Is this one of your sites that you have worked on luxuryvillaspain.co.uk ?


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"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote in
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> Is this one of your sites that you have worked on luxuryvillaspain.co.uk ?


Yep, I see that it is www.kruse.co.uk/extreme-positioning.htm. Nice spam
job. http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/sitemap.htm .

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:00:33 +0200, "Jezsta Web Productions"
<Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:

>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote in
>message news:ecsnco$lcd$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>> Is this one of your sites that you have worked on luxuryvillaspain.co.uk ?
>
>
>Yep, I see that it is www.kruse.co.uk/extreme-positioning.htm. Nice spam
>job. http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/sitemap.htm .
>

Also here
http://luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/locati...sta-blanca.php
http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/lo...in-moraira.php

That is so unethical stealing links from clients sites.

That site is really poorly optimised as well.

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David <seodave@search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:00:33 +0200, "Jezsta Web Productions"
> <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:
>
>>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com>
>>wrote in message news:ecsnco$lcd$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>>> Is this one of your sites that you have worked on
>>> luxuryvillaspain.co.uk ?
>>
>>
>>Yep, I see that it is www.kruse.co.uk/extreme-positioning.htm. Nice
>>spam job. http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/sitemap.htm .
>>
>
> Also here
> http://luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/locati...sta-blanca.php
> http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/lo...in-moraira.php
>
> That is so unethical stealing links from clients sites.

Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?

( tips his black hat )

BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.

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"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
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> David <seodave@search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:00:33 +0200, "Jezsta Web Productions"
>> <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com>
>>>wrote in message news:ecsnco$lcd$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>>>> Is this one of your sites that you have worked on
>>>> luxuryvillaspain.co.uk ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Yep, I see that it is www.kruse.co.uk/extreme-positioning.htm. Nice
>>>spam job. http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/sitemap.htm .
>>>
>>
>> Also here
>> http://luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/locati...sta-blanca.php
>> http://www.luxuryvillaspain.co.uk/lo...in-moraira.php

Looks like the same page doesn't it? :-) This bit gets me "*Disclaimer:
please be advised that these firms are listed for your convenience only. We
do not endorse or seek to recommend any firm by their inclusion." All those
links go to the same site, execpt for SEO UK. Why have that disclaimer? Then
it looks like these pages where just made for the SEO for those keyterms.
Need a little more content.

>> That is so unethical stealing links from clients sites.

I have one link on a website that I am doing as I am also the webmaster, it
is on the resource page for people to contact me if they would like a links
exchange. But on any of the main pages I would not even put it. I put that
it was designed by with no link at the bottom. I think it is ok to put it on
the resource page. She also said it was OK.

> Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?
>
> ( tips his black hat )

Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)

> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.

That is pretty good!

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"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:

> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message

[..]


>> Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?
>>
>> ( tips his black hat )
>
> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)

But then I am entirely naked!

>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>
> That is pretty good!

It scares me now and then :-D.

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On 29 Aug 2006 16:04:26 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:

>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:
>
>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
>
>[..]
>
>
>>> Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?
>>>
>>> ( tips his black hat )
>>
>> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)
>
>But then I am entirely naked!
>
>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>
>> That is pretty good!
>
>It scares me now and then :-D.

It should; do they make you money or burn bandwidth? I have far more
visitors on my posters site than ever before but they're not buying. I
need to take a lot of pages off and lean it back more towards art. I
also need to have a big chat on the new webmaster communications site
about how to get old stuff out of Google's index. It won't let me
delete a page if there's a custom 404 in operation it seems. I'll
report back when I know more.

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"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
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> "Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:
>
>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
<snip>

>>> ( tips his black hat )
>>
>> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)
>
> But then I am entirely naked!

Well then it would all depend on how you look without the hat:-)

>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>
>> That is pretty good!
>
> It scares me now and then :-D.

