Posts Tagged ‘blog’

One of the joys of a website like this is that I get to say whatever the fcuk I like… And I get to have some fun at other peoples expense. The site I’m going to review here is one thoroughly deserving of this. One of the worst sites I’ve seen in a long time.

What drew it to our attention? Well, the owner left a pretty snide comment on the site of a friend of mine – a young guy from England who recently set up a blog aimed at the male market – you know the kind of thing, along the lines of the ‘male interest’ magazines seen all over the world – girls, cars, sport and just the stuff that guys like. Nothing wrong with that – at least he isn’t another “I know fcuking everything even though I’ve been on the Internet for two minutes I can tell you how to get rich quick if you send me some money” type….

Here’s the comment

Juvenile and pathetic as only a site called blokebuddy could be – scared of women then huh? Not too hot on English either, ’spending there time’ should be ’spending their time’ by the way.

To be honest I think the owner of the site the comment was left on may well concede his grammar is not always perfect. However, knowing his blog – he is a bright guy and has some interesting and informative information on the site… And, in terms of design and navigation – it’s a pretty good site. It’s a big market and a sensible choice of content for a guy who’s interested in – well – girls, cars, and other stuff guys are interested in… If you’re a ‘regular guy’ Bloke Buddy is well worth a visit. Read the rest of this entry »

Ask yourself this one simple question before you start a blog. If the answer is yes - as in this case - don't waste your time...

I found this on a forum recently – it’s hilarious (and at the same time instils pity)  – but so fcuking typical of the kind of crap that invests the Internet like a virus these days…

I am new in this business, I sincerely do not know what to do from here. Well I was able to post two articles titled “How to make money online without a dime” and “How to make money online on my site.

How do I attract traffic to my site and what do I need to do to improve my site?

Now here’s someone who needs to give up the notion that they are going to become a millionaire blogger – right now!In fact I’d go further than that – here’s someone who just needs to give up any notion of making any money from a business of any kind ever….

If you are reading this and don’t understand why I have said what I have – perhaps you ought to think about giving up too…!

(I did look for an address for their blog  to rip it apart but they hadn’t even had the good sense to include it in their forum profile)

With so many people now setting up blogs under the illusion that it is an easy way to get rich and famous – it’s nice to see someone who is learning quickly that it isn’t so easy as the get rich quick scammers make out whilst selling you freely available ‘advice’.

Here’s a post from a guy in India with a suitable touch of humour and cynicism…

1) Throw a shoe whose sole is emblazoned with my blog url at a V V I P. It will earn me the respect of fellow countrymen, besides increasing the number of hits to my blog.

2) Get detained, on purpose, at an airport for questioning and kick up a fuss about it. Oh wait. I am not travelling by air anytime soon. How about getting detained at a bus stop?

3) Hold a swayamvar or swayamnari or whatever it is called when a man is choosing a wife.

4) Write a book praising any of the past or present politicians. It’ll kick up a worlwide debate and within days my book will be the number one bestseller and my blog will have the maximum number of visits.

5) Go and punch a few pub-going girls.

6) Just die while bathing. People will realise that they have lost a great legend and my blog will get popular. My name will be the most searched on google. My possessions (including my glittery, but moth-eaten socks) will be auctioned off for millions. But wait, I am not as famous as Michael Jackson. Yet.

There is so much truth in humour! I can’t see him breaking into the big time any time soon – but good luck to the guy – at least he has realistic expectations, unlike so many…

Here’s the original post if you want to have a look at it.

Here’s an article I found via Facebook. Suggest you read it, and then never do anything like it!

This is an example of “doesn’t matter about the quality – lets just bang it up there – it’s more content”. The old adage that Content id King certainly doesn’t apply here.

Many companies think that if they put a blog on the back of their site the content all helps from the point of SEO – yes, it does… But when people find it and the quality isn’t there it then reflect poorly – as this one does.

This blog is on the back of what at first glance is an American web design company (they are not – they are in India, once you start reading the content). The main site, and the blog are well designed – but the content of this article is, to say the least basic.

“How to promote your blog” – sounds an interesting article from the title – but, read the article and it says virtually nothing – nothing anyone with half a brain wouldn’t know or be able to work out for themselves. The main points being;

“Firstly if you wish the online users to spend some time on your blog,then stop compromising with your content. Build a very useful and informative content for your blog so that people wish to learn from your blog post.”

This content is so basic in the extreme it does not achieve this…

“Secondly update your content on the blog. The interested users would be coming to your site looking for more information. Unmodified content would make them deviate to different sites. So,always update your content.”

State the fcuking obvious why don’t you!

“Thirdly site examples from your previous experiences in your blog so that it looks genuine to the reader.”

No examples (or substance in this article!

If you are going to Blog (especially if your main site claims you are experts) do the job properly and don’t write drivel like this. Learn to write interesting and INFORMATIVE text!

Click here if you want to see the original article.

We have a very successful specialist forum, and I’m now in the process (or should I say have pretty much finished) setting up a new one devoted entirely to blogs – the blog forum. And now, I’m looking for bloggers who might be interested in helping with contributing, promoting and moderating the new forum.

Being a founder member of the forum will present plenty of opportunity to promote yourself, your blog and your credibility as the forum grows.

I could easily do this myself – but thought it would be much more entertaining to do it with some like minded souls…

Interested? Send me and email and tell me a little about yourself (in return I’ll send you a bit of background on myself) and we’ll take it from there…

Yes - it does look a bit like me...

