Plenty of Fish: Take a look at the picture of Plenty of Fish’s owners’ two month check from Google. I had to go back and re-read it a couple of times to make sure I understood everything correctly. PS: To make the picture bigger, just right click and save or open in a new window. Wow.

Websites as graphs View your website as a graph of colored, connected dots representing the various HTML entities. Thanks to TinyScreenFuls. Interestingly enough, I played around with a couple of blogs/sites before I came upon one that broke the grapher and did not display a graph at all. Can you find that blog? Below is a graph of this blog.

Ike Uneasy Rhetoric is a paean to my hometown, Sacramento, California. I loved it, I left it, I came rushing back into its fry’an’egg on the sidewalk hot embrace. A politically aware community activist by design (living in the capital of the world’s sixth largest economy), my blog will also contain a smattering of political banter, some wistful nostalgia, and the occasional foray into rhetoric. CT hahmed.com Catnabbit My site could always use some more cat loving visitors, and I’ll be keeping up to see what other sites you feature! SB Pop Occulture. I’ve been trying to stay true to the whole “write good content” thing for about three years now, covering all aspects of fringe culture from everything to technology to pop culture, to conspiracy and contemporary spirituality. Thanks in advance for the opportunity to spill my guts here! http://www.jesseslife.com I think there’s some outdoorsy people that may be […]

10 Blog promotion tools: Meh!Add these tools to grow your blog readership. Though there is a place for tools to help a blog readership grow, blog marketing and marketing through blogs is extremely overdone. Yes, these are directed towards marketing professionals but they send out the wrong message and end up in generating unwanted pages with bogus content and Akismet fodder. There is no shortcut, no miracle tool, no ten steps to blog nirvana. If you are a blog author, entrepreneur, marketer or a new blog author, there is one surefire tool to grow your readership and get visited/read by a bunch of people. Wait for it … Write good content. Keep a lazy eye on all tools, features, themes, widgets, scripts, plugins, links, readers, browsers and everything in between, but write good content. I try to help people start and popularize good (and useful) blogs by guiding them in […]

Ready for more aggressive monetization? The following line really struck a chord with me: Even if you have a “real” job and your blog is your hobby, I think your family would appreciate something more than an additional few lattes a month earned from your blogging. A nice dinner out, gift for your partner, car payment, chipping away at the nagging credit card debt. That pretty much the same idea I had in mind when I started Qlue to give a chance to the regular everyday blogger to make a few extra bucks on the side without the hassles of purchasing and maintaining a web hosting account.

How Much Is Your Blog Worth? There are two links on that page. One that points to LeapFish where you can evaluate the value of your domain name and the other points to this page where Dane has used some real world data and live Technorait information to calculate the value of your blog. Don’t break out the champagne just yet. 🙂

Akismet has caught 271,167 (spam) for you since you installed it. That is 1.01% of all Spam (26,898,036 as of this post) that Akismet has caught! [EDIT] How many Spam has Akismet caught for you?

The redesign competition for weblogtoolscollection.com has received a lukewarm response with many people expressing interest but only a few coming up with examples for the redesign. To keep from beating a dead horse, I just will end the competition without any results. The two participants that have taken the time and put something together will be contacted by me and I will compensate them for their time. Thanks for playing.