Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

01/08/10
Shakey
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Making The Most Of Your Traffic Part 2 – Images


Often overlooked by many webmasters is the traffic your images can bring in.

Labelling images correctly
The filename of the image should be a keyword and every image should be labelled correctly with alt tags containing a keyworded description of what the picture is.

<img src=”/pics/teen-sex-01.jpg” alt=”Big Cock Teen Sex” />

Google images
When somebody does a Google Image search and clicks on your pic your site will come up with a frame at the top containing a clickable thumb of your image which most surfers will just click on to view the fullsize image and they’re done. What we want to do is break your site out of this frame so the surfer is forced to scroll through your page, increasing the chance they click on one of your ads through to a sponsor.

Just add this in the <body> of your site.

<script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”>
if (top.location != self.location) top.location.replace(self.location);
</script>

Hotlinked images
Unless you’ve already done something to prevent hotlinking of your images chances are that anybody can just hotlink your images on their own site, forum, or anywhere surfers share pics. Rather than allowing this wouldn’t it be nice to show a pic with your own url on it? Just add this to your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /hotlinked.jpg [NC,R,L]

Just replace mysite with your own site and /hotlinked.jpg with your own image.

Never leave open directories
There’s many surfers that will find themselves looking at a picture at http://mysite.com/gallery-name/img/pic-01.jpg and will try to navigate their way to http://mysite.com/gallery-name/img/ to get at all the pictures in that directory. Search engines can even index open directories. Don’t let them in! Add an index.php file in there with a redirect to your main page.

<?php
header(‘Location: http://page-to-redirect-to.com’);
?>

I hope that’s a few tricks you can implement on your sites and maybe squeeze a few extra $$$ out of them :)

01/07/10
Shakey
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Making The Most Of Your Traffic Part 1 – 404 Traffic


404 and other error traffic is something that every webmaster has and not many seem to do anything with. It may seem insignificant, but I can assure you there’s money to be made!

It seems alot of bloggers just leave the default wordpress 404 page – “Error 404 – Not Found” or something to that effect. Or with other types of sites and even worse, not having any 404 page whatsoever!

Up until recently I used to dump my 404 traffic to a fake TGP. I’ve now switched over to Weg Cash’s niched Tube4Free sites which payout up to $2 per free signup. It hasn’t been long enough to come to any conclusive decision but what is certain is that it’s making money.

So how do you set something like this up? Simple…

Wordpress
Go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php and find the file 404.php In this file you want to put the following piece of code.


<?php
header('Location: http://site-to-redirect-to.com');
?>

Other types of sites
Open up your .htaccess file and add the following lines.

ErrorDocument 400 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 401 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 403 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 404 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 500 http://site-to-redirect-to.com

It’s not alot of work and it’s extra money in your pocket that you’d otherwise be throwing away. So try it out and you might be pleasantly surprised with the results.