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Where Are Your Readers’ Eyes Going?

Posted by Blake Waddill - November/2009 - Favs, Utilities

Webpage design is critical to effectively capturing your reader’s attention and keeping them on your page. If a reader arrive and nothing catches their eye, they are likely to bounce right away. When there is too much going on, a reader might not know where to start, get frustrated, and leave too. Finally, if the [...]

Five Basic Steps To Getting Your Blog Rolling

Posted by Blake Waddill - November/2009 - Favs, Marketing

Just after registering your domain, securing web hosting, and installing WordPress can be one of the most confusing times for a new blogger. You have a million and one things to do and no clue where to start. I’m not a whale blogger (yet), but Props Blog has shown some solid signs of growth over [...]

BWE09: Problogger, Copyblogger, and Chris Brogan Hang Out In Their Underwear

Posted by Blake Waddill - October/2009 - Favs, Marketing

John Chow was nice enough to record the Internet Marketing for Smart People seminar at the World Blog Expo 09 and post it for us. The video is just under an hour long, so I decided to write a paraphrased transcript for anyone who wants the information from the video and don’t have time to [...]

The Ten Commandments of Comment Etiquette

Posted by Blake Waddill - October/2009 - Favs, Marketing

As I have mentioned before, comments are a huge part of what makes blogs such a unique communication tool. We’ve already discussed some of the reasons why people comment. Copyblogger also wrote about some of the pitfalls of using comments as a traffic building strategy. One of the biggest keys to both of these articles [...]

4 Marketing Sites You Can’t Afford To Miss

Posted by Blake Waddill - October/2009 - Favs, Reviews

There is a fine line between being a blogger and being an internet marketer who blogs. While I totally respect blogging entirely out of passion, I think great business opportunities are lost if you don’t consider the big picture. I’ve already mentioned five of the top make money sites that you should check out, but [...]

10 Guidelines To Making A User Friendly Website

Posted by Blake Waddill - September/2009 - Favs, Utilities

Unless you’re a well established blogger or website designer, you’re probably constantly looking for ways to improve your readers’ experience and keep them coming back. Self-proclaimed gurus make all sorts of (often) bogus claims about what they best way to setup your site is, but they never back up these claims with real data Enter [...]

Top 5 Make Money Sites You Should Visit

Posted by Blake Waddill - September/2009 - Favs, Reviews

Search “Make money online” using Google, and you’ll get 181 million results. Try “make money bogging” and get another 175 million results. With so many resources out there, it is hard to determine where to go and what to read. Among all the amazing blogs in this niche, there are five that I check on [...]

Play NES Games Free Online and the Top 3 Things You Remember about NES Games

Posted by Blake Waddill - September/2009 - Entertainment, Favs

I am a child of the 80′s. When it comes to video games, I have seen the progression starting with NES and moving forward to now. While graphics may have become more realistic and mind blowing, and controls may have become more sophisticated and user interactive, nothing compares to the fun I had playing NES [...]