Archive for March, 2007

Lazy Linkage - Issue One

There is a lot of interesting stuff out there on the web. Typically, my blog posts are mostly me talking. Sometimes, though, it is nice to point some attention at other items of interest. After all, blogging is all about conversation. So, I am going to do posts like this probably at least weekly, and [...]

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Going Native is Good

No, I’m not talking about the benefits of walking around in your birthday suit. I’m referring to a new article published over at Marketing Experiments that does an analysis of ad performance on the web. Not quite as exciting? Sorry.
The analysis does some measurement of online ads and sees which converts better. In short, the [...]

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New Blog for Pilots

I would like to briefly announce a new blog site to you: Passion Aviator. This is a new site focused on general aviation and pilots. This site is an unofficial part of my blog network. I say “unofficial” because the site was my idea and it sits on my server, however it is completely the [...]

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Solution - Wordpress Theme Reverts to Default (Kubrick)

OK, as some of you may have noticed if you come here every now and then, this site has been periodically reverting to the big, ugly default theme for Wordpress, known as Kubrick. It has been seemingly doing this all by itself. I thought perhaps it was a bug introduced by the Amazon Media Manager [...]

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Is Your Site STOPPING Customers From Buying?

Shortly before my wedding, when I was still working, I attended a web conference put on by Marketing Experiments. They put on these conferences every few weeks and they are always pretty insightful. The subject of that particular conference was how technology can affect your online conversions. In other words, is your website getting [...]

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Wordpress Theme Switch - Solved?

Just as a quick followup, I think I might have solved the issue with this site’s theme mysteriously reverting back to the default Kubrick theme all by itself. Apparently, the culprit is the Amazon Media Manager plug-in for Wordpress. I had downloaded and installed it, and it was activated even though I was not using [...]

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Setting up a Gallery with Wordpress

Simply put: People like snooping on others. That means that people love looking at pictures online. For that reason, an image gallery can be a worthy edition to a blog (or any site for that matter). Obviously, the site needs to be suitable for such a thing, and you need to pay some attention to [...]

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Google Pay-Per-Action Launches

Google has just launched a new service in Beta called Pay-Per-Action. Judging by the logo in the upper left, this is going to be some kind of sub-service of Google Adwords (and hence Adsense as well). The long and short of it can be gotten right off their site, namely: “Increase your advertising reach while [...]

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Time to Light the Fire Under my Ass

Well, I am back in the States now, fresh off the honeymoon. Italy was fantastic, but as with any longer trip, I’m always ready to get back to work when its over. With the wedding and honeymoon, I haven’t really had uninterrupted worktime for a few weeks now and there is so much to do. [...]

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Mystery Wordpress Theme Switch Continues…

For some reason, the theme of this site keeps switching back to default. For those who may come by here while this is the case, rest assured that this site looks a LOT better than the default Wordpress theme. I am over in Italy right now and can’t do too much about this now, but [...]

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