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Interesting analysis. My website, http://officesnapshots.com http://officesnapshots.com, is essentially the same idea ("information DJ") but in a much different
by stevesearer 13y ago
Interesting analysis. My website, http://officesnapshots.com http://officesnapshots.com, is essentially the same idea ("information DJ") but in a much different vertical - company offices.
Once you start collecting information in blog format, the difficult thing to do is to do anything interesting with it other than have it in date-based archives. The Christmas Cookies site is much more interesting in that way.
For anyone looking to start a blog with this sort of model, I've found it important to actually go and sell your site to advertisers as opposed to sitting back and waiting for them to come to you and buy.
- edwinnathaniel 13y agoHi Steve! I'm a casual Office Snapshots viewer! :D It's always exciting to come to your site once in a while just to see those nice offices (especially those outside North America). Thanks for keeping the site up to date too!!
- stevesearer 13y agoAwesome, always happy to meet readers! I've tried to be pretty diligent about categorizing offices by location, so if you're interested in a plain ol' list: http://officesnapshots.com/location/ http://officesnapshots.com/location/
- pwelch 13y agoAnother casual Office Snapshots visitor. Also, wanted to say thanks for keeping it updated. Always an interesting read.
- benlarcey 13y agoLooks like you're selling banners on the right hand side and not nofollowing them, be careful as that's a Google crime and you may find yourself on the receiving end of a Google penalty.
- stevesearer 13y agoI've gotten the impression (pun!) that nofollow isn't strictly necessary for banners. In this video[1], Matt Cutts says many banners have nofollow to prevent bots from messing with tracking numbers, but I didn't get the feeling he is saying it is not allowed. Anyone else have wisdom on this? [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SesBNVanGs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SesBNVanGs
- Matt_Cutts 13y agoHi Steve, that advice was for banners that used typical ad networks, and Google handles the vast majority of typical ad network banners correctly. It looks like your links are direct hyperlinks, so I would recommend using nofollow on the right-hand links or ads.
- stevesearer 13y agoWell it doesn't get any clearer than that so I'll be updating accordingly. Thanks for the advice on it.