I Made The Internet

Over the past 2 years I have had two projects freelanced out, one to India and one to China.

Foreign freelancers are cheap, very cheap. Quote $2,000 for a Joomla based website, while American based companies were $15,000+. The graphic design was pretty good, did not have any complaints, all free stock photography was used and the sites were all search engine optimized by default.

A few moths ago I came across the importance of bounce rates on a website. A bounce rate is the percentage of people that leave the site after the first page they land on. I hear people getting around 20% bounce rates. At the time I was hovering around 80%-90%. I was curious how I [...]

If you are in the internet marketing industry, this topic always raises hell. Automatic blogging, is a blog set up to parse and re-post RSS feeds. A script will extract a summary of a post, and provide a link back to the source. The auto blog does this in hopes of driving traffic from Google. [...]