Projecting Adsense Revenue

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Nov 5, 2007

Question from Dave: “How can I project my revenue from having Google ads displaying on my website?” Web Site Waves Answer: You can generally expect a 1% or 2% click through rate for AdSense ads, and that’s on a good day. So, that means for every 100 visitors you get, plan on getting 1 or […]

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Internet User Statistics are UP

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Aug 27, 2007

Internet user statistics are up according to Thomas Claburn’s report at Information Week. He says that the Center for Media Research reported that 47% of your day is spent using the Internet, which is 17% more than what was reported in 2003 as 34%. That’s all interesting, but what really got to me was the […]

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The Capital Factor Conference is a Great Idea

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Aug 26, 2007

Have you heard of The Capital Conference yet? It’s going to be in Denver Colorado in late October and will have speakers from all around the country. How to get capital to expand a business is the topic but they’re going to have some Internet speakers too like Rick Raddats and Mike Stewart. They have […]

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Why Automated SEO Services “Still” Suck

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Jul 26, 2007

Another one of my clients got pitched again… “We will submit your web site and its related keyword to 800000 search engines once per month for 1 year. You can expect to start seeing results within 60 days. Your web site will climb up that ladder of other web sites on various search engines.” All […]

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New Unavailable_After Meta Tag for Google

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Jul 25, 2007

I learned from a blog post that Google is now accepting a new meta tage called unavailable-after. This new function will essentially list a page of your website until a certain date and then delete it from its index after that date. Perfect if you have a special offer on your site that someone must […]

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Internet Safety Makes News

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Jul 24, 2007

What do MySpace, Miss America and Seatbelts have in common? They all promote safety. Yahoo! News reports that MySpace has identified and deleted 29,000 sex offenders’ listings from their system. Congrats to MySpace for taking this long awaited action. Bet that sex offender sting on that television show brought some motivation their way. And then […]

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iPhone Hackers are More Dangerous than Just Spam

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Jul 23, 2007

Today I heard that hackers hacked into the iPhone through an Internet connection and all I heard about was the potential threat of a malicious hacker sending thousands of spam messages to the phone. This would of course cost the iPhone user a wee bit of change to take all of those spam calls and […]

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CSS Website Question

Posted by Marty Dickinson on May 30, 2007

Why is CSS in a website so important today? And are some designers going overboard with CSS? First, for those not sure, CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. This doesn’t mean very much in and of itself, but the word “style” should define it enough. Actually, in the design world, CSS is commonly referred to […]

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Plan a Website Before You Build One

Posted by Marty Dickinson on May 24, 2007

Planning a web site is one of the most difficult pieces of the Internet process. Why? Because it all starts with a blank piece of paper…or a blank screen…or just an idea in your mind. Instead of actually planning for a web site, instead, most people bypass the entire planning step. Or, they’ll just turn […]

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Audio for a Web Site Really is Easy

Posted by Marty Dickinson on May 18, 2007

More than two years ago, I attended an Internet boot camp where a guy by the name of Mike Stewart presented how easy it was to record an audio file and put it on the web. He was offering a package deal at the boot camp for $1000 or something where you would get all […]

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