http://www.kposey.com The Rantings of an Over-Caffeinated Web Developer Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:19:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I first ran across PayPerPost while perusing Css Remix, and thought the idea was pretty cool. Then, I see it pop up over at TechCrunch, where there seems to be a little bit of controversy going on as to whether or not PayPerPost is devaluing the blog community. ... http://www.kposey.com/56/bloggers-afraid-of-payperpostcom Ok, lets get some assumptions out of the way. From what I’ve read, and experienced, only 60% of the time you spend ends up being billable. If your percentage is different, adjust things accordingly…but realize the point is still the same. So you are charging $25/hr, $50/hr, $75/hr, ... http://www.kposey.com/55/attention-web-developersthe-money-is-not-where-you-think-it-is If you haven’t heard about or noticed the latest Google PR update, let me fill you in a little. During the last PR update, many young sites with very few inbound links received very respectable PageRank. I’m not talking about a PR2-PR3 here, I mean more like a ... http://www.kposey.com/54/googles-ultimate-april-fools-joke So I hear you have a great idea. You claim that it will revolutionize your industry. You admit that your approach is unique. You boast that it will make you and your team rich. You gloat in the featureset that you will be offering your users. So frikkin what. Your idea ... http://www.kposey.com/53/talk-talk-talkthats-all-you-ever-do Thats just funny. Read More Here http://www.kposey.com/52/google-deletes-their-own-blog In an article pointed out by Seth Godin, a company, Kinderstart, is suing the search giant because their search rankings dropped for no apparant reason. The drop in search rankings caused a huge drop in revenue, since they can’t charge as much for advertising if they aren’t bringing in ... http://www.kposey.com/51/company-sues-google-for-low-search-rankings I’ve been pretty lucky so far. Up until recently, I’ve averaged a couple spam comments per week on my blog. For some reason or another, things have changed and now I receive several per day. What happened? I’m not too sure. It happened roughly the ... http://www.kposey.com/50/can-wordpress-comment-spam-be-stopped Google unofficially announced that anyone using their AdWords program that has suffered from click-fraud, since the start of their program, will be eligible for reimbursement for those clicks. I don’t know the details of the original case that spawned this proposed settlement, but it sounds like the settlement is ... http://www.kposey.com/48/i-want-my-money-back-from-google There are probably millions of blogs out there that I have never read, and thousands that I would probably enjoy reading. It’s a shame that I don’t have the resources to find all of them, or the time to read them (if I could find all of them). ... http://www.kposey.com/46/unknown-blogger-review Am I an expert at this? No Way! I’ve done my share of research on the subject, and now it’s time to put some of these methods to the test. My goal is to get 1k unique visitors per day. I want my visitors to visit my ... http://www.kposey.com/45/attempts-to-increase-your-web-traffic