http://www.martinbrinkmann.com Online Journalist Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:56:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Buying a website is a complicated process and it should not be done by someone who has no clue of what he is getting into. The real price of a website is determined by many factors and definitely not by the seller of the website who, more often than less, ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/earn-money/website-buying-guideline/ Godaddy offers a system called Total DNS Control that makes it very easy to change DNS settings of domains bought at Godaddy. I use it mainly to redirect the domain name to the correct server using Godaddy's nameservers. It worked fluently for several years until I recently ran into a ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/webmaster-tools/the-total-dns-control-manager-for-this-domain-is-temporarily-unavailable/ I recently purchased a software called Directory Submitter which aids in submitting your websites to directories. The major problem I had with directory submissions was that it really took a long time to submit your websites even if you had a list of directories at hand. The usual process was to ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/traffic/directory-submitter/ Wordpress 2.5 has been released and I really can't help it but I don't like the admin interface at all. The use of low contrast colors in several menus and some other usability issues make me wish there was a way to select the old admin interface instead of the ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/two-must-have-wordpress-25-admin-plugins/ Wordpress 2.5 has been released just two days ago and I have updated all of my blogs with the new version. I think that we can agree on the fact that the update procedure itself worked flawlessly for almost everyone. This might have come as a surprise especially to those ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/wordpress-2-5-is-so-so/ If you operate a blog you always compete against other blogs in your niche. It can be a nice competition where everyone is citing the other blog if the story appeared there first or it can be a niche where no one is linking to blogs of the same niche. It's ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/be-among-the-first-to-write-about/ Google Datacenters are servers that deliver content to a user who is requesting the data. This can be a search for instance. A user performing a search will get the results stored in one datacenter which does not have to be the results that other datacenters would deliver. This can be ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/traffic/check-google-rankings-in-multiple-datacenters/ The article Another look at optimizations was published today at the Inside Adsense blog which is the official Google Adsense blog. It addresses two optimization issues and clarifies Google's standpoint which basically states that the following two optimization techniques are not to be used at all. Failure to do so ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/earn-money/adsense-optimization-clarifications/ I would like to use this article to give you some pointers with which you can find out if the advise given on a certain blog or website is a good one or not because frankly people seem to go crazy as soon as they see a picture with a ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/how-to-distinguish-between-good-and-bad-make-money-bloggers/ When your website is up for some weeks you are beginning to see some traffic that is coming to your blog from search engines. That's not much naturally because it will not rank that well yet but it gives you a great opportunity to add keywords to your rank checker. New ... http://www.martinbrinkmann.com/admin/blogging/blogging-experiment-part-viii-rankings/