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When developing apps for the iPhone, there are a few lasting decisions you’ll need to make with regards to overall application architecture. These generally have to do with API and core features available in the new version 3.0 iPhone operating system that don’t exist in version 2.2 and lower. One such example is Core Data.
Our startup company needed to decide if we were going to write our apps for the 3.0 OS only or support the older OS versions as well. But we wanted to make an informed decision, so I went hunting for data.
Luckily, AdMob has collected a lot of this data in their monthly reports. Here are a few facts that I’ve gleaned.
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Dec15
We’re halfway into December, and getting closer to Christmas with each passing day. I thought I’d take a minute and highlight some of the great contributors to this website.
So far, for the Month of December, the Top Commentators on my website are:
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Even if you aren’t a fan of the Alexa Traffic Rank, you can’t deny it’s influence on the web for ranking and comparing website traffic. Along with Google Page Rank, the Alexa Traffic Rank is one of the key Internet indicators of website authority and overall success.
It’s for this reason (and for the fact that I’m near dead-last on the list of Internet Marketing Top Blogs) that I’ve been experimenting with ways of improving my Alexa Traffic Rank.
And I must say, I feel that I’ve been successful. Over the last 2 weeks, my Alexa Traffic Rank has improved significantly.
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Dec3
Market Leverage is running a brand new contest with Zac Johnson and a few more bloggers, giving away prizes such as a Flip Mino HD, an iPod Nano, an Amazon Kindle and gift certificates. It’s easy to enter; just write a blog post or create a YouTube video.
The idea is to choose one of Market Leverage’s CPA offers and share how you’d market the idea. From the submitted blog posts, a few winners will be chosen: 1 winner by Zac, and the rest by Market Leverage.
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Dec2
In October, my buddy Keith launched his 1-Week PageRank Experiment for his KickJoey.com domain.
The Goal
To attain a Page Rank of PR1 within 1 week.
The Reasoning
Although from a search engine perspective, Page Rank may be losing relevance, from a marketing perspective, Page Rank is still a useful and necessary indicator of website authority. For folks offering paid links or posts from their blog, the Page Rank value is not only important, but often necessary even to get the conversation started.
Keith’s goal was to begin using the KickJoey.com domain as a platform for paid reviews, so, attaining a Page Rank was deemed a necessity.
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Dec1
November Recap
Early on in November, I realized that this was going to be a challenging month for my Internet marketing efforts. Natural search engine traffic for my most profitable niche site was way down, which has affected both AdSense earnings as well as affiliate earnings from Clickbank.
I attempted to remedy that by driving targetted search engine traffic to the site via PPC advertising with Findology, only to discover that the Findology traffic was difficult/impossible to convert.
In the end, I fell well short of the earnings mark I set last month when I earned a profit of $718.21.
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Dec1
Happy Cyber Monday everyone!
If you haven’t heard yet, you can use coupon code 99DOMAIN over at GoDaddy.com to purchase .com/.net/.org domain names for 99 cents!
This is a smoking deal for anyone looking to start the New Year fresh with a new blog/website. Even if all you do is buy a domain for $0.99 and flip it for a few dollars on SitePoint or DigitalPoint, that few dollars is nearly pure profit!
To make the deal even more smoking, as always, if you purchase 5 or more domains from GoDaddy, they’ll throw in free Privacy Registration (a $11 savings on each domain!).
Keep in mind, this is just for 1-year domain name registrations. I’ve got a handful I’ll be registering tonight. Lemme know which domains you end up picking up!
Dec1
Just wanted to thank the fine folks who’ve contributed to this site by way of comments. The top commentators for the month of November are:
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Nov29
This week’s Dot Com Pho was at Pho Trang An, where we had 12 people show up to gab about life, politice, blogging and making money online. This included the usuals (John Chow, Stephen and Ed) as well as some new faces.
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Nov23
As Internet marketers, we all use affiliate links in some way or another. For some, they might be embedded into blog posts, while for others in landing pages or forum signatures. Regardless, affiliate links serve a necessary evil when making money online and we depend on them.
Introduction to Affiliate Link Cloaking
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