Image via CrunchBase 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 [...]

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Top pages can be described in various ways by bloggers – I’m talking about Google PageRank. These are the pages on your site people link to most, and pages you can get paid the most for. Previously we’ve had to install a PageRank toolbar and manually crawl through what we thought would be the top [...]

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With this guide, a smaller reasonably established blog can easily earn several hundred dollars a month – end of story. Firstly we need a quick explanation of PageRank, if you understand it well enough you can skip on to the next section of the post. Page Rank Page Rank is a page ranking (of course) [...]

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The title says it all – we used a very simple (yet powerful) plugin that literally tripled our blog hits coming in from search engines. That plugin is the Global Translator by N2H you see in our sidebar. The plugin redirects a user to a translator service at first, but over time builds up cached [...]

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Blogs have a specific type of reader, a specific layout and specific content more often than not – and with those specifications they have specific needs when it comes to optimizing AdSense/YPN ads on the blog. We’ve been experimenting across a couple of blogs lately with various AdSense strategies and these are some of the [...]

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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 [...]

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Google has a hidden feature which allows you to sort its results by the date they were indexed, descending, allowing much more powerful search. Just add this string &as_qdr=d to the address bar and hit enter. You’ll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date. You’ll recognise it from the [...]

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With the slew of free mail solutions around, often you might find yourself in your GMail account looking for a contact on Hotmail; or on Yahoo looking for a GMail contact. Keepm solves that problem. Keepm imports your contacts from popular applications like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL, Linked In, as well as from vCards [...]

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iGoogle has allowed Gadget sharing for a while; but now it allows the content inside to be shared. For example, a sticky note can be shared with friends as read-only or as editable – allowing you to leave notes for each other. For more information, check out the Official Google Blog, or LifeHacker. Related articles [...]

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You may have noticed that you can’t change the order of the tabs on your iGoogle homepage; well now you can with a nifty little trick picked up from LifeHacker – Google doesn’t offer a drag-and-drop method of reordering the tabs on your personalized iGoogle page, but you can manually move the tabs using an [...]

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