Category: Website stuff

You all know about email spam, but many of you won’t know that blogs are prime targets for spammers. Not just sex ads like the majority of email spams, but anything you can imagine, from travel agents to magazine sales. The only thing that keeps me relatively sane is...

When you’re running Web sites, paying attention to the details of your stats is important so you can focus where the interest is – if that’s also within the range of your own interests, too, of course. Among the searches that bring people here, travel reviews of various kinds...

Did any of you watch Dragon’s Den last night? If so, you saw just how significant a domain name can be when you’re promoting a Web site. The developers of UniversityParty.ca got turned down for financing largely because they don’t own UniversityParty.com (a company in New York owns it)....

I wonder where the freelancing capital of the world is. If Whitehorse isn’t it, it must be right up there. It seems like an enormous percentage of the population here is like me – they either freelance as their main gig, or at least has some sort of freelance...

Many of you have blogs or Web sites for commercial or personal reasons. All of you in that part of the online world know that the biggest challenge in having an online presence is getting noticed so that it’s worth your time and/or money to keep it “live.” Sometimes...

Now that outdoors isn’t a particularly pleasant place to be (for a while until this wet white goes away), I’m getting some work done (actually I’m as confused as ever about where the line between work and fun is 🙂 ). One of the things that got started today...

Many, or perhaps most people with blogs would like to find a way to make a dollar or two while posting their thoughts. Most people selling products or services would like to be able to tap into the blog phenomenon – a July 2006 study concluded there were 12...