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7 Ways to optimize AuctionAds

AuctionAdsI've been using AuctionAds for a while now, most notably on my strength-training site Straight to the Bar. With their recent purchase by MediaWhiz has come a great deal of speculation regarding possible improvements. They can, however, be extremely effective as they are; with a little optimisation, that is.

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10 Ways to get more traffic to your blog

TrafficThere are many, many ways to drive more traffic to your blog. Here's a quick look at 10 of my favourites.

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    From text editors to word processors

    MellelI do a lot of writing, or more accurately, typing (although the occasional pen + paper combination does arise). Until recently - yesterday, in fact - I relied solely on the simplicity of a text editor for the bulk of my work (I'm using TextEdit right now).

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    Only touch it once

    At signOver the past week or so I've managed to reduce the time I spend looking at email each day from around 2 hours to 30 minutes. It should come down even further than that, but I'm happy with the progress.

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    Getting to inbox zero

    No new mailWhen I first started receiving emails - in the days before Hotmail, the ever-present threat of spam and the birth of eCommerce - it was always a pleasure to find something new in the inbox. These days, although I still look at the inbox frequently, there always seems to be an enormous pool of information to wade through. And yes, a lot of that is now spam.

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