No, Gadget Girl is not for sale you silly goose. And I don’t have any land for sale either, heck I don’t own any land to be able to sell, we rent our little townhouse for $1200 a month. *cringes at though of rent being due* I do however have some websites for sale over at Easy WAHM Websites if you’re interested in those. There are two for sale now, with another to be listed for sale in the next few days. Check it out 
So we changed to this slick shiny pink theme awhile back. But, it just didn’t feel homey enough for my geekiness. I had to tweak it a bit. I changed the sidebar a bit by taking the thought bubble off the bottom of the boxes and changing the bullet points from light gray to this fun aqua color. Then I changed the link colors. And of course the header. I started with the header image that came with the theme, took out the standard fill in the blank text and made it all one big clickable image instead with custom text (see how it matches music monday font?) and then I added that cool looking blue haired guy over there on the right. He was just for fun and his hair matched that cool aqua color over there too. That’s it …. and now I feel much more cozy in my geeky home.
Screenie attached to post for future reference when I change themes again -lol- Well, what do you think?
: blog themes, wordpress themes, custom wordpress themes, theme changes
The past week or two there has been news all across the internet about pr dropping like flies. Big sites, little sites, blogs, no one has been untouched by this mass pr drop. Of course everyone is blogging about it and rumors are flying left and right about penalties and links and all sorts of things. It’s a lot to absorb right now as someone that depends on the internet for the income that feeds my family.
Fortuantely I don’t have all my eggs in one basket, and I try very hard to not depend on Google because they change so much! You’ll notice I don’t run Adsense on any of my blogs. It’s just not the best blogging solution from tests that I’ve run in the past so I don’t bother with them on there. But, I do have static sites that use Adsense and do quite well there. I am a bit worried about those having problems with all the things going on on right now. Right now I’m trying out some new things, like the WidgetBucks you see up above on my homepage. And I’m looking into new options for static pages as well.
So what do you think has the face of the Google changed? Will there be an uproar of upset marketers and ultimately knock Google out of the running, or have they become too big to be knocked down already?
Do you remember when there was no Google? Someone said “Google” and you thought it was a baby toy or some other kid’s thing. There was a large selection of search engines to choose from at one time and there was more than one front runner. Yahoo, AltaVista, All the Web, Lycos, AskJeeves …. ringing any bells? Maybe we should go back in time to that internet. That was only a few year ago!
It might be just as valuable as a gold rush. Afterall links are the currency of the internet. Blog Rush is a unique traffic exchange for bloggers. You’ll see that I placed the widget in my sidebar here on Gadget Girl. I removed the Real Traffic Exchange box about a week ago because it wasn’t getting the results I had hoped for. This is a similar concept except it utilizes feeds to bring the most up to date information in your category. You choose the category so the content will always be relevant too!
The Blog Rush widget doesn’t take up much space, at least no more than any other widget would. I’ll be keeping my eye on it over the next month or so to see what kind of click through it brings me. If you decide to sign up and give it a try as well I’d love to hear your results too!
It’s Blog day everybody!!! I hit Google Blog Search this morning to seek out five gadget like blogs that I have never read before. Here’s where I ended up! My picks are all gizmo, gadget, and tech related as you cal tell from their titles.
You can participate too!
BlogDay posting instructions:1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2007 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.orgCelebrate!
Happy Blog Day to Everyone!!!!
Marcus is ahead of me again, but I blame being out of town for that. Fortunately step number 11 on the list is super easy.
Step #11
Use trackbacks
To use trackbacks you have to actually go read other blogs, and that’s what makes the whole thing work. If you’re using wordpress like I am sending a trackback is simple as pie because there’s a field for it below the post area. Just enter the url you want to send the trackback to and it will take care of the rest. Ta-da. As you can see Marcus has posted a demonstration of what the trackbacks on a post look like using the original lifehack article that these blogging steps come from. Yup, you’ll see one from me! Maybe two even. I love trackbacks!
November isn’t that far away and Blog World is one of the big blogging conferences, and “it” place to be. Now is the time to start looking for flights, hotels, and all the arrangements that need to be made before you head out to sunny Las Vegas. From what I’ve heard the Imperial Palace Las Vegas has some great deals for an older hotel in the big light up city and it’s on the monorail line which is helpful for out of town visitors. I haven’t decided upon attending or not yet myself, I am hoping that I can but the timing is just all wrong with school and hubby’s job that it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to go. I expect full reports from everyone that gets to make it and maybe grab me some free t-shirts and promo pens!
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