Interesting thread about pay rates at Weblogs inc. My personal opinion is that the rates are pretty fair – some of the comments are a bit like ‘well I’m a blogger and I think I deserve more than $4- per post. It’s disgusting they pay so little’. If that is your opinion, don’t do the work. I know that when I was travelling the world for a year it’s a job I would have been very glad of.
More discussion on Weblogs inc contract.
Continuing my quest for adsense friendly themes for wordpress, I have found a couple more suitable for simple modification.
I’m looking for something similar to the movable type theme used here.
Rampart would be ideal for ZX81kit
Zig-zag (similar to Squares) is easy to modify, put a link unit in the sidebar (maybe with a G! searchbox).
Tropical breeze could be modified in the same way, and would be good for a gardening site.
Tech-Bytes would be a good base for a theme if you had the inclination to modify the header image.
I have been talking with my new pal Pete (whom I recently bought a certain health site from) about working together. I am constantly pushed for time, what with the full time job too, and it seems that Pete has become disillusioned with the affiliate/adsense business, so I am paying him a fixed fee to produce a site for me. Hopefully this will blossom into a long lasting working relationship & help me build the business to a level where I can rely on it as my main income. Although I haven’t made any new years resolutions this year, one ‘goal’ for 2006 is to have a strong online business (in whatever form) by the end of the year, to enable us to live in Australia (or wherever) for the English winter.
This great theme is provided by Tim Yang – you can download it here. Think I might use it with my new Amazon plugin to create some new content-rich niche websites!
Tim has optimized the position of his adsense very well. I’m sure Jenstar would be impressed. I also like the fact that no page is more than two clicks from home. There are a bunch of other neat features including the RSS feed & del.ici.ous buttons and links.
