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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

UPDATE: I eventually abandoned the site. Interest wasn’t terribly high (turns out there are numerous other options out there), and it didn’t really take off the way I’d originally hoped. Write-up is still here for anyone interested, but keep in mind the actual site is gone.   Last night, I decided to start up another [...]

Two days into Chitika, and I was faced with some pretty discouraging results… Adsense was performing very much the same – quite surprising, as I expected a 50% drop. I was faced with perhaps a 10% drop. Chitika on the other hand was not performing… at all. That’s right, much to my surprise, there was [...]

The first web host I ever used was CanadianWebHosting.com. It wasn’t for me, rather my father’s site, and we were looking for a Canadian-based web host for his small business. They offered domains for $15/year, and 100mb monthly storage / 5GB montly transfer for about $5/month. A couple years later, I was looking to obtain [...]