You know – up to now I don’t know. But to give  anyone reading this some background – as I’ve said elsewhere I am a web designer. I’m also a web designer that believes in practising what I preach, so my wife and I also run an ever expanding portfolio of  sites and blogs which make revenue mostly through paid for advertising and Google adsense. As well as blogs under our own names. We’re big fish in a little pond if you like.

So why this blog? I got a bit pissed lately after a former ‘friend’ picked our brains and then headed off to imitate our work – and in one particularly galling instance approaching a client, try to sell to them – whilst also duplicating content from one of our sites. He now has three blogs – in one of which he portrays himself as an Internet/blogging guru – quite absurd given that he started last Xmas and is doing the usual ‘I want to be a professional blogger’ thing of copying the ‘10 ways to blog’ post and the like, rewording it and claiming to be authoritative… Also claiming that this blog actually is now his main living – do the sums – it must be bullshit – or at best a gross exageration of the truth.

Okay, so I couldn’t give a damn about him personally – but I do care about his site and sites like it that…

1. Tell lies, most people who make these claims are probably only making a few bucks on the side – if that
2. Decieve, where these people try and sell you stuff of little value, like stupid reports on how to get rich overnight
3. Infest the Internet, I can’t stand just how many of these ‘get rich bloggin’ blogs there are with all the same crap on them
4. Create spam, and never let go of any email address they acquire
5. Scam unwitting newbies into parting with cash for ridiculous schemes anyone with a bit of Internet savvy know won’t work

Getting the picture of where I stand?

I also don’t like stupid personal blogs – but do get highly amused by just how bad some are…

I have no idea where this site is going at the moment – I guess I’m going to let it establish it’s own direction – but so far the plan is to throw in some irreverent blog reviews of terrible blogs,  give a few hints and tips on things that I KNOW works – and take a few guesses at others, perhaps the odd personal take on life and maybe expose the odd scam.

I’ll also be riddling the site with affiliate links – to things I like – and things – I don’t. And, I’m very interested to see if people do sometimes click through and buy the scams and trash I write about….. This blog, is a bit of an experiment – and will take shape, and find its’s own direction over time….

One of my pet hates are those millions of blogs out there with useless and unreadable content. You must have seen them… So often just a string of random words loosely held together and completely unintelligible.

Why? Because people get suckered into the belief that “Auto blog content generators” actually work. I’ve yet to see any sales pitch that’s convinced me. The problem is that so many are based on keywords, and a million keywords interspersed with other random words that hold them together. Even if you do get traffic and rankings from them – how many readers are actually going to switch off before the end of the first sense because they think they’ve been conned into landing on your site?

The over used phrase “content is king” is actually true. But NEVER at the expense of quality. I urge you don’t buy this crap!

We’ve all seen the hype about Twitter – my god even Oprah got into it (loved the look on her face on that show when she realized just how much she gave to charity – you’d think they were about to empty her bank account!)…

Lets face it – what is Twitter – it a means to scream out into the world stuff it doesn’t want to hear – are you really that desperate for friends…? It’s millions of people shouting out on a CB radio looking for friends (or should I say readers) but getting nothing but sales pitches back. I tested it out recently on behalf of a client. What do you get, millions of bloggers selling crap ‘following’ you.

Twitter has no substance, no longevity and is nothing more than a silly Internet fad (look what happened to MySpace). It’s not useful in any commercial sense to a small business, and it’s time consuming for very little in return. It’s nothing more than hype…

Watch it crumble fairly quickly now its got polluted (as everything does) by your get rick quick merchants , the Clickbank report sellers, and scam merchants.

Yes, you can spend all day “tweeting” (how stupid does that sound) and beg people to visit your site, and you visit theirs in return, but for one minute have you thought about the quality of that traffic? What you are getting other than sad “I´m going to be millionaire one day” bloggers – just like you – without two cents to rub together to buy the crap you are selling (they are probably selling the same crap too anyway…).

Is Twitter the new way to fame and fortune for wannabes – somehow I doubt it….

Don’t believe me? Then why not look at something like the “Turbo Cash Generator” (love the name – very catchy) – this person claim to make over $3,000 a day.. Call me a cynic – I am!

Why the fcuk do people think their daily routine to be of interest to – well – anyone else… Get this boy he’s one sick puppy! If this is his daily routine he some fcking weirdo. His day consisted of…

1. A shower and a shaved (fairly normal until you see how he shaves on his picture – I don’t think he’s quite got the hang of it yet)

2. Listened to a Hilary Duff CD (okay, so fairly normal to listen to a CD in the morning but the choice, coupled with a number of other posts about Britney being his idol are starting to bring his sexuality into question)

3. He went to the pharmacy to find his blood type and my height and weight (is that a normal comment to be headed routine?)

4. He ate Kinder Bueno (big fcking deal, how interesting), which he described as “paradise of pleasure” (gay? I´m not sure, as I saw that he was Spaish, so he may well just be camp as so many of them are…)

Now for the “pièce de résistance” – tha name of the blog? “Rodelicious”. The boy is a pig, nobody but their mother could think a bozo like this “Rodalicious”. The blog seems to have died in mid-2008 – I guess he found out that he wasn’t as interesting as he thought it was.

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“This blog is all about me, family, daily adventure, idea, opinions, experiences, inspiration etc”.

…this is the blog of a happily married Filipino woman who lives in Nashville – it’s all pink and fluffy – she got big cuddly toys on valentines day…

What’s the latest post?

A fcuking sales pitch (probably cut and pasted) advertising hotels in Canada. Doesn’t bear much relevance to her “mission statement” does it…? Why the hell do people think they are going to make money dropping crap like this post into their blog…?

Don’t worry though if sentimental ramblings are you thing there’s plenty of that crap on this blog if you dig a little further

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