One of my favorite marketing blogs is Neuromarketing by Roger Dooley.  Earlier this month, Roger published a post that led me to find Feng-GUI, a website that offers free heat maps of your blog, so you can learn where the hot spots are and what people are looking at on your blog. 

Feng-GUI is promoted as “Feng-shui for graphic user interfaces”, and it’s meant to simulate eye tracking.  While it can certainly be argued that Feng-GUI leaves a lot to be desired in terms of truly simulating eye tracking, it’s still fun…

“Content is king” has become a blogging mantra: if you develop great, unique content you should also be able to gain a wide readership for your work.

But then you only get one change to make a good first impression. If your blog’s appearance doesn’t stick in the mind of the casual visitor, how can you be sure they will remember what you have written?

One of the great criticisms of Blogger powered blogs is that so many of them look the same. There are only 16 default Blogger templates available…

The simple premise of the Google sandbox is this: Google doesn’t want to list spammy sites. Some spammers, however, have been able to get sites listed quickly, get good ranks using questionable techniques, and make a buck before Google can react. Because of this, Google seems to have increased the importance of the age of a website among its ranking factors. So now, to be designated “Not Spam,” one of the things a site has to do is, apparently, get older.

It’s age before beauty: A brand-new site, even one with…

Busy bloggers like their coffee. Every time I check out Twitter, someone else is putting on a pot or making a Starbucks run. Chris Garrett seems to be the worst offender, but I see plenty of other guilty parties.

Me too. I love my coffee.

Joffrey’s Coffee and Tea Company is offering a beta test for bloggers. Visit the Joffrey’s website and sign up to get a free bag of coffee and turn others on to your blog. It’s a win-win situation. 10,000 bloggers will be invited to participate to beta test their…

Stephane Grenier from FollowSteph.com, has released a new e-book aptly titled “How to generate traffic to your website”. He was kind enough to pass on a free copy of the ebook to me and Kevin for a review.

The title of the ebook, though tempting was not very exciting to me honestly. This is one niche where there are a lot of ebooks already , so with a skeptical mind I decided to give it a try.

To my surprise I found that Steph has done an indepth analysis of the traffic…

There is a big trend in using ornate background patterns in the last few years. Vintage patters are also making a comeback as well online as well as in home decorating if you happen to watch How Not to Decorate or Home Heist.
So as you can imagine you can use patterns and texture in a variety of ways in your designs, as well as offline in business cards and other marketing collateral.

So here are two sites to help you find a style to go with.

Pattern Head is a lot like iStockPhoto, but…