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Blog Review: PlainBeta
2008-01-02 06:03:00 PlainBeta is a web design blog that has an outstanding and unique theme. Read more to find out what else I had to say about this interesting blog. More About: Review , Blog , Plain
Happy New Year and a New Direction for OpTempo
2008-01-01 20:20:00 Happy New Year to all OpTempo Readers. To find out where OpTempo is headed in 2008 and how where it's going can help you promote and improve your site, particularly if you're kicking off a niche blog, read more. More About: Site News , Features , Happy , Happy New Year
Don?t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
2008-01-01 02:26:00 In this Hulu video clip from Saturday Night Live Steve Martin tries to figure out a debt management plan called "Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford" More About: Financial
EntreCard Analysis - Take 2
2007-12-31 18:55:00 EntreCard has gotten it's fair share of cheers and jeers in the blogging community over the past few weeks it's been in operation. Here's my updated traffic analysis of it, a potential conflict with Adsense I noticed and some trends concerning EntreCard that I've seen recently. More About: Analysis , Trends , Blogging , Anal
Blog Review: ReallySimplePhotography.com
2007-12-31 06:26:00 ReallySimple Photography .com is a blog that covers the beginning photographer niche. The writing is engaging and humorous. There are a few things that could be improved though. Read more to see what these are. More About: Review , Blog , Really
Attack of the Killer Hornworm
2007-12-31 04:54:00 Here's a little photo-essay about how my tomato plants in a garden a few summers ago were attacked by a hornworm. It also covers a few facts about this large caterpillar and how to deal with them in your garden. More About: Killer , Attack , Horn , Atta
Blog Review: People You?ll See In Hell
2007-12-29 06:20:00 People You?ll See In Hell is a niche news blog that concentrates on heinous crimes and those who commit them. Read this review to find out more about the site and what I thought about it. More About: People , Review , Blog
Big Honkin? Ads: Ad Placement Strategies
2007-12-28 18:38:00 In my third and final installment of my "Big Honkin' Ad" series I discuss my placement strategy for these ads. Read the article to take a look at issues like rotating versus static ads, header vs. sidebar vs. inline ad placement and other related topics. More About: Internet Marketing , Features , Blogging , Strategies
Big Honkin? Ads: Ad Selection Strategies
2007-12-27 20:17:00 In this second part of my "Big Honkin' Ads" series I'm discussing how I select the ads to use in my campaigns. This article looks at picking complementary offers and some additional ideas on click-thrus and conversions of these ads. More About: Internet Marketing , Features , Blogging , Strategies , Selection
MSNBC Catches Up With Niche Blogging
2007-12-26 22:15:00 MSNBC recently discovered niche blogging and describe it at a surface level in a business section article. What can you learn about niche blogging from their article and the sites they highlighted? Read on and see. More About: Blogging , Niche , MSNBC
Big Honkin? Ads ? Do They Work?
2007-12-26 19:23:00 A few weeks ago I began what I called my "Big Honkin' Ad" experiment. In this article I give an update on the results so far and give some of my thoughts about the ubiquitous 125x125 button ads that many blogs are displaying these days. More About: Internet Marketing , Features , Blogging , Work
Blog Review: Sandrophoto.com
2007-12-26 01:05:00 Sandrophoto.com is a photo blog from photographer Sandro Dzneladze. The photos are great and the blog, for the most part, highlights their work. Read this review to find out more about this excellent photoblog. More About: Review , Blog
Christmas Greetings From OpTempo
2007-12-25 05:32:00 I thought I'd put together a Christmas card post using a few fun Christmas themed videos I found on YouTube. To all my readers, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! More About: Site News , Features , Christmas greetings , Temp
Elvis - Blue Christmas
2007-12-25 01:30:00 Here's a video of Elvis performing Blue Christmas on his 1968 Comeback Special show. It's one of my favorite secular Christmas songs. Enjoy and Merry Christmas. More About: Music , Tube
Blog Review: The WWW Observer
2007-12-25 00:16:00 The WWW Observer is a typical SEO and blogging for money type advice blog. What are some areas they can improve on and what are their highlights and lowlights. Read this review to find out. More About: Review , Blog , Serve
Akismet: Heading Toward Failure?
