As you know, Google has been battling the whole paid-link idea, trying to keep search result quality up by stopping “unnatural” PageRank distribution. But here’s a thought: Aren’t affiliate programs paid links? Would half as many people link to Amazon pages if it weren’t for the Amazon Associates program? Amazon is paying people to link to them, and refer customers. But tell me they didn’t think somewhere along the line “Hey, this would increase our search rankings.”
Yearly Archives: 2008
Happy Birthday…to Myself
Mar 2Today is my 16th birthday. So I guess I’d better get busy if I want to complete my list of things I want to do before I’m 18, which are: 1. Have a short story or novel published. 2. Make at lest $100/mo off…
Fun With Twitter – Speedlinking and Sideblogging via Twitter Tools
Mar 2Twitter! It’s addicting isn’t it? It can also save you some time if you’re interested in Speedlinking, or provide an easy way to Sideblog. How? Using Alex King’s amazing plugin Twitter Tools. If you want to get the most out of Twitter blog-wise, you…
BlogBuzz March 1, 2008
Mar 1When Not to Call Yourself a Blogger
Feb 29Have you ever told someone you’re a blogger? Have you told them that you make some money, however much it may be, blogging, only to have them look at you funny. Plenty of people have stories about peoples’ ignorance of what blogging is. People…
2008 Webware 100 Voting
Feb 28Voting has opened for the 2008 Webware 100 awards. Be sure to vote for WordPress in the Publishing and Photography category!
National Geographic Magazine Reminds Me of a Blog
Feb 28National Geographic is one of the best-adapted magazines (to the blogosphere). They have plenty of web content to supplement what they put in their magazine, and the print magazine itself reminds me of a blog. Their articles are very blog-like, in writing style, and…
One Ad Slot Left For Now!
Feb 27Of the 125×125 ad slots, there is currently one left, for the time being. The bottom slot is the one, at $15/month.
Cool Digg Button
Feb 27Ars Technica has a really cool variation of the DiggThis widget on their post pages. It looks like they took the low-profile one that Digg offers, and used some CSS trickery on it. It looks pretty good.
Design Spotlight: Adii
Feb 27Adii, the self proclaimed “WordPress Rockstar,” has redesigned his blog.
