http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/css-orange-buy-button/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/css-orange-buy-button/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:38:15 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2395 I hadn’t posted this until now, because I’m still getting the kinks out. But I thought I’d share some CSS wizardry. Problem: My old Amazon “Buy” Buttons look a little fuzzy at modern screen resolutions, and they don’t resize well. Also, that’s just for Amazon. Sometimes I want a Zazzle button! I believe in the […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/css-orange-buy-button/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/new-hub-vs-new-lens-an-experiment/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/new-hub-vs-new-lens-an-experiment/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:57:46 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2152 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/new-hub-vs-new-lens-an-experiment/feed/ 5 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/duplicate-content-penalty-vs-spun-content-penalty-look-at-this/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/duplicate-content-penalty-vs-spun-content-penalty-look-at-this/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:32:31 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2115 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/duplicate-content-penalty-vs-spun-content-penalty-look-at-this/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/hubpages-vs-squidoo-shortterm-longterm-traffic/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/hubpages-vs-squidoo-shortterm-longterm-traffic/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 16:06:21 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2008 I’ve been exploring Hubpages vs. Squidoo ever since Panda smacked Hubpages and left Squidoo alone. (The longterm fallout from that is that Hubpages’ traffic has fallen roughly to be the same as Squidoo’s, but Squidoo’s distribution of more money to top-performing lenses means one can make more money with fewer visitors.)   One thing has come home […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/hubpages-vs-squidoo-shortterm-longterm-traffic/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/is-that-the-best-you-can-do/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/is-that-the-best-you-can-do/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:31:12 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1321 For obscure reasons that Glen and Janet will understand, I’m going to call this the Potato Chip Challenge. In the past, we’ve learned that adding “unique” to gift-related keywords captures long-tail searches. I have also observed that the word “stuff” can collect people who are searching vaguely for interesting, er, stuff. As in “stuff about […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/is-that-the-best-you-can-do/feed/ 9 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/tweeting-submitting-url-to-google/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/tweeting-submitting-url-to-google/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:53:21 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1225 An SEOmoz member reports on a few studies that seem to confirm what I suspected: search engines are using Tweeted links to find and index content, so Tweeting is essentially the modern equivalent of submitting a URL to a search engine. I have noticed this myself: lately when I Tweet a URL, it’s indexed pretty […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/tweeting-submitting-url-to-google/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/tier-three-marathon-results/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/tier-three-marathon-results/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:59:40 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=975 On Dec. 4th, Timewarp asked if Tier Three lenses really mattered, since they get so little income. We discussed it in SquidU. More recently, I made a chart of Tier Three payments and how they’ve grown: Now we’re getting somewhere, especially if that trend continues. Back on Dec. 4th, I reasoned that if tier 3 […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/tier-three-marathon-results/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/tier-3-marathon-report/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/tier-3-marathon-report/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:44:24 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=926 I cut short that Tier 3 Lens Marathon abruptly because of real life ickiness hitting the fan right after I signed off. I alluded to it in a Tweet and won’t rehash, but suffice it to say I was in no mood to work on Squidoo for a few days, and when I came back, […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/tier-3-marathon-report/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/tier-three-lens-marathon-part-2/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/tier-three-lens-marathon-part-2/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:24:36 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=905 In my last post, I got inspired to take all my dud Squidoo lenses at the bottom of the dashboard and see how many I can improve enough for them to earn a tier three payout. I quickly rediscovered why each lens was doing so poorly. They weren’t on very popular search topics, so trying […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/tier-three-lens-marathon-part-2/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/squidoo-tier-three-lenses/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/squidoo-tier-three-lenses/#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:16:12 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=901 In a SquidU post, Timewarp asks if Tier Three lenses, with their piddling 20 cents a month income, are really worth it. My short answer is that (a) yes, they’re worth it, because if ten Squidoo lenses are earning you $2 a month, you’re $12 wealthier at years’ end, and (b) yes, it would be […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2010/12/squidoo-tier-three-lenses/feed/ 2