Why I was wondering about YOU…(Adwords users might want to read this)

Thanks for giving me some feedback yesterday about where you all first heard about CartoonSmart. Here’s why I was wondering, and yeah obviously it has to do with $$$… I pay Google A LOT of money for advertising. I’ve written a couple times before about my love / hate relationship with PPC ads. I love [...]

Yay! 47,981rst Place!

Want a link of the top 1,000,000 websites??  I found this off Alexa… top-1m.csv.zip (9MB) . Thats in CSV format, so it should open in any text editor. Most interesting are always the top 200 or so sites, but its also fun to see your traffic neighbors. For example, just 4 places ahead of CartoonSmart.com [...]

Adam has a name problem…

Here’s a great case for why you should blog… After some friendly nudging, I got my friend Adam to finally start blogging. Adam is a painter, and unfortunate enough to have the name “Adam Smith”.  Which is probably a frontrunner for one of the most common first and last name combinations among non-Asians, so googling ”Adam [...]

Swfs are Search Engine Searchable now…

Here’s a few articles on this… Adobe’s Press Release and  Flash Magazine Long story short though, next time someone says “…but Google can’t spider your Flash files”, they will be wrong.  If you want to discuss Flash and SEO some more, here’s a CartoonSmart forum on the issue.

Promoting with Google’s Adwords

Recently I was telling someone about advertising my web comic with Adwords, and this is definitely some worthy info for the blog. Here’s a screengrab of how much money was spent last month advertising the comic…   Lets look at the most important part first. Cost: $41.61 from 7/1/08 to 7/31/08.  Not bad. Thats the [...]