I was reading an interview featuring Markus Frind of PlentyofFish.com. Mr. Frind’s site is the world’s largest online dating website. According to published reports, Markus pulls in over $10,000 to $20,000 a day from Google AdSense alone. His overall income is $5 million to $10 million a year.
Plentyof Fish.com is one of the ugliest sites online. It looks like a newbie web designer threw it up, got it operational and turned his interest to something else.So, why then is it so successful? The site’s success is not by accident, which…
Welcome to the 4th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of SlyVisions went well so thanks to all who took part, in particular Rarst and Banji who left long detailed replies.
This weeks critque is Let’s Sermo, a blog which covers a range of topics including technology, search engine optimisation, humour and more.
I asked the owner Farrhad, a student from India, what he thought needs to be done to improve the blog. Here’s what he had to say :
- The blog is a mixed bag and I mainly want ideas from people on what would…
Last week SEO blogger Alysson Fergison decided to remove the nofollow tag from comments to see if it generates more discussion on her blog. She is using Michele Marcucci’s WordPress plugin NoFollow Free, which lets the blog owner remove the nofollow tag from commenters with a certain number of posts.
In the short term she said it has worked like a charm however I am interested to see how this works out for her long term.
The problems which arise from removing the nofollow tag
There are two quick and easy ways to encourage more comments…
When publishing with Blogger, we can categorize our posts using “Labels”. Published posts which have labels attached produce a link to each label in the post-footer section which links to a page displaying all posts categorized under this label. We can also add a “Labels” widget which generates a list of all labels currently in use linking to posts in the appropriate category.
Aside from the basic categorization of blog posts, there are some other useful functions we can add to our blogs when using Blogger labels. In this post, I’ll…
The Reader Blog Critique has proved popular with readers so I thought you would all be interested in the ‘Blog Design Makeover‘ panel at IzeaFest in Olando.
The video is about 56 minutes long but it makes interesting viewing. First up is Matt Blancarte from Unique Blog Designs followed by Scott Allen and Christopher Schmitt. I’m sure it will help some of you with your own blog designs.
