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I was reading Shoemoney’s blog the other day, and one of his posts mentioned how he would have his bigger, large-scale projects, and smaller ones on the side to make money while the larger ones were in production.  I’ve decided to start a quick project just as soon as I get around to coding the [...]

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

The world of Search Engine Optimization is about to change, hopefully for the better. Google is working on making a lot of changes to how it ranks web sites, and will be making more open annoucements in the coming months. So, here is what you need to be focusing on, and you need to [...]

Today I officially got a job as web manager for a local African art store, mbare.com This will mostly be a summer job, as they have a lot of updates and things to expand their business they are looking to accomplish over the next few months. I will be doing a lot [...]

I’m actually in class, so this is going to be a short one. I’m going to start experimenting with affiliate marketing, and just launched a blogger site to do it:

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are getting more and more attention from internet marketers, for better or for worse. This got me thinking that Facebook would be a lot more useful if I had a larger friends list.  Sure, I could go out and actually meet new people, but who has time for [...]

Things in my life have calmed down a little bit, and I have some more free time to devote to my web site projects. I realized I haven’t really given my all to a website, one that I make from design to development, to running and marketing. two of my [...]

Building backlinks is immensely important when it comes to marketing your website. All the major search engines use backlinks to determine your pagerank. 80% of Google users click the first link when they search for something, and if you can get that #1 spot, you will never have trouble getting traffic to your site. Here [...]

(Originally Posted January 4, 2007)
I once heard a quote about programmers that said “Your never actually done with a project, one day you just stop working on it.” I have realized that not only is this true, but it also applies to websites. I don’t think there will ever be a day that I don’t [...]

(Originally Posted September 26, 2007)
Athensbarhopper.com so far makes up all of my adsense revenue, because I’ve put more work into it that my other sites so far. It still is not quite getting the traffic it could though, and that’s what I wanted to talk about today.
Since this is a locally based website about [...]