Archive for December, 2007

Increase Web Traffic using StumbleUpon

I have been a bit more active on StumbleUpon this month and it has helped me to get to know a lot of other bloggers, increase comments, increase traffic and promote my new hardware review blog.
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To increase your site or blog traffic using StumbleUpon, all you have [...]

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DreamHost’s Support Sucks

This blog was down for two days or more and DreamHost never bothered to reply or fix it. JohnTP.com was hosted on my friend Deep’s DreamHost account and it was blocked as my blog took a lot of resources.
Deep’s account hosted many other sites too and all were down because of this and [...]

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Winners of the Christmas Contest

A week back I had held this blog’s first contest to reward 5 readers on Christmas by giving them free ad spots on this blog. The contest was over yesterday and today I have randomly selected the winners. They are:

125×125 ad spots: Adam McKerlie and Lisa Sabin-Wilson
468×60 ad just below the post: Jeremy
Ads in [...]

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Introducing my new Blog: DigitGeek

I have been working on this blog for many weeks and it finally looks ready to be mentioned here. Digit Geek will cover reviews of different hardware like Cell Phones, Digital Cameras, Laptops and MP3 Players.
The reviews aren’t written by me, but by different writers having good knowledge in hardware who will be updating the [...]

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Write Posts In Advance

Skellie has written an excellent post over at Problogger on how to develop the habit of writing posts in advance which is a good thing to do as once we have developed the habit we will be able to keep our blog updated even on days when we have lack of time to write, face [...]

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Christmas Gifts - Win FREE Ad Spots On JohnTP.com For A Month

I have never held any competition on this blog, so here’s my first ever contest to reward 5 lucky readers on Christmas.
The Prizes
1. Two 125×125 ad spots
2. One 468×60 ad just below the post
3. Two ads in the JohnTP.com RSS feed
How to win a prize
All you have to do is subscribe to this blog [...]

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The Best In-Text Ad Networks

In-Text Advertisements work by double underlining contextually relevant keywords on a web page and upon mouse-over opens a small bubble like box that displays the ad. Self Made Minds has done a comparison of the best In-Text Ad Networks like Kontera ContentLink, Chitika Linx and Amazon.com Context Links.
I have been using Kontera on this [...]

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Let’s Exchange Social Media Contacts

Daniel recently exchanged Social Media contacts with his readers, and I would like to do the same here.
I had registered on Digg and StumbleUpon a long time back but never was active on any of them until recently. I would like to make more friends on these sites, and so would like you to [...]

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Do You Fake Your FeedCount?

There are a few people who fake their blog’s FeedCount. They do it either because they don’t want their visitors to know that their blog is a new one or because they want to make their visitors feel that their blog is popular.
Faking your FeedCount may help you increase your RSS readers as [...]

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AdSense Testing Out Rotating Ads

While browsing an hour ago, I noticed two new arrow buttons on an AdSense ad on a blog which allowed visitors to see a new set of ads without refreshing the page! Just a few minutes back, I saw the same type of ads on this blog too.
Here are the screenshots I took

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Most Popular in December, 2007


  1. Increase Web Traffic using StumbleUpon
  2. DreamHost's Support Sucks
  3. Write Posts In Advance
  4. The Best In-Text Ad Networks
  5. Introducing my new Blog: DigitGeek
  6. Winners of the Christmas Contest
  7. How To Quickly Find Your Reader Emails
  8. Let’s Exchange Social Media Contacts
  9. Do You Fake Your FeedCount?
  10. Use A Desktop Blog Editor To Save Your Blog Post Ideas