Blogstorm is about to get a new theme but before that I am looking for a new logo. The theme will be built around the logo.
If you think you have what it takes to build a killer logo then take a look at the entry over at 99 designs and submit your idea. Read more →
This week I learned a number of things, the first being that a lot of Internet people drive much better cars than me.
Secondly the Sphinn Upcoming section is as spam filled as ever, Danny needs to hire Shoemoney to stop the spammers and then start a wall of shame with a feed directly into the Google blacklist.
Thirdly people are accusing TechCrunch of being Digg spammers because they get their staff to vote for things. Pretty sure 10 votes isn’t going to have much of an effect compared to the fact top users love to submit their stories.
Finally a good method of seeking out paid links before either reporting them or buying some for yourself.
This month should be a good one for Blogstorm, we are about to hit 3000 RSS readers and 500 followers to my Twitter feed.
If you have yet to subscribe to either of these then please do so!
We also have a new design in the pipeline which will be a vast improvement on the current one.
Today I’ve been trying the new Google Search Insights tool which shows that Digg has a big following in Wales and Northern Ireland.
I’ve been away in Italy without internet access for 16 days so if you are one of the million people who sent me an email please be patient while I read them all.
Normal service will resume this week.
Thanks!
Grabitnow.com is a cool new website selling a different product every day until stocks run out. Today it’s offering a Kenwood Disney Waffle Maker for £19.16 delivered to your door in the UK.
According to a friend who works with the site they are about to launch an affiliate program which might be of interest to a lot of shopping sites here in the UK.
You can follow Grabitnow.com on Twitter to find out what deal they are offering each day and also to make sure you are updated when the affiliate program launches in the next couple of weeks.
It is sometimes hard to come up with new twists on e-commerce sites but this business model is likely to be a good one – as long as the products are the sort of thing people want to buy.
As a bonus Grabitnow.com has been known to give away products totally free so subscribing to their email alerts might be a good idea.
If you can see this post Blogstorm is now hosted by Media Temple.
So far they seem very good.
As some of you might be aware yesterday was the First Day of Summer (not that the weather was anything like summer) and I happened to write a blog post about it.
To celebrate the occasion Google changed their logo and linked the logo through to some search results for “first day of summer 21 june“. As you might have guessed my blog post came up in the number one spot.
Being number one for this search term sent about 16,000 extra visitors to Blogstorm. Not bad for a Saturday when traffic is normally quite low.
The search term “first day of summer” was the hottest term on Google Trends thanks to the link from the Google logo.
BlogStorm was one year old at the weekend so I wanted to share a few interesting stats about our first 12 months.
Growth has been pretty good and we are one of the biggest online marketing blogs in the UK which is nice.
Here are some fun stats:
How we started:
Today Blogstorm has finally been given sitelinks just 10 months after we launched.
It’s pretty rare for a site to get sitelinks inside 12 months so I’m quite pleased – it proves that getting links naturally works to build trust with Google.
The sitelinks are pretty strange but I will try and make them a bit better over the next few weeks.
This is funny. The UK version of Internic has a typo in their official logo. How do some people manage to get through life?
RT @randfish: Correlation between link metrics and higher rankings quantified: http://t.co/OMtSmh6B via the @openalgorithms project
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