Yeah, it would scare me also with that much! I almost had a heart attack a
couple of weeks ago when one of our sites made $693 in one day! The
merchants probably had almost a heart attack also with the $6930 in
sales.:-) You got some ads up? Loads of money potentially there.:-)

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Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On 29 Aug 2006 16:04:26 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>
>>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
>>
>>[..]
>>
>>
>>>> Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?
>>>>
>>>> ( tips his black hat )
>>>
>>> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)
>>
>>But then I am entirely naked!
>>
>>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>>
>>> That is pretty good!
>>
>>It scares me now and then :-D.
>
> It should; do they make you money or burn bandwidth?

Neither. I still pay the same amount as several years back (which was
probably way too much at some point, and maybe now almost realistic).

I *do* get work via my site, but indeed the question is, does the total
number of hours invested in it justify this? I have no idea (yes, this
is bad). For a big part the site is hobby, but it eats up a lot of time.

On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k to
15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year. And at
some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay myself
from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby, part
investment.

> I have far more
> visitors on my posters site than ever before but they're not buying. I
> need to take a lot of pages off and lean it back more towards art. I
> also need to have a big chat on the new webmaster communications site
> about how to get old stuff out of Google's index. It won't let me
> delete a page if there's a custom 404 in operation it seems. I'll
> report back when I know more.

Yes, I already explained that 404 means: no idea what happened with this
resource, it can be back tomorrow, next week, never. If the page is
gone, return gone. Or better, redirect to the closest match on your
site.

Ways to reduce bandwidth for a poster size is: smaller images, stronger
compression, cleaner HTML, using gzip module to compress HTML on the
fly.

Also, check what's burning your bandwidth. It might be people leeching
your images.

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"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:

> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns982E70A5FED59castleamber@130.133.1.4...
>> "Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
> <snip>
>
>>>> ( tips his black hat )
>>>
>>> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)
>>
>> But then I am entirely naked!
>
> Well then it would all depend on how you look without the hat:-)

very naked :-)

>>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>>
>>> That is pretty good!
>>
>> It scares me now and then :-D.
>
> Yeah, it would scare me also with that much! I almost had a heart
> attack a couple of weeks ago when one of our sites made $693 in one
> day! The merchants probably had almost a heart attack also with the
> $6930 in sales.:-) You got some ads up? Loads of money potentially
> there.:-)

I am still in the hand sowing phase (i.e. broadcasting) :-)

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On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:

>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k to
>15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year. And at
>some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay myself
>from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby, part
>investment.

I don't understand why you don't make a lot of money from it now?

It would be really easy to make thousands of dollars a year from your
site in ad revenue.

BTW you could easily get to 20K-25K a day this year with the right
approach.

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David <seodave@search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:

> On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>
>>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k
>>to 15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year.
>>And at some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay
>>myself from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby,
>>part investment.
>
> I don't understand why you don't make a lot of money from it now?
>
> It would be really easy to make thousands of dollars a year from your
> site in ad revenue.
>
> BTW you could easily get to 20K-25K a day this year with the right
> approach.

I am open for advice on both accounts, of course :-)

In short, I notice that the majority of my traffic comes because of a
handful of well written (IMO) articles. My planning for now is to try to
write 2-3 of those articles each week (until I get tired of it). (Which
I should be doing right now).

Yeah, I am aiming for 20K, but I also try to be modest. To be honest, I
was expecting to have 15K around this time, but somehow things have
slowed down with Google, or in ASCII art:

/
_______/
/
/

feb aug


Some other things I have planned:

- add a description to each page (just a short summary)
- add keywords to each page (just 10 or so, kind of summary of the
summary)

IBLs isn't the problem anymore IMO, I get almost daily new ones, and
some have quite a good PR even :-)


Do you recommend adsense? I am thinking about:


[ short introduction of article (what is it, etc ]

[ Ads by Goooooooooooooooooggggggle ]


[ Rest of the article ]

[ Maybe another Ads by Goooooggllee ]

[ Aferword, related links etc. ]


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John Bokma wrote:

[John's site with lots of visitors]
> So currently it's part hobby, part investment.

And part ego tripping ;-)

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Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> John Bokma wrote:
>
> [John's site with lots of visitors]
>> So currently it's part hobby, part investment.
>
> And part ego tripping ;-)

Nah, not really. There are better places to do so, and to get more ooohs
and aaahs :-D.

