Archive for February, 2008
As the internet continues to take hold of more and more of our everyday life, there are some things which do not change with regards to the thoughts and actions of webmasters. If you are looking for help on a marketing or a blogging subject where would you look? Who do you trust?
Let us show [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, The World According to Xavier
I've noticed that we get a lot (read "more then I expected") visitors to our IOU PDF form at pdf.xaviermedia.com from search engines like Yahoo! and Google. Since the I Owe You form seems popular we're going to add a few more forms you can fill out and download directly from our site. So if [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Xavier Media
As you may have seen on Twitter we moved our blog (blog.xaviermedia.com) to another server yesterday due to poor response times at the old server. So how did we know that the response times where poor? I'm using a service called mon.itor.us where you can setup web site checks to monitor up time and response [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Web Hosting
This month the Site of the month is a really useful Entrecard (read more about Entrecard here) related site I visit (almost) daily: Powerdropping.com. The site is simply just a list of Entrecard blogs sorted by loading time with the fastest loading site at the top.
So what's so special about a site with [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging
This week we're running the same contest as last week: write a recommendation for this blog at Entrecard and get 50 EC. You'll also be included in the random draw next Friday (the 29th) for another 100 EC to one lucky winner.
The winner
In last weeks contest Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog won 100 EC for writing [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Affiliate Programs
For those of you who have tried affiliate marketing you may well have found it to be difficult to make ANY money, but with so many people trying to introduce new income streams why are so many people failing? Why are the top 10% of the industry snatching more than 90% of ALL affiliate income?
There [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Affiliate Programs
Everyone needs a good domain name, so here are a couple domain name discounts and promotion codes from eXavier.com:
.com – New registrations, transfers and renewals only $6.95
.org – Get your name as .org before anyone else does, only $6.99
.mobi – Mobile content? Get a .mobi for only $10.99
.cn – Chinese web site? Get .cn for [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names, Xavier Media
I guess you have seen the small, slightly animated corners in the right upper corner of some pages (mostly blogs) where an ad will show up if you move your mouse over the corner. If you haven't then check out the right upper corner of this blog!
This is something called peel-off corner ads or peel [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Advertising & Marketing
Have you seen the phenomenon where people lists of hundreds of blogs they "like" and say that they're sending something they call link love? What they're hoping for is to help the fellow blogs they list in their posts by sharing some PR (pagerank) with their friends, but this kind of SEO technics will most [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Search Engines & Directories
If you write a recommendation at Entrecard for this blog I will transfer 50 Entrecard credits to you and you will also get a chance of winning another 100 credits. Among all recommendations for this blog a randomly selected recommendation will get 100 Entrecard credits next Friday (the 22nd of February).
Click here to write your [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
There will be very few webmasters who have not come across the massive picture library which is Google Images, but what does it really do? Is there a purpose to it?
While there is no doubt that the Google Images service (which trawls the web for images and indexes thumb nail links to the sites in [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
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