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A Foolish Website Review

Posted by Mark Cuda on Friday, May 9th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This is a paid review, but is by no means is my opinion altered by the fact that I was paid to write it.

Boy, did I come across a foolish website. :P

It even knows it’s foolish, it goes by the name of The Net Fool.

But in all seriousness, Jim asked me to review his Make Money Online blog, The Net Fool.

Now, I can hear you all screaming, “There’s too many stupid “MMO” blogs out there, and we sure as heck don’t need another one!”, but bear with me. This one actually doesn’t suck.

Jim has essentially created a blog that focuses mostly on making money but at the same time, it’s not the same rehashed content, with articles like, “Use Proxies to Make Money!” or “Flipping Websites” or even “Make money doing absolutely nothing”, (I hate those ones :P ).

He uses a lot of methods to make money, and he talks about them at his blog.

These can include GPT websites, or Get Paid To websites. What’s great about this is that he doesn’t just have scattered posts about it. He has a whole page for GPT Reviews, and another for Trusted GPT websites.

He also talks a lot about the stock market, and he seems to really know what he’s talking about. This is cool because I can’t think of any other real good MMO blogs that talk about this. That in itself makes him stand out.

Another great thing about his blog is that he has managed to create a unique look and feel to it. He used the John Cow theme, but modified it much. It has a different color scheme, much more toned down and not as bright. He also invested in custom header graphics with a great mascot, which I presume is of him. :D

Personally, (And I’ll be talking about this much more) I feel that custom mascots and themes and whatnot really brand a blog, and set it apart from the other 10,000 Make Money Online blogs from the get go. This is something I feel he has really achieved.

One more great thing about his blog is the unique writing style and unique layout of his posts. I personally love images, and I’ve been using them more in my posts, and this is a skill Jim has mastered. He always seems to have some great clip art that fits his posts perfectly, and that keeps me entertained while reading his content. Also, when is comes to his writing style, he’s casually, but not too casual, he doesn’t use slang or anything of that sort, and I really like that.

Now, although he’s got a great blog, and I could go on about the Pros, I do want to give some suggestions to him, that I think will help him even more.

One thing I think he could do better for this blog is clean up the navigation. If it were me, I’d put all the GPT stuff on one page, it would organize it better. I would also not have the archives page on the navigation, but have it be accessed via the sidebar. I think it would help clean up the navigation, and produce a better user experience.

Those are really the only things I can find that I’m not totally cool with on his blog, but overall, I think it’s a great one, and you should totally check it out.

Also right now, he has a great contest going on with over $4,500 in prizes called The Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest! Prizes vary from Web Hosting to Wordpress themes and even cold hard cash! It’s a great one, and you should definitely check it out. :)

Well, that’s pretty much it for my review of this blog. I think it’s a great one, and is growing steadily, and I think it will soon become a foolish household name. :)

OIOPublisher Review

Posted by Mark Cuda on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Well, I won’t be posting the part two of my freelancer’s guide series tonight, that will be saved for tomorrow. :)

For today, I’d like to talk about a great purchase I made this week.

It was for a Wordpress Plugin of sorts called “OIOPublisher”, and what this plugin does is extends the wordpress functionality to include a full blown ad server.

It allows you to sell banners, 125×125 ad blocks, text links, paid reviews, in post ads, and even a custom download purchase, such as an eBook or premium Wordpress theme. The difference is it automates everything. The sales, the tracking, the follow-up emails, the renewal reminders, the cancellations, everything.

It includes a PayPal module so people can automatically send you a payment and have their ad put up. You can also set it to wait until you approve it.

In addition, you can set it to rotate the banners, mix up their positions in relation to each other, and much much more.

One of my favorite features is that you can have a custom purchase, which I will use to sell an upcoming premium wordpress theme. ;)

In addition, there is a great forum over at www.oiopublisher.com for you to browse through, and some great docs.

In addition, use the coupon code QWERTY-17 when purchasing, and the price will drop from the already reasonable $37 to $20. That’s a $17 discount!

All in all, this is a great plugin, and I fully support it, Simon, (the creator) has done a great job with it, and it’s continuing to grow nicely.

Well, that’s my review of it, I’d give it 4.5/5 MonkeyBlogger Vines :D

Tomorrow I will be releasing Part two of my series “The Freelancer’s Guide”, so stay tuned in to MonkeyBlogger.com!

**NOTE** I Should mention, the site will be down from 12:00PM Eastern Time tomorrow (Wednesday April 30th) for 90 minutes while my site is being moved to a stronger server by my host. I am sorry for the inconvenience. **