My internet connection was suspended!

In case you haven’t noticed, i have not been updating the blog these past days.

Unfortunately, my internet service provider suspended my internet connection due to the lack of payment.

I share an apartment with a couple more friends, and one of them, is responsible for the internet contract, and he forgot to pay the last 2 months despite the constant rememberings of the companie.

Last june 2nd, they cut the service leaving us with no connection to the world. lol

The payment has been made, and only today they re-established the service aleluia!!!

Stylish Design

Besides the Making money niches (most know as MMO blogs) there are other kinds of blogs we should read, one of these blogs is Stylish Design, which is a Web design blog.

Stylish design is a blog run by Robert and Andrei that focus on web designing and related stuff to that subject. You can find information about search engine optimization and web directories, but also, CSS and website templates.

With the recent Google page rank update, there are some articles that you might find useful, such as “Fighting for more page rank” or “You can never find out the true PageRank”.

Feng-gui.com: What are people looking at?

I have found this site (don’t remember where sorry!) 2 days ago, and i have found it very interesting.

What this site does is simulate the human vision.

Confused? Don’t be. It’s actually very simple.

They have a program that analyses an image sent by you, or a website. After the analysing is complete, it will show a heat map that tries to simulate how the human eye will look at your image or website!

Here is the heat map for this blog:

Sell ads on your blog with OIOpublisher

Last week, during my scarce free time i decided to search for a wordpress plugin that could manage my ad sales on this blog in an almost automated way. I found a couple of them but none gave me exactly what i wanted.

So, i decided to invest some money to buy a tool for the first time to use on this blog. I decided to buy OIOpublisher. I knew this wordpress plugin for some time now and read good reviews about it. So it seemed the right choice for me.

Bologna process and Alexa Ranking

Today’s post is a double post. First of all, i would like to say that my life is chaotic right now.

I have already told you that im on the final year of college. Recently, my college entered the Bologna Process. For those who don’t know what it is you can read about it on wikipedia.

This semester, i have a tight schedule. 8 weeks of intensive classes, mostly from 8am to 8pm. And off course, since it’s the bologna era, my teachers give us essays to elaborate. Right now, im with 7 works to complete, one being a seminar organized by us, and the other a presentation to a congress. And i can’t forget the final graduation essay, it is an investigation work and it will take almost a year to complete.

SnapBomb Buzz marketing

SnapBomb?!? Oh yeah. Another great source to make money online and create some buzz about your site.

At snapbomb you get paid to review offers from advertisers.

But you say: “what? another paid to blog site?”

And i say: Not just another paid to blog site. Snapbomb is another valid option to make some money online, but besides this there are some aspects i want to talk:

Snapbomb couldn’t be easier. Your blog will be accepted rapidly. The control panel is simple. Don’t be “scared” by the lack of options. You get all you need. No complications. Simple and direct, and a great looking site.

How many sites does your rival has?

Well, i don’t think that no blogger has a rival in the real sense of the word, but let’s say in a positive way. You wonder how many sites a certain blogger has…

Well, if you want to have a 100% correct answer, then you can give up right now, because there is no way you can get a 100% certain… If you ask a blogger then it is most probable that he/she cant’ answer you with a right number.

But, there is a way, where you can have a number, that is no where near the right number.

No more Alexa redirect

Finally, Alexa decided to finish with redirections.

Some bloggers speculated that by making every link from their blog to be redirect through alexa site would help lower the alexa rank. There was no proof that this really worked, but many bloggers insisted in using it.

But, in the past days, alexa made every redirect to give a 404 error code.

I tottaly agree with this. I dindn’t like when i visited a blog and noticed that it was using the alexa redirect. Put your self on the eyes of a potential advertiser. You visit a blog, and see that it as a good alexa rank, but then you find it is using the famous redirect! What would you think? How fake is the rank?

PayperPost and Smorty – Bad neighbours?

Lately, the advertising opportunities available to me on Smorty, require that the blog does not have any Ad or review from payperpost.

As you may know google was on a penalizing spree to bloggers that used services such as text link ads or payperpost. This made a market change.

Text link ads is trying to hide as much as it can from google bot, and payperpost created Real Rank. PayperPost still require a disclosure of some sort, such a badge or a small text selling this post was sponsored by… Smorty advertisers want to keep their google ranks in good grace and don’t want nothing to do with payperpost.

Ad Auction Network – Focial.com

A few days ago i stumbled with an interesting site called Focial.com

This site is an auction site specialized in selling advertinsing for your blogs (but not only that!). If you know ebay, than all that was said about ebay its in focial.com except focial.com is a niche auction site.

What can you do there:

  • Buy and sell advertising
  • Advertise for guest bloggers and become a guest blogger for someone else.
  • Focial has paid and free listings
  • Advertise your graphics skills
  • Sell anything else that could help bloggers