Posted in Blogging, Traffic on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
So yeah, I’m a little behind the times. I have never been into the game of jumping onto the bandwagon immediately after something new comes out, but now I’m ready to take the plunge and give Entrecard a chance on this blog. Look to your right and you’ll see the Entrecard widget in action along [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across a very cool PageRank checker that goes a step beyond all the others I’ve used and actually examines every internal page of a website and spits out the PR of each one.
Shaun Carter dot Com has one PR 2 page (homepage), two PR1 pages and whopping 696 PR 0 pages. While this [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Traffic on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
I have decided to do a little test here by eliminating the NoFollow attribute on comments using the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin. I am hoping this will bring more people to the blog and foster some more discussion
Another potential benefit to eliminating the NoFollow on comments is increased linking to the site and will increase [...]
Posted in Blogging, Free Stuff, Making Money on Aug 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
I have added a new advertising option on Shaun Carter dot Com, and removed a few others. Due to low earnings I have removed Kontera and the Peel Away ad. I thought they just cluttered up the site and they didn’t bring in much in the way of revenue.
The new Performancing ads widget is working [...]
Posted in Blogging, Internet on Jul 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Finding the perfect webhost for your project, whether it be a Wordpress blog, e-commerce site or affiliate marketing portal can be a challenge because of all the different options out there. Some of the biggest problems that website operators like us deal with is uptime, hosting costs and support.
Most beginning Internet entrepreneurs and hobbyists are [...]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 9th, 2008 No Comments »
We have passed the 100 comments mark here at Shaun Carter dot Com. Although this blog isn’t designed to be highly commented on, it is nice to see that there are some good words pouring in from some readers.
Things have been picking up for me outside of this blog as I start a new job [...]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 7th, 2008 No Comments »
In the last few days, Shaun Carter dot Com has seen a surge in traffic coming from several Wall Street Journal Online stories relating to E*Trade. It turns out the Journal picked up two of my posts and linked to them from these two articles in the blogs section at the end of the story.
This [...]
Posted in Blogging, Making Money on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
One of the thing that many web publishers struggle with is monetization of every visitor to visit their blog or website. For many, the only option has been pay per click ads which only reward the publisher when a visitor actually clicks the advertisement. There are CPM (cost per thousand) advertising programs out there that [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I completely missed the fact that the Katt Williams Hustlin video post was the 200th for Shaun Carter dot Com. I purchased this domain and began blogging as a way to talk about whatever I wanted and keep my writing skills sharp while waiting to go back to college.
This blog started in April 2007 and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Making Money on Jan 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I have begun utilizing a service called payperpost and have been quite happy with them. PPP is a great way to monetize your blog in addition to the typical adsense and kontera ads.
In case you haven’t noticed, there is now a link at the end of every post that will let you get paid to [...]
