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June 7, 2012 Eric Nagel 1Comment

Why You Need a Mobile Version of Your Website

If you share links to your website via Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) you need to be ready for mobile visitors.

First thing in the morning, as I wait for my first cup of coffee to hit my bloodstream, I’m on my phone. First, I go through email and answer anything urgent. Then, over to Facebook and catch up on what happened while I slept. And finally, I’ll open TweetDeck and go through my Twitter feed.

When I see a story I want to read, and click through, many times the linked site doesn’t have a mobile version of their site. When this happens, I end up going back and favoriting the tweet to read later. But making your site mobile-friendly isn’t difficult. In fact, if you use WordPress, you can have it done in less than 5 minutes.

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Tags:Facebook Google Google Analytics Mobile Twitter

April 18, 2012 Eric Nagel 7Comments

What Does AuthorRank Mean For Affiliates?

When I first started building my own affiliate sites, secrecy was key. You’d add private registration to your domain name, host it on a separate IP (maybe even a different hosting provider), and not allow anyone to know what sites you owned. I questioned this at the end of 2011:

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Misc

Tags:AuthorRank Facebook Google PageRank SEO Twitter

December 26, 2011 Eric Nagel 2Comments

Rel Author Markup For Google Pages

I’ve previously blogged about how to add Rel Author Markup on your Thesis-themed blog, which is great for blogs run by one (or more) people. But what if you have a site that isn’t run by a person, but rather a brand? You can get your brand’s page to be listed as the “author” of the page, and include your logo in the SERPs. Here’s how:

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Tags:Google SEO

December 21, 2011 Eric Nagel 40Comments

Google Affiliate Network API PHP Script

I was excited when I read Google had released an API for their Affiliate Network, as I wanted to automate pulling sales data from GAN. But I quickly became disheartened when I realized how difficult it is to use.

Since this was for myself, and not a web-based service that would be used by others, the Simple API method of authorization was good enough. After getting it to work with Picasa, but not GAN, I asked for some help and was introduced to the OAuth 2.0 Playground. This showed me the headers I’d need to send, and how OAuth 2.0 works.

For the record: the Google Affiliate Network API does NOT support Simple API Access. You cannot access the service with an API Key and IP locking.

I now have a working script, and have written up step-by-step instructions on how you can pull orders from GAN automatically each day.

This script is not complete, as it’s up to you to do something with the data once you have it. You can also modify the final call to pull advertisers, instead of orders.

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Tags:API GAN Google PHP Programming

August 9, 2011 Eric Nagel 8Comments

Feeding the Google Panda Keyword-Rich Subdomains

There’s been talk lately that the Google Panda loves keyword-rich subdomains, so I decided to test this on my coupon website.

Aside from a WordPress blog, the pages on the coupon website are all driven from a coupon database. I use a system I wrote myself, although you can just as easily use a service like For Me to Coupon.

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Tags:dns Google Panda PHP