Today’s post is simple. I want to ask you if you would take the NZT Clear Pill. If not, I want to hear your reasons why in the comments.
So, would you take the NZT Clear Pill?
How to Effectively Copy Copyblogger
Do you want to become a better blogger? If so then I have some advise for you.
Pay attention to the blogging greats!
Copyblogger is a blogging great. They do so many things correctly. Below are just a few examples that I have noticed.
Use Your Navigation Tabs to the Max
Copyblogger employs 7 tabs at the top of their content. Each tab is very effective because it leads their readers to the main content of the site. Once one enters the page they can read more about the topic and most of the time they are able to click links that help them dig deeper and increase their knowledge.
Offer Easy Email Subscriptions in the Sidebar
Want return visitors? Then offer subscription options in the sidebar. Copyblogger let’s you enter you email on the homepage and in the navigation pages.
Offer a List of Your Most Popular Articles in the Sidebar
Copyblogger has 30 of their most popular articles in their sidebar. I think the articles rotate because each time the page is refreshed so are the top articles.
Make Your Content Legible
- Use lot’s of white space. The closer the lines on your blog post the harder it is to read. In CSS change your line-height to 20px.
- Increase your font size. I think most blogs are 12px font-size. Try changing that to 14px font-size.
- Choose your colors wisely. Copyblogger uses a dark font on a light background.
- Color link is important. I love Copyblogger’s red links. They really pop out and encourage one to click on them.
- Write very short paragraphs. I would say no more than 3 lines per paragraph. For some reason it is difficult for people to read big, chunky paragraphs. Secondly, each post makes a promise.
Write Attention Grabbing Headlines
Copyblogger is king when it comes to writing awesome headlines. Take a look:
- 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter
- The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging
- 8 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get More People to Read Your Content
- 10 Ways to Beat Online Obscurity
- Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb
Did you notice the common thread through each of these post titles? First they all had numbers. People love numbers. We all want to know how we can do something and how many steps to do it in.
If you are a blogger, what are you doing to make your blog the best it can be? Are you trying any of the above?
If you are a blog reader, do any of the above tips influence you to return to somebody’s site?
Dummies of the Year! Weekly Wrap
This was a monumental week for the Scholar. Apparently I got to brag about my junk food post where I received 72,000 hits. If I could I would trade all those smacks up side the head hits for ONE THING.
What is my one thing? Google Site Links! It took me 2 1/2 years to get these. I only have 3 links but it’s a start. How did I do it? I have no clue. Experts say that Google rewards those who are an authority. What am I an authority of? I guess Dummy IQ.
Lastly I would like to thank John Erickson for his participation in the posts this week. He was the top commenter but since he doesn’t blog (why, I’m not sure) I want to thank him here. Thanks John!
Make sure to check out the Dummy IQ links below!
Sunday
How to Climb 1768 Feet Straight Up Without Puking
Here are the Top 10 Tips on how you can climb 1,768 feet straight up in the air without barfing all over the place. I bet you can’t even keep from barfing when you watch the video!
Tuesday
Google+ Project | Will it Fart on Facebook
Google+ Project Farted on Facebook or at least that is what Google wants you to believe. Will you succumb to Google’s power of family friendly videos and switch?
Thursday
My Top 10 Most Fascinating and Brainless Ideas
Here are my Top 10 Most Fascinating and Brainless Blog Ideas for Dummies of the Year! Share your most brainless post, that is if you have the brains for it!
This Week’s Boost Your Dummy IQ Links:
- An Interview With the Goat Whisperer: This is an interview with John Erickson. Since he doesn’t currently have his own blog this would be the best place to go to learn more about him.
- I Heard it on the Bus: There is a ton of wisdom to be had the local school bus. I should know because I rode the thing until I was 18! I was the old wise man who the first graders came to for advise. Go check out this post unless of course you want to halt your brain cells from learning anything new.
- Why Bloggers Should Consider Engaging on Google+: I touched on Facebook and Google+ this week. If you want a really thorough blog post about Google+ then I recommend this one by Darren Rowse from Problogger.
My Top 10 Most Fascinating and Brainless Ideas
When one looks back on their blogging life they just want to know that it meant something. So here is a look at my ten most & least popular posts.
Top 10 Most Fascinating Ideas
At over 72,000 views this is my top post ever! Why? Because the post contains 4 photos of cute little kittens. I would say 100% of my traffic came from Google traffic.
I am no longer getting traffic to this post because it was sucking the heck out of my bandwidth (because of hotlinking). The photos are still there but they are being hosted at Dummies of the Year at WordPress.com.
Club Penguin DJ Cadence Tracker
48,000 hits on a children’s game, seriously! Back before WordPress.com changed their Top Blogs of the Day, the normal Joe could land on the page and I would do it with Club Penguin.
Glenn Beck New Theme Song 2010
One day, early in January of 2010, I was listening to Glenn Beck (please don’t hate me). I noticed that he changed his song to a very James Bond sounding theme. So I blogged about it.
What I didn’t know was I was the first person to blog about it. I immediately started to get tons of traffic… for a whole year. I ended up with 37,000 hits!
Glenn Beck New Theme Song 2010 Quick Links
So I decided to whore myself to Google. People started leaving comments with links to more information on the Glenn Beck New Theme Song 2010. I then wrote a post that would allow people to easily access those silly helpful links. I have brought in 7,615 hits.
Everybody loves babies. And most women want one. And more than likely they will give that little squirt a name. I came up with a list of names to give kids. I wonder if anybody ever actually chose my names? I influenced over 6,000 females! 
I kept getting organic traffic for “tattoos for men” though I had never wrote about it. I offered some pictures of tattoos. Some of the tats are even on women. It doesn’t matter cause Tony people still love tattoos. 5,474 views.
Lindsay Lohan Famous Interviews (