On his money-making mission, Mike has made plenty of insightful posts, and no exception was his recent observation on just how global the internet is. Good one, mate, and then when you highlighted my ban in China, it really got me thinking. For the 65% of non English-speaking surfers out there, plus a couple of […]

The best way to judge a book isn’t by its cover, but to open it up and get stuck in. So I tried to sign up for Blogoculars, a site that the owner claimed fitted into the category of sophisticated directory alongside chainki, swicki and bla.st. Is it? Browser compliance. Apple’s Safari is a standards […]

Here is a blog promotion question, and it isn’t rhetorical, so please feel free to answer. You have a spare $25 and want to increase awareness and generate some buzz over at the new topfunnies blog. It is not a question of making money right now, just kickstart some targetted traffic that is interested in […]

It seems that the task of linking to directories always appear in the blogger’s TO DO list. PR4 and above sites are best. Reading through Mike’s weekly stats, he isn’t so convinced of their usefulness, at least as far as driving traffic to your site. I guess like all things, you have to weigh up […]

First of all, why would you want to list every site you have ever linked to? In the case of The Pisstakers, nearly all the information and food for thought required to create ranting humor(less) posts has come from other sites on the internet. The extraction script enabled us to view all links to those […]

I am not talking Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Quite simply, take time off from the exciting sexy side of blogging, and check that every “boring” part of your blog is uptodate. By that I mean, we have loads of info pages like About Us,About the Site, and Testimonials, the all-important SiteMap, Privacy… and on checking […]

It has been a frustrating couple of weeks moving home, and losing internet access in the process. In many ways, the time off put into perspective what the blog means to me. The inability to publish my blog as regularly as I would have liked, made me realise how much I enjoy putting the various […]