I am pretty sure someone made a video on one of the blogs about this or a post. Anyone remember where?

In essence you use HTML to insert the image into a widget TEXT box on your sidebar.

I have a quick question.
I want to put an image of
alex’s ebook in the blog
sidebar aweber optin box.

Can you tell me how you did
it?

James

I’m glad to see that you have resolved the blogroll issue. It’s clearly not physically possible to have every single student listed on your main page. It would be unreasonable for anyone to expect that.

At the end of the day it is for you to choose who goes on the front page, or anywhere else for that matter. We each have control over our own blogs.

The solution you have chosen is probably the best compromise. You reward those who are taking action, give a boost to other random blogs and there’s a motivating incentive for others to become more active. As Val said, healthy competition is a good thing.

I’m sure that you will be glad to have this finally resolved so that you can focus on your more important goals for your business.

Well done to you for all your effort and time getting this up and running.

All the best.
Ken

John Patterson.

congratulations to this idea and its transformation into reality!
Even if I am one of those with extreme lag I fully agree that the most active blogs should be listed first, as those will be the ones most of our visitors want to go to anyway. So, why not make it esier for everyone to find answers and get exposure?

As to the selfstarting video I have to agree with those who said it is irritating and even harmfull in some situations. I for one like to have control over what is happening on my screen and I think most people are the same.

Again, kudos for all you do, and good success in 2009 and beyond!

Cheers,
Juergen
http://juergenvollmer.com

Love the changes to the blog roll and YES PLEASE can I have the details on the widgets that you used to set this up..makes the site look cleaner and crisper as well as loading faster.

Look forward to seeing it when you get the info up….till next time…have a good night..
Paul Mracek.
http://paulmracek.com/

Yes, very clever Garry for very clever student blogroll changes. How do you do it? (Or is it a trade secret for now, and will trickle down to us in due course?)

Love it all. As my Mum would say, “It’ll keep them on their toes.” Healthy competition is what makes the world go round. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to play. With a bit of extreme fairness rolled up into it with the rotating part.

Agree with Mandy above. Difficult to get the balance between blogging activity (own posts and leaving comments) and productivity (marketing your web presence). I guess it will shake down in time, as we find what works best, in terms of time investment and outcomes, and create our own 80/20 rules.

Valerie
http://daybydaymarketing.com

i think that even though i am included in the top 59 blog, that i need to get out there and be active. But how do you be active and still be productive? i find that when i am active in blogging i am not productive. so how do you balance the two?

another thing i would like some help with adding a newsletter sign up on my blog and also make some changes to my blog roll….

I like the pull down, i do not like how much room my blogroll is taking up on my blog.

i can add it as another page….but how do you get the links to show up.

anyone that would like to help please visit my blog….

thanks again for your help…

mandy

http://www.mandymccollum.com

Thought I’d come over and add my input here – I like the ‘Top Commentators’ box, (although as I feature in it at the moment I would say that!). Don’t think anyone will get close to the Gaz-Man’s score though!

Nikki

>Ali – I’ve already got the last 10 comments at the bottom of the left hand side-bar. What I really want is something like what is on Dave Dunn’s site but I couldn’t use the link he directs you to yesterday. I will try a bit later. It shows the XX most recent people who have Blog Posts on their own sites.

Also regarding speed the site loads at now; I guess this could be a by-product of not having a massive Blogroll to load on the front-page anymore ?

>Kath – Glad it’s working. I tested it on 3 different browsers and providing people have the default security setting it works fine.

EVERYONE – Get over and read Kath’s most recent post here http://bestsuccesswith.com/kathibbetson/general/blogging/optimising-your-site-for-the-search-engines-how-popular-is-your-blog

Over past couple of days we’ve had an interesting exchange about a tool she has found but we are a bit stumped over some of the stats. Most recent comment by Kath seems to suggest my Blog is already far more popular than Alex Jeffreys himself by a good margin!!! But what does it all mean as we are trying to understand some discrepancies. Any Techies or SEO experts cast their eyes over the debate?

>Alan – I don’t think it is the quality of the video that is debated. It is the fact that it is on autoplay. I intend on putting up a Poll later to get feedback.

Clever and smart layout for the blogroll, which i will need to sit and think about for a while.

Regarding the video and having the autoplay, i found that there are methods of loading a video to the blog where you are actually given multiple choices about the format to deliver the video, and i selected autoplay with medium quality for webpages, in the hope it would work for a wider range of users.

The video quality could have been better, but i am just happy to have done the first one and have it displayed on the blog !

Cheers
http://AlanNeath.com

Off now to look into the site stats issue.
Kath

This could of course also account for the discrepancy on the site statistics which I am about to look into. Updates will be apended to this post .
http://tinyurl.com/a8oaaz

I asked him about a contract that he should have signed. But he has not done it yet. Now I can spend some more time here.. But I have to work now, little late with everything.

Garry, it feels like the response time for your blog is faster. Have you done something with that? I earlier thought that these kind of themes are slow.

/Ali

wow, this is fantastic. I must check the widgets for all this. It feels very clean and easy to navigate.

Another alternative instead of having a link to the “Top monthly commenters” blogs is to have a link to the commenters comments made on this blog.

Maybe try to find or make a new widget that finds out which blogs are updated latest/frequently and those will be displayed in the active blogs.

(Thanks Garry and all commenters you are responsible if I get fired. I only popped by for a short visit that took little longer time. Oh no, my boss is coming now..) (seriously)

/Ali – AliBlogging.com

Forgot to mention. Did you work out the reference to ‘little eyes’ which seem to thrown you a bit? It refers back to your comment 6 where you said you misread something and then closed out by saying ‘Cheers big ears’ to me !!

Just thought I’d return the compliment my friend . Is that all cleared up then or have I confused you more, LOL.

>Debbie – not sure what your problem is here. You may have to rephrase it. Basically if you are rebranding it you need to load it up to your own webspace and use that URL in your Aweber form. In similar fashion to what Alex showed us when we installed our PPP’s.

>David – Yeah, I’ve tested it works in all Browsers which it does providing javascript is enabled (which is the default setting for browsers).

Right back to getting issue 2 of the Profit Pulling Project newsletter ready for publishing a bit later today.

I like what you have done with the blogroll. It cleans things up quit a bit. I moved mine to its own page so it would not distract from the content.

I will have to check into the drop down method, I like it. Everything works great for me. I only use Firefox but will take a look with IE.

David

I have a question completely unrelated to the blogroll. I’m trying to add the Profit Pulling Newsletter as an aweber form to my blog, but can’t figure out how to add the aweber code in for my submit button.

I open the pdf and go to view, but there’s no source. Where does the code go and how do I get there to activate my submit button. There’s a specific url I want it to take them to.

Thanks alot … I’m really stumped!

Debbie