Frank Carr’s Review of the E-Biz Booster Blog (↑)Who is doing this “Rapid Paced Blogging Experiment” and the Blog reviews? It’s a guy named Fank Carr at his OpTempo.com (↑).

It’s astonishing to watch him post more …

On Adsense, I had heard that too, primarily as a way to get indexed and get out of the ’sandbox’ on newer sites. I don’t know how true that is but there may be something to it, particularly when it comes to getting indexed fast. I would doubt that it has much of an effect long term.

Load time is a tricky thing and it depends a lot on how a WordPress loads things and how their Javascript interacts. Sometimes just moving their position around in the sidebar template can make them behave better.

I mostly use Firefox 2.0 for browsing although since I got a new Vista PC a couple of weeks ago I’ve used IE7 with the IE7Pro add-in more often than I used IE6 on XP.

I really appreciate your professional opinion and I am certainly glad that you like and recommend the content of the blog. Monetization is not in the foreground here and I think about your recommendation regarding AdSense. Let me check the stats first, though. There seems to be some sort of proof that sites with AdSense on them rank not as good, especially on Google. The mission here is to put up quality content. We’ll see.

You are right the loading time “sucks” sometimes. That’s the widgets in the left sidebar. I want to keep them there visually, so I need to modify the template that the main content loads first and those widgets later. Now I realize, why most people have them on the right side. That’ll be a tricky one, especially, if I insist on staying fluid without absolute positioning.

I’ll write a post featuring your review on my blog. There’s nothing to hide. Thanks for giving me that feedback and pointing out the weak points.

Yours
John

P.S.: In what browser(s) did you look at the site? I tend to focus on “valid code” without bending for some browser’s peculiarities.