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{ Monthly Archives } July 2008

How to decide which RentACoder Coder to accept?

I haven’t been lucky enough to have a popular project which has had lots of coders bidding on it for quite a while. But I have had several such projects in my time using RentACoder. Normally I would almost always say go for a Top Coder as they are more likely to give you good [...]

How to sell / SEO almost identical products in a shop site?

“First thing I can see is that your description meta tags are a bit skinny.” “Somehow I´m going to have to add more content about my products, but I´m not sure how I could do this without making it sound waffly and pointless.” Of course I can do the normal SEO stuff quite easily. But [...]

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Tweak, Tweak, Tweak

For those of your reading, thinking, what… Well it means keep modifying your web pages. Heres a recent quote. “That’s why I say – with websites – do bit by bit as you’ll never really finish anyway” My question is how do you prioritise and ever get round to doing even a small tweak. Especially [...]

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Draft Software Acceptance Email

Here’s my initial attempt at a new email format for software acceptance/ updating on SoftwareLode. There will only be one or two word differences between the emails – one will say updated, the other added. Comments are invited. Dear XXX Your software, “SliQ Invoicing and Quoting 1.4.0″, has been updated on SoftwareLode. Your software details [...]

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Potential customers that can’t use your trial, what to do?

In the last few months the question of potential customers not being able to access my program trial period has occurred a couple of time. The first time the customer said they had used the trial last year and wanted to show this years students the program. Today I’ve had another request, this time from [...]

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Affliates Setup

I’ve been logging into my affiliate accounts and having a look around to see what we have to do to add buy now links to our sites and if we have to do anything in the accounts themselves. SWReg.org seems a bit odd, but it makes sense from their point of you, you have a [...]

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How to keep track of your SEO changes and research?

I’ve got a mammoth new job ahead of me, something I wasn’t really concerned about, until I read a book on SEO and discovered that my websites were letting me down and not selling my products well enough. So I’ve got to change my site design, come up with some good keywords which people will [...]

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Careful release for a new version

Well this is kind of a big day for me. For the first time in a few months I’ve sort of released a new version of Kids Mask Factory. What I mean is I’ve uploaded the program files. I haven’t updated my pad files etc. I always like to take a careful approach just in [...]

First implementation of Shareware Site Improvements

I’ve implemented an Editor’s Picks section listing recommended software downloads on the homepage of SoftwareLode. The list is populated with programs I personally recommend after review. I’ve coloured the background of the Editor’s Pick section to make them stand out a bit. I’ll probably choose the programs to list based on whether authors ask to [...]

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Logging potential problems

I’ve been loggin potential problems in my programs so that if a problem occurs I can get a bug report back from the user. It will be full of details and I’ll be able to fix the problem. Hopefully. However this isn’t alwats the case and I’ve been on the trail of some errors for [...]