Things you never knew
June 24, 2009
If I listed all the things I never knew, well the things I now know but didn’t before, it would be a very, very long list.
What’s most surprising to me is that there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. I mean that every time I learn something new I turn around and find that there’s something else waiting to trip me up until I learn about it.
I’ve just learned that in WordPress you shouldn’t use a permalink structure that I’ve been using for every blog I’ve ever set up! It seems that WordPress operates more slowly if you use a permalink structure like www.myblog.com/my-post-name
Thanks for telling me in advance! I stumbled on the information recently. If you have a lot of posts on your blog then it will impact you far more than someone who only has a few posts, but since it can make a big difference, why on earth isn’t the information made clearer on the permalink settings page?
It’s probably too late for me to change my permalink structure now. I don’t want to go to the trouble of setting up 301 redirects for existing posts (I’m lazy) and in all fairness on a lot of the blogs there will never be thousands of pages – so the impact may only be slight. But it’s something that I’m now aware of and I won’t be making the mistake again.
Talking of blogs, I’ve just seen a promotional email about a new way of using blogs to generate landing pages and sales pages, primarily for PPC campaigns, but they can be use for anything. I don’t want to repeat the post here, but you can read it on my product blog at sublime-products.com
If you’d like to use a WordPress blog to build clean, unobstructed sales pages then it’s worth taking a look at that post.
Free Royalty Free Photos
May 13, 2009
I use a lot of stock photography myself – well, a fair amount anyway – and the cost can soon add up.
Recently, while surfing the web, I came across a great list of resources for free royalty free photos. Rather than repeat the list, let me give you a link to where I found that list.
http://www.affiliatemarketingdiary.com/main/my-top-20-royalty-free-photo-resources/133/
There’s a lot of resources in that list to look through. If you’re thinking of using some stock photography on one of your sites it’s well worth a look.
Best Affiliate Program?
March 25, 2009
How I’d love to be able to say I’ve found the best affiliate program.
Instead, I think I’ve found one of the worst.
I have a number of sites that promote affiliate products and I’m always on the lookout for a relatively open sub-niche to explore. I thought I’d found one about an hour ago. They offer you a fully branded website store that you can load onto your own domain. Great. The commissions are only up to 2.5%, but repeat business is good and it’s ongoing commission so it seems reasonable.
I signed up, completed the various branding forms and downloaded an entire site, ready to upload onto my own hosting account. Then I had a look at the actual code of the website. There were a couple of places to configure such things as keywords, descriptions and so on, to make the site a little more personalised.
But then I discovered what was a major problem: Read more
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