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"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
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> David <seodave@search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k
>>>to 15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year.
>>>And at some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay
>>>myself from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby,
>>>part investment.
>>
>> I don't understand why you don't make a lot of money from it now?
>>
>> It would be really easy to make thousands of dollars a year from your
>> site in ad revenue.
>>
>> BTW you could easily get to 20K-25K a day this year with the right
>> approach.
>
> I am open for advice on both accounts, of course :-)

Yep, I agree with Dave. Which why I brought it up in my other posting.:-)

> In short, I notice that the majority of my traffic comes because of a
> handful of well written (IMO) articles. My planning for now is to try to
> write 2-3 of those articles each week (until I get tired of it). (Which
> I should be doing right now).

Don't blame ya. I get tired of writing also. That is why I went to the
speech tools. A lot faster.:-)

> Yeah, I am aiming for 20K, but I also try to be modest. To be honest, I
> was expecting to have 15K around this time, but somehow things have
> slowed down with Google, or in ASCII art:
>
> /
> _______/
> /
> /
>
> feb aug

Cool!

>
>
> Some other things I have planned:
>
> - add a description to each page (just a short summary)
> - add keywords to each page (just 10 or so, kind of summary of the
> summary)

Yeah, a big pain after the fact huh? :-) I try and get them in with each
page now. Also try and not get to rushed and make pages very unique as much
as possible even with file names also.

> IBLs isn't the problem anymore IMO, I get almost daily new ones, and
> some have quite a good PR even :-)

Well, you have enough don't you. :-)

>
> Do you recommend adsense? I am thinking about:

Yes.

>
> [ short introduction of article (what is it, etc ]
>
> [ Ads by Goooooooooooooooooggggggle ]

Yes.

>
>
> [ Rest of the article ]
>
> [ Maybe another Ads by Goooooggllee ]

Yes.

>
> [ Aferword, related links etc. ]

Yes and maybe a few affiliate links to products related to your article.:-)

Stacey

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John Bokma wrote:
> Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>> John Bokma wrote:
>>
>> [John's site with lots of visitors]
>>> So currently it's part hobby, part investment.
>>
>> And part ego tripping ;-)
>
> Nah, not really.

.... pants on fire.. :P

> There are better places to do so, and to get more ooohs
> and aaahs :-D.

Sure there are better places. But that doesn't mean your site stats
can't be a good place as well :-)

(I didn't mean the site's existence as ego tripping, but rather the
fact that you manage to get so many visitors per day)

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Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> John Bokma wrote:
>> Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>>> John Bokma wrote:
>>>
>>> [John's site with lots of visitors]
>>>> So currently it's part hobby, part investment.
>>>
>>> And part ego tripping ;-)
>>
>> Nah, not really.
>
> ... pants on fire.. :P

I know that what I do might often be interpreted naively as bragging or
ego tripping but you know me well enough to know that I can talk in a
similar way about a scorpion changing its skin, or a piece of stone :-)

>> There are better places to do so, and to get more ooohs
>> and aaahs :-D.
>
> Sure there are better places. But that doesn't mean your site stats
> can't be a good place as well :-)

I mean, I can hang out on a webmaster's forum for beginners and blow all
away. Here at least I know there are people with more visitors, and that
my stats can cause a serious discussion with more useful information :-)

> (I didn't mean the site's existence as ego tripping, but rather the
> fact that you manage to get so many visitors per day)

To me it's just a figure. I can mention the a much lower number (say
300/day) with the same enthousiasm and maybe even with a better feeling :-
D.

Wrt the latter, the amount makes me feel responsible and also there is a
lot of garbage coming my way (a lot of "visitors" are actually bots, and
every day a lot of comment spam is automatically dropped).

The 1st of September I am invited to a local blog meeting. One reason I
feel awkward going there is because my blog probably will dwarf all others
by amount of visitors. I don't like to be into the spotlights, even though
some interpret my postings different :-D.


