Ah, the bloggies. I mentioned them in the last post, and you can read my comprehensive voting patterns here. One award I suggest for next year would be “Best Spotting of Grammatical Mistakes”, as Mike would win. Notice the mistake on the main site? No? Have a look here (Click for bigger).
Yes, the awards are 2 years out of date! It doesn’t matter (the 10th is a Wednesday), and I’m not that much of a grammar nazi to email the guy to say that he’s wrong. It did take me ages to spot, even when Mike told me about it, so I only think anal individuals such as myself would both pick up on it, as well as blog about it!
In other news, I found a great website for people who use Adsense to make a bit of cash on their blogs. One thing that annoys me greatly is getting 1p for a click, it’s just so demoralising. Now, I thought it was just business, but it turns out a group of unscrupulous companies buy cheap and sell expensive on those clicks. So people click on those ads, I get a penny, through to another site, click on an ad, somebody else gets a couple of quid. So, here’s AdBlacklist. You add your site, add keywords, and then click generate for 200 dodgy websites. You paste it into Google’s Ad Filter, and pow – no more dodgy ads. Apparently, it takes about 12 hours to work (and I haven’t noticed anything hugely different yet), but it’s free, it’s got to be worth a go, and it’s quite straightforward.
Finally, another bit of good news is that I’ve had after just one week my first ad on Text Link Ads. I’d been wanting to join it for about 6 months (when I was on Blogger), but it needed PHP. However, the very day I switched to wordpress, they announced blogger support, pish. But still, earning a little bit of money is nice, and getting a client within a week is very impressive and I’m happy.with it so far. I don’t like this blog becoming a shill vehicle, full of referral links, but I genuinely recommend anybody who wants to make a bit of extra dollar out there to join. Click Here For Text Link Ads (Referral Link).
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
My friend Geyv is like that. He is very hot on his grammar and spelling. I often tell him to Bugger off but I secretly find that quality really sexy!
Well, a lot of my readers are grammar Nazi’s, upto the point that I automatically email people who make like of my inability to tell the difference between would’ve and would of.
Though I’m not much of one, I feel it stifles personality (when I finally did write “would’ve”, I had a few comments saying “WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH RHYS?!?!?!”, and one of my favourite books talk about the Fonz – which is more like his catchphrase: “Hey”, or “Heyyyyy”?)
Doesn’t the Fonz say ‘Ayyyyy’?
Yeah, same difference
“Would of” just sounds so terrible though, its horrid. Anyway, back to the point, IE6 has the two RHS columns (links / adds / recent posts etc) completely blank until after the text in the main blog column. Not really an issue, but any one click wonders visiting your site who use IE (most people I imagine) will not see the ad’s and hence not click on them
It isn’t on IE7 though, and I’ve tried to replicate it on IE6 for XP, and I can’t do it. What OS are you on?
IE6 on xp pro. probably my resolution. I use 1280×1024 with 32bit colour. If its just me then you’re not losing much revenue anyway
thanks for the post.. i just joined text link ads a couple of hours ago and they’ve approved me.. but my site is so new (about 10 days old) that i dont know if i’ll even make any money there for the time being.. would you suggest i wait until i have traffic before displaying ads or just start now?