Before I begin my review let me highlight a point made on the blog’s about me page. Blogriffic.com is written by Salwa and Salwa is a woman so if you decide to contact her don’t star off “Dear Sir”. I will break the review down in to several categories: Appearance/Design, Navigation, Content, Ideas For Improvement. [continued...]
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The biggest problem most sites run in to is trying to gain the respect of readers and other blogs in their niche. Knowing that in order to build up traffic, PR, and links you need to reach out to similar sites, but how do you go about getting them to care about you? This is tricky because if you hit up sites while you are in your infancy most will just ignore you because you don’t offer any real benefit in return, but how to you get to a point where you can offer something if you can’t get any traffic from them? I must have e-mail TMZ 20 times before they added me to their blogroll so you have to be willing to handle rejection. [continued...]
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When starting a new blog the question will eventually arise as to when is the proper time to shell out some money and invest in a custom theme. No a custom theme is an investment and it can be critical in taking your site from a hobby to something more serious. The most important thing to do is to study your site, find it’s strengths and weaknesses, look at other site for inspiration, and find a solid designer. [continued...]
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Social Bookmarking sites like DIGG, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and many similar sites are the life blood of many websites. They can create a new influx of visitors, an exciting surge in traffic, and make you feel like you are achieving new levels with your site. There are certain things you have to remember when dealing with these sites in order to gain something from them without wasting your time. This took me time to learn and when I did I noticed great returns.
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