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"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:

> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns982E8A5F8D77Acastleamber@130.133.1.4...
>> David <seodave@search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k
>>>>to 15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year.
>>>>And at some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay
>>>>myself from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part
>>>>hobby, part investment.
>>>
>>> I don't understand why you don't make a lot of money from it now?
>>>
>>> It would be really easy to make thousands of dollars a year from
>>> your site in ad revenue.
>>>
>>> BTW you could easily get to 20K-25K a day this year with the right
>>> approach.
>>
>> I am open for advice on both accounts, of course :-)
>
> Yep, I agree with Dave. Which why I brought it up in my other
> posting.:-)

I might have missed that one?

>> In short, I notice that the majority of my traffic comes because of a
>> handful of well written (IMO) articles. My planning for now is to try
>> to write 2-3 of those articles each week (until I get tired of it).
>> (Which I should be doing right now).
>
> Don't blame ya. I get tired of writing also. That is why I went to the
> speech tools. A lot faster.:-)

Nah, I type faster then I can talk to a computer, which would tire me
even more. Also, the writing is not the main issue, the doing the
install and configuration steps all myself and double checking eats a
lot of time. With other blog entries it's the
resizing/cropping/selecting of pictures that eats up a lot of time.

>>
>> /
>> _______/
>> /
>> /
>>
>> feb aug
>
> Cool!

Yeah, it's not accurate, but ASCII art has it's limitations. I had a
fast grow from August to about Februari this year. And then somehow it
came to a stand still. Suddenly, two weeks or so ago its on the rise
again.

>> Some other things I have planned:
>>
>> - add a description to each page (just a short summary)
>> - add keywords to each page (just 10 or so, kind of summary of the
>> summary)
>
> Yeah, a big pain after the fact huh? :-)

In a way yes, in another way, no :-)

> I try and get them in with
> each page now. Also try and not get to rushed and make pages very
> unique as much as possible even with file names also.

Same here :-) Not always easy, because I see a lot of scorpions on our
trips :-)

>> IBLs isn't the problem anymore IMO, I get almost daily new ones, and
>> some have quite a good PR even :-)
>
> Well, you have enough don't you. :-)

Nah, I want that 8 :-D.

> Yes and maybe a few affiliate links to products related to your
> article.:-)

Thinking about Amazon. Had that ages ago in the past, and made even some
money with it (with a site that had 100 visitors or so a day, those were
the days :-), stupid I gave up on that one, could have had 30,000 or so
today )

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John Bokma wrote:

> I know that what I do might often be interpreted naively as bragging or
> ego tripping but you know me well enough to know that I can talk in a
> similar way about a scorpion changing its skin, or a piece of stone :-)

Yup, but I wasn't thinking about how you talk about it, just purely
what anyone else would feel: "I've got 15.000 visitors a day! Yay!"
It's good for the ego, nothing wrong with it :-)

> The 1st of September I am invited to a local blog meeting. One reason I
> feel awkward going there is because my blog probably will dwarf all others
> by amount of visitors. I don't like to be into the spotlights, even though
> some interpret my postings different :-D.

You don't have to tell the other bloggers you got that many visitors -
they may have many more comments (real comments) than you have. (they
may even feel sorry for you ;-) )

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"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
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> "Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:
<snip>
>> Well then it would all depend on how you look without the hat:-)
>
> very naked :-)

Yes.:-) Do you not wear under garments?:-)

>>>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>>>
>>>> That is pretty good!
>>>
>>> It scares me now and then :-D.
>>
>> Yeah, it would scare me also with that much! I almost had a heart
>> attack a couple of weeks ago when one of our sites made $693 in one
>> day! The merchants probably had almost a heart attack also with the
>> $6930 in sales.:-) You got some ads up? Loads of money potentially
>> there.:-)
>
> I am still in the hand sowing phase (i.e. broadcasting) :-)

OK. Above is where I said I would add some ads and there is potential
money.:-) (you know where I said I agreed with Dave as I suggested the same)

