http://blog-op.com Opportunities, Opinions, Optimize Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:37:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think the time has come to do the decent thing and 'officially' close this blog. I say officially as it's been quite evident that I just don't have time to take care of it anymore. If I'm honest, I'm not that hugely interested in blogging as a topic anymore ... http://blog-op.com/curtains/ Want to know the secret behind blogging success? How to get thousands of readers? Ten thousand subscribers? It's easy. Write quality, original stuff about things that people are interested in. Want proof? Check out Maki's latest post on gaining 10,000 RSS subscribers, and you can see how he did it. I have to offer my ... http://blog-op.com/a-recipe-for-success/ Apparently the going rate is $30, or $19.50 after Sponsored Reviews have taken their cut. I'd forgotten to delete my blogs from Sponsored Reviews once I'd decided to stop doing paid posts, mainly because I'd only had two offers in the months that I'd been signed up with them, so I ... http://blog-op.com/how-much-would-you-charge-to-advertise-prostitution/ Does your blog have a 404 Page? Do you know what one is? And even if you can answer yes to both questions, are you making the most of it? Page Not Found A 404 error is what's generated when somebody searches for a page on your blog that is no longer ... http://blog-op.com/the-only-404-page-youll-ever-need/ Wherever you are, have a good one and don't eat too much! Red Christmas by krisdecurtis http://blog-op.com/closed-for-christmas/ My earlier post on reaching 5000 spam comments captured by Akismet raised some interest, as several commenters with blogs of similar ages have suffered more like 30,000 spams and asked what my plugins were. So, in approximate order of how they intercept spam, here they are: Bad Behavior: This one stops spam ... http://blog-op.com/best-wordpress-spam-plugins/ David has recently returned from a long break to find some tool has stolen his domain name by methods as yet unknown. As a result, he's got his blog back up at DavidAirey.co.uk, as it was the .com that was stolen. So, if you've linked to David in the past, or have ... http://blog-op.com/if-you-link-to-david-airey-please-read-this/ In a year and three days. When you consider that I also employ two other plugins that catch spam before it reaches Akismet, the true total may be 5 times higher than that - all that bandwidth and time wasted. I can't believe that there's so many morons in the world ... http://blog-op.com/another-proud-milestone/ No, it's not because of Googles insular approach to link leaving, but because of this: See the Blogger comment box? An unexpandable and unscrollable  box where over half of the comment field is obscured, and you have to hope there's no typos. Is this happening to anyone else? It's happened in the ... http://blog-op.com/why-im-not-commenting-on-blogger-blogs/ Birthday Cake by DeeM Amazingly enough it's been one year (yesterday in fact) since I started this blog. Although it never really did go completely as planned - I envisioned contributions from dozens of different bloggers, with a few regulars - I found enough to talk about myself, and ... http://blog-op.com/one-year-on/