Website Development
Don’t Let Losing Interest Sabotage Long-Term Projects
I just wrote about getting bored with new ideas after three weeks and putting them on the shelf. It wasn’t meant to imply you shouldn’t think long-term or scrap an idea because it might take four months to finish. What I meant was if you get bored with working on something then take a break. [...]
Attempting To Cure Idea Boredom
How many of you jump from idea to idea? Probably quite a few if blogs and forums are any indication. I didn’t used to be that way but I fight it tooth and nail now. Between the internet induced ADD and all of the ideas swimming around in my head, motivation for anything new lasts [...]
Add Google Analytics Differently For Sites With Frames
Make sure you look over this documentation page if you decide to use Google Analytics on a site with frames. The traffic sources for one of our niche sites weren’t showing up properly (it listed search engine traffic as referral traffic) and I couldn’t figure out why. It turns out you need to put the [...]
Helping AdSense Show Relevant Ads On Your Site
One of our sites shows completely unrelated AdSense ads at times. Part of the problem is a single irrelevant keyword. Googlebot finds over 100 total keywords but fell in love with one bad one for some reason. It is only in the content twice, compared to dozens of times for the relevant keywords, but Google [...]
Creating A Portable Work Environment
Creating a portable work environment was one of our major motivations in starting an internet business. My main computer is a Mac desktop but I wanted a platform-independent setup for the times when only an internet cafe or a friend’s computer is available. I recently began experimenting with running the business remotely and ran into [...]
