Archive for January, 2008

Stop trying to get away without a landing page!

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

At least he’s honest…
If you’re involved in PPC marketing - especially as a little-guy affiliate - you need a landing page to send your offer to. You must suck it up and create at least one, at the bare minimum; super affiliates like Amit Mehta make dozens for a single offer and continually split-test them. […]

Remove deprecated tags from WordPress comments

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

A new WordPress installation allows readers to leave comments containing certain HTML tags by default, including a, abbr, b and i. Unfortunately, using <b> for bold and <i> for italics is deprecated, unsemantic, and very un-Web 2.0. So how do you force your readers to use the proper markup - <strong> for bold and <em> […]

Get accurate stats by blocking your IP from reports

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

This is a pretty common sense tip but I imagine that many webmasters forget it when they’re settings things up, so…
A lot of webmasters use Google Analytics to track traffic and analyze visitor patterns to their sites. The tool itself is great, with tons of metrics available for comparison. The only issue is that many […]

Scold Internet Explorer users with conditional comments

Friday, January 4th, 2008

It’s a sad, sad fact that the various versions of Internet Explorer still command a 57% marketshare in the browser world. Yes, supporting that craptastic pile of kludged-together code, with its hundreds of security holes and complete disregard for web standards, is a complete nightmare that has added hours upon hours to the development of […]

New year, new look, new attitude.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Welcome to 2008! I started this blog on May 1 of last year as just another one of the infinite “make money online” blogs out there. But even though I’m more involved in Internet business than I was a year ago, the world doesn’t need another online business blog. So what does that make me […]