The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow
I was amazed when Nick Pruett, a blogger from Techboggle contacted me. It wasn’t Nick’s interest in article exchanges and link exchanges that took me by surprise, but the fact that the author of some very insightful techy posts is just 17 years old. Not wishing to sound condescending to older (or indeed young) folks, […]
Forums, friend or foe
Prompted by the post on commenting, I got to thinking about the other great tool for generating community buzz, the forum. None of what I am about to say is my own work, as I have no original thought in my head about blog and website promotion. These pearls of forum (foral?) wisdom come from […]
Free traffic-building offer to bloggers
On every page of The Pisstakers we have a single advert space in a prominent position above the fold. With each new page refresh, a new image appears. It currently displays our site designer’s logo Bonsai Studio and some filler graphics. As part of a traffic building plan, we are now offering a spot on […]
Boags World
It is hard to talk about blogs in terms of something I can’t live without, but certainly, Boags World makes life as a blogger and webmaster a lot more bearable. Many moons ago, Paul Boag started a web design company called Headscape. It seems to have done rather well out of universities and public bodies. […]
Pisstakers blog about blogs and Blog About Your Blog
Call me cynical, but I am an old fashioned type who has seen time and again that the best results in business and life come from real relationships that develop over time. And the best relationships require a little bit of effort too. So if some initial work and some ongoing chit chat and interaction […]
robots.txt and all that
Google indexes all sites using robots, and these critters’ first port of call is the robots.txt file. Have you got any idea what your blog’s robots.txt file has got written in it? If you don’t have your own domain, there is probably no need to know, but I suspect the team who put this revised […]
Key word ideas from Wordtracker
Mike Perry was writing about keywords and how a phrase is better than a single keyword. Coincidentally, this month’s newsletter from Wordtracker, THE best keyword resource available, goes into detail about “tail end” keyword phrases. The common mistake is to fight for first page recognition with a single keyword. If you sell wallets and you […]
Video income update
I wrote a wordy piece shouting about the wonders of Revver as a source of online income. They pay a 20% share of pay per click advertising revenue to the person hosting the video on the site, plus 50% to the video-maker. In theory it is good, and in the long term, assuming they stick […]