Archive for May, 2007

Blogging Experiment: Increasing PageViews

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

The latest thing I've been working on is yet another obvious way to increase earnings. If you can get your current visitors to visit more pages on each visit, your page view count will rise with no extra effort from you. If you sell CPM ads, this will ...

Google’s Question Of The Day

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

What's Google trying to ask us here? My answer? Let's hope I never have to find out.

Just How Dominant Is Google?

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

We all know dominant Google is, but I decided to look at the issue in even a little greater detail. I tracked the search queries people entered to get to Absolutely Fa-Bulo.us from Friday until today. I wrote a custom PHP script to track the referrers, and to ...

Front-Running For Blogging Success

Monday, May 7th, 2007

If you have more than one blog to manage, you have some hard decisions to make. The toughest one of all, is what to devote your time to. If one blog is clearly outperforming another, it gives you a few options. You can figure "I'll put more ...

Increasing Your Google Crawl Rate

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Okay, today we'll talk about increasing your Google Crawl Rate. Some of you may be wondering, what the hell is such a thing? You're saying "Huh, I never heard of it. Can it really be important to me?" I have to answer "Yes!". I wouldn't ...

Blogging Can Turn You Into A Monster

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Now this is the type of problem that a professional blogger won't have. But blogging, in the sense of keeping an intense personal journal, managed to wreck this guy psychologically. I used to keep a personal diary style blog, detailing my frustrations and hopes for the future. I found it ...

Blogging Nothing But Work?

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Damn, blogging is a lot of work. I really mean it. I don't mean it's hard work in the sense of backbreaking labor, because it isn't that. Instead, it's the type of long-term work that can mentally fatigue you almost completely. Blogging takes forever, because you ...