hours each weekend. After constantly doing this, you can really see an improvement with your Google Adsense account! Also, you can diversify... Make many sites with good quality and has useful information that serve a real purpose and fulfill a need on the web. Diversity is the key. Don't worry if your site would lo...

Focus on Direct Traffic from Referrals If you get a link, want and expect traffic. Make sure the link is located above the fold and in a very good location on the page. Focus on Indirect Traffic from increased position in the SERPs (because of high rankings in search engines) Make sure you have already gone and tested which keyword phrases which converts best on your site. It will force you to use that anchor text in a great linking campaign and great ranking, great traffic, and great results in terms of sales. Let go of old, outdated methods. The old reciprocal linking methodology will not work today. Make sure that you only exchange links with relevant sites. Why is Linking Important? In order to gain Link Popularity and Link Reputation! Which is which? Text links and Image links? In terms of link popularity and link reputation, the image links do little for you. What would boost you is the text within a link called anchor text. It's not going after the biggest and ...

Define Craigslist It is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics. With over 10 million new classified ads each month, Craigslist is the leading classifieds service in any medium. The classified advertisements in Craigslist range from traditional buy/sell ads and community announcements, to personal ads and even "erotic services". It is found at the top 50 sites in Alexa Traffic Rankings. Because of its popularity, Craigslist.org is one of the most target sites of spammers. Craigslist has been upgrading its system continuously to fight against the spammers. When you post the same ads on different locations or multiple ads on a particular location, your post will be marked as flag and will be removed from the list. This makes the ad posting in Craigslist difficult...

There are many types of authoritative links, and different sites require different approaches for getting the link. But the main objective is to build your site into a stable authoritative domain. Here is a summary of the 9 step process to getting authoritative links through relationship building: Build a list of authoritative sites that you would really like to get a link from. Review the content and tools you currently have, or can easily develop. Take your highest priority targets and do some research. Really understand what the site is about. Make your first contact totally focused on helping them somehow, such as solving that stated need from the prior point. Simply help them, and ask for nothing in return. Do it again, or perhaps even several more times. Along the way make sure that they are aware that you have a related site (perhaps the site name is in your signature, for example). After you have established a dialog with them, and they are really responding to yo...

Character Sets : We know we need an encoding tag for compliancy purposes, but which one? <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> If a site is doing is serving content, using UTF-8 is fine. By the way, ISO-8859-1 is actually a subset of UTF-8. Where you can get into trouble is when you are *accepting* data from visitors from some foreign countries. The browser will re-encode any data the user enters into UTF-8 and send it back to the server. If your server can't handle UTF-8 encoded data, then you could run into some trouble. For example, if you are using a database backend and a user from China enters some Chinese characters into a form, then your database needs to know how to handle the UTF-8 encoded data it just received. Any database will accept UTF-8 data because it is "byte oriented", but knowing what ...

Here's a list of ping URLs whenever you got new updates in your website: http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/ http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

The topic about a website’s changelog is one of the interesting threads in the WebmasterWorld! The changelog has a vital role in SEO. Some may find it unimportant, but I believe this should be one of the things that we should be checking out once in a while. Here are some ideas to track taken from the WebmasterWorld : Every change to robots.txt Every change to htaccess (or Internet Services Manager in IIS) Site-wide template changes (especially menu changes) DNS and hosting changes New outbound links Ad purchases and run-times Last time all outbound links were checked to see what was on the other end Last time site was checked for "poison" words Change in titles, especially the home page Server updates (especially reboots or outages) New inbound links (one way or not) Backup of files you have changed Log of expense for each website Config files (Apache, MySQL, php, etc.) Firewall ruleset All changes to all pages are logged one page per day I...