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Comment on How To Make Money On The Internet! by Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:44:25 +0000

Thanks for the mention. I’m humbled to be included with the rest of the people on your list. Congrats and all success to you on your new direction!

Michael Martine’s last blog post..Five Ways to Tell You Need a Blog Consultant

Comment on CommentLuv Plugin and Cheap SEO by Eric Transue

Eric Transue — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:22:20 +0000

Conrad, great write up on CommentLuv! I agree it is a great plugin. It promotes conversation on your site and gives the commenter some SEO value for their site. Eric Transue’s last blog post..Time to Purchase Web Hosting

Comment on How To Make Money On The Internet! by Lyn Wilson

Lyn Wilson — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:24:38 +0000

Nice piece Conrad. Lots of detals, informatiom,
and links.

Comment on How Much Web Server Space and Bandwidth Do I Need? by Thomas @ Virtual Web Server Hosting .com

Thomas @ Virtual Web Server Hosting .com — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:10:33 +0000

Yes A lot dont stop to look at there needs – there are a lot of values to take into consideration. Great article.

Comment on How Much Does Wordpress Really Cost? by Success-Marketing Work At Home

Success-Marketing Work At Home — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:24:27 +0000

Several of us recommend WordPress to build ALL business websites, not just those people are thinking of using as blogs (though I DO recommend blogging from each of them). I have 47 URLs but only TWO real web addresses… the others are “parked” on the top two and I use subdirectories for the others, each with a different installation of WordPress. That way I don’t have to worry about ONE database handling everything, or themes that aren’t compatible, or WMU, etc. Takes a bit longer to backup each site because of the redundant WP code, but when I want to spin off one of my sites, all the code is self-sufficient. But long-live WordPress… great product and Google loves it too!

Best,

Charles Seymour Jr
http://twitter.com/UltimateWAHDads

Success-Marketing Work At Home’s last blog post..Marketing Lessons From American Idol – Adam Lambert vs Kris Allen

Comment on How Much Does Wordpress Cost? by Houston search engine optimization

Houston search engine optimization — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:28:29 +0000

I just came on this post and I am pretty pleased after read this article. It looks much informative and effective same time.

Comment on Basic Google Analytics Fail by Conrad Walton

Conrad Walton — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:15:40 +0000

Google Analytics is the free stats program. There is a tag that they give you for each web site you are tracking. That tag needs to go into the footer of the page. I forgot to put the tag into the footer, so it never sent any data to Google to be tracked.

http://www.google.com/analytics

Comment on Web Services by Mermaid’s Purse | Small Business Web Site and SEO

Mermaid’s Purse | Small Business Web Site and SEO — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:28:22 +0000

[...] build would be less than the $900 per my Web Design and Development page. We still have a bit of work to do, so this would have been [...]

Comment on Basic Google Analytics Fail by Douglas Wade

Douglas Wade — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:21:04 +0000

Conrad:

Enlighten me, what should someone do to add the Analytics tags into a template? I do not know what that means…

Comment on Does The Google Sandbox Exist? by Jeet

Jeet — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:41:18 +0000

You got PR because there was are PR update Are the sites ranking for their keywords as well?

I wouldn’t call this google sandbox. I call it google honeymoon period. New websites / new articles sometimes get higher rank in google, it may just be some google algorithm trying to rank ‘breaking news’.

Jeet’s last blog post..Are you tired of looking for dofollow blogs?

Comment on How Much Is A Domain Name Worth? by Conrad Walton

Conrad Walton — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:51:44 +0000

Even if you get 15 time more clicks per visitor on a parked domain, don’t you get more than 15 times more traffic on a developed site?

Where do you get the content for a developed site that will be worth a few hundred in a year? It takes some time and effort to build that content.

Intriguing ideas that I’ll have to ponder. Thanks for the feedback.

