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Archive for September, 2008

Google Website Optimizer = Epic Failure

By Christian Little • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Marketing

Five days without posting, yeah I suck. But in those five days I’ve been to a wedding where my wife was the maid of honor, and the MV testing demonstration I promised earlier took a major turn and crashed horribly, which I’m going to discuss today so you can avoid this problem.
I posted some [...]



Comment Stats Plugin for WordPress – Made by Me!

By Christian Little • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Wordpress

This is my first attempt at creating a WordPress Plugin, and I think it actually turned out pretty decent for the 4 hours I spent building it.
The standard comments page and dashboard in the WordPress admin panel will give you some very basic information on your comments, such as how many comments you’ve [...]



Blog Comment Spamming Really Works…Just Kidding!

By Christian Little • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Webmaster Etiquette

It’s funny how people think that using some lame comment and then link spamming on a do-follow blog will actually work. What’s even funnier is that most of the people that do this are paying for it, either with some comment posting software or hiring somebody from India for $0.05/hour.
So let’s look [...]



63 Ways to Promote Your Website

By Christian Little • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Marketing

People are constantly flocking to webmaster forums asking for ways to promote their website. So here is one massive list giving you several options.
One thing that may be of interest to you – not a single one of these links contains an affiliate link. I didn’t post this list to make money.

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Multi-Variant Test: Setup and Launch!

By Christian Little • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Marketing

A few days ago I posted a big entry about setting up and displaying a complete multi-variant test on one of my client websites. This morning we flipped the switch and the test has started. So while Google’s Website Optimizer is busy flipping content variations, I have some information to show you so [...]



Marketing Experiment: Showing You an Entire Multi-Variant Test from Start to Finish

By Christian Little • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Marketing

Multi-Variant Analysis (or MV for short) is a very advanced method for improving the performance of your website. It requires advanced software, as it is pretty much impossible to do it on your own unless you are an android like Mr. Data on Star Trek.
Note: There are several accepted spelling formats [...]



Forget Google for a Minute, Look at Your Other Options

By Christian Little • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Marketing

Today is an important day – I’m going to teach you a nifty little traffic secret! But in order for me to do it, you need to take a small leap of faith and believe me when I tell you that Google is not the end all and be all of web traffic. [...]



WordPress Hack: Displaying Images Next to Posts on the Homepage

By Christian Little • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Wordpress

Over the years I’ve had a lot of people ask me how to do this with WordPress, as just about every blog I’ve run displays some sort of image next to the posts on the homepage. It’s actually surprisingly simple to do, and there are several ways to go about doing it. So [...]



10 Ways to Identify a ‘Get Rich Quick’ Scam

By Christian Little • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: scams

A lot of posts on various webmaster forums are asking questions about which ebooks should you buy to really learn how to do things. Unfortunately, most of the time the replies that get posted are just people trying to push their clickbank garbage onto you, regardless of whether it’s actually helpful or not. [...]



Building a High Tech Portal/Community

By Christian Little • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Thesis Project

I’m currently attending graduate business school at one of Canada’s top universities for MBA’s and the time has come for me to get my thesis project going. Today’s post is going to outline my thesis project at is revolves heavily around websites and internet marketing.
The purpose of my thesis project is to apply what [...]