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The Pros and Cons of Working from Home on the Internet

Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and working for someone else was definitely not part of it. Another aspect that facilitate the transition was the fact that I was 22 when I decided to quit; meaning no bills to pay or responsibilities that extended beyond “staying alive.” Now I am sure that there are many people out there wondering if they would like to work from home. Others already know they would love to, but they are not sure about the downsides, or how to make the switch. For those, I think it would be interesting to share what I learned along these two years. Read more

Be a Super Stats Whore With Woopra

Woopra is the king ping of website tracking by the looks of it and I suspect this platform will continue to make massive waves once they come out of Beta. Personally I have never seen such a comprehensive stats program before. Not only can you see how many readers are online on your site at all times, but the program will also show you were they came from, your latest direct Google traffic hits and much more. Woopra is even available in a handy offline application that will convert your desktop into a super spy machine. If you always wanted to be a stats whore, now you can be as Woopra is all the stats programs you already know turned into one and then updated. Read more

5 Remarkable Things You Should Learn From Music (And How You Can Apply Them To Your Blog)

This is a guest post by Hans. Everyone loves music. Some of you are fans of Pink Floyd, David Bowie or U2 while others may be fans of Mozart or Brahms. Moreover, some may love Blues music while others prefer Punk music. In fact, there are several aspects that may influence your relation with music. You may adhere to a music style or be an unconditional fan of a particular singer. No matter what your music preferences are, the fact is that you based it on precise and personal criteria. The same seems to be completely applicable to blogs. In this article, I suggest you to make an incursion into the music to find the criteria that would most influence your music preferences. These criteria will then be apply to blogs to better understand who your audience really is or what kind of audience you should target for your blog. Let’s start the list. Read more

May 2008 Most Popular Articles

Below you will find the most popular posts on this blog during the past month. Check them out if you missed any.

• Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least!: People always say that you need to be in the first page of results in Google if you want to receive clicks, right? Well, this will hurt, but the reality is that merely being in the first page is not enough.
• Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn: I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue.
• Video Blog Review 1 - FavBrowser.com: On this first blog review I will cover the design and layout aspects of FavBrowser.com, a blog coming from one of our readers (I asked his permission to review it).
• Google Indexing Scrapers First?: This made me curious and went to check for myself. The first thing I wanted to know was if my post was indexed already by Google or not. I copied one sentence from the post and search it in Google, with quotation marks to find only exact matches.
• Poll: What is Your Favorite Browser?: Anyway all this browser thinking got me curious about what browser you guys use. I know that many of you will need to use more than for work purposes (cross browser testing, Internet Explorer applications, etc), but what is your favorite browser for surfing the web, blogging and similar?
• Website Traffic Series Part 6: Using Forum Signatures: Time to analyze another traffic generation strategy: using forum signatures. At the bottom of this post you will find links to all the previous parts on the series, and stay tuned for future ones, we are going to cover literally all of them!
• Star Trek Blogging: The Klingon Way: In the world of Star Trek, Klingons are known as a warrior people, formidable in battle, fierce in their passions, and concerned with honor above all. But the life of a Klingon has lessons for humans, even for that sedentary class known as bloggers. Here are three proverbs that can help you learn to blog the Klingon way.
• DarkZen WordPress Theme Released: Most of our previous WordPress themes used light or vivid colors, so I thought that a darker design was needed on the portfolio. DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a clean and minimalist design.

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Google AdSense: Coming To A Feedburner Feed Near Your Soon

Finally Google will start rolling AdSense into Feedburner feeds. I guess the integration process was not that easy, given the time it took them after the acquisition. Regardless, this is good news for all webmasters and bloggers alike. Here is what they said on their blog:

We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming soon”. If you start seeing “Ads by Google” on an ad in a feed somewhere, that’d be us.

Publishers that are already part of the FAN (Feedburner Advertising Network) will keep serving CPM ads, while having AdSense ads to fill the remaining inventory. Definitely another source of income to be considered by most bloggers out there. What do you think? Read more

7 Things to Avoid While Leaving A Blog Comment

Many people already wrote about the rules of blog comments before. Most of them, however, focused on the so called blog comments etiquette. That is, they told you how you should always add value to the discussion, respect the other people, never feed the trolls, be genuine and yada yada yada. While that advice is solid, I feel that it lacks some practical sense. There are other points that I see people doing almost daily when leaving comments, and they can be equally annoying for the blog owner and for the other readers and commentators. Below you will find them: 7 things to avoid while leaving a blog comment. 1. Using the bold or italic attributes to highlight your whole comment Blog comments can send good traffic to your website, and if you manage to catch people’s attention with your comments, this traffic might increase. Now, attention should be grabbed with a funny or interesting comment, and not by making your comment text bold or italicized. Read more

Does YouTube Have it Bigger Than You?

YouTube wants to have it bigger than anyone else, and that is not cool. Now if you started reading this post with the wrong idea in mind, I am talking about the size of the video player. If you try to embed a YouTube video on your website, you will notice that the code that they provide both on their website and on the menu options of each video player is something like this: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4bXWc-FKs9g&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4bXWc-FKs9g&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Read more

5 Blogging Traps You Need to Avoid

This is a guest post by Alan Johnson. As a blogger, there are more than a few mistakes which can and will make you waste valuable time and resources, so that identifying them in order to be able to take action is simply a must. Let’s not waste another second and start with: 1. Neglecting the Comments Section Read more

Is Your Blog Full Of Gaping Comment Holes?

It’s been another day of blogging for you. You studiously posted your latest entry, hoping to hit the jackpot this time. You go to bed feeling great. After all, you accomplished something haven’t you. The next morning you get up only to find that your blog is eerily quiet. No comments! You grab your head, tear your hair out and shout “What the f#$@ just happened? Why are people not storming my blog. What is it I’m doing wrong?” Read more

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