Why Don’t They Buy Link Advertisement From This Site?

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Besides the obvious reasons why the advertiser don’t buy link advertisement from the publisher because of low page rank, low traffic, and ads price is too high, SearchRank Blog write a post about “things that bug me regarding those who sell links” that spell out the less obvious reasons why advertiser don’t buy link ads sometime.

We think this is interesting. As a publisher, we definitely interested to know what are the advertiser concern and what really stop them from buying link ads from us?
So what really bug them? Here are the list from SearchRank:
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3 Main Methods To Monetize Your Blog

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I didn’t write much articles this weekend. Don’t worry, I’m not having any blogger mental block, I”m just taking it easy on this weekend:) For this hoobin.com project, it’s really overwhelm by the load of information about making money online. It’s just too much to write and share.

To Speed Up

To speed up the process of sharing and focus on what is important. It’s seem like blogging and building website is the most popular way of making money online here. Blogging is definitely a better option compare to building website for new comer, since it’s much more easy to setup and get it up running more quickly.
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This Will Go Down In History For AndrewTalk

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I think I”m a bit late in reading this post even though I subscribe to John Chow RSS in my bloglines ( But recently due to the lack of good tips, I’m skip most of his post anyway ), but I think John is coming back with a better strategy, which is getting more good guest bloggers to blog in his blog. Anyway, this post is definitely will go down in history for the most negative paid review blog post for us to talk about.

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SPAM The Web Master! The Mistake We Make

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When we first started to promote our website, we make couple of mistakes and this one is still continue to stay and hurt us. You can avoid it if you read this story.

Mistake For New Web Master

If you have a new site, to get new incoming links, the easy way is to submit it to some free website link directory. Bingo, this is what we did when we first started out.

It’s not submitting to link directory isn’t working, it does help sometime. But really, submitting to link directory who sell your email address to spammer, that is a bummer!

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Online Marketer Have A New Weapon - HeatMap Application

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I know it’s sound cheesy … to make more money online, we really must understand our visitors, online users and customers better. But it’s truth:)

Back in the old day, keeping a page counter is our best things to do to know more about our visitors. Now, top online marketer are using bounce rate, top landing page, click through conversion and etc to measure their online marketing success.

Today, online marketer have another more powerful new weapon - HeatMap Application to measure where and how the visitor read the site. Things are just getting better and better!
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We Are Working On Our Definitive List Series

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This couple days, we are installing couple of web analytic application such as clicktale and robotreplay for web analysis to find out how our reader using our hoobin resource center.

The result is very interesting. Well, we have to accept the fact that our site is still not that user friendly yet, our reader doesn’t seem to find the important information they are looking for.

The Challenge

One of the problems is … the reader don’t really click on the category link in our website sidebar. But category is the place where we compile most of the resources into one place. Even though they click on the category link, still we don’t give enough big picture information about the resources.

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We Like To Thanks Ben From WebHostingUnleashed For The Interview

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We being interview by Ben from WebHostingUnleashed.com about Hoobin Resource Center and since we are pretty busy with our usability design and of course the unexpected server errors, we just manage to write this post to thank him now:)

Anyway, you can check out our interview here. My personal feeling for this is … we are glad that we are doing something helpful.

About WebHostingUnleashed.com

WebHostingUnleashed.com being doing a tremendous good job to help their visitors to find which web hosting service is best for them. We have write about How To Find Web Hosting in the early post and we found Ben website is very helpful in this area.  WebHostingUnleashed is very easy to browse around and you can search for the web hosting service detail plus a lot of useful user review about the web hosting package.

Again, you can check out Ben blog and the hoobin interview here. Thanks you Ben.

Our Website Is Down For 30 Minutes Today

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For no reason, our website is down for 30 minutes.

Of course, at first we thought that we did some php coding in our site since we are doing the usability design update. But after trace for it, it’s doesn’t seem like our customize wordpress application fault. We look at the error log in the CPanel, it’s more like our server php compiler error. Straight away, we submit a ticket issue to our web hosting, and it’s being solve within 10 minutes.

The Reason

The actual problem is our web hosting re-compile the apache and php compiler due to urgent matter, it’s some what screw up our share hosting too. It’s not digg effect that bring down our server, that’s a relief:)

This is the price you paid when you using share hosting. So far our traffic is still not high enough for us to switch to dedicated server hosting. And we are quite happy with the performance from our current web hosting.

Anyway, we just wanted to write this post to apologies for the 30 minutes down inconvenience and also share our experience on how we solve the problem - First thing to do is look at your error log file and email your problem to web hosting support:)

A Successful Online Marketer Who Lost Almost Everything

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This is a post run by blackhatseo.com about a man who is making $100k a year using AdSense website, but lost almost everything when google ban his account.

We thought this is a good read. What we think of this story is you must plan for success and also failure. Making money online industry is changing very fast, just look at the progress for the last 5 years, and you know there is tremendous risk involve when you only have one stream of income and put everything in one basket.

Lesson Learn
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We Think Google Page Rank Update Is This Week

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This is the moment we being waiting for. The last google page rank update is in April 2007. Google usually update it’s page rank in 3-4 months time.

The Fact

Even though your actual google page rank is increase gradually but in the display of google page rank in google data center and google toolbar is update only once in 3-4 months time. The advertiser only count the display of google page rank in google data center, so google page rank update is important for the web master.

An increase of google page rank for web master is mean an increase in income and authority. You can sell your advertisement and link at a higher price if you have a higher google page rank site. It’s always a joy to get good google page rank update, after all, this is hard work.

This Week

At first, we thought the update will be at the very first of August but it’s not. Now, it’s seem like a lot indicator is telling us that it’s going to update soon. There are few blog that without PR is now getting one. So we think it’s coming:) Too bad we are not working hard enough to get more incoming link to boast our google page rank.