Twas The Knight Before Christmas

‘Twas The Knight Before Christmas, EzineArticles Style By EzineArticles Managing Editor, Wally ‘Twas the night before Christmas, at EzineArticles.com, Not an Expert Author was submitting, the servers were calm; The bandwidth was ready, should an article appear, Perhaps from an International Author, perhaps from Tangier. The editors were nestled all snug by their desks, While the dev team was sleeping, algorithms in [...]

FireFox 2.0 Launched
Heard the news yet? FireFox 2.0 is now available for download. I’ve been using FireFox for a long time, but I recently started using the new IE. FireFox was getting buggy and somewhat annoying for my daily use. I hope they got most of the bugs out in this version. [...]

2006 EzineArticles Blog Stats In Review
As the year 2006 comes to a close, this is a good time to share some behind-the-scenes stats from this blog: 797 entries in this blog 3,547 comments left by 932 unique humans 746 users casted 2,990 votes 153,000 page views this year While I only had to step in a handful of times to moderate or close a thread [...]

Get a Free Copy of Revenge of the Mininet
Thanks Hock for this tip. Michael Campbell is giving away “Revenge of the Mininet” and “Clikin’ it Rich” for his newsletter subscribers. I purchased Revenge of the Mininet long time. It is printed and stored in my library file. It was (and is) one of the best ebooks I’ve read on [...]

Happy Holidays Cheer Post
I sensed this morning that quite a few of the community of experts who comment on this blog wanted to send holiday cheers and wishes to each other, so here’s a post where you can do just that. :-) What you’re seeing in the above picture: My office for the first time. In the photo are [...]

Don t Make This Adsense Mistake
One of the common mistakes that Adsense publishers make is using wrong labels above Adsense units. People think it’s a hot trick, but it’s really not. Google doesn’t like to see wrong labels right above Adsense ad units. let’s review Adsense’s TOS. Publishers may not label the ads with text other than “sponsored [...]

20 Things I Learned In 2006
Thanks to an idea from EzineArticles expert author Benjamin Yoskovitz’s Instagator blog where he proposed a group writing project to answer the question, “What I Learned In 2006″…here are my answers: 1) That to drive the effectiveness of permission-based email to grow traffic, you’ve got to focus on driving up your number of unique subscribers and [...]

14.2 Percent January over December
Let’s discuss traffic today: Traditionally, it weakens around Christmas time and has for the past 3 years before it bounces back up in January. Last night I took the first 20 days of traffic stats for December 2004, 2005 and this year. I did linear trend line & daily delta analysis to try and determine [...]

The Launch of WordPress MU and What It Means to Niche Marketers
Have you heard the news? WordPress MU 1.0 is officially available to public at no charge. WordPress MU is a blog script that let you run a blog hosting service like WordPress.com. This is a great news for us the niche marketers. Things you can do with this powerful script is [...]

Geotargeting Your Writing
Aussie Peter writes: “Chris, I’ve just seen your article of May 2006 about writing multiple articles for geo-targeted niches. Could you give me your views on the extent to which each article would need to be completely re-written, as opposed to doing a search and replace on the state, and leaving the rest of the article the [...]

The Pure Tungsten Interview
Recently, EzineArticles expert author Phillip Davis (also the President of Tungsten Brand Marketing: PureTungsten.com) interviewed me on article writing & marketing insights for the bright minds of his newsletter readership and today I wanted to share that interview with the bright minds of the EzineArticles newsletter & blog readership. :-) Begin Interview: Founded in 1999, EzineArticles.com [...]

Is There A Life To An Article
Kathy from Texas Writes: Is there a “life” to an article (i.e., do people look at only the most recently submitted articles) and is it worth doing a “refresh” to get the article back out there? If so, how often should I do it? From my experience, the life cycle of an article is directly related [...]

You Underestimate My Sneakiness Sir!
Ah..my favorite phrase from the movie, “Mr. Deeds” It still gives me laugh when I think about that movie. Well, the movie is not the point of this post. Today, I’d like to tell you one of the researching techniques that I use. This technique requires serious sneakiness :) j/k. [...]

I Can t Find a Niche Topic that I m Passionate About!
This is one of the most asked questions from niche marketers. “Should I make a website that I’m passionate about?” or “Should I go where the money is made?” Personally, I’d go where the money is. If you can find a topic that you are passionate about and also where great money is being [...]

The 40 Article Challenge
Thank you to EzineArticles expert author Suzanne Lieurance for creating the “40 Article Challenge” to her list and blog (Have You Harnessed the Power of Article Marketing?)… where she encouraged her readers, clients and friends to create 40 articles and submit them to sites like ours before the end of the year. EzineArticles expert author Yvonne [...]

What s Limiting You?
It’s 5 am and I still can’t go to sleep. I was talking to my friend who is in deep financial trouble. I was on the phone for about 4 hours trying to help him out. He devoted 10 years in college education and he just got fired from a firm that [...]

Protected: Christmas Keywords Extracted from My Own Sites
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