By Ian Lee on Nov 9, 2007 in Internet Marketing | 2 Comments
Do you see the “Are You in My TopSpots?” widget on the right hand menu of this blog? This is where you can receive a link back to your website or blog. All you have to do is tip me $1 and the widget will show your link. Since the TopSpot widget is loaded site [...]
By Ian Lee on Nov 1, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Technology | 23 Comments
Recently, Google began cracking down on websites that were selling text link ads. Reports are popping up all over the Internet indicating that many websites and blogs saw a significant drop in Google Page Rank. Now there is a cool tool to help you see where your Google Page Rank is heading. Tweet This Post
By Ian Lee on Oct 29, 2007 in Internet Marketing | 0 Comments
Are you looking to earn a little more revenue from your blog? A cool and innovative way for you to do just that is here. A friend of mine, Jim Kukral, just launched Scratchback where bloggers can add a TopSpot widget on their website. Tweet This Post
By Ian Lee on Oct 26, 2007 in Internet Marketing | 9 Comments
A few months ago, I enabled the DoFollow plugin on this blog. I was hoping DoFollow would help garner more and better conversation. Since joining the DoFollow, I Follow, No Nofollow movement, this blog has seen an increase in not only comments but in spam as well – in particular, trackback spam. The Do Follow [...]
By Ian Lee on Oct 18, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Software | 5 Comments
As discussed in Pageviews Distorted by AJAX Technology, with the adoption of pageless web technology, pageview may no longer show all the activity that users have on a website. Although Google Analytics is currently capable of tracking events that do not trigger a pageview, Google has formally announcing a beta that will help internet marketers [...]
By Ian Lee on Oct 12, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Software | 6 Comments
If you have not updated to the latest version of WordPress 2.3, you might consider upgrading sooner rather than later. Although there were no major security fixes, one of my most favorite updates in the latest release is the plugin update notification. What a great way to be notified of the latest security updates for [...]
By Ian Lee on Oct 11, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Technology | 6 Comments
In the old days (before this week), if you wanted to serve video ads, you had to produce them yourself. It was as simple as that. Google just turned the advertising world upside down with their new Google Adsense Video Ads. In short, it looks like an advertiser can now serve their ad alongside videos [...]
By Ian Lee on Oct 2, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Technology | 44 Comments
There have been quick a few issues for users trying to upload photos in Facebook using Windows Vista and Firefox. Page load simply comes to a halt and Firefox crashes when adding photos and creating new albums. Until Firefox and/or Vista and/or Facebook has a true solution, here is a quick fix that works just [...]
By Ian Lee on Sep 13, 2007 in Internet Marketing | 12 Comments
Last month, I noticed a 300% increase in average Time Spent on Site as reported by Google Analytics. Apparently, Google changed how they reported Time Spent on Site. After some digging and helpful comments from users on this blog, it looks like Google no longer included visitors who bounced in their length-of-stay measurement. Google even [...]
By Ian Lee on Sep 6, 2007 in business, Internet Marketing | 63 Comments
Ever since Advertising Age (AdAge) published the Internet’s Top Media and Marketing Blogs, they have been receiving on-going publicity about the list. Recently, Scott Weisbrod used the AdAge list to rank Canadian blogs and published his own list of Top 30 Canadian Marketing and Advertising Blogs. I am excited to see that ADS-Links.com made it [...]
By Ian Lee on Aug 24, 2007 in Internet Marketing | 44 Comments
I have always spoken highly of Aweber and have referred numerous clients to them. I’m afraid I have to retract my recommendation of this email service provider. I just spent a good part of today & yesterday dealing with an absurd email list management issue. An email from Aweber notified my client that as of [...]
By Ian Lee on Aug 2, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Software | 15 Comments
Google Analytics is probably one of the best pieces of web analytics software I have ever used. Not only is it powerful and free but it’s extremely comprehensive. Recently, Google rolled out a new version of Analytics and usability soared through the roof. The newer version is easier to use and finding information is just [...]