9 Ways to Advertise Giveaways, Contests, Sweepstakes for High Entries

How to get high entries for a contest is something every publisher desires to know. There are many ways to advertise Giveaways, Contests, and Sweepstakes with this goal in mind but there are seven ways that you may be unaware of. These methods include the use of forums, Twitter, social networking tools, and video sharing platforms. I previously spoke [...]

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Rafflecopter Review: Contest Widget for Giveaways, Sweepstakes, Raffles

Rafflecopter Review. Rafflecopter is a Contest, Sweepstakes, Giveaway widget that can be used within a website post or article to help a webmaster run a contest, sweepstakes or giveaway. I previously spoke about running contests on websites here: How to Create and Run a Giveaway Contest on a Website and here: How and When to Promote [...]

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4 Factors Necessary to Make Money on a Website

I wrote previously about how to make money with a movie website but that was about monetizing your movie website. I spoke briefly of ad placement in that article but not in depth. That and three other factors that affect making money on a movie website are discussed in this article.

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The Brain of the Beginning Blogger Infographic

The Brain of the Beginning Blogger Infographic. The infographic The Brain of the Beginning Blogger is accurate and humorous in its depiction of a new blogger’s mindset. The Brain of the Beginning Blogger infographic brings up many of the situations someone new to a website or blog will face, including domain names, making money online, search [...]

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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 4

The final part of this web hosting review of BlueFur, documenting their bad conduct and how my first website’s content was wiped out because of them, is the tomb stone on the grave of a morose chapter in this web master’s life. The final part of this series, what I learned from my experience with [...]

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The Importance of the Header Image: Selling the Post to the Reader

The header image or the featured image of a post is one the most important sales pitches to a potential reader to click on that post and read it. You’ve probably heard a million times that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. In this case that is absolutely accurate. Good head (I had to, [...]

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DMOZ: Increase SEO, PageRank in the Open Directory Project

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and PageRank are two of the reasons why the Open Directory Project aka Dmoz is one of the few Internet directories that a webmaster should endeavor to have their website listed in. Search engine optimization comes in many different forms. Having your website in certain databases that are heavy trafficked and spidered is [...]

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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 2

This Bluefur Review, User Review, former Customer Review, segmented Web Hosting Review about their Canadian web hosting bad conduct is a cautionary tale. As I mentioned in BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 1, my movie website was previously hosted by BlueFur. While with BlueFur, the movie site was down from most [...]

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