29 January
Working on a couple Joomla! sites, I was looking to enable some form of caching, since the content on those sites don’t actually change that often, and not only would it help to reduce the server load from database accesses, but should also help the pages to pop up quicker. There are apparantly a few different caching plugins, but I couldn’t even get the default built-in file cache to work. Read more…
05 March
As much as I despise pop-unders, they look better and better as you realize that you’re paying more and more for bandwidth. Here I’m talking about my Warcraft-Maps.com website which pulls in almost nothing and yet is the most costly to run. I hate popups/popunders/layers/etc as much as the next guy, and from the start I decided I wouldn’t use them. But after being forced to upgrade my webhosting twice so far (and probably again by the end of the year), I’ve decided that popunders aren’t such a bad idea after all. Bandwidth can be painfully expensive when you’re using it to provide free downloads.
Regardless, enough about me and more about Burst! Media. I currently use both Burst and Valueclick to provide advertising on Warcraft-Maps. Both happen to offer popunders which is what I was wanting to use. By chance, I came across a couple messages in the Burst forums from back in 2004 which were quite helpful. I’ve condensed the information here.
There are a couple ways to show pops through Burst. Read more…
11 October
Well the results (short-term anyway) are in. From what I can tell, Bursts ads are performing similarly to the poorly-paying Adsense ads on the site listed in Part I and Part II. In fact, they’ve been exceeding the performance of the old Adsense ads by about 10-20%, although since it’s only been 6 days since the intial post, I hardly have enough information to be certain that they will keep performing. However, the indications thus far look good. Read more…
07 October
If you haven’t read Part I, you might want to do so now and then head back here (it’s no fun jumping into the middle of a story). After just over a day with Burst, I’m starting to get a bit of an idea as to where things are going. I’ll bring you through things the way I went through them. Read more…
05 October
I run a site called Warcraft-Maps.com, which offers free map downloads, as well as a little description/review of each map. Since it’s inception, I’ve had Google Adsense ads running on it. Now, the site gets oodles of traffic. You would think that it would pay well, but it doesn’t. In fact, despite having more traffic and offering more clicks/day than any of my other sites, it generates less revenue because of a low CPC rate on Warcraft-related ads.
This is of course great for the advertisers… not so great for me. Read more…
14 April
My father runs a small business and has been looking to expand his customer base to the web. He’s had a company website for a couple of years, but it was fairly simplistic and was mainly there to create a presence on the web (as well as to hopefully bring in future business). Recently, after hearing about my Adwords experiences, we thought it might be worth it to try running an Adwords campaign. Of course, in it’s current state, the site probably wasn’t going to generate much of a ROI without some changes. The options we came up with were to either make minor updates to the site and rely on sales through the phone, or to run shopping cart software, and offer the ability to purchase products over the web. After some consideration, he chose the latter. Read more…
10 April
Looking to add Adsense ads to your WordPress blog? Look no further than the AdSense Deluxe WordPress Plugin. This free plugin is one of the best Adsense plug-ins I’ve seen. What makes it stand out from others (for example, the current Joomla varieties) is that it’s dead-simple to create new AdSense blocks and then to implement them within the pages of your blog. Read more…
07 April
I had surprising difficulty finding information about changing a site from www.website.com to just website.com through redirects. I also wanted to be sure that it would redirect any directories and pages as well. Since I found some information here (a great page if you’re looking to do a copy-paste to your own .htaccess file), I thought I’d post what I’d found:
First, to redirect from www.website.com to website.com…… Read more…
30 March
Some CMS programs have an issue when you try to put specific code within the site. Joomla is one of them. If you try to put ads in a content page with the “script” tag in them, the tag becomes garbled enough that your ad doesn’t show.
Adsense
There are a couple Adsense options that I’m aware of. Read more…
28 March
Today I made the switch. I’d been considering moving to Wordpress for the last week. First, I’m going to tell you how I switched, and then I’ll tell you why. Read more…
