This morning I received my holiday greeting in my email box. It was an e-card labeled S.N.O.W.(Simulated Niceness of Winter)
It was kind of cheesy, but I watched it anyway. I guess it was the staff of Yahoo! Publishers Network talking on it.
Here’s the link if you care to watch it.
Bloggers across the world are posting about the gifts they received from the marketing partners. I read a lot about Google sending out picture frames, other marketing agents dishing out gift cards, and the list goes on.
I guess I haven’t made the big time yet, but Maxbounty did think of me this year. I didn’t get a cruise, clothing or a special non-cash bonus. I received a card.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m really not complaining. I appreciate the card. It doesn’t look “cheap” and was actually signed by several people. I have to ask, why? Looking at my Max Bounty reports, I really haven’t made much of anything at all. Certainly not enough to warrant sending me free gifts. So why do they bother with the card?
As I posted a couple weeks ago, I am trying to put more money making tools in my toolbox. With that, I applied to Azoogle Ads. I am currently getting the feel for the admin panel, and so far I am pleased with it’s ease of use. I plan to ease into implementing these ads into some of my sites until I am comfortable with tracking, etc.
Submitting your website to directories in an attempt to gain pagerank and/or traffic can be hazardous to your mailbox. While many directory owners have good intentions, some take it to the next level by spamming your email address.
I strongly suggest using an email address that you only use for such applications. Good ones to use are Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail adresses because they’re quite disposable.
It might also be worht mentioning that just because a directory “Looks Legit” doesn’t mean they will spam you. I have been spammed by some very reputable directory owners.
I’ve posted some of my own link directories in the sidebar, I assure you that you will not be spammed.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to remake a website that was Drupal based, and make is a Wordpress site.
Now you would think that I would learn, because I preach this to others but never remember myself. Before you get too far along in a site, check it with other browsers and resolution settings.
Once again, I took it for granted.
I got pretty far into my new Wordpress theme. I was near three hours into recoding and rebuilding this site until I had to go to work. At my “Real Job” I was checking on some things using a different computer. My stomach sank when I looked at my new site and it was half gone.
I realized that using the Liquid Summer 1.0 theme, it looks awesome with Firefox but with Internet Explorer, forget it. I decided quickly that I would be better off just scrapping and starting with a different theme than to try to make this one work.