The vote was close, but I decide that if more than 50% of my readers would rather have a light theme, that’s worth changing for. So here it is! I’ll probably be tweaking it for a few days / weeks / months to come, but I wanted to get it live sooner rather than later. Let me know what you think in the comments.
I apologize in advance for the linkbait title. Now that you are here though, fine reader, I need your help. Since the start of this blog I have always had a reverse-type theme. This means a light font on a dark background. I chose this look because I wanted to stand out from all the other make money online blogs that all looked like copies of each other (black font on white background, typically blue header and theme).
Recently though, I was reading Ca$hvertising, an excellent book on marketing by Drew Eric Whitman (check it out if you haven’t already), and in one section he goes off about the evils of reverse-type fonts and how they are much harder to read and cause more eye strain on people. I know this blog isn’t an advertisement, but now that a few of you are actually reading this blog on a regular basis I thought I would leave it up to you.
So here’s a little poll… The future of Inside Affiliate’s theme is in your hands.
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I made the transistion from WordPress.com over to a self-hosted WordPress installation today, and my database survived intact! It was not my first time setting up a WP installation or anything, but it’s always nasty when you have to transfer databases… Not too many changes on the blog for now, although I am looking forward to finding a theme that works better for me, so you might see some more drastic visual changes coming up.
Also, this blog is going to be more of a priority for me going forward. So far I’ve done a few useful posts, but mostly industry news stuff. I like doing the news stuff so I will keep doing that, but I am going to do my best to share my experiences on the affiliate side of the game.
I want to have the whole package. I want to be a successful A.M. for affiliate.com, and I want to be a successful internet marketer by any other means possible as well. I will be posting different marketing tricks and my experience with them to help save you time when you decide to get the ball rolling on a new traffic stream.
So grab a chair, stick around, and feel free to leave a comment once in a while. If I know what you guys are dying to learn, then I can step up and take a swing at it myself. First up, I am experimenting with the fascinating (and sometimes confusing) world of PPV, or Contextual advertising. There will be a full post on this coming up soon. I just need to do some fine tuning on my campaigns before I spill the beans.
Oh, and if I don’t speak to you sooner, Merry Christmas!