Stumble into the Weekend 01/18

Another Friday night, another weekend begins, and Tobsy has stumbled his favorite blog posts of the week, so you have something to read.

Oh, and I’m not gonna mention any PR-updates or the Pepperjam Affiliate Network. No need to thank me

Enough introduction, let’s go to the list.

If you’re into Marketing, you know how important mailing lists & newsletters are. Now, I’m cheap, so I’m playing around with PHPList, but the most popular service seems to be Aweber. Darren has just made the switch to using Aweber and wrote a First Impression Review. Sounds tempting.
Oh, looks like Skellie’s having a double feature here. First, on Daily Blog Tips, she wrote “10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers“. Definitely worth a read (and don’t forget the comments. Some pretty good ones). Skellie’s second post is “31 Days to Becoming a Better Blogger” on North x East - Lots of great tips cut in nice sized chunks.
What does your robots.txt look like? You have one, right? If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, just read Josh Spaulding’s “In-Depth robots.txt Guide“. Don’t neglect it.
What’s the first thing people see of your site, when they visit it? Read Vandelay’s “Blog Design: What Should Be Above the Fold?” to find out why this is an important question.
I’ll finish with a nice surprise from WPDesigner. Small Potato announced his “Five Dollar Themes Club“. That means that you will get at least 12 premium WordPress Themes for a yearly fee of $5. I really like his themes, so I’m suprised about the price, but hey - count me in.

Okay people, that’s it from me for this installment of SitW. I hope you like the selection. If you do, let the writers know. I’m sure they’d be happy to hear it.

Have a good read and a nice weekend.

8 Responses to “Stumble into the Weekend 01/18”

Steven Snell on January 19th, 2008 at 3:56 am

Thanks for the link! Have a great weekend.
Marenda on January 19th, 2008 at 7:15 am

Funny how each one of these pertains to something I need to work on or have been contemplating. Thanks for giving me the push I needed in researching further. I was looking at Aweber the other day…and I’m always interested in new themes wow thanks again this is right on time for me.
Josh Spaulding on January 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Nice collection of links there. Thanks for the plug!
SEO Pony on January 23rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Thanks for the robots.txt link. Very useful.
Andrew on January 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

There all nice articles. I will stumble them myself. The first article is particular helpful with my advertising strategies. Thanks a lot for showing me them.

Regards Andrew
Alison on January 25th, 2008 at 12:50 am

Thanks for the blog list. It has been raining non-stop where I live, so I will probably check out these and the ones you post tomorrow! Not much to do but sit in front of a computer.
Daniel on January 25th, 2008 at 10:07 am

that was an awesome quality post. i followed the link to “10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers”. needless to say it was worth a gem. i have already bookmarked that page. thanx.
Galatasaray on July 26th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

Very good.