Becoming better web informed

Today I visited ecommerce expo in London. It was interesting, not only for the presentations on social media but also to see the number of snake oil vendors still operating in the marketplace.

You know, the types of guys who’ll sell you a custom website for £4k (5 pages only, and SEO advice extra, of course) [...]

Worth the effort

Well, the redesigned site has been live for 4 months now and it seems to have been worth all the pain of recreating it (note to self – it takes longer than you think!)

In those four months its had over 70,000 visits and over 335,000 page views: comparable figures for the same period last year [...]

Ticking along but could do better

The site’s been live now for 11 weeks, and yesterday’s visitors helped take the adsense earnings for July alone to over $100 – in only 9 days.

Amazing! Google is one cow I would gladly kiss.

So I thought I’d have a look at the visitor stats so far.

Since 24th April when the site was relaunched, it [...]

Serving its purpose

The site has now been live for just ten days and I’m already seeing a significant increase in affiliate earnings.

Some broad facts and figures:

- on my old site, google adsense adverts were generating earnings of around $5 a month simply based on the single link sitting neglected on my old home page

- over the [...]

One week to launch

After two months, the site is now almost ready to go live. This weekend I’ve been applying the finishing touches to it.

All the content is now done apart from one page which I need to give a bit of thought to – the sitemap for visitors (not to be confused with the xml “sitemap” file [...]