Google’s wiki is launched
Having been in the testing mode for well over half a year, Knol is Google s version of an encyclopaedia. In fact, it could be compared with the famous Wikipedia but could have some interesting advantages for the contributors.
All that is required is Google login and that is it, anyone can submit an article, [...]
July 10, 2008What makes a good webmaster?
There are many things that make a good webmaster, but these qualities are changing all of the time, simply because the industry is changing all of the time.
But just producing a nice looking website is no longer any good; as there are many factors which need to be taken into consideration and all of [...]
June 24, 2008Indie filmmakers to use YouTube
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May 8, 2008Let Google know you’re in the UK
Having a .com site is fine, because it is a universal domain, but when are a specific UK site who only sells to the UK market, you are going to need the site to be right up there on the site rankings for the UK. But what happens when the site turns up on the [...]
May 7, 2008Webmasters doing Google’s job
Being Google must be great; they have help from all sides. Once they were just a search service which people used to find a website and everyone was happy. Apart from Google, they wanted to rule the internet and then go on to rule the world, but they need the help of webmasters and naturally [...]
April 15, 2008Microsoft under attack from Google and Salesforce
Probably two of Microsoft’s oldest enemies who joined forces a while ago, are due to announce that they will be increasing their efforts in the to attract more customers for their customer management and office software, which is mainly directed at business users.
The combined services will include Google’s suite of office programmes and applications, [...]
February 27, 2008$21 billion advertising on the net
Revenues coming from online advertising have for the first time reached $21 billion, this milestone was achieved through the year 2007, and when compared to 2006 which showed a revenue of $17 billion, it is clear that there has been a rise of nearly twenty five per cent.
However the industry is saying that this sort [...]
Policing web advertising
Advertising on the internet is you would have thought a serious business, but with revenues for the year 2007, the figure was around $36 billion which is a lot of money, but still only around eight per cent of the annual advertising spend across the globe, so there is much scope for improvement or is [...]
November 20, 2007Microsoft enter porn market
As strange as it may seem there are rumours that Microsoft is planning an X Rated affiliate programme this will go under the name of either “Porn Bucks” or “M$ Smut Cash” but we can take those titles as being in development.
It’s a wonder who will be interested in this business model or is it? [...]
Generating website traffic
It’s a simple fact that no traffic to your website means no visitors and therefore it stands to reason that no money will be made. After all what is the point of creating a wonderful website if nobody is going to see it?
Paying for traffic can be expensive it all depends on your business, for [...]
Earnings from affiliate schemes
Having built a website and you have seen the traffic increase to what could be considered a reasonable amount, so is that it? Where do you go from there? The obvious route would be to see if you can turn this successful website into something that makes some money for you.
The two main ways both [...]
Parasiteware can damage your wealth
When a visitor clicks on one of your affiliate links, you expect to be paid when the commission has been earned, but if the visitor has a form of parasiteware on their computer, then it is possible they you will not be paid!
This software will overwrite the information in the cookie giving the parasite the [...]
Controlling your Adsense
For the experienced Webmaster knowledge of how to get the best out your Google Adsense account would already be high, but for new webmasters it could be an overwhelming mystery and something that needs to be mastered.
But before you feel it is all too much, why not have a look at the list below and [...]