Beware the Shopping Cart Shuffle

Shopping carts… if you’re an online business owner, you can’t live with ’em and you can’t live without ’em! Every shopping cart sounds amazing when you read the sales copy. It’s only when you start using it every day that its deficiencies become apparent. I know very few clients who are totally happy with the […]

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How I Built PaidOnTime.net

Although I’ve used Thesis on this blog for a few years now, I’ve been experimenting with different themes on other WordPress sites I run. So when I began to create PaidOnTime.net with my friend and business partner Ken Gary, I began to look around at other options. I knew I wanted the site to have […]

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Alexa Says My Site Is “Very Slow”

I’ve known for the past couple months that page load times on my site have been slowing down. I don’t know if it’s because of the traffic, the number of pages on the site (about 400 now), or just crappy hosting. Yesterday was TERRIBLE. It was taking 2-4 minutes for my site to pull up […]

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Best Link Cloaker?

One reason affiliates lose commissions is because they don’t cloak their affiliate links. Most affiliate links are long and ugly. If you’ve been online for very long, you can easily tell the difference between a regular link and an affiliate link. Anytime you use a blatant affiliate link, your potential buyers may feel resistance and […]

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How to Save Your Delicious Bookmarks

If you have bookmarks saved in Delicious — and you’d like to save them before Yahoo turns Delicious into a digital relic — then do this: 1. Go to Google Bookmarks. (If you don’t have a Google account, get one.) 2. Click the blue link at the top right that says, “Import Delicious Bookmarks.” 3. […]

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