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How to Reduce AdSense Impressions while Improving the Click-Through Rate (CTR)

Before I tell you how to reduce AdSense impressions while improving the click-through rate (CTR) at the same time, I have to admit I dropped the ball on this one. Back in July, I published "Reducing AdSense Impressions from Robots", and then later inserted an update message saying I wasn't doing it that way. [...]

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One Bad Scraper Foiled - Success with Google

After receiving a Google Alert with my domain name on it (for link:www.untwistedvortex.com), I found a website that had scraped 40 of my articles from my full feed, in their entirety, and put them up exactly as retrieved. The website in question, elanso.com, is based in China so it's not like I could get my [...]

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The Value of Comments in Search Engines

I haven't been keeping any secrets. I've been testing search engine optimizations since January and have been verifying the results. Whenever I find anything of significance, I usually write about it.

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Website Review: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site

This is an unusual website. I like unusual websites because they're not boring. "Nomadic Matt's Travel Site is far from boring.

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Have you paid your dues, Jack?

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks ya crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, well you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton [...]

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My Favorite Unpopular Posts - Meme

Matthew at eJabs tagged me with the meme he started. His intent is to breathe more life into his favorite articles that seemed to be collecting dust in his archives. It's a good idea, but I have no favorite unpopular posts that I want to dig out quite yet (frankly, I couldn't find any that [...]

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Multi-Blog Bloggers

I don't know how they juggle more than one blog at a time but the people I'm mentioning below are doing just that:
Paul Hunter in Florida, USA, commonly called blogpaul, has several blogs up and more being worked on. Yes, Paul is a blogaholic. He needs some serious help. Visit one of his blogs and [...]

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