Foreign Perspectives

As you may know, I am a participant in the Technorati favourites exchange which was thought up by DoshDosh as a means of getting loads of into the front rank of Technorati and indeed a growing number of the participants are turning up in the top 100 favourites list on Technorati.

However, what I found most instructive was the number of ideas exchanged across the last 10 days amongst the various participants in this programme. For one thing, a considerable number of those participating fall into the “techie” or “make money online” groups of blogs worldwide and the number of lessons I’ve picked up in that time has been enormous.

Some of the first fruits of those lessons has been in the new ad format that you can see throughout the blog. I figured that if the square adsense format was used by almost all the “making money” blogs, it was bound to be a “good thing” so I’ve adopted that. Also, you’ve seen from a few days ago the little underlined popup adverts which is also used by them.

Funnily enough, although I was adding all the blogs to my favourites just to get into that top 100, I’ve found a number of the articles on the favourited blogs quite interesting. I’ve even picked up several relevant backlinks from blogs which I’d not otherwise have seen.

Now, if only I could up the traffic on Foreign Perspectives and/or get ‘yall to click on the adverts for me, I’d be able to give up the day job… Funnily enough, I’d not really have thought that possible a few weeks ago but there does seem to be a whole lot of people out there living off their blog income so apparently it is possible.