Matthewat EJabs, Recently blogged a rant about his best posts not being popular. I’ve recently felt the same way. Here I am, writing quality content, to a medium size platform and it’s not getting the response it deserves.

To try to pick up some of his old posts, he created the My Favorite Unpopular Posts meme. Basically all you have to do is read through your past posts, and select your top 10 favorite unpopular posts and list them. I think thats a great idea and I’m going to do the same.

1. Introduction to Feed Reading

2. Displaying your RSS Feed Count: What is the Big Deal?

3. Comments Etiquette

4. To Tweak or Not to Tweak your Blog

5. Enfomercials Where Your Commercial Gets Air Time

6. The Benefits of Delurking

7. Top 10 Sins of Blog Usability

8. 7 steps to getting traffic to your blog

9. This is NOT a Sponsored Post

10. Getting Traffic to your Website with Linkreferral

Honorable Mention….

How We Got 300 MyBlogLog Members

I couldn’t fit it all into 10, I had to add the MyBlogLog post. It’s the most popular post out of the bunch (most pageviews) but still isn’t that popular…. yet.

I hope to see other bloggers list of their top unpopular posts. To ensure that I’ve decided to tag 4 bloggers. I’m tagging:

Ja Kel Daily
King Nomar
Kumiko
Zac Johnson

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The Pisstakers is a tongue-in-cheek site, to put it mildly, so sometimes, I have to post serious stuff here in order to be taken seriously!

I wanted to come up with a format that illustrates how different bloggers see their own blogs, (that is the serious objective) and enjoy bloggers’ quickfire and/or witty answers to loaded questions. (the entertaining objective.)

The middle way, between long, demanding interviews and ticked & crossed questionnaires seems to be a mini interview.

If you want to take part in a mini interview to appear on The Pisstakers, a marvellous PR5 sanctuary of happiness, please email me your responses to the following 5 questions. And remember, succinct answers to deep questions spiced up with a few deep links to your site, (plus a quick shake and a logo or two from me), and voilå, we have the makings of an educationally entertaining post.

1 – The hardest question first. What is the name of your website, and can you pick one feature or story to illustrate the flavor of the site to newcomers?

2 – This is a killer question if you are a perfectionist. In the history of the site, if there were one thing you could change, or one decision you could reverse, what would it be?

3 – Would you ever consider changing the name of your site to reflect the passing of time? For instance, after reading through The Onion and comparing the first posts with the latest, the name Has Bean kept springing to mind. What do you think in your case?

4 – Back on track, how many has beens, I mean, writers, does it take to create your site? And how much do they earn per hour?!

5 – Finally, if you could get an article published on any website on earth, other than your own, which would it be, and why?

I will do one batch a week and see how we go. I will also award points to each respondent and the highest score each month gets an indepth review and some prize I can’t think of right now.

Thanks for listening.

This weeks Comment Friday received 35 comments. Not bad, but a little short of our goal of 50 comments. I noticed a few PayPerPost bloggers stopped by after a forum post I made at the PayPerPost Forum.

The topic for this week seemed to revolve around age, after Zura from Creative Clown posted “Am I getting old, or the weeks going by faster and faster?” Most agreed as it seems we are all getting older, fast. I am counting down to my 21st birthday which is now only 9 days away. Not only that, but it seems like yesterday I posted last weeks comment friday.

The Fridays seem to fly by, and I can’t even seem to keep track of them. That brings me to this weeks winner. Squarefaced was one of our last commentors, but the only one to post that I had the date wrong! Of course, how stupid of me. I had Comment Friday listed as May 10th, but it was the 11th.

We welcome Squarefaced as our Blog of the Week and a nice featured spot on our sidebar. Squareface is from Singapore who recently blogged about some delcious looking popcorn chicken and their PayPerPost earnings.

Make sure to be with us next friday when we chose a new blog of the week!

Well kinda.

