Updated: Sorry about the screenshot earlier, I was at work
John Cow’s site is rather nicely designed, very nicely indeed. So when I was tipped off that he was using this ad to advertise his advertising, I knew something had to be done.
Look at this:
I just wanted to see the cow have a nice ad to advertise his advertising. And he was gracious enough to give me a shout out.
Thanks to John Cow, enjoy your ad 
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If you are a Bloglines user, then you might be interested in seeing the new version Beta version. It looks really clean and it’s very easy on the eyes.
Have a looksie:
If you’d like to see it in action for yourself, click here.
Great job, guys!
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ContestBlogger has helped tons of people with publicity by linking to their contests, and of course also entering with his humor-filled posts.
He recently posted a contest, to which the contest guy emailed him stating that he’d allow our Contest Blogging buddy to pay him for a link on his blog! The nerve!!
Even though I’d like to know who did this nonsense, I’m sure Phil is keeping mum.
Here’s hoping that the perpetrator of this crap learns his lesson. Check out the full post on Blogging Manners.
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Or, how not to be a complete moron with your $400.00.
Andrew of AndrewTalk, ordered a ReviewMe from John Chow. All of this was prior to scraping John’s content and then shucking out $400.00 for a paid review.
Instead of refusing to do the review, John takes this guy’s money and does it, and goes all out. To take this guy down, John rips him a new one, and rightfully so. Unfortunately, we cannot see the site now, because Andrew took it down. I guess it was how John explained it:
This is a blog about online business. It is presumably own by someone name Andrew. AndrewTalk is a good example on how not to do a blog.
Ouch, that had to hurt…lol
I can’t imagine not having your own content, then being dumb enough to order a review from someone you stole content from. This is a big no no. If you are trying to live in the “make money online” niche, then please be original. At least have some design skill and try to have some creativity. All kinds of traffic poured into that blog today, courtesy of the money spent for the review. Unfortunately for Andrew, no good came from it.
Money wasted from a ‘make money online’ blog. I guess we all have to learn the hard way? Or not. A good followup post would be about blogging ethics.
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Recently, I was meandering through my stats for this blog and the thought hit me, where are you going to when you leave my site?
Are you heading to one of the more popular sites, like John Chow, or Problogger? Or are you heading back to the site that you came from?
Were you here long enough to grab the link for or comment on the Rockin’ Girl Blogger post or are you an RSSer? My mind is wondering.
Do I need to put more links on my sidebar? Or, am I not linking to enough of the other blogs out there?
What do you think?
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Have you put up a theme that everyone else has or has been downloaded 80,000 times? Or is it a theme that you’ve taken the time to customize so that it doesn’t look like your run of the mill theme that’s on display at the blog next door?
If you’ve decided to carve out your own design, that’s the best option for those of us that know a little about theme design. Otherwise, if you’re looking to get a spiffy design and don’t have the PHP/HTML knowledge, then you may want to look into hiring a professional designer.
If you are more content focused and have no grudges against going with a design that’s been used a lot by other bloggers, then you can find a free theme that will suit your needs just fine. A lot of themes are good to go right out of the box and need little or no help from you. Except maybe to upload the theme, just activate it and you’re good to go.
People will be more apt to stick around on your site, either way, if the content is compelling. Be sure to write in detail about the subjects that you know best. If your content is that wonderful, people will read it and they will most assuredly come back to see what you have to say the next day.
What makes your site sticky?
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I was reading the huge response that Bloggrrl received over her three little blogs post, and it got me to thinking. What do we do when we’ve hit a road bump in the everyday blogging? Do we sit up at night deliriously writing just to be goofy? Thinking that maybe our silly words have fallen into the abyss of the internet?
Maybe that’s when the creativity comes and then you can just run with it. Take the time to think about why you’ve hit a slump and maybe go with it. In writing, we’re told that if we’ve got writer’s block, just write. Write about anything, just write. Creativity will come to you, sooner or later.
Brainstorm. Think of all of the things that you know and the things that you won’t get bored about. Maybe you’re in the wrong niche market, if boredom is something that happens when you write regularly.
Be funny. If you can manage to pull off humor, then go for it. I don’t know how many times I’ve read posts that have literally cracked me up.
If you’ve hit a slump in writing, what tips can you provide to the rest of us that may help us when we’ve hit rock bottom? Any words of encouragement? Would you suggest throwing up a speedlinking post just for the sake of having something?
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Yesterday, I took the day off from blogging, much to my surprise, there was a buzz floating around the blogosphere. Jon Warass started a service that will allow you to buy blog comments. Notice that I did not link to this guy. Unfortunately, other more popular bloggers did.
This has drummed up the exact amount of marketing that Jon didn’t have to do to achieve his goal of getting the word out, with very little effort. He made something so devious and leaked word about it, only to get linked to by a lot of well-known bloggers.
I will not use this service, so if you ever get a comment from me, know that it’s legit. I will never recommend a service like this, it’s ultimately a really bad move for anyone looking to keep any credibility regarding blogging.
So, I’m going to treat Jon Warass like Paris Hilton, if I ignore him, maybe he’ll go away.
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