Make money blogging in South Africa


Entries from December 2006

Masking affiliate links

December 22nd, 2006 · 5 Comments

Ever wondered how, when you hover over an affiliate link on someone’s site, it shows something like this:

I too wondered that. It really is an simple, yet very smart way of hiding those ugly affiliate links, as well as tracking your affiliate clicks. Want you know how its done? Sure you do…

Tags: affiliate marketing · blogging for money

Stop using a blogroll now!

December 11th, 2006 · 4 Comments

You may not even know it, but you are spilling your very own pagerank to all the links in your blogroll! Your blogroll appears on every page on your blog which makes those half intelligent Google spiders think that you highly recommend those sites since you link to them on every single page! So off […]

Tags: SEO tips

Start making money now!

December 8th, 2006 · 8 Comments

So you have started your blog, chosen a niche topic to blog about, used a number of my SEO tips and have got the hang of RSS. Now you asking - show me the money!
Being in South Africa, and not being able to use PayPal, does limit the number of advertising and affiliate options that […]

Tags: blogging for money

No more nofollow

December 4th, 2006 · 25 Comments

I have just installed the dofollow plugin for Wordpress. Ever since Google launched a campaign in 2005 to stop comment spam, they initiated that the attribute rel=”nofollow” be placed on all links in the comments on blogs. It made sense in the beginning but recently there as been a big move to remove it.
What […]

Tags: SEO tips