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Buying Your First Website: A Case Study
- Content
- February 3rd, 2010
- Article
Buying your first website property can certainly be daunting, especially if you’re unsure how to go about investigating your potential purchase. Flippa.com’s new marketing manager, Luke Moulton, walks us through the due diligence behind a sample website purchase to show us the ropes.
Make Your Mark with Affiliate Marketing
- Content
- June 11th, 2008
- Tutorial
Affiliate marketing can be more lucrative than online advertising sales -- but only if you know the tricks of the trade! In this step-by-step tutorial, Peter and Georgina reveal some of the common -- and less well-known -- ways to make a solid income through affiliate marketing.
How to Sell Content in a Free-Content World
- Content
- March 7th, 2008
- Article
In a world in which visitors expect to receive everything for free, does subscription-based content stand a change? If your content is quality, then the answer is yes! In this article, Brock shares five tips to ensure your readers sign up -- and stay subscribed.
Capitalize On Your Next Contest
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- February 15th, 2008
- Tutorial
Running a design contest at 99designs is easy, but getting quality responses to your brief can be tough. Fortunately, Joey has put together this list of handy hints to help you ensure you get the best designs - and lots of them! - out of your contest.
Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You
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- November 21st, 2007
- Article
As each new social networking site becomes the Next Big Thing, we spend hours recreating our accounts, contact details, and associations with people we know. Brian believes we should support - and create - sites that make users' profile data portable, and in this article he tours some current and evolving tools that make the sharing of information between services a cinch!
Adrian Holovaty on Mashups and Microformats
- Content
- October 11th, 2007
- Interview
The demise of privacy online, the opening of data to the masses, the value of structure, and the launch of yet another online news service are among the topics discussed in this insightful interview with Django co-creator Adrian Holovaty.
Podtastic! Professional Podcasting for the Rest of Us
- Content
- May 17th, 2006
- Tutorial
If you've been sitting on the sidelines of the podcasting explosion, now's your time to step up to the mic! In this hands-on tute, Jon explains the basics of what you need to know about podcasting before walking you through the process of creating, recording, distributing, and promoting your own professional show.
Web Content: from Fabulous to Frankenstein
- Content
- May 15th, 2006
- Article
Once, content was king. Now, site owners battling for search supremacy have devised numerous techniques to populate their sites with content - not all of them legitimate. Indeed, any can cost the legal authors and content owners dearly. Here, Mike lifts the lid on the main content generation techniques and provides advice to legitimate copyright holders.
The Blogger's Primer
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- March 29th, 2005
- Tutorial
Blogs: you read 'em, you love 'em, you want one of your own! Now's your chance to splash into the blogosphere, thanks to Aaron's handy primer. His tutorial has the essential ingredients you'll need to establish and run your own successful blog!
The Web Developer's Copywriting Guide
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- June 19th, 2004
- Tutorial
You're the best Web developer in town... and the client wants you to write their Website copy?! Matthew's quick and dirty guide shows those of us who aren't trained writers how to create effective Web content for the sites we build.