Open source and commercial scripts, beginner tips, and a trial and error approach to building a successful website from flour, sugar, water, and eggs.

No More Text Link Ads

No More Text Link Ads

When I first found the Text-Link-Ads website, I figured I had discovered a great resource for generating a few extra bucks from my websites every month. I signed up and added a few urls and descriptions to my account, but I remember having some rather basic questions I couldn’t get answered. Support was slow and [...]

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InClick Contextual Ad Management

InClick Ad Management System

The InClick ad management system is an enterprise class contextual ad server that you can initially implement for free. Although you’re restricted to advertiser earnings of only $500 before being required to upgrade to a license, but this gives you a chance to play around with it and see if it’s worth implementing. The next [...]

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Article Marketing with Free Directories

50 Free Content Directories

One of the most popular tips you’ll find out there for growing your website traffic is to write articles with your website link in the author byline. Not only will this grow your backlinks and get you some decent targeted traffic, but there’s the possibility of other webmasters republishing your content as well. Chances are [...]

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AWeber Email Marketing Software

AWeber Email Marketing Software

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an open source newsletter manager called PhpList before I ever tried it. My post mentioned the industry standard of AWeber and the giant underdog that is PhpList. I just want to say that I understand now. After spending a little time with PhpList and a lot of [...]

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Dolphin Social Dating Software

Dolphin Social Community Software

I found Dolphin 7 while searching for open source dating software, but it really doesn’t seem like open source to me, or at least not what I’ve come to understand as true open source. WordPress is true open source to me. Dolphin has all its code available and offers a free download. I suppose by [...]

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