Archive for December, 2008

It is often difficult to precisely evaluate the services offered here and there for affiliation (offer products/services against a commission paid by the advertiser). Here is a list of such possible services:

• Advertising.com
• Advertstream, French-speaking
• AffiliNet, from a German origin
• Affilipub, French-speaking
• Commission Junction has clearly been a leader on this market
• Leadium, French-speaking
• Netaffiliation, French-speaking
• Public-idées, French-speaking
• Reactivepub, French-speaking
• Tradedoubler, French-speaking but confusing
• Zanox

The only ones I really tested are Commission Junction (strictly no result) and Tradedoubler (which brought me so small an amount that it cannot be transfered to my account probably because of a User Interface nearly unusable that requires an impossible energy to build campaign links – you must change/modify them again and again).

Just a small reminder if you setup your own Apache server (like I currently do all by myself). Be sure that the httpd.conf file contains the following (I almost forgot it):

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

This is something simple, but you should not let pass the occasion to promote your web site. Be sure to have a simple but clear message pointing to your web site in your email signature. It will appear at the end of all of your emails and will make sure that plenty of people know about this great wbe site of yours.

Since you will be sending a lot of emails to wish a happy new year…

And it’s free advertising.

While I’m actively working to improve the look/design of my YLovePhoto.com web site, taking inspiration from various significant web sites of the economic and generalist worldwide press on the Internet web, I found myself on the hunt for a method to build a nice multi-column list (a little like the following one where numbered items flow from one column to the next):

This is when I stumbled upon the excellent article from Paul Novitski on AListApart.com, titled CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists. This is utterly recommended reading because of the level of details, the number of described techniques and the progressive organization of information perfectly targetted to both learning the approach and understanding the porposed solution (by the way, I will inspire myself of only part of what he describes).

It started! My blogs are curently migrating to this new and much improved version of WordPress, the best web site management/creation software.

Tomorrow, you should be able to download the new version of WordPress. v2.7 has a much better administration panel, which is currently being beta-tested and proves a great progress over the fiasco of v2.5/2.6.

Download it.

If you use WordPress to build your wbe site or your blog (and I recommend it heartily), there is a small setting to apply and not to forget.

To ease the job of the search engine, WordPress proposes to set a specific format for permalinks (go and check Settings / Permalinks) other than the default proposition. You have to admit that the default address form are hard to swallow, even for a search engine: http://www.ywantvisits.com/en/?p=123

So, there is much better…

Personally, I recommend choosing one the two other offered solutions:

• Soit http://www.ywantvisits.com/en/2008/11/30/wordpress-dont-forget-permalinks/
• Soit http://www.ywantvisits.com/en/2008/11/wordpress-dont-forget-permalinks/

The most important part is that the title of the post is preserved with clear keywords -it will help th search engine identify and classify the post- but even more important is that the initial default form is hard to decode for most search engines. They would merely ignore your posts. Wouldn’t it be a pity?