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By: How to Balance Income, Promotion & Value to Your Readers

How to Balance Income, Promotion & Value to Your Readers — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:18:33 +0000

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Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:41:21 +0000

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By: Lainie Petersen

Lainie Petersen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:18:46 +0000

I think it boils down to courtesy and a willingness to empathize with your readers: We all know that people don’t like to contend with pop-ups or other blocks to reading our sites. So what makes some bloggers/webmasters think that they are special? Why should someone have to go through rigamarole in order to do you (the webmaster/blogger) the honor of reading your material (and clicking on your ads, buying stuff through your affiliate program, Stumbling, Digging, etc)? And yes, our readers are doing us an honor by reading our material. . .we need to remember this.

There are far better ways to get people to subscribe to email alerts than wasting their time and frustrating them.

By: Franklin Bishop

Franklin Bishop — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:17:47 +0000

Yup, they’re a pain in the ass.

By: Hussein

Hussein — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:15:32 +0000

I hate those popup subscription forms. I believe readers will subscribe whenever they want and no need for those popups.

By: Franklin Bishop

Franklin Bishop — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:24:45 +0000

haha, I completely know what you’re saying. I am going to do my own experiment and see how much it really helps. I am hearing mixed results, but we will see. This thing is still pissing me off though.

By: Franklin Bishop

Franklin Bishop — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:18:09 +0000

Yeah, it is not as annoying if it only pops up once. I am kind of doing my own experiment after reading a lot of other top bloggers experimenting with it. Everyone seems to be getting mixed results. You are definitely right when it comes to having a lot of traffic though.

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Sunday Link Love and Announcements | The Net Fool — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:08:23 +0000

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:27:40 +0000

It’s all about the newbie (and some not newbie) greed before thy know better.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:59:50 +0000

Oh indeed!

Just a few more subscribers for me. LOL