Archive of Personal

04Jan2010
Author
Dan Harrison
Category
Personal
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My Goals for 2010

Happy New Year! I'm planning for 2010 to be my most successful year ever, in terms of financial independence and growth. My goals are a mixture of personal development, business goals and lifestyle design. I'm often told I work too hard, so that's why I'm making plans to play just as hard!

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30Sep2009
Author
Dan Harrison
Category
Personal
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How to Quickly Triple your Click-Thru-Rate (CTR)

In an attempt to boost my commissions via affiliates on my eco-gadget review site EnviroGadget, I wanted to see if I could improve the number of visitors clicking through to the merchant website. I don't get a commission for all of the products I review on EnviroGadget. However, for the products I do earn a commission, I wanted to make sure that I was getting as many people clicking through my affiliate links as possible. Therefore I decided to run some experiments with different types of button. Just by changing the colour of a button and changing its text a little, I found a way to triple my click-through rates (CTRs)! Yep, you read that right, triple! Read on to find out how.

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08Sep2009
Author
Dan Harrison
Category
Personal
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Recent Hack Attempt on my Blog

Yup, at the weekend, the DanHarrison.co.uk site was compromised by an Algerian 'hacking' team. However, despite good security practices, the site still got hacked. I followed the most basic rules, such as keeping all plugins and the main Wordpress install up-to-date, as well as strong passwords. And I still got hacked.

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