Friday Link Express
Lifehack looks at the pros and cons of working from home. It’s not all about hangin’ out in your PJs.
Art of Money looks at increasing your affiliate sales and suggests ways to help prevent Google from ruining your life, from banning your AdSense account to showing you running around naked in StreetView.
Dosh Dosh has a great guide to using Flickr for traffic building if you have photos you can promote. I used his advice to add a small feed of Flickr pics to my site TravelMinx in the right sidebar.
Ryan Shamus is running a competition to guess when the next Google PageRank update will be and the prizes are lots of cool stuff from Google. So far I have a Google blanket and a Google mouse, so hopefully there will be more added to my collection. Although my guess was at midnight, July 21, when the next Harry Potter book is released, which is tomorrow.
My Open Wallet asks if we think ‘What do you do?’ is a good question to pose at social gatherings. I say sometimes, but it can also be a conversation-killer.
Startup Or Bust writes about 18 Killer Cover Headlines (and how to use them on your blog). Fantasy future blog headline: Rich Minx: How I Went From 4c A Week To 4 Million A Minute
My alter-blog Travel Minx has a post this week called 10 Tips From a Language Learner and Teacher, for anyone who dreams of chatting away in something other than English.
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Thanks for the linx, Minx.
July 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pmContextual ads in content, what a concept!
I’m betting if you made the titles red (to match your site’s links) and the urls black, you’d be a big step closer to $4m a minute.
Well, sometimes we need reminding of the basics
But if I made my urls black then the red titles wouldn’t match my links…?
July 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pm“But if I made my urls black then the red titles wouldn’t match my links…?”
You want the titles to match the links in your articles. The urls in the ads should be black just to de-emphasize them.
It is a visual cue-ing system. You are telling your visitor: “everything important, that you can click on to find more great information is in red.”
Since people have already been trained by early Internet standards to believe that links “should” be blue, you would see a further increase in click through rate if you changed the color of all your links (in your posts and AdSense) to blue.
July 20th, 2007 at 12:52 pmOkay, I’ll give it a go Obi-Jon. You can have 5% of my seven-figure income
July 20th, 2007 at 1:02 pmThanks for the link! Here’s to making $4m a minute!
July 20th, 2007 at 3:26 pmYou’re welcome. Any minute now…
July 20th, 2007 at 4:41 pmOkay master Minx. Impressive immediate implementation!
July 20th, 2007 at 11:48 pmWe still have a slight disconnect however.
In AdSense, the URL is the part at the bottom of the ad and the Title is the top part.
Ex.
Title: Make $200 a Day on Clickbank
URL: PileOCash.com/ClickbankRocks
Currently on your site, you have the URLs blue, and the titles black. You want to have the titles blue and the URLs black.
And you may want to try #000080 as the shade of blue, a little easier on the eyes and clinically tested by Obi-Jon to have the highest CTR.
Ah, okay, done. I’m not sure if that blue’s very clear in the posts, though. What do you think?
July 21st, 2007 at 1:24 amYou’ve got it now. Just sit back and watch the clicks pour in!
July 21st, 2007 at 1:38 amOf course, if you were to embed that AdSense block right into the arti….. oh, nevermind
Heh you ended on a cliffhanger! Just like Prison Break. But I think I got the message
July 21st, 2007 at 1:59 amThanks for the link love Minx!
I’m sure you’re busy checking your growing Adsense account, so I’ll leave you alone!
Good tips though..and I agree, I’m all about the blue links. It’s Internetly correct.
July 21st, 2007 at 7:05 pm