The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

Image Source: Catch me if you can! - This image is modified from the original “follow me” I took in Mexico.

Just few months ago, I turned of the do-follow plug-in in the WordPress. My original purpose was to reduce the spam comments on my blog. Yes. My spam comments have since drop 80% in the past few months. Today I was informed by one of my readers who really want to get a quality link back to his web site or blog. I thought it will be a great idea to turn it back on. The question is this.

Do you leave comment on my blog, because I do follow?

If you read my blog for sometime, you probably know that I care about my blog readers so much. I want to know who reads my blog and who is commenting. The feedbacks from my readers are very important to me. It helps me to how much help my blog can provide to my readers. Read about “Who is reading your blog? Why do you care?”

So I have turned my do-follow plug-in on once again! Will that make my readers happier?

Popularity: 37% [?]

Image Source: White Ligth… - This image has been cropped, rotated and enhanced.

Oh! Sexy Pink! I can’t really resist the eyes with the pink heart looking straight at me. It turns me on. Oops! It turns my business revenue up! Have you got my attention?

This is another example of using blog post header image to demonstrate the power of image. Picture speaks for itself. I have used this image on my fashion jewelry blog. I meant to spice up my sales a little before the Valentine’s Day.

The question is “Does sexy image drive your business revenue forward?”

Popularity: 34% [?]

Image Source: a touch of Springtime - This image has been cropped and enhanced.

Have you read my previous post about using blog post header image? Does your blog make lemonade? Make your blog interesting with header images.

Do you like my blog post header images? I have put together two photo collections that show you my header images in one place. I like to use header images in my blog posts. It gives my readers a sense of my photography taste and the topic about my post. I believe that a great photo will speak for itself.

Blog Post Header Images - Collection 2

Blog Post Header Images - collection 1

I have been asked by few readers with the following questions.

Do you sell the photos you used on you blog?
How do you choose the photos?
How do you know what to do to modify your image?

I will answer all questions one by one. First of all, using blog post image is a fun but time consuming task. My resources for my photos are either from the creative common licensed photos on Flickr.com and the photos I took in the past. Here are my answers to the readers.

Popularity: 45% [?]

Image Source: Roots - This image has been chopped and enhanced.

Few months ago, I post a way to increase your blog’s Google page ranking with RSS feed at “DIY - Build quality backlinks with RSS Feed on blogger and wordpress.” Just about three months later, two of my blogs are marked PR3 with over 100 backlinks on each blogs. I can roughly say that my RSS FEED building quality backlinks strategy is working.

I did a little research on what page is linking back to my blog on Google. I found that the majority links to my blog are from the RSS Feed I add to the other blogs. The links are all coming from the same resource like the roots of the 1000 years old tree. It’s from ME!

Don’t know what I am talking about?

Popularity: 23% [?]

Image Source: And the games have begun The image has been cropped.

Few days ago, I posted that my Google Page Rank dropped from PR4 to PR0 on “TNX.NET - Text link ads may kill your Google Page Rank“. I believed it was caused by the advertisement I put on my blog. It includes the affiliate links from TNX.NET and ReviewMe. I decided to claim my PR back.

Now I can see that my PR is back to PR4. That’s good!

Popularity: 21% [?]

What does this chart tell you? I think it’s a warning sign to those who sell text link ads on their blogs.

A week ago, I received an email from someone asking me to join TNX to sell text link for profit. It looks very interesting. Thus I decided to sign up TNX dot net to sell some white space for paid links on my blog. I put the link with no ref tag (nofollow), which may be the reason causing me huge troubles.

My Google Page Rank drop dead. It drops from PR4 to PR0 in three days. I guess Google is in the process to update the page rank. Now I guess there are few reasons that my PR goes to hell.

Popularity: 19% [?]

Image Source: when life gives you lemons, make the best lemonade ever

I have been reading some professional blogs such as Dosh Dosh’s Internet Marketing and Social Media for sometime. One of the blogging tips is to add images to your blog post and makes the post more interesting. It gives the post fresh look and space to breath. It also give the readers a first impression on what this post may be talking about.

I don’t always have interesting topics to blog about. If you know me, you probably know that I am more of story teller blogger. My post images always have some degree of connection to the topic that I am writing about.

To make my post a little big interesting, I find pictures from Flicks.com. There are so many great photos that you can search for and use it on your web site. All the images on my blog are chopped into 600×140 in order to fit into my blog template. They are also under the creative common license, which allows me to modify, post on my blog and give the photographer some credit. I add all those photos to my favorite photos under my flickr profile.

Popularity: 20% [?]

Image Source: moberg trusts nobody

Recently, one of the blog that I read everyday generated some buzz and caught the attention from Darren Rose, the super problogger. The author at BloggingMix post “Why It Is Better To Network With Non Probloggers“, which got me thinking about who reads my blog.

Why you need to care?

Popularity: 17% [?]