Comment on How Much Is A Domain Name Worth? by mike

mike — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:10:35 +0000

"There’s more value in developing them that in selling them" I am not sure if I agree with this. I do a fair share of both and a good parked domain can be a great winner. You figure with a parked domain users have less distractions and tend to click adds more then developed domains. I average about one click for every five visitors on a page and about one click for every 75 visitors or so on a developed page. If I look at my balance sheet over the last year parked domains were the clear winner over developed domains and that is counting the fact that I sell them also. Now I just develop domains to build up traffic and then park them and sell later. Some domains I keep for sentimental reasons, like you are, but it's pretty easy to take a ten dollar domain and turn it into a few hundred over a years time. Time that by a few hundred domains and you will see my point there. mike’s last blog post..How to Thrive with Internet Marketing in a Recession

Comment on CommentLuv Plugin and Cheap SEO by mike

mike — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:27:37 +0000

I love commentluv and it's a great way to encourage people to visit your blog and make comments. I also suggest adding the plug in that removes the 'no follow' tag that wordpress adds into the code in the comments section or else commentluv loses some of it's value. mike’s last blog post..Top Social Networking Sites

Comment on Hot Rods and Hackers by ival

ival — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:39:59 +0000

Whoa! You got me there dude, i thought you were talking about cars hahaha, anyways i got a couple of tips from my site too. You gt some cool design here. ival’s last blog post..Chula Vista, San Diego, Real Estate Market Trends and Community Information, August 2006

Comment on Inertia by John (Human3rror)

John (Human3rror) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:44:32 +0000

Hey conrad,

was about to publish your post on CC, but saw that you did it here.

Glad I caught it.

Comment on 10 Reasons Why Your Church Website Needs Work | Web Site Design Blog by biblestudylessons

biblestudylessons — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:38:24 +0000

I must agree with you. Some of the church websites really need some work. But then, not many people use them to check much on it, except church timings and address for the newcomers! biblestudylessons’s last blog post..Jesus and Sadducees - Question about Resurrection - Mark 12:18-27

Comment on Inertia by Conrad Walton

Conrad Walton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:58:42 +0000

Thanks. I knew that! Brain fade there.

I changed it. Thanks for letting me know!

-c

Comment on Inertia by Jack Clarke

Jack Clarke — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:56:15 +0000

Hi, just a correction
Wordpress.com is for the freebie (not .org)

- Jack

Comment on How Much Does Wordpress Really Cost? by Scott E. Lee

Scott E. Lee — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:26:19 +0000

Sorry it took me so long to respond, I had a meltdown over at my site. A "friend" of mine thought he was playing with my local copy of my blog, when in fact he was hot online through an FTP. He wiped my local directories AND the server directories. I lost EVERYTHING. Luckily, there's a WP plugin WP-DBManager that can be configured to email a copy of the MySQL DB in a .gz file. Saved my life! I'm in the process of rebuilding at the moment. But to answer your question, I am running regular WP 2.7.1 (Update just came out today) on seven subdomains. Seven almost identical installs. I would have used the WP-MU, but I still don't know it well enough to go live with it. It looks awesome though. As for plugins, I run the usual: Akismet, Expanding Text, Extended Options, Google XML Sitemaps, Smart Youtube, Statpress, WordPress.com Stats, WP-Ban, WP-DBManager, and WP-UserOnline. Those are the always active ones. I also have the Maintenance Mode plugin on hot standby for those times I want to tinker with the theme. Oh, my fave theme right now is googlechrome. Clean, easy to tinker with, and it's really quite good right out of the box. Scott E. Lee’s last blog post..Oh yes, we’re back … sort of

Comment on CommentLuv Plugin and Cheap SEO by Christopher Ross @ Web Design

Christopher Ross @ Web Design — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:30:29 +0000

Thanks for the write up Conrad and you’re right Comment Luv is wonderful. Another great (and often over looked) plugin for WordPress is Comment Relish which automatically sends an email to people to thank them for posting to your blog.

Both tools help increase backlinks which is one of the key tools used by Google and Alexa to measure web site performance but it’s also simply a useful tool to help spread your message across the web.

Chris

btw, I love your blog. keep up the great work!