A Tiny Signs Links and Kisses Dilemma
As most of you have known, I am giving out free backlinks and website reviews right now and I am getting a little more attention than what I have expected to get. Tiny Signs now wants more!
I know 100+ PV in a couple of days (2~3 days) may be little low to most of those “veteran” bloggers out there, but when I started out, it was just a couple of friends who frequent my site and Tiny Signs is happy to have around 2~5 visits a day.
Now because of my hunger for much more attention, I am entertaining the fact of separating my Links and Kisses reviews from the main objective I had when I started out - to share my knowledge about a couple of Programming Languages I learned from the University, books - I have stolen from the Library (joke! I just borrowed them), and few of e-books which were bigheartedly sent by a couple of friends over the net.
But, the problem is, How am I going to pull it off. I thought of putting it in a separate directory, which would mean, I will upload another wordpress copy in my hosting (which is provided for FREE by a friend whom I met over a forum.) or I would just list them in a Link and Kisses page, but that would just make you navigate more to reach it. I could also modify a ranking software, the only problem with this one is time constraints - I am trying get a job so I could upgrade my Internet connection and pay the bills.
I am really irritated since I can seem to decide which way to go with this blog. I want to get those traffic more, and do not want to get my site full of reviews (I could only manage to get 2~3 sites everytime I get connected and I am on a budget - 0 income in the meantime :))
Well, you’ll hear from me in a couple of days, after a few interviews here and there. In the meantime, care to share some thoughts?
**update: I have tried the comment coming from Spud Oregon (Thanks!), but have not yet put it on the links on top of my blog, although I have edited the widget.php file to have a widget for the Links and Kisses last 10 Reviews and prevented the Recent Posts to show my posts in the Links and Kisses category, I still don’t know how to prevent my next and previous navigations to NOT show the posts from the said category. Maybe by tommorow I could figure this out.
May 5th, 2007 at 11:44 am
If I were you, I would edit your Wordpress index file to NOT show posts from your Links and Kisses category. I would then add a Links and Kisses page to your top menu bar. This page should act the same as clicking on your Links and Kisses category, i.e. it only shows posts from that category.
This seems to be a fair way of separating your tutorials from site reviews, while keeping the reviews within the blog. I’m sure you’ve got the skills to do this, but if you need any help, just ask.