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Aug 28  08

I’ve known Jason Sanzone for a little under a year. He’s a hard working blogger, theme designer and all round online entrepreneur. And today, I noticed that he is selling one of his latest blogs, easternwest.com. The blog comes with 18 original WordPress themes, all of which are currently generating a growing stream of traffic [...]

A well designed and well connected blog goes to auction

Aug 26  08

101 free premium WordPress themes, 50 Podcasts for bloggers, 75 ways to increase your google page rank, 99 lists that you’ve seen before and will no doubt see again. The lists of lists goes on and on. List posts are easy to write and seem to attract Digg traffic like bees to a honey pot. [...]

Are list posts the acceptable face of blog spam?

Aug 25  08

I hate spammers. Everyone hates them. Parasitic pan handlers who make the internet a much less enjoyable place than it could be. So imagine my surprise today when my stats report a huge traffic spike, almost doubling my daily unique visitors over the weekend and, as if that wasn’t enough, doubling my average daily income, [...]

An unexpected source of long tail income

Aug 21  08

Premium WordPress themes are something of a mystery to me. I find it hard to believe that the people making, and selling, these premium themes, get the maximum benefit from their work. Giving away your WordPress themes is a great way of getting a lot of traffic back to your blog. This traffic grows over [...]

The free premium WordPress theme paradox

Aug 20  08

The new design, scheduled to roll out later this week, has run into something of a road block. What worked fine on my screen is looking less than perfect when coded for WordPress. Fighting with code, forcing it to jump through hoops to keep dodgy browsers like Internet Explorer happy, and generally getting in way [...]

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