The World According to Tim Skipper

I’ve been an Amazon affiliate (or rather Amazon Associate as they like to call us) for nearly three years and I’ve done no more than “ok” out of it. However one type of link available – context links – have proven to be a massive waste of time. I’ve earned £0.86p. It’s not hard to [...]

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In his PC Magazine article SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble With Search Engine Optimization, John C. Dvorak postulates that long URLs are detrimental to SEO, despite what everyone else seems to be saying. He conducts an experiment on his own 1.2 million page views per month blog by changing existing URLs to the long version, and [...]

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Since I got my iPhone I’ve been really enjoying its slick user interface and ease of web browsing, but I started to notice that Safari was for some web sites loading pages very slowly. In fact for some web sites Safari would not load pages at all. I found that if I switched WiFi off [...]

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What’s happened to Google Adsense earnings? I run Google Adsense on all of my non-eCommerce web sites. It’s been a nice little earner with fairly consistent monthly results over the past couple of years. Last month, Google changed Adsense so that the clickable area was restricted to just the ad title and url lines, instead [...]

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I was reminded this morning, whilst browsing the Microsoft MSDN site looking for MSDN Subscription info, just how important it is to tell the customer what it is they want to know as clearly and as simply as possible. I was reminded of this, because Microsoft was doing a very poor job of it. I [...]

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