Ex Google Employees Released Cuil Search Engine - Fail

Posted on 28 July 2008

Two ex Google engineers, Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, along with a third person, Russel Power, have released a new search engine. Cuil started with 120 billion indexed pages and they stated that their new search engine has the biggest index of them all. Probably they haven’t read Google’s last post, where they say to […]

A Complete Analysis Of Digg

Posted on 17 June 2008

We all know that Digg’s algorithm is very complex and they are changing it frequently, so that spammers cannot get their stories popular. Digg states that all the content is only promoted by users and they have nobody implied in the process, but this doesn’t seem to be true.
I have been an active Digg user […]

Don’t End Your URLs With .0, .exe or .tgz

Posted on 14 June 2008

A simple SEO guideline says that you should end your urls in .htm, .html or make them as mine. Some do not follow this and end them in .php, .asp and other programming languages. It might not be as good as the ones ended in .html, but Matt Cutts say they are and there’s no […]

Google Trends Gets New Features

Posted on 11 June 2008

Google has just added a new feature to the Trends tool. Unfortunately, it wasn’t what a lot of us were expecting: the search volume in numbers.
Now it shows how much a keyword is searched, in comparison to the average searches since 2004 until the time you perform the query. For example if today the keyword […]

Mixx Kinda Fails To Make Competition To Digg

Posted on 03 June 2008

ReadWriteWeb has written a very interesting post about Mixx. Now it’s one year old and traffic seems to grow really fast, but still can’t be a liable competitor for Digg, receiving less than 5% of Digg’s traffic.
Still, it seems to be on the good road and might grow, especially that Digg is full of spam […]

Google Adsense Introduced Third Party Ads

Posted on 30 May 2008

????????Google made an announcement that they opened the Adsense network to other third-party advertisers. This is good news for both publishers and third-party advertising network. Publishers have more monetization possibilities and advertising networks deliver more traffic to their advertisers.
Currently, this only works for image ads, so you will see no change if you are opted […]

Search Engines vs. Social Media

Posted on 20 May 2008

I do have websites with traffic based on social media, others based on search engines and others combined. I have been doing a lot of research and comparisons between all of them. Of course it’s hard because of the niches, but I do have some that are on the same niche that are some based […]

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Afilliate Marketing

AuctionAds Review

Posted on 14 July 2007

I have been using AuctionAds for the last weeks, without having much visitors, but from 25,000 impressions, 390 clicks I’ve earned $11.74. I don’t have a good ad placement for AuctionAds, but it has a decent CTR of 1.55%, that, unfortunately, doesn’t generate revenue.
About two months ago i was enthusiastic when after a few days […]

Blogs

Wordpress 2.5.1 Released

Posted on 25 April 2008

Wordpress 2.5.1 was just released and includes over 70 security fixes. Visit the download page to get it, because it improves security and it’s very important for your blog.
Here is some of what they improved:

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have many categories
Media Uploader fixes
An upgrade […]

Make money

Don’t Choose A Dead End Road

Posted on 14 March 2008

When you are choosing your way in life, on the financial side, you have to take a wise decision and think about the future. This is available for everything, the highschool, college, university, job or business. What do i mean by a dead end road is a point when you don’t have an expansion possibility […]

Marketing

Ask Went On The Wrong Road, Now Microsoft ?

Posted on 25 February 2008

I think you all know that incentives can’t be good for search engines, but please tell this to both Ask and Microsoft too. After Ask.com allowed a company paying people to search using their search engine, now Microsoft is offering prizes for searching.
What advertiser will be crazy now to pay for his ads to be […]

Misc.

Exams, Vacation, Moving, Work

Posted on 05 September 2008

It has been a busy summer for me. Firstly I had the exams after I finished highschool, then I had to go to apply to the universities in Bucharest, the capital. Then I was living in Pitesti.
Fortunately everything went excellent and I passed them all and got admitted to the university. After that I though […]

News

Ex Google Employees Released Cuil Search Engine - Fail

Posted on 28 July 2008

Two ex Google engineers, Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, along with a third person, Russel Power, have released a new search engine. Cuil started with 120 billion indexed pages and they stated that their new search engine has the biggest index of them all. Probably they haven’t read Google’s last post, where they say to […]

Self Improvement

9 Tips To Gain Exposure

Posted on 16 May 2008

We all know how hard it is to start a new website, when nobody knows who you are. Some are facing this right now and others in the past, when they entered this industry. You have to work on link building, make strong profiles on social media websites and everything is so hard when you […]

SEO & SEM

Don’t End Your URLs With .0, .exe or .tgz

Posted on 14 June 2008

A simple SEO guideline says that you should end your urls in .htm, .html or make them as mine. Some do not follow this and end them in .php, .asp and other programming languages. It might not be as good as the ones ended in .html, but Matt Cutts say they are and there’s no […]

Social Media

A Complete Analysis Of Digg

Posted on 17 June 2008

We all know that Digg’s algorithm is very complex and they are changing it frequently, so that spammers cannot get their stories popular. Digg states that all the content is only promoted by users and they have nobody implied in the process, but this doesn’t seem to be true.
I have been an active Digg user […]