Weborithm’s First Exclusive Theme
I talk a lot about free WordPress themes but today I want to clue you into a great theme designed by the writer of a blog that I read every day.
Hyder who recently started a blog design company called Weborithm and the writer of the blog Everybody Go To.
A while back Hyder did a design for John Cow, but now you can purchase the theme via John Cow in three versions.
The theme is called Milk It. (Live Preview)
The basic version is priced at $39, the two links in the footer must stay
The premium version is priced at $59 and is for those who would like to remove the links from the footer and also gives you the choice of three different color schemes.
The personalized version costs $79 and gets you a customized header.
I’ve been reading Everybody Go To for a few months and love the blog. I just wanted to point all of you to this blog design because I think it is great. Wonderful layout, great colors, etc., etc., etc.
Here Comes Another Bubble
I haven’t posted any videos here before but I figured that since Blogging is such a large part of Web 2.0 it was relevant.
I’m not sure whether the bubble is close but I do think that a second bubble will come, when? I don’t know. I wish I did, but that is just not how things worked. hopefully it will be quite a while but at the same time, maybe it would be better for it to just get over with.
I’m not going to talk much about this because I don’t know enough about business to understand this stuff, but I do understand that most of the last bubble was fueled by IPOs, this time we don’t have that, but we do have a limited number of advertisers and I think that the money being thrown at online advertising will start to dry up, and that, in my opinion, is going to be what fuels this next bubble.
Google Bans Ads for Paid Links
Last night on Waxy.org: Links I came across a nice article talking about paid links. It basically said that Google has banned ads for paid links sellers (the original article is on Google Blogoscoped).
The article talks about Google cracking down on paid links that don’t carry the nofollow attribute. The article shows two picture of Google search results for “pr8.”
First off I will say that I personally believe that paid links should be allowed, if anything Google should change, not website owners.
But, it doesn’t look like Google has completely fixed the problem, a quick Google search for “links” showed this:
As you can see by clicking on the picture above in the “sponsored links” section on the right the ads are as followed:
- Buy 500+ Lnks
- Oneway Links $20 a Month
- Buy Links Here
- 5 Ways to Build Links
- Buy Marketing Links
- Massive Link Popularity
And on the top of the page:
- 1000s of Links from $10/m
- Buy Links
- Buy Links
(it doesn’t look like they did that good of a job banning them)
As a side note, at the time of writing this, that is what you will get but I do understand that by the time this is posted it may be a little different.
It just goes to show you that what Google is doing WILL NOT fix the “problem” of paid links, it will only push further and further underground making it harder for Google to distinguish who is and who isn’t selling paid links (potentially making it more difficult to penalize those who are doing so).
Like I said above, I believe that with all of the PHDs in Google someone there should be able to figure out a better solution to this “problem.”