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Behind the Curtain at 40Tech – WooThemes Review

If you’re a regular visitor to 40Tech, you’ve probably noticed the new look.  The look is largely due to a new theme by WooThemes.  A few months ago, the 40Tech team decided that a new look was needed in order to grow the site and to implement some upcoming new features that we had in mind (stay tuned for those).  After searching around for a new WordPress theme from numerous sources, all signs kept pointing back to WooThemes.  While the beauty of WooThemes’ designs was what sealed the deal, it was the support I ran into after the sale that impressed me the most. Read more


Sponsored Posts and Blogging Credibility

image We’ve previously asked for your input on product reviews here at 40Tech.  Now, we have a similar question.  Specifically, when a blog publishes a sponsored post, does that affect how you view that blog?  By "sponsored post," I mean a post similar to what Mashable and Lifehacker sometimes run, where the post is a paid advertisement, but clearly marked as such.  We are asking, because one type of advertising inquiry that we have received concerns sponsored posts.  We asked the same question on our Facebook fan page, but we get much more traffic here on the site.

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20 Things I Learned from Lifehacker (this week…)

Lifehacker.com | Geek to Live It never ceases to amaze me what you can learn online. From the interesting psychology reflected by the average user to the most basic of instructions for the tiniest task that may simply have eluded you, the worldwide web is that bit of tech that just keeps on giving. There are several places you can go on the web to get to the heart of it all (for you) and learn useful things (how-to’s, the best software — or cupcake — for your money, how to get things done that need doing and do it on the cheap, etc.), not the least of which are Google and YouTube, but for me, one place stands out as the go-to spot for most things I might need: Lifehacker. The name says it all, really — and yes, I am perfectly aware that I am promoting another blog on this one, but credit goes to where it’s due, my friends — and just look at the cool odds and ends I learned (and often shared) in just the past week:

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Increase Blog Traffic and Find More to Read with Redanyway

image Redanyway is a very easy and apparently quite effective way to increase blog traffic and create a direct line of interaction with your readers — as long as they also have a Redanyway account, of course. That’s the nature of the social network beast though, so it is not a surprise. The difference here, however, is that it is not you or your photos or what you are up to at the moment that people are following — it’s your blog content. With Redanyway, your blog is essentially your profile. People can follow you and be updated when you post in much the same way as a feed reader, but with the added benefit of a cool widget that will not only entice people to click, but will also advertise you in other ways (like interactive snapshots of your Twitter followers) — and that’s only the beginning.

 

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The Top 10 40Tech Stories of 2009

Top 10 stories of 2009 If you’re like me, you like lists.  And if you’re like me, you like year-end lists.  In that spirit, as we close out 2009, let’s look at the 10 most popular stories this year here at 40Tech.  We’re going to define "most popular" as those stories with the most page views.  The page view count represents the total number of times a page was viewed, whether by different people or not.  At the end of this post, we’ll look at the most popular posts on the site based on other barometers.  These statistics are as of December 21, 2009. Read more