Short and sweet on a rainy Sunday afternoon …..
Two things:
1. New Look of Blog Income Life
2. New Feature for You
1. New Blog Income Life Look.
How do you like the new look of Blog Income Life?
I changed it because a blogger whom I respect suggested that the theme I had was bland (or words to that effect). I often thought about that myself and chalked in “custom design” as a future expense item for when the blog starts to bring in the bucks. But when Glen Allsop, who owns and authors Viper Chill pointed out the blandness of the theme, I thought it was time to take action now.
Still I did not want to dig into my pocket to the tune of $2K for a webmaster just to redesign my blog and header and you know what my thoughts are when it comes to anything techie … not my strong suite, not an area I want to become an expert in.
What I did instead was to visit some other successful blogs. I looked at their designs. I noticed that while most were extremely well designed for SEO they did not really have bells and whistles and pictures and graphics and a slick “professional” look(well OK, Glen does have a slick logo on his header) – they were bang on about what it is that their blog is about and, I noticed, they were well monetized.
Back to the drawing board. The good thing about WordPress Direct is that there are plenty of templates to choose from. After going through the choices several times I chose this one. It’s cleaner, modern and to the point and took me all of a minute to change the template … I also like where the comment option appears.
Do you like it? Yes? No? Post your comments below.
New Blog Income Life Comment Feature.
This is a do follow blog, in other words, if you comment on this blog the bots will follow your comment to your blog and give you what is known as link juice, or backlinks, but unless you know how to check this out, there is nothing to show the visitor that this is a comment friendly blog.
To those with quizzical looks on their faces now, the common practice these days is to not allow “do follow” in which case, when you post a comment to someone’s blog, the bots will not follow the link back to your site. This was implemented some time ago to discourage spam comments. If you comment on such a blog, your effort is not entirely wasted, as if your contribution was worthy, some of the readers may visit your blog, so inch by inch, traffic becomes a synch.
While visiting other successful blogs I noticed that many used the Comment Luv plugin. Success leaves clues. I went and registered at Comment Luv and downloaded the plugins for both the Comluv and Twitterlink features. Now, when you comment here, the title of your latest blogpost will appear and it will be tweeted to your twitter community. You do need to register at Comment Luv to activate this feature and while you are at it, add the plugin to your own site – it also has an affiliate.
Happy Blogging!
Valentina
Comment Luv luvs cheese!
Other Related Posts on Backlinks:
Link Building Part III – Pingbacks & Backtracks
Link Building – Part II
Link Building – Part I
