Google Ranking Drop Update

Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part II

In this holiday season online shopping is hotter than ever! According to US Commerce Department online sales continue to grow with a robust 25-27 percent this year over 1992. Online holiday shopping at a rate of 10 percent is also considerably outpacing the 5.7 percent growth of overall retail sales. Goldman Sachs predicts 23 percent of all gift-buying this holiday season will take place online!

Fork and Exec with Perl

Recently I had a project that required a number of different programs that will mostly run all the time, but need to be restarted now and then with different parameters. Normally, the first thing I think of for a program that runs constantly is inittab or svc (daemontools). The svc facility is the more flexible of the two, and will be what I'll use in…

Start & Surf Exchanges Overview

Start page and surf exchanges have been around for a little while but seem to be gaining increased popularity lately. I've been playing around with them recently to see if there is any reason for this popularity and to find out if they provide you with any real benefits.

All Doors Lead Home

Most web designers build their websites with little consideration for developing free search engine traffic. Designers naturally assume that everyone comes to the front door or main page; actually it's much easier to attract traffic to pages with a narrower focus.

Closing the Sale With Tie-Downs

No matter how much time you spend with a client it will all be wasted if you don't close the sale. Many people start off with a great presentation, but somewhere they lose the client. They will call you, they will let you know, they have to think about it, but it all adds up to a potential loss.