Knight in Orlando for NEPA

I’m heading to Orlando Wednesday to speak at the Newsletter & Electronic Publishing Association (NEPA) event: “E-Marketing & E-Publishing: Today’s Knowledge … Tomorrow’s Revenue”

I’ll be speaking Thursday about how to grow an email newsletter list that converts into cash. Most of the audience are print newsletter publishers and I represent the ezine component that they all have…but perhaps do not leverage to the full potential.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 6, 2005 at 12:47 pm

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3 Article Search Options

As much as we liked the current internal search engine we built, it doesn’t have the full feature-set yet. Until it does, we put the Google Search box back on the top, but will still give you 3 ways to search EzineArticles.com:

1. Google Search: http://EzineArticles.com/ (top of the page)
   Lets you search EzineArticles.com in terms of what Google has indexed so far. Search results are fast, but often 6-72 hours delayed from displaying new results. This is a perfect search option for CONSUMERS, but perhaps not for authors or publishers.
   
   
2. Direct Database Query: http://EzineArticles.com/ (lower left navigation) or here: http://ezinearticles.com/?type=advs
   Perfect for searching by TITLE only or by AUTHOR NAME only or by any major field ONLY. This is my 2nd favorite way to search EzineArticles.com and the search results include the entire live database in real-time.
   
   
3. Power Search: http://EzineArticles.com/search/
   Our finest internal search engine that displays results by relevancy and has an advanced search option. This index is done twice a week, so today’s articles may take up to 3-4 days before inclusion in this index. Much more comprehensive results display than the direct database query option. This is the search engine our design team is currently working with as a base for future search results projects including the most popular keywords by category.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 28, 2005 at 11:41 am

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Knight on David Lawrence Radio

If you’re up tonight, at 10pm CST USA time, I’ll be on the David Lawrence Show (pop culture meets technology). He does stream the show for a fee and you can subscribe to his podcast. David’s show is picked up by XM, Sirius Satellite Radio and terrestrial radio stations…

I’ll be talking about Ezine Publishing insights, etc. and it’ll be less about ezine article writing & marketing and more about email newsletter technology trends. :-)

Updated 11pm CST: Here’s what I covered on the show:
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 22, 2005 at 9:10 pm

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Testing Yet Another SE

If you’ve been following our internal search engine changes, you saw that we buckled about 2 weeks ago under the load at a peak of 5,000 searches on our site a day.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 17, 2005 at 9:50 am

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669 is the magic number

Around 3am CST this morning our programming team was busy implementing several new features that we’ve been developing over the past 2 weeks.

One of the major features is that we now have 669 ad channels (3 ad positions per category for all 223 categories). This was one of the big design changes that we needed to make to prepare the site to accept advertising by category and by position and it will provide us with real-time feedback as to which sections we should give greater attention to.

Also…a new quality control module was added:
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 11, 2005 at 9:50 am

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Scraping Defined

An EzineArticles author asks, “I have recently heard the term “scraping” used and I gather it is some way of taking info from one site and placing it on another. I understand RSS feeds but this seems to be something different. It also seems to me to be not quite “kosher”.”

Answer: “Scraping” is a term used to describe (in mostly derogatory tone) of the act of ripping off or taking content from one site and putting it on another, mostly done via automated means.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 8, 2005 at 7:33 pm

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Technology Update

In the past few weeks, we’ve had a hard time keeping a constant flow of communication with our authors — largely because of all of the scaling issues we’re working hard to address.

Our web development projects are split in 3 categories:

1) Dangerous threats that need to be addressed.
2) Adding new functionality into the current core of our site.
3) Preparing the database and webserver for scaling
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 5, 2005 at 6:56 am

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Chitika eMinimalls

Did you notice the black 4GB iPod Nano ads in the left navigation of our main site? We’re testing the Chitika eMiniMalls advertising concept. So far, we’re very impressed and they will make a nice compliment to AdSense.

They do have a contextual option that we’re not using, but we are implementing Chitika right now for all of the hundreds of thousands of page views of traffic that our site generates that Google does not have ads for.

Chitika is not a Google AdSense replacement, but I do like how we are able to serve up image ads that will offer related products from a wide inventory of hard goods.

Over the next week the ads that Chitika serves up will become more relevant as we are setting up our site to allow per-channel advertising…meaning, we’ll be able to serve up specific ads in each channel rather than one set of them across the entire site. Don’t worry as we’re not going to go nuts and clutter up our site, even if it’s more profitable to do that in the short-term. We like having a clean site also that doesn’t have any of those punch the stupid monkey banner ads.

If you are a publisher and earn money via advertising, I highly recommend that you check out and test Chitika yourself.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 3, 2005 at 11:17 am

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October EzineArticles List Stats

Our Permission-Based Email List Stats for Oct 31st:

4,414 members are on daily summary email alerts for our 183 article categories. These proprietary double opt-in email lists are an important way that we help to promote your articles.

9,057 are on the main EzineArticles newsletter, 253 are on the blog notification list, 1,193 are waiting for us to turn out an affiliate program and 98 are waiting for us to allow new advertisers into the site.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on November 1, 2005 at 9:35 am

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Jeff Mills Podcast Interview

EzineArticles expert author Jeff Mills interviews Chris Knight (me) for his Podcast this week. Go here and click on Podcast #6 to take a listen. 36 minutes.
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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on October 30, 2005 at 5:18 pm

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