Besting Adwords

How to Blog

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:41:53 GMT

Writing lengthy article once week is not the only part of blogging. I have one friend who does this. Every once in a while, I post a comment on his website, agreeing or disagreeing with what he says. The comments go to his moderation queue, which I assume he doesn't even know exists, because he's never approved any of my comments. In fact, he only approves about one comment per quarter and usually they don't even make sense or are blatant spam. Nobody links to his blog and I never see his comments posted on other blogs. Being a blogger is more than just writing (unless you are Cory Doctorow). If you don't participate in the blogosphere, then your blog is likely not gonna get read. You have to comment on other blogs, accept comments on your blog and reply to the comments. It's a conversation, not one-way publication.

End of Yahoo!?

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:44:50 GMT

Is this the end of Yahoo!? More layoffs. They are losing money. Losing market to Google. Losing users to Facebook. I suspect Yahoo! execs regret not taking that Microsoft buyout now. I wonder how much Microsoft is willing to offer now?

My own web stats are a good view into just what happened. My referrers from Yahoo! search peaked above 120,000 per month and recently are hanging out around 5,000 per month. In the same period, my referrers from Google have picked up about 100,000 per month. I'm not getting many more search referrers, but the Yahoo! search users are clearly moving to Google.

BlogAds Invitation

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:43:52 GMT

Today, I got the following email requeset a blogads invitation.

I saw an old post where you were asking for a blogads invitation. It seems people sent you invitations. Could you send an invitation to me? If you need specs for my site let me know.

I responded.

Sorry, I haven't used blogads in a long time. After I got the invitation, my advertisers kept complaining that it didn't work. I gave up on it. Not worth your time.

This is why customer service is important. Blogads was too pompous to get their shit working. Not only am I not using it, but I'm telling others not to use it as well.