ProBlogger guest author Tony Hung has written an amazingly comprehensive post about marketing your blog in 2007. In it he touches on just about every aspect of what it takes to develop a successful (i.e. popular) blog.
Author: Christian Watson
Earn Income from Your Site with Text Link Ads
The following is a paid review. Please note: my time is being paid for but my opinions are my own.
Text Links Ads (TLA) is one of many ways you can make money from your site. The idea is that you provide some space on your site for the text ads, install some code provided by TLA and they do the actual selling and placement of ads on your site.
Read MoreIs Your Site More Popular with Men or Women?
Have you ever wondered whether more men than women visit your site or what age ranges your site is most popular with? If so, then Microsoft adCenter Labs have the tool for you.
Read MoreHow to Write Good Section Overview Pages
Contented recently touched on a subject that I often find myself struggling with — what to do with those pesky overview pages that start off a section of a web site.
Read MoreCreate ‘Mini-Web Sites’ to Embed into Your Site
In case you didn’t know, 2007 is the year of the widget. In that vein, I recently discovered Leafletter — a service that enables you to create Flash-based ‘mini-web sites’ and embed them into your site, blog or (here’s where the money is) MySpace page. Read More
Playstation Portable and the Art of Writing Good Error Messages
I recently upgraded from my well-loved but aging Game Boy Advance to a shiny new Playstation Portable. However, although the hardware itself is impressive, it suffers from some challenging usability issues.
UIE Podcast on Experience Design is Worth a Listen
For some reason, there aren’t too many design-related podcasts. For the longest time there was only “Boagworld”:http://boagworld.com/ which I never really took to.
Well, now there’s the “Josh & Jared Show”:http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/audio/ from the folks at UIE, which covers topics related to the world of experience design.
Review of CardroomSupply.com
*The following is a paid review.*
While I wouldn’t say that I’m a poker fanatic, I do enjoy the odd game of Texas Hold ‘Em now and then. In fact we finished off Christmas Day with a very enjoyable multi-hour session in which I made, oh, at least $5.
“Cardroom Supply”:http://www.cardroomsupply.com/ is a site that sells poker tables and chips as well as a few other poker-related sundries.
Four Ways to Improve Your Writing
At its heart, the web has always been and will always be about content. Well, that content has to get written by someone. Communitelligence.com has posted a nice 4-point list of “ways to improve your writing”:http://www.communitelligence.com/blps/blg_viewart.cfm?bid=65&artID=345.
Namely:
My Favorite Web Site of 2006
The best of 2006 lists are already starting to roll in, but I thought I’d keep mine simple this year and stick to one — my favorite site of all.
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