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Jamsi over at Work Boxers has published a nice little interview with the President of Text Link Ads, Patrick Gavin. In the interview Patrick Gavin hints at a new product launch in the coming weeks and answers some frequently asked questions.

WorkBoxers: Getting straight down to business, I’ve had a few people come to me with tales of rejection from the TLA publisher program and I’m guessing this comes down to a number of factors such as traffic, back links and Page Rank. Can you confirm this theory? Is there a minimum PR that sites need before being accepted into the TLA publisher program?

Patrick: Yes it is a combination of: traffic (derived from Alexa data), back links (from Yahoo’s site explorer), and the theme of your website. PR is not a factor in our algorithm but link popularity is a factor and can cause new sites that don’t have much to not be accepted right away. We do re check sites that were denied in the past every couple of months and invite sites that meet our requirements back in.

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Reddit.com has released three different buttons that can help you spread the word about you website or blog.

Does your blog or website use social bookmarking buttons. If so, are they effective? And which ones perform the best?

http://reddit.com/buttons

Did you know that you can easily write comments in your CSS document? This can be very useful or just plain silly. It’s all up to you.
1. Open up your CSS document.

2. Type in /*

3. Type in the comment you want to use.

4. End the tag with */

It could look something like this:

#wp-calendar th {
font-style: normal;
text-transform: capitalize;
}
/* End Typography & Colors */

1. Optimise every page on your website

The major search engines are not looking at individual websites and ranking them, they are ranking pages from every website in the world. This means that if your website contains more than one page you should optimise for the specific content that is found on each page.

Optimising each webpage is overlooked by so many websites within Ireland and can be the difference between competing for a highly competitive keyword phrase such as “Irish Hotels” and competing for a much less competitive keyword phrase such as “Hotels in County Galway”. After that they can check out the rest of your website that is all about “Irish Hotels”.

2. Pick appropriate keyword phrases

This is the single most important thing to do when it comes to optimising your website for search engines. The keywords that your potential customers type into Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves are the keywords that your site should be using within the specific areas of your webpage (see below; Optimizing your Page Titles and Optimizing your Content). There are a number of useful keyword research tools available on the web. The most recommended and user-friendly are Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery. Both offer trial versions.

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If you’re blogging, you’re now a publisher. . . congratulations! But here’s a dose of reality — publishing has always carried its share of legal liability, and getting sued (or worse) is not something you want to happen to you. Here’s an overview of the key issues you need to look out for.

Informative screencast video from Tubetorial.com. Watch the video!

You want to use a special font to your titels on your blog or website but you know that your visitors won’t see it if they don’t have the font installed on their computers. One solution to fix this problem is to embed a font in a page. Open up your CSS document:

1. Type @font-face {

2. Type font-family: “name”; where name is the full name of the font you want to embed.

3. Next you must indicate where the embedded font can be found by typing src: url(font.eot) (font.eot is the location of the font on your server)

4. Don’t forget to close the code by writing }

It would look something like this:

@font-face {font-family: "name";
src: url(font.eot)
}

After almost a week of downtime we have missed to post about alot of interesting stuff. Here are some of them:

- An ajax enhancement for wordpress blogs.
- 3 unusual tricks to not give se-robots a chance to waste all your traffic.
- Generate a screenshot of your website in about 5 seconds, for free.
- 10 things businesses should know before building a website.
- Pageviews are obsolete?
- If you must have a shoutbox, this is the one to use.
- And finally some usability guidelines.

Gillian Carson has written a great article about how to turn visitors into users.

Thousands of people may be visiting your site every day, but if you don’t convince them that they should be using your product, subscribing to your service, or registering in some way, then your web app’s homepage is simply not doing its job.

In these days of RSS and APIs, where content is often viewed separately from its source, how important is the design of your homepage? Will your users even make it there? Or will they slip in the backdoor through a followed link?

We have been running a bit slow recently, as some of you may have noticed.
Currently, the server seems to be running fine, but it comes and goes. We are working on fixing this problem as soon as possible.