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People have often questioned what the affect of irregular updates on a site have on their traffic ranking. Blogs have been introduced to many websites in order to help keep them “fresh” and make sure that search engines come back often. This has a direct impact on advertising earnings as well as visitor [...]

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It’s that time of the year again where nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 SA Blog Awards.
This is the first time that we are entering the competition and would appreciate your support. Nominating us is easy! Just click here or click the image to the right.
I think there might be 1 or 2 [...]

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UPDATE: Please read the comments, Justin of Adgator has answered a lot of our questions and given some good news about the future!
We’ve been trying to work out the difference between a great day on AdGator and a terrible one to work out whether its worth our time at all, and stumbled across some peculiar [...]

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As we posted last month, we were running a comment competition with the prize being a backlink from one of our higher PR pages.
The criteria for the competition was

Relevance to the topic
Insight
Adding to the discussion

Based on this, we’d like to award the prize to Denouncer of Xboxgaming.co.za for his input on the IEC website saga. [...]

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Upon opening Entropy this morning I was pleased to see we have finally received some AdGator ads again! It appears to currently just be the Times Mobile campaign but hopefully there will be more to come soon. If you’re also receiving ads today, make sure you read the newly released T&C from them!
Has anyone in [...]

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We at Entropy want to give back to those users that contribute to our posts with comments. From today (16/01/2009) up until the 31st of the month (31/01/2009) any comments made on any recent post (from  12/01/2009) on Entropy will go into a pool to win a backlink on one of our PR5 pages.
We will [...]

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A big part of building a successful blog is user engagement – having loyal readers who comment and return to your site. These readers will help to keep your site active, create discussions and the more you appeal to them so too will your user base grow. There are several tips to increasing the feedback [...]

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I spent a chunk of the weekend working on a new WordPress theme which I’m currently calling Entropy. It’s gray/red and pretty neat and straight forward with a grungy feel.
I haven’t even started on the single post/page look and feel; but the front page is nearing completion aside from the tag cloud etc.
If you [...]

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We’ve recently had a spat of users coming in to a local forum we hang out on – Vault9 – and it brought up in my mind that perhaps many South African’s aren’t aware of it as an alternative.
Vault9 is a South African community of computer, games movie, television, graphics, and pretty much anything-interested [...]

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What is the best method of deploying your 3 per page AdSense ads if you run a blog? According to google in-content ads get the most clicks as can be seen by their heatmap on the right.
However, the highest rated area is directly above your content and many spam sites and SEO professionals seem to [...]

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