Comments on: Don’t forget your housekeeping and remember to smile http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Yaba http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-9485 Yaba Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:33:11 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-9485 It is very thoughtful of your wife to have agreed to help you. I wonder how she balances between home and helping you. Yaba's last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Askyaba/~3/343240056/">Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease?</a> It is very thoughtful of your wife to have agreed to help you. I wonder how she balances between home and helping you.

Yaba’s last blog post..Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease?

]]> By: Abdul http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-5081 Abdul Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:02:46 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-5081 I really relish the time I spend on maintaining my website, because it doesn't happen that often. For me that invloves getting new domains for domainleft.com, working on the new design for thewebmasterstool.com and finding products for 99adz.com. I want to send emails to directory submitters telling them to check the website out and see if they are interested in products I am about to release but I am a bit worried about doing so. I really relish the time I spend on maintaining my website, because it doesn’t happen that often. For me that invloves getting new domains for domainleft.com, working on the new design for thewebmasterstool.com and finding products for 99adz.com. I want to send emails to directory submitters telling them to check the website out and see if they are interested in products I am about to release but I am a bit worried about doing so.

]]> By: Artist http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4981 Artist Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:20:34 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4981 Great suggestions Nafi. I had something in mind like that but really did not know how to begin getting my mind around it. After your comment I did some searching and found: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/04/29/htaccess-wrappers-with-php that seems to have some excellent examples on how to do just that. After reading the article I think I will be able to figure it out. Now the challenge is to schedule time to do it. What would it cost to pay someone to do this? Just wondering. Great suggestions Nafi. I had something in mind like that but really did not know how to begin getting my mind around it. After your comment I did some searching and found:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/04/29/htaccess-wrappers-with-php
that seems to have some excellent examples on how to do just that. After reading the article I think I will be able to figure it out. Now the challenge is to schedule time to do it. What would it cost to pay someone to do this? Just wondering.

]]> By: nafi http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4966 nafi Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:11:04 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4966 You could check the referring page in the headers and "cloak" a HTML page (a page you wouldn't normally serve referrals from internal pages) for off-site visitors. This way, instead of just seeing a piccy, you can show them links to other parts of your website as well. It shouldn't be too hard with a little PHP and .htaccess. I think your conversion rate would be much higher than simply relying on the visitor to type your watermark in the address bar. You could check the referring page in the headers and “cloak” a HTML page (a page you wouldn’t normally serve referrals from internal pages) for off-site visitors. This way, instead of just seeing a piccy, you can show them links to other parts of your website as well.

It shouldn’t be too hard with a little PHP and .htaccess.

I think your conversion rate would be much higher than simply relying on the visitor to type your watermark in the address bar.

]]> By: Scott http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4876 Scott Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:23:29 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4876 My traffic is down as well so it's no surprise for me Tomaz - I think overall there are a lot of grumblings about Adsense earings being poor, I think it will continue until we get better options for CPA. My traffic is down as well so it’s no surprise for me Tomaz - I think overall there are a lot of grumblings about Adsense earings being poor, I think it will continue until we get better options for CPA.

]]> By: Scott http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4875 Scott Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:22:22 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4875 I have had my moments Koen ;) sometimes you get worn down and I did say that once but I try much harder to be nice now :) I have had my moments Koen ;) sometimes you get worn down and I did say that once but I try much harder to be nice now :)

]]> By: Koen http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4874 Koen Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:12:23 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4874 Haha Scott, you made me laugh so hard at the part "We all want things we can't have." You really said that to people? If so, you indeed needed to change, even though it was very funny. Haha Scott, you made me laugh so hard at the part “We all want things we can’t have.” You really said that to people?

If so, you indeed needed to change, even though it was very funny.

]]> By: Tomaz Mencinger http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4851 Tomaz Mencinger Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:31:38 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4851 Good tips on housekeeping. Yes, Adsense has been down for me too (almost 50%) as well for a friend of mine who has only one ad per page so it's unlikely that she was smart priced. It would be interesting to hear if other webmasters see the decline in Adsense earnings too. Good tips on housekeeping. Yes, Adsense has been down for me too (almost 50%) as well for a friend of mine who has only one ad per page so it’s unlikely that she was smart priced.

It would be interesting to hear if other webmasters see the decline in Adsense earnings too.

]]> By: Scott http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4828 Scott Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:14:15 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4828 Funnily enough I have done pretty much the same as you within the last few weeks, was one of those on the list of things to do for ages and finally got round to. Funnily enough I have done pretty much the same as you within the last few weeks, was one of those on the list of things to do for ages and finally got round to.

]]> By: Artist http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4824 Artist Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:33 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200710/dont-forget-your-housekeeping-and-remember-to-smile/#comment-4824 Talking about housekeeping. A lot of pageviews have been coming to my site and going directly to an image instead of through the homepage. Since I had not included a watermark with the site name on it this meant I was loosing traffic. By adding a watermark with my url I can be sure to find future returning traffic, impossible to measure yet effective marketing. Talking about housekeeping. A lot of pageviews have been coming to my site and going directly to an image instead of through the homepage. Since I had not included a watermark with the site name on it this meant I was loosing traffic. By adding a watermark with my url I can be sure to find future returning traffic, impossible to measure yet effective marketing.

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