Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
How TakeABreak.com.au used AdSense
Google is using this as a case study, to show how this site now gains 10% of their revenue from AdSense. Typical of a Google release, the manager of the site says:
“we quickly found AdSense a very effective way to gain additional revenue that we channelled into our advertising budget in order to build our […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Revenue Streams by Rob
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Hell.com - not worth $8m then, not worth $1m now
It went to auction recently, but there were no takers. Once upon a time the reserve was $US8 million, this time $US1 million. I guess it’s hard to think of what it would be used for, and how you’d ever make enough from the moniker to pay for it. But it is definitely a memorable […]
Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Hosting & Domain Names by Rob
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
RANT: Why aren’t Site Maps easier to make?
It is commonly believed that if you use Google’s Site Maps, (aka Webmaster Tools), your site will be more frequently indexed, and more accurately indexed. To get started all you need to do is use Google’s Python script, or a 3rd party solution.
Problem is, most 3rd party solutions just crawl your site, as Google does, […]