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> David <seodave@search-engine-optimization-services.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k
>>>to 15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year.
>>>And at some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay
>>>myself from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby,
>>>part investment.
>>
>> I don't understand why you don't make a lot of money from it now?
>>
>> It would be really easy to make thousands of dollars a year from your
>> site in ad revenue.
>>
>> BTW you could easily get to 20K-25K a day this year with the right
>> approach.
>
> I am open for advice on both accounts, of course :-)
>

I would say you would be far better of using Adsense
for search on a site like yours.
Set it up so it defaults to site search,
open results within your own site and blend
it in with your colour scheme.
That way you get the best of both worlds.
If the information they are looking for is on your
site they find it easily. if it isn't they hopefully leave via
an AdSense link.

Try the site in my sig as a demo

** Do not click any ads though **
Use my category search first, from there use
the google search with the default setting.
This takes you to another of my pages
which displays the google results.
If they don't find what they are looking for on
my site hopefully they leave via the AdSense.
To be honest though I prefer people not to use
AdSense, I would much rather they find what they
are looking for on my site.

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T.J.
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"Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
news:4qdzx3dgc1un$.1bk4pkgwouunr$.dlg@40tude.net.. .
> John Bokma wrote:
>
>> I know that what I do might often be interpreted naively as bragging or
>> ego tripping but you know me well enough to know that I can talk in a
>> similar way about a scorpion changing its skin, or a piece of stone :-)
>
> Yup, but I wasn't thinking about how you talk about it, just purely
> what anyone else would feel: "I've got 15.000 visitors a day! Yay!"
> It's good for the ego, nothing wrong with it :-)

Yep, I know I would do it if I was able to gain that many visitors. Wonder
if I can find some scorpions in Germany.:-) BTW Els, Sha forgot to show his
teacher the note. When he got home I asked him and the old story of oh I
forgot came into play. So he said he will remember tomorrow.:-)(we shall
see)

Stacey
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On 29 Aug 2006 17:51:57 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:

>Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Aug 2006 16:04:26 GMT, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>>[..]
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Ouch, first canadafred, now Bill? Who's next?
>>>>>
>>>>> ( tips his black hat )
>>>>
>>>> Your a programmer, you shouldn't wear a hat. :-)
>>>
>>>But then I am entirely naked!
>>>
>>>>> BTW 12+ k on weekdays last week, 10+ k in the weekend :-p
>>>>> Prognosis: 15+ k by the end of the year :-D.
>>>>
>>>> That is pretty good!
>>>
>>>It scares me now and then :-D.
>>
>> It should; do they make you money or burn bandwidth?
>
>Neither. I still pay the same amount as several years back (which was
>probably way too much at some point, and maybe now almost realistic).
>
>I *do* get work via my site, but indeed the question is, does the total
>number of hours invested in it justify this? I have no idea (yes, this
>is bad). For a big part the site is hobby, but it eats up a lot of time.
>
>On the other hand, if I can make my site grow from roughly under 10k to
>15k in one year, I assume I can make it grow to 20-25k next year. And at
>some point there should be a break even point, e.g. I can pay myself
>from the income I make with ads. So currently it's part hobby, part
>investment.
>
>> I have far more
>> visitors on my posters site than ever before but they're not buying. I
>> need to take a lot of pages off and lean it back more towards art. I
>> also need to have a big chat on the new webmaster communications site
>> about how to get old stuff out of Google's index. It won't let me
>> delete a page if there's a custom 404 in operation it seems. I'll
>> report back when I know more.
>
>Yes, I already explained that 404 means: no idea what happened with this
>resource, it can be back tomorrow, next week, never. If the page is
>gone, return gone. Or better, redirect to the closest match on your
>site.
>
>Ways to reduce bandwidth for a poster size is: smaller images, stronger
>compression, cleaner HTML, using gzip module to compress HTML on the
>fly.
>
>Also, check what's burning your bandwidth. It might be people leeching
>your images.

Um, I wouldn't think so. I imagine they'd leech direct from Allposters
as they'd be easier to find at the moment. Long gone are the days when
I was appearing above them in the serps with their own product. Sniff
:-(

BB
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