2007-12-23 18:27:00 The Akismet system has protected WordPress bloggers for a while now from comment and trackback spam. However, this system, which depends heavily upon user input. It may be in the process of breaking down as the number of false positives increases along with the spectre of either malicious or ignorant use of the system. More About: Features , Blogging , Failure , Heading
Burn Notice?s ?Ask a Spy? - Burglar Proofing
2007-12-22 15:16:00 Here's a clip from Hulu from USA Network's Burn Notice . This 'Ask a Spy' short clip has master spy Michael Westen describing how you can Burglar Proof your home. More About: Television , Burn Notice
Bait and Switch Video Graphics
2007-12-21 18:17:00 Vic at Blogger Unleashed described an advertising tactic he called Bait and Switch on Steroids that uses fake video ad to generate traffic. Since he mentioned me in the post, I thought I'd help out by creating a few fake video images as examples of the technique. What are your opinions on this slightly underhanded marketing technique? More About: Video , Graphics , Internet Marketing , Features
Living in a Van Down By the River
2007-12-21 03:19:00 Here's another Saturday Night Live clip from Hulu, Chris Farley as the dysfunctional motivational speaker Matt Foley tell you that you're going to be living in a van down by the river. More About: Living , River
BlogRush Sucks Update: Doing the BlogRush Flush
2007-12-20 21:51:00 It's time once again to cover who's 'Flush ing the Rush' by removing the Blog Rush widget from their blog. Blogging Zoom co-founder, Courtney Tuttle, is one who's flushing it. See who else is pulling the chain this time around. More About: Update , Sucks
Blog Review: More Than WE Know
2007-12-20 05:24:00 Liz Fuller, a woman entrepreneur with impressive credentials, writes the More Than WE Know blog to help women business owners network better. Here's my review of her excellent professional presence business blog. More About: Review , Blog
Google Toolbar Allows Phishing Attacks
2007-12-19 16:15:00 Many bloggers love the Google toolbar because it shows that all-important green PageRank bar. Unfortunately, it seems that some of Google?s young, just-out-of-college, hot shot programmers got a little sloppy and left an exploit door wide open. More About: Phishing , Toolbar , Attacks , Google Toolbar
The Simpsons - Stone Cutters Song
2007-12-19 03:39:00 Digging around in Hulu again tonight and I ran across this Simpsons clip where Homer and the gang sing the theme song to a secret conspiratorial society, the Stone Cutters. This is one of my favorite Simpsons moments. More About: Television , Humor , Song , The Simpsons
Using Images In Your Posts: Tips and Tricks
2007-12-18 19:24:00 This article covers several tips and tricks you can use to enhance your images so that they'll have a stronger impact. I'll be briefly going over various photo editing software tools and some basic techniques you can use to improve the quality of your pictures and to make them more memorable. More About: Tips , Blogging , Tricks , Images , Tips and Tricks
Eych the Hairball Remedy For Cats
2007-12-18 04:42:00 Oops, you caught me goofing off watching funny stuff on Hulu . I've found several Saturday Night Live clips that had me laughing. Here's one I found tonight, Eych the Hairball Remedy For Cats More About: Humor
Using Images In Your Posts: Techniques
2007-12-17 23:31:00 This article covers three techniques you can use to get the most out of the pictures you decide to use in your posts. Finding the picture, as I mentioned previously, is only part of the story. You have to work the image into your article so that it can help drive the story home with the serious reader and catch the eye of the casual viewer. More About: Blogging , Images , Posts , Ages
Hulu Beta Finally Came Through
2007-12-17 03:55:00 I had signed up for the Hulu Beta on October 29th and I received the invite for recently. I have been giving it a try today and it seems good so far. You can try out the embed feature yourself in this post that has two classic clips from Saturday Night Live. Give it a try and let me hear what your opinion is on this service. More About: Television , The Office , Simpsons , Finally
Using Images In Your Posts: Sources
2007-12-16 20:19:00 If you're wanting to use images in your post like I've been doing here on OpTempo recently you may be wondering about where you can find images. In this article I take a look at some sources, paid and free, where you can find photos, clipart and other images you can use to enhance your posts. More About: Features , Blogging , Images , Posts , Sources
Blog Review: About Blog Contests
2007-12-16 17:18:00 About Blog Contests is a blog that is focuses on the niche of, you guessed it, blog contests. While it's a great niche blog, it suffers a bit from the inherit limitations of the Blogger platform. Read more to see what my recommendations for improvement are for this blog and to find out more about an interesting method they're using to promote their blog. More About: Review
More EntreCard Sucks Madness
More articles from this author:2007-12-16 05:04:00 Talking about EntreCard seems to bring in more traffic than the EntreCard widget provides itself. In this article I discuss Vic's SEO feat with the search term "EntreCard Sucks " and also answer Sam's question about what I thought was wrong with his EntreCard advice. More About: Features , Madness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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