I asked ProBlogger, John Chow, DailyBlogTips, Carey, Smemon and Shoemoney all the same question. As you know my Playstation Blog gets quite a lot of visits and i wondered if i should have put adverts on it. My question was:
my friends are saying i’m shooting myself in the foot by not running adsense or some [...]
I tested BlogRush for a few months now and its not delivered to my expectations so now i’m removing, you no longer see it.
I would receive around 1 visitor every 2 weeks which makes me think whats the point in having it on your blog? Along with not delivering traffic it slows down the site and [...]
The stats on talkplaystation.com have almost caught up to daparky.com despite this blog has been online a month longer than talkplaystation.
The stats for daparky.com are:
120 posts altogether
2,548 Visits (from 18th March to 17th April)
4,259 Page Views (from 18th March to 17th April)
The stats for talkplaystation.com are:
119 posts altogether
11,531 Visits (from 26th March to 17th April)
16,469 [...]
A friend of mine has told me about his new European Travel Blog, a Blog where he talks about his trips around Europe. I must say, i’ve read all his posts so far and they are very good, very well written articles and goes into great detail about what you can do in each place [...]
You are probably reading this because you clicked the link in the BlogRush widget on another blog. I’m doing this to test how many people actually click it, and if it can draw some traffic. You can see that i’ve not had much traffic from BlogRush by looking here and here.
If you reached this post because [...]
It’s time for my Wordpress plugins update - the plugins i use on this blog. I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 tomorrow. I tested Wordpress 2.5 on another blog and broke some of my
The current plugins i have installed as of now are:
Advanced Tag Entry
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
cforms II
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google XML Sitemaps
Gregarious
Lightbox 2 [...]
I promised to post my thought on BlogRush after a month of using it. I have received some referrals from BlogRush but not as many as i hoped. I will continue to use it because over the past month i’ve seen some of my blog entries have more and more readers by someone clicking my link [...]
This is pretty good news for me because i didn’t expect it to grow this quick. My Playstation related site has gone from a rubbish 0 visits to an excellent 2,726 visits (2,559 being uniques).
I used social media and article submit websites to gain visitors and the subscriber count is going up day by day.
In [...]
Well well, i’m back from my illness i had yesterday. Talkplaystation.com has only been online for a few days now and has received some good feedback. I was happy when i checked my subscriber count this morning for talkplaystation.com, which is currently sat at 7 subscribers, 1 of which is via e-mail. Something i don’t [...]
All day i’ve been sorting out talkplaystation.com, installing new plugins, submitting it to Technorati, submitting it to Google Webmaster Tools/Yahoo/MSN. Doing all this takes time - a lot of time!
I think i’m pretty much done and can just get on with publishing new content. I will probably make changes to the layout, for example, maybe add [...]