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Mar

Customizing BANS

Posted by Sonjay  Published in Affiliate Marketing, eBay & ePN

I’ve been using the BANS software (Build a Niche Store) for the past couple of months to quickly and easily create eBay sites that are automatically populated with the categories, sub-categories, and product listings from eBay. I had been wanting to diversify my income stream, which was coming primarily from AdSense. BANS is only $97, [...]

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Tags: BANS, eBay & ePN, ePN, php, programming

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19

Mar

Remove Border from Linked Images

Posted by Sonjay  Published in Code, Website Development

In a Dreamweaver newsgroup that I read regularly, the following question is asked and answered almost daily:“How do I remove the ugly blue border from around all my linked images?”
The answer is, put this in your style sheet:
a img { border: 0;}

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Tags: css, html

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14

Mar

AdSense, "unusual activity," and overreacting

Posted by Sonjay  Published in AdSense

I’m kicking myself today.
A couple of days ago, I saw my AdSense earnings shoot way up in a short time span.
On investigating, I found that a small site that usually gets only a few page views a day was suddenly getting hundreds of visits in a highly unusual surge of traffic. All — literally [...]

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Tags: AdSense

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12

Mar

Newspapers Still Don’t Get It

Posted by Sonjay  Published in Life Online, Website Development

Daily newspapers have been fighting decreasing readership and falling subscriptions for at least a couple of decades now. More and more, newspapers are putting their content online.
For that I salute them.
But the web is now about 15 years old, and I wonder why so many newspapers still don’t manage to get some of the basic [...]

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Tags: newspapers, usability

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6

Mar

All Bold is No Bold – A New Paradigm for SEO

Posted by Sonjay  Published in Search

I used to work in corporate public relations, and produced a lot of printed materials: magazines, newsletters, that type of thing. Printers and typographers have a saying: “All bold is no bold.” Meaning, if you boldface everything on the page, it’s the equivalent of boldfacing nothing, because nothing stands out.
This has relevance to the world [...]

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Tags: Search, SEO

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