http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/ pebbleworm's Gooruze Blog Copyright 2008 Gooruze en-uk pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnline100 posts milestone reached.ReapMoneyOnline reached the 100 posts milestone after 8 months of existence. We must be on record as the slowest posting blog for 2008. We kindly request our visitors to bear with this post and close their eyes as we recall our top 25 posts [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/121478/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/121478/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:09:00 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineAds placement hot zones: Back to Basics.We recently came across this keyword from our Google traffic, “controversial ads.” There’s nothing controversial about ReapMoneyOnline, fact, its subject is quite humdrum, but we’ve been fooling around experimenting with ads and their placement.In placing ads around our pages, we rely on [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/121160/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/121160/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:18:25 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineHelp Save Serena!Serena is a little girl with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. She has already underwent chemotheraphy but still needs to go to the U.S. for a life saving operation. Her father is trying to raise the needed USD250,000.00 and is requesting our help to [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120910/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120910/ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:12:21 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineWeb page layout: Back to Basics.Most websites use any of the 3 basic web page layout generated via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): the traditional portal, the blog layout with sidebars to the right, and the neo-blog with sidebars to the left. Regardless of the layout, the elements or [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120866/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120866/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:35:53 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineThe symbolic meaning of colors and web design: Back to BasicsColors breathe life into our web pages. We learned way back that there are some psychology in the use of colors. For instance, the usual fastfood color scheme has a lot of red and orange to trick people [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120590/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120590/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:47:15 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineReading pattern and website design: Back to BasicsDoes the name Jakob Nielsen rings a bell? Sounds like Jakob the Liar, Robin Williams’ black comedy character who spread hope by telling lies. However, this Nielsen guy ferrets out the truth and gives hope to any online entrepreneur to earn [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120437/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120437/ Wed, 28 May 2008 20:01:30 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineText readability for a better website: Back to BasicsWe often read that the best websites are tops in readability, usability, and accessibility. Readability refers to the ease readers can read the text in our sites. Traditionally, we have always preferred black or blue on white, like the real [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120359/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120359/ Sun, 25 May 2008 23:50:29 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineLearning HTML and CSS: back to basicsDon’t cringe at the thought of learning a “programming language.” Technically, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are not even programming or scripting languages. They almost look like plain English.We were not aware about a year ago [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120187/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120187/ Tue, 20 May 2008 08:50:34 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineHow do we design a website for its niche?: Back to BasicsIs the customer always right? The answer usually depends on which side of the cash register we are. As online entrepreneurs we have to take the point of view where we see the keys and cash. [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120097/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120097/ Sat, 17 May 2008 21:14:24 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineBloody Darfur for Blog Catalog’s Bloggers Unite for Human Rights!Call us crazy. What business do make-money-online bloggers have blogging about human rights? To answer that question, let’s travel back in time, 1994 to be exact. We could still vaguely remember a late night news about the Rwandan Civil [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120003/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/120003/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:58:55 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineHappy Mothers Day to all mommy bloggers and blog hoppers.This is a very important day. The kids again whipped up a card for their mom. We thought why not share them with everybody? We’ve prettified it a bit with a border. Without much ado…Yup, our Merci still needs [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119909/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119909/ Sat, 10 May 2008 11:23:27 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineSell digital products online with Oronjo.Should web content be always free? Webmasters and bloggers have, in one time or another, pondered this question. Some hinted at a free-based web economy in the future while others think it will bring the web down. We know, of course, that it [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119876/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119876/ Fri, 09 May 2008 01:58:20 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineNew header up!We’ve done it! After a few instances where RMO was mistaken as a splog, we finally decided to spruce up its header. We’re going to miss the plain text title header but what we have right now is prettier. In fact, twice prettier. We hope [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119830/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119830/ Thu, 08 May 2008 01:26:15 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineUpside down Google: PR down and then went back up.The most recent Google page rank update is so last week, 7 days to be exact, yet we’re still checking the little green bar with apprehension. Before April 30, our page rank in Google went missing as we indicated [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119721/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119721/ Mon, 05 May 2008 21:45:27 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineFirefox keyboard and mouse shortcuts useful for EntreCarders.After our recent discovery of 2 FireFox keyboard shortcuts that made opening blogs of EntreCard members less of a chore, we searched for more useful FireFox stuff and found there was quite a heap of them out there. We browsed through [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119559/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119559/ Thu, 01 May 2008 03:20:32 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnline2 Firefox keyboard shortcuts for EntreCard dropping.We’ve been using FireFox for more than a year but the only keyboard shortcut we were using was the navigation tab to open new windows (ctrl + T). A little “accident” changed this for the better. We wrote in the seven [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119560/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119560/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:27:36 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineOf memes (seven useless facts) and RMO’s page rank.What is a meme? Wikipedia says that memes are ideas that propagate themselves. In the blogosphere it’s simply one answering questions or sharing an opinion and tagging other blogs to do the same. It’s a fun way to get deep-links (inbounds from [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119561/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119561/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:57:22 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineUse a link exchange network to bring in readers.Link exchange networks run the gamut from small groups found in forums to wholesale, fully automated linking systems. We’ve joined one in the past hoping to get reciprocal links that will help with our SEO. Problem was, the system still needed us [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119562/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119562/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:03:00 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineIs the change in the Alexa ranking system for the better?We have to make a quick post about Alexa since we were showing in our EntreCard contest post (click here) how the latter can be used to lower the former (therefore, increase our blogs Alexa traffic rankings). We were already [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119563/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119563/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:47:18 -0700 pebbleworm Liked this article? There are more at ReapMoneyOnlineHow to encourage comments.We were pleasantly surprised by the number of comments made in our previous post entitled “we love comments.”  We thought we’d share comment-generating things tips that worked for us and those we’ve seen has worked on other blogs and will try to implement here in ReapMoneyOnline.1. Write compelling [...] http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119564/ http://www.gooruze.com/members/pebbleworm/blog/119564/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:04:47 -0700