It’s a big day for me. I’ve spent the last week working out the direction I want to go in with a number of my blogs and I’m slowly returning to posting again. Crypt Hunter has an all new look, I’m about to start writing an article and an essay regarding the gender roles portrayed in X-Men the movie for university and for Pop Culture Heroines. I’m about to wander off and read up about how to grow pineapples from cuttings for Urban Cultivation and finally I’ve sold my soul to the devil for a little bit of return on Quit Your Day Job.

I exaggerate. It really isn’t as bad as I thought it would be but I’m now doing sponsored posts on Quit Your Day Job. The thing is what I really hate about most sponsored posts is the artificial feeling about them. These people have no interest in what they are writing about and more often than not the post doesn’t even fit in with the theme around the blog.

Well not QTDJ.

I’m only going to write about things that I’m actually interested in, things that there is every chance I would’ve written about them in the first place. And I’m going to write about them the way I would write it. Granted you often have to include certain links and keywords but that’s fine as long as I’m not writing something I don’t agree with. The word positive can be taken a thousand different ways.

I’m also suggesting that anyone can email me in regards to these posts and tell me that I ballsed it up – that way I can make sure I don’t do it again! Take a look at the post here.

So it only took me six days away from the blogosphere to get recharged and I’ve got a pretty long list of ideas that I want to get out there and I just wanted to thank everyone who commented and sent me emails of support – I really appreciate it and as I said over at QYDJ I left with an image so I may as well return with one that cracks me up:

Comment Friday is a fun and simple idea. Leave us a comment about anything you want. By leaving a comment, you will have your blog visited by me, and you may even be featured as our Blog of the Week. I will select a blog from the comment list to have a small post written and featured as our comment friday winner.

This week I am aiming for 50 comments! I know we can do it, it seems people just stop by for our fridays!

Last Friday’s winner was Love All Books. He decided to make his own Comment Friday, and recognized Blog about your Blog. We appreciate it and love the fact that other blogs are wanting to start their own comment friday. Make sure to stop by Love All Books Comment Friday as well. If you want to host one, feel free to. Just link back to our comment friday post, and we will link to you!

We have finally received our first ReviewMe review. After our ratings went up and our price stayed low, I knew it was only a matter of time. LinkALand must have thought it was a great deal, so let’s give them their moneys worth.

What is LinkALand?

“Site is pretty much self-explanatory”

I wish they would have told me! I got a very small description, and no direction to go in. I will do my best however.

Virtual Land or Linkaland appears to be a new directory. When I say new, it appears very new. There isn’t a lot on their website.

Ever played Risk?

In risk you take over territories, well it seems to be similiar at Linkaland. You can buy land where you want your website image to be displayed. The layout looks just like the game board. Pick your country.

They’ve got the whole world in their hands

Literally, they’ve got the whole world and only one resident. To get some more websites listed and people involved I think they need to run a promotion of some sort, ‘to get the ball rolling’. In this case, to get the world filled! It would of been a perfect time right now to run a promotion, order some review me reviews, and started loading their directory with quality sites. So how do you become a part of this world…?

Pricing Problem

Well, there is no pricing information links available on the website. The way that I found it was by emailing them when I went to “Buy Land” To get their prices, you must first email them and they will send you more instructions. That process was unnecassary, and they could easily put up a page about buying links etc, instead of via email.

Now that I found the prices…

The pricing structure is terrible. For example, pricing for the United States is listed at 5 cents. When you get to the bottom it states

“All prices are calculated based on the following; All prices are in 10 sq km, please note that a pixel of land on the swf file being diplayed on main page is approximatly 1000 km².”

So obviously you are going to need to calculate how big your file is to find out the price. I suppose it is just a guide, but there could be an easier way to calculate how much space costs. I’d rather not get on a calculator to figure out what I am paying.

The Positives…

This isn’t a regular boring directory with no images, Linkaland has something new, different and unique. I just wish they would have had more to look at. Again, it’s hard to review something thats not there.

Pixel directorys have definitely been hot lately for some, and this might be another promising one, just need to work out some things.