Written on October 4th, 2007 at 05:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking – 4 October 2007
Here’s a few links that caught my attention over the last few days:
- I wrote a number of months ago about getting unconfirmed subscribers to your RSS feed to confirm their subscription – Techie Buzz has developed a plugin to help you do this.
- ReadWriteWeb profiles 10 Chat Widgets that you might want to consider adding to your blog if you’re looking to add live chat as a feature for readers.
- SEOmoz shares 5 reasons why it’s better to be Big and Popular than Small and Niche
- BlogHerald shares 12 Ways to Make Better Use of Your Footer – more and more blogs are using this space not only to add stuff that they don’t want to show readers – but as a key area. Seems bizarre that someone at the bottom and out of sight would convert – but strangely I’ve found that it’s actually a hot area – I guess people scroll after all!
- Over at b5media we just relaunched our Sports Channel with a competition with some pretty cool prizes – good luck!
- Life Training Online shares The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Bloggers.
- Success from the Nest has decided to ditch the Top Commenters plugin and start highlighting Top Contributers – great call!
- Ben Cook has generated some great discussion on his post – Be Careful What you Promote? It explores some of the issues around making recommendations on a blog – particularly of new untested products. I left a couple of long comments on it and value it as a discussion. It’s not only relevant to the ‘make money blogging’ type blogger but all who use affiliate links.
- Michel Fortin shares 7 Deadly Sins of Website Copy – some of which are relevant for bloggers
15 Responses to “Speedlinking – 4 October 2007” - Add Yours
Nuts & Milk
October 4th, 2007 5:50 pm
Darren,
Hope you don’t mind my addition -
http://www.nutsandmilk.com/2007/10/how-to-advertise-yourself-with-little.html
(How to advertise with little or no money.)
Thanks
Koen
October 4th, 2007 6:04 pm
OMG, is October the competition month or so :P
Your birthday competition
John Chow’s RSS subscriber competition with Shoemoney
the b5media Sports Channel
Anyways, great links and articles, keep it up :)
Tech For Novices
October 4th, 2007 6:46 pm
Dear Pro blogger
We are novice bloggers and we read you regularly. Would you mind if we suggest our posts for consideration
How Not to Game Technorati – Seven Evil Ways
http://techfornovices.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-not-to-game-technorati-seven-evil.html
Blogger Novice to Pro in 24 hours flat
http://techfornovices.blogspot.com/2007/08/blogger-novice-to-pro-in-24-hours-flat.html
Best Feed resource for Novice Bloggers
http://techfornovices.blogspot.com/2007/09/best-feed-resource-to-read-for-novice.html
May be you can consider us for speed linking next time. This is real big dream. But we are allowed to dream. Aren’t we ?
Tech For Novices
Elliott Cross
October 4th, 2007 6:58 pm
Great reading list for the day! I have been fascinated with the footers area of sites for some time as they can become boring, and most are.
Hope you don’t mind a link for visual appeal of footer design:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/09/css-based-footers-modern-solutions/
Does this mean I have a footer fetish? :)
Mytoons
October 4th, 2007 7:00 pm
Hi darran i have made your cartoon on problogger birthday bash . I even mailed you :http://mytoons.blogpico.com/2007/09/11/happy-birthday-cartoon/
I also blog on Blog Opinion
URL: http://www.articlefarms.com/opinion
Chino Yray
October 4th, 2007 7:48 pm
the blog herald tip seems to be the trend of bloggers lately.
Centre for Emotional Well-Being
October 4th, 2007 8:28 pm
I love the post on better utilisation of the footer.
I have an affiliate link in the footer of my reality tv blog for people to purchase The Secret DVD, and the PO Box, but I haven’t utilised it much on the other blog. I will definitely look into it.
Darren Rowse
October 4th, 2007 8:58 pm
Elliott – footer fettish…hehe nice one
Mytoons – thanks for that – very cool!
Vik Dulat - Making Money the Easy Way
October 4th, 2007 9:12 pm
Great post on chat widgets..I personally use meebo me! Coolest one as far as I am concerned.
Dan
October 4th, 2007 11:21 pm
Great links Darren, each one is a good read.
chtanxw
October 4th, 2007 11:43 pm
Your Speedlinking always provide me a chance to many new blogs/sites. They are all great and useful for all type of readers. Thank you!
Chris Jacobson
October 5th, 2007 12:45 am
One of my most popular posts is How to Make Money by Flipping a Website for Profit on eBay.
http://www.moneymakingscoop.com/blog/2007/09/17/ebay-how-to-flip-a-website-for-profit/
simon
October 5th, 2007 1:33 am
some great articles of high quality as usual.. i use your speed links to explore new sites which i would normally not of seen
Fiar
October 5th, 2007 10:17 am
This is just wild, unsubstantiated conjecture here, but my guess is that the people that are likely to click ads, and the people that leave comments, are the same group of readers. Things in the footer are likely to be seen by a reader leaving a comment, because the footer is just below the comment box. So, it very well could be effective.
Aurelius Tjin
October 5th, 2007 3:32 pm
Thanks for the useful links. I could really use some good materials to read.
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