I’m sick of being slapped around

Seriously. Is Google still slapping bloggers around or what?

One of my few remaining main blogs that had PR after the last Google slap just lost PR today. It’s down to a big fat zero.
Why?
I’ve slowed down on posting on all my sites quite a bit over the last few months - in […]

Posted on Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Under: Blogging, Making Money, Writing | 26 Comments »

Kontera Control Plugin to be updated

Lucia over at Big Bucks Blogger created a fantastic wordpress plugin over the summer that helps bloggers who use Kontera on their sites decide where and when Kontera ads should show up.

When I recently widgetized one of my sites the Kontera Control Plugin started acting up on me - putting ads in posts that […]

Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | No Comments »

Is Stumble traffic really good traffic?

In the last few months I’ve seen more and more bloggers getting excited about Stumbleupon and adding “stumble” buttons to their posts in order to encourage their visitors to stumble their latest entries.
While it’s nice to see your traffic stats go up I’ve often wondered if there’s any value to traffic from sites like Stumbleupon.

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Posted on Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Under: Blogging, Site Promotion, Site Traffic, Social network, Traffic exchange | 9 Comments »

Blogging Chicks

This is another great Blogroll created for women bloggers. Check it out!

Click here to join

Posted on Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Under: General | No Comments »

12 Blog design tips to keep your visitors and advertisers happy

One of the forums I’m on has a discussion about best blogging practices. Here’s a few tips that I just added to the thread that you might consider for your own blog design. I’ve written these suggestions mainly with bloggers who write posts for which they get compensation by advertisers in mind, […]

Posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Under: Blogging, Site Maintenance, Technology, Webdesign | 7 Comments »