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Create a WordPress Review Site

I have been thinking about this idea for some time now. The following are some of my thoughts, hopefully they’ll make sense and inspire you to create a review site within WordPress. The whole reason this is even possible is because of the WordPress plugin that Dan Grossman created. Thanks Dan!

Dan’s plugin is still being updated, and can be seen at this webhost review site. Ok, on to my idea.

First, you would want to research a market that would benefit from a review site. Here are a few that come to mind:

eBook reviews (There are thousands of eBooks available.)
Online forum reviews (This could be webmaster, or all forums.)
Scrapbook supply company reviews (Scrapbooking is a huge industry.)
Affiliate company reviews (Affiliate companies usually offer you the ability to refer new affiliates.)
Online bank account reviews (This might be hard to monetize, but the financial sector is very large. You could promote stock buying, financial advice, etc.)

I don’t know which of those would work well, but you could give them a shot. Download WordPress, download Dan’s plugin, and get started!

By |March 20th, 2007|Make Money Online|0 Comments
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Want a Free .edu Link? How about 64,200?

I know, you’ve been up all night waiting for this post right? Ok fine, regardless of whether you anticipated getting free .edu links, you should have been!

Without further ado, here is a simple Google search that results with 64,200 pages of potential links for a huge .edu domain, Harvard University.

site:blogs.law.harvard.edu

Want more ideas for free links, subscribe to my RSS feed!

p.s. Here is another great search to turn up some .edu links. Oh ya, if you like this post, link to it as well!

p.s.s I forgot, this is also a great search for free .edu links.

By |March 20th, 2007|Link Building|45 Comments
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Get a Free .edu Link Tomorrow!

In our ever evolving quest at getting links, people have come to appreciate that the .edu (Education) link is one of the greatest prizes, the holy grail of links. This is not because of some special power that a .edu TLD gives you, but because they are difficult to find, and even harder to acquire.

Because of their illusiveness, they have a huge trust factor and can become the authority on almost anything easily.

Here are a few reasons why .edu links are hard to come by:

They usually can’t be purchased.

You can’t beg for them.

You’re not a web designer for a college.

You don’t know any IT directors.

With that in mind, how much would you actually pay for a .edu link?

Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. PST I’m going to give you a post that will show you how you can get a free .edu back link in under 1 minute.

Sign up for the RSS feed, or refresh your browser in about 8.5 hours!

By |March 19th, 2007|Link Building, News|1 Comment
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Mac Webmaster Tools

As a Mac-using webmaster, I always have co-workers and friends asking what programs I use.

So here they are:

Design:

Adobe Photoshop CS2 – I can create anything that I need to and love using tutorials to learn more.

Adobe Illustrator CS2 – I don’t know much of anything about Illustrator except that I should be using it for logo’s since it is vector based. I can however follow a tutorial. 🙂

Code:

Smultron (Text editor) – I tried a few of the paid text editing programs, and they didn’t do anything more than Smultron (for the stuff that I do). So I stuck with Smultron. It is very lightweight and easy to use.

Dreamweaver 8 – Don’t really know much about Dreamweaver, I’ve never used any tools like it before, and don’t know if it really has a place in my life with all of the free templates available, and the ability of my developers to turn a PSD (Photoshop) into CSS/XHTML (or WordPress) in just a few days.

Adobe GoLive – As with Dreamweaver 8 I don’t really know much about GoLive except that the default code is heavy.

FTP:

Cyberduck – Cyberduck is without a doubt the best FTP program I’ve used. At first I didn’t like the layout and wanted something with side-by-side windows like I was used to on my PC. After using a few of the side-by-side programs with limited success, I tried Cyberduck. I stuck with it because it actually worked, when all of the others crashed. Now I like the fluid interface and it’s ability to interact with Mac OS X instead of residing on top of it.

Misc:

Firefox – Crashes all the time, can’t seem to avoid the spinning beach (pizza, colored) ball (wheel, circle).

Entourage/Gmail – email for work and personal.

iTunes/iPhoto – Managing music and pictures.

Quicken 2006 – Horrible for my business but it was free. It won’t print invoices, and doesn’t really have a way to track them. Good for personal finance.

Apple Remote Desktop – Absolutely necessary for managing multiple computers across multiple campuses.

NetRestore Helper – Create and deploy an image of a computer. My smallest image (full version of Mac OS X 10.3.9 with apps) is 750 mb’s. Yes, I’m proud of that!

Microsoft Office 2004 – Excel and Word mainly.

That’s about it. For a more complete list of the programs I have installed check out this post. Have a program to recommend? I’d love to hear it!

By |March 19th, 2007|About Me|0 Comments
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