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A large part of my online income is generated through affiliate marketing. These days many affiliate programs (like my own) pay through PayPal – which I think is great because it’s instant and I don’t have to go to the bank to cash the check. But some affiliate programs still use checks so I do [...]

A few weeks ago this blog made it into the Technorati Top 100 and it has stayed there thanks to people continuing to add my blog as a favorite in Technorati. I’ve even climbed up a few places (but gone down again). Well, as always, I’ve been monitoring my web stats and I’ve noticed some [...]

As a blog owner one of your biggest assets is your readers – if you don’t have any readers there isn’t much point in blogging (unless you just got started). Having a lot of readers is great but what really adds life to a blog are comments – and you definitely want to encourage comments. [...]

I’m very interested in viral marketing. It’s just fascinating to see what gets picked up and becomes viral and watching how it grows. You can learn a lot by watching successful viral campaigns, reverse engineering them and trying to figure out what made them viral. One viral campaign that I think went pretty well is [...]

I was just checking my AdSense stats and on the Overview page under “Recent messages” I saw a new message from “Optimization Team” with the subject “April 2007 Optimization Report”. Interesting… I hadn’t seen anything like that before. This is what the message said:
April 2007 Optimization Report
Dear Publisher,
Here is your optimization report for the month [...]

OK, I’m not going to post about how sorry I am that I haven’t posted on this blog recently, that I’ve been so busy, the days have just flown by and… oh, wait, I just did ;) Oh, well…
I just checked my RSS stats on the FeedBurner widget and it looks like I have 50 [...]

I talked recently about some of the WordPress plugins I’m using… well, I just installed a bunch of new plug-ins :)
Share This
When I installed the Share This plug-in 1.3 was the latest version. But Alex King published version 1.4 some time ago. So I decided to install the latest version. This version has StumbleUpon which [...]

I think all blogs (especially personal blogs) should have an “about” page to tell the readers who’s behind the blog. That’s why I present to you: Who Is Hannes Johnson?
I believe an about page can help bloggers get more loyal readers – people that know a little about you might feel a “connection” and are [...]

I’ve been using StatCounter for a few years now and it’s my favorite invisible web tracker. I’ve been wishing for this feature for a long time and I think I e-mailed the StatCounter team and asked if they were going to implement this – but I’m not sure if I did… Either way, they read [...]

Right now my blog is all pimped out – I have 10 active plug-ins and I just wanted to mention a few of them that I like. Here are some of the WordPress plug-ins I’m using – in no particular order:
Akismet
This is a vital plug-in for any WordPress blog – it’s by Matt Mullenweg from [...]