The Personal Site of Dan Masters

  • Getting Better Conversion Rates for Affiliates

    Wow, I just learned one of the most valuable lessons in improving the conversion rate of clickthroughs to affiliate sites. Stumbling Upon Traffic It all started when I started getting traffic for the “Hercules Hook” for a simple paid post that I did. I figured that there may be some…

  • The Wrath of a Bad Web Host

    Man, I am really starting to get irked with my web host – Jodo Host. They are going down on a regular basis and it is really starting to affect how I spend my time. The reason why I moved from my last host was exactly the same issues that…

  • Companies and Slow Releases

    Protopage just released their V3 of their customer start page. I started using Protopage as my start page near the beginning of the year as it was nice to have all me RSS feeds and links that I use daily all in one place. I would check their blog on…

  • Changes are Coming to This Site

    So as you may have noticed I really do not blog here very much. The main reason for that is that I am really not into Web Design that much any more. This mostly has to do with what I do for a living now. I still blog and am…

  • Web Based Blogging Clients

    So about 6 months to a year ago I was really big on using Blog Desktop Clients as opposed to the web based back ends that were included in most blogging software. In an attempt to not blog from work as much I installed the desktop clients that I used…

  • Lastest WordPress Release – 2.0.5

    Well WordPress 2.0.5 has been released with several bug fixes and some security fixes. If you update you really won’t see any noticeable differences other then the plugin on the plugins page are sorted alphabetically now. I won’t be upgrading (actually downgrading) because I have been using the 2.1 alpha…

  • Good Resource for Starting a Web Hosting Company

    I have a reseller account that I use for the couple of customers that I have design sites for over the years. It makes me enough money to buy some toys throughout the year and I also get to host as many of my personal sites as I want for…

  • WordPress.com is Slowly Coming Back Up

    Still no word about what happened but WordPress.com looks as though it is slowly coming back online although it is running pretty slow. I can now get into my dashboard and see the front page of my blog. Hope they fix whatever is causing this soon. Technorati: WordPress.com, WordPress, Blogging,…

  • WordPress.com is Down

    Wow, I went to post something on one of my WordPress.com blogs and my site did not come up. I thought at first that maybe my site got pulled but then I tried my other site – no dice. I then tried the just wordpress.com and the same message –…