Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Posties Paid $100 to Remove Links

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Comfirmed by Joe of Pay Per Post / Izea: Some publishers are paying posties $100 to remove paid links. The discussion takes place on this thread.

Here’s an interesting tidbit: Several posties wouldn’t have been able to find the paid links to delete without the spread sheet provided in the request!

So, if your a postie, you might want to ask yourself: If someone offered me $100 to remove a link, could I find it?

October’s Google fall out shows that it can be profitable for some posties to risk their page ranks and not delete paid posts. It can be even more profitable to refuse to remove them unless the advertiser pays!

TrafficJam.com Is Coming! Can It Save Blogrush?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

John Reese, the promoter who brought “Blogrush” recently announced “TrafficJam.com”; evidently TrafficJam will help our blogs even more than Blogrush. The Blogosphere seems to have ignored the announcement. . .

But I won’t ignore it! John Reese is now promising loads of traffic through “TrafficJam”, requesting bloggers be patient and telling us feed back is positive. He has also closed comments at his blog. Given this marketing push, I think, bloggers do need to make decisions based on data; sharing information helps other bloggers make decisions.

What’s Blogrush done for Big Bucks Blogger?

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Make Your Blog Easy to Read:

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Which blog do you prefer? One that makes easy things hard to understand? Or one that makes difficult things easy to understand?

In “Is your blog easy to read?” Muhammad Saleem recommends the second. He also guides bloggers to an online readability tool to test the reading level of your blog.

Guess what readibility level I rated? Yep. I write like I’m in grade school. :)

I used the tool to test Volokh.com a blog written by a bunch of law professors: they write at the junior high level.

I bet you’re wondering about Muhammad Saleem’s blog’s readibility level? Highschool.