Reading digg today, one of the stories was about Google spending $1 billion on infrastructure and building a “dark fiber”. Maybe not the most interesting news ever about Google (recent interesting news from Google was their move into more CPA programs (post later)). So whilst reading some comments, I saw a really interesting one;
Here’s the […]
Archive for June, 2006
What is Google’s master plan? [Speculation]
Filed in: Google
Internet Users Plagued by ‘Banner Blindness’
An eye-tracking study finds users block out ads on the Web, especially when the creative is not relevant to what’s on the page.
Found via Digg.
The article is based upon a study that claims, internet users automatically focus on the content on your site instead of the articles, however all is not lost. The study revealed […]
Filed in: General
Namecheap - Nice Registrar with good promotions (Coupon inside)
I’ve always had a few problems when using paypal on godaddy, so I tried namecheap. They have a nice clean site, not over crowded like godaddy. Going through the registration process was simple and I didn’t have to decline dozens of offers like on Goddady. They have a good promotion on at the moment (since […]
Filed in: Domains
Finally got my weight back
No, not as in weight weight but in the Digital Point Co-op (aff) weight. At Google there have been some problems with the site: command. (Search around, there are loads of posts about it).
Basically the Digital Point Co-Op network uses the site: command when calculating your weight. Unlike real life, it is better to have […]
Filed in: Web Sites
Webmaster Radio: Monetize Community Websites Traffic
The show this evening (3PM PST, 5pm CST, 6PM EST) is about how to make money from forums and other social networking sites.
On the show he will be joined by Lee Dodd, someone who owns many. I’ve written about adsense with forums and how placement is everything to combat ad-blindness.
Shoemoney’s Blog has some really useful information about PPC and contextual advertising. For forum owners, I think he wrote a good piece about subscriptions here.
If you’re […]
Filed in: Forum
Where’s my name? Most Popular TLDs
No suprise to see .com dominating the chart of the most popular TLDs. What is amazing is the amount of .coms there are to the .de’s and .net’s. Also, you can see that the launch of .eu was a success in terms of registered domains (See what CEO of Godaddy says about the .eu “landrush”)
.com […]
Filed in: Domains
Setting up your PPC with a free Microsoft Exchange server
Browsing through aximsite a couple of weeks ago I found topic about a free exchange server service, mail2web.com. I signed up, entered my details into active sync, and then thought I would use for a back up incase I ever crashed my PDA and PC in one go. The next day, I read that you […]