Today is my first day ranked as an Alexa top 100,000 site. When I started blogging, I didn’t really know much about what all the rankings meant, but I knew that I wanted to get my Alexa Rank in the top 100,000 because that was their cutoff for caring about your site.
I have read several articles about how Alexa ranking was useless, but never took it to heart. While I don’t hold Alexa in the same high esteem as I did when I first started, I still believe Alexa ranking provides great information about the type of traffic you have… Click to continue...
Earlier this week I signed up to be a Click Booth Affiliate. Since affiliate marketing is all the rage right now, I thought I would have a look and see what everyone is talking about.
I previously signed up for Click Bank and found the site to be annoying to navigate. A few of the offers seemed to be solid products that I would have liked to test and possibly promote, but I couldn’t easily find the resources I was looking for.
Having had such a turn-off experience with Click Bank, I was very skeptical of Click Booth. Boy was I in for a shock.
Click Booth Educates Their… Click to continue...
Most content marketers (bloggers) know branding is one of the most important aspects of building trust, authority, and a following. Without a strong brand, it is easy to be forgotten.
While the writing style of an author or the quality of a product are huge aspects in branding, there is nothing more important to branding than the name.
When you hear John Chow, you think of Make Money Online (or evil blogger depending on how long you’ve known him). When you hear Nike you think sports apparel. When you hear Twitter you think of spam… errr.. I mean social media.
The point is, without a strong brand name, your product will be hard to recognize. Having… Click to continue...
**We interrupt your normally scheduled post with a Twitter List update**
About a two weeks ago, I was reading ShoutMeLoud.com and came across an article about the Beta for Twitter Lists. I wondered how exactly Twitter decided who to invite and hoped to be included.
Then about 30 minutes ago, I was looking at my secondary Twitter profile which I recently started (more of a mix of personal and blog instead of just blog) and saw that I was on 1 list.
I thought to myself “hmm, how am I on a list with my BlakeWaddill account, but not my Propsblog account.” The… Click to continue...
Ever since I started using computers, I’ve always been interested in ASCII art. I remember how cool I thought I was as a 10 year old making faces like };^> (the devil). When I found the internet the level of ASCII art stepped it up a few notches. Being able to draw crazy pictures in IRC using macros once again made me feel cool.
I’m more grown up now. I only laugh half the time when people burp or say the word “penis” (haha!). ASCII art no longer strikes me with awe as much as it once did, but there are still actually a couple of fun uses for it.
Three Fun Uses for… Click to continue...
It has been a couple of weeks since I published my article about vNES giving all of us who remember the days a nostalgic kick in the junk. For those of you who missed it, NES had 5 of 10 of the most difficult games of all time.
After a certain point, some games quit being fun because they are just too hard, but strangely, we’re just dying to see how to beat the hardest part and to see what comes after.
Let’s Play Videogame Archive To The Rescue
Today, I ran across not one, but two articles on Digg recommending this site as a top… Click to continue...
If you blog, you love your blog. You would do anything you could to make your blog better, wouldn’t you?
What about take risky advice? Would you change the way you think about design and SEO to get the most out of it? Chris Pearson is an expert Wordpress theme designer and has some amazing SEO tricks. If you like the theme over at Copyblogger, you might want to listen to Chris; he designed it. He is also in very tight with Thesis. You know, that little theme that many of the best blogs use because it is so powerful.
In fact, if you spend any time visiting blogs, you’ll probably run into several themes Chris P. had has hands on.
Chris Pearson’s design blog, Pearsonified, is… Click to continue...
If you have a blog or a product webpage, SEO is something you’re probably concerned about. Who wouldn’t want to end up on the front page of Google?
There are countless theories behind what helps your SERP rank. In my opinion, anything that changes the way you write isn’t worth trying because if you aren’t putting your readers first, there is no point in blogging.
So how can you optimize your SEO if you don’t change the way you write?
Website Grader by HubSpot
When I first saw a Website Grader badge, I assumed it was silly ranking that had little to no relevance to the site like an Alexa… Click to continue...
Mazes have always had a special place in my heart. As a child, always loved solving puzzles and mazes. Children of the 80’s can certainly remember doing tons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mazes…
With the invention of Flash and Shockwave, we are now able to play highly dynamic mazes that will make your brain (and your mouse hand) go crazy. So with out further rambling, I present to you 5 of the most challenging and fun maze games online!
The World’s Hardest Game
While I believe that the world’s hardest games are actually found on the NES, this game certainly has made me rethink that. The object is simple. Using your keyboard, navigate your red square to collect… Click to continue...
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 Smashing Magazine, one of the premier sources for all that is graphic and design related. On my birthday, they wrote the gift of an article 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines which are:
- Form labels work best above the field
- Users focus on faces
- Quality of design is an indicator of credibility
- Most users do not scroll
- Blue is the best color for links
- The ideal
