Archives for June 2012

For many bloggers, Google Adsense is the number one money maker, mine included.  Google Adsense is a brilliant advertising solution, in that it caters adds to your content and can be styled to blend into your website and content.  In the early days of Adsense, getting approved was easy.  Today though, with the number of websites applying and the high percentage of "shady" sites, Google's approval process is a great deal more stringent.  I've personally received numerous emails from people asking Continue Reading

One of the primary jobs I often do as part of my blog development business is performance tuning client's sites.  About a year ago, Google modified their ranking algorithms to factor in overall site performance.  Meaning, the slower your site compared to other similar sites, the lower your site and articles would be ranked on the Google SERPs.  As a result of this announcement, I received an influx of requests to performance tune sites.  As a result of this work, I came up with a list of the top Continue Reading