Recent events with a number of my websites currently being hosted with my very first webhost has prompted me to reevaluate what I look for in a hosting provider.
I’ve been a long way and used a good number of hosts since then, so I’m confident in the list below. But remember, these are only my personal experiences with these hosts, so your mileage may vary. (more…)
Articles are a great way to faithfully drive traffic to your website. It’s been in use for many years and quite frankly, if it didn’t work, no one would invest their time or energy in it. (more…)
It seems that podcasting is set to take off, but I was recently enlightened on MP3 licensing issues. Apparently, MP3 is not a free to use technology and the patent is owned by a wealthy French company who likes to enforce its licensing/royalty regulations.
Since podcasts are generally distributed in MP3 format, I wonder how it will affect the many podcasters and soon to be podcasters. Their licensing affects those who use MP3 for commercial purposes and earn over $100,000 gross annually and ‘commercial’ can be as simple as earning a nice chunk of change from running AdSense or an Amazon affiliate program on the website distributing the MP3 files.
I don’t know how they would be able to truly enforce the licensing/royalty fee, but frankly, I would not want to be on the business end of a cease/desist followed by a bill for past due royalties.
Sometimes internet marketers (and people in general) don’t know when they should keep a secret. We all have our own proprietary trade secrets on how to do one thing or another, but sometimes, some of those secrets should remain a secret. (more…)