Over time, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting some abnormal PageRank boosts. I finally tracked it down. (And this can be our little secret.)

Blogs or websites with the “Top Commenters” plugin will actually post links to the author’s website without a nofollow link. These links can appear on every page, or uniquely on the main page. Either way, this is advantageous because either way, you pick up a decent amount of PageRank.

I’m not saying, go out and hunt for Top Commenters blogs and spam them. I’m just saying that maybe you should give these specific blogs a little more time of day then the regular blog. If you have malicious intent, be sure to be genuinely interested in the blog you’re posting on.

Hope that helps.

As communities grow larger, monetization starts to become necessary and tricky. You’ll soon realize that small changes, changes as small as a design tweak or navigation rearrangement, will start to unsettle a very vocal minority. These changes, can include monetization.

As you incorporate additional advertising revenue streams, your returning users will appear to become agitated with […]

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UPDATE: I’ve published Part 2 on developing HTML emails and email templates.
HTML emails are a whole different ballpark than HTML websites. Your approach will be different and your design will be different. For now, I’ll discuss more about the development part of it, then the design part of it.

Your design should be no larger then […]

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Even if you already have a related posts widget for WordPress which helps with your blog’s stickiness, there is another quick tip that may multiply the users that are coming to your site.

In the blogosphere (yeah, I said it), stickiness refers to the likeliness of a visitor remaining on your website after he/she has viewed […]

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Ever wonder why Google Adsense has been relatively successful? It usually features disgusting, ugly text links. How can that possibly perform better then a well-designed, message-full, impact-full banner?

Image Blindness. An epidemic more severe then the banner blindness I spoke about in a previous article. In some cases, buckets, or images used for internal marketing […]

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When I first started doing CSS-layouts (instead of table-based layouts), I found that a lot of the solutions offered on the web included hacks and tricks to satisfy all browsers. Since then, I’ve refined my own personal technique which works in all browsers and validates as both CSS and HTML.

My method uses floats. Although floats […]

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In a few occasions, website developers are surprised when they receive emails months after a website’s launch complaining that their website’s layout is askew.

What Can Happen?
Here’s an example of what can happen:
You have a 50px wide box. You managed to fit the word “crocodile” in the box perfectly (equal spacing on both sides and the […]

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I have yet to meet someone who is absolutely thrilled at the sight of a registration form on someone else’s website. However, I’ve noticed that clients seem to forget their own hidden hate for registration forms on other websites when it comes to their own. Of course, they want the whole shabbang, user registration, profiles, […]

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This may come as a news flash to some, but, if you’re looking to draw some sort of sustainable income from a website, it requires a lot of hard work. Hard work in terms of managing and updating the site and gathering the resources to sufficiently run it. After all, Rome wasn’t built in a […]

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In a previous article, I touched briefly on Site Architectures and Wireframes. In this article, I will outline how important they are to make sure projects stay on budget and so the client doesn’t get away with scope creep. Scope creep is where new features and new work is slowly done at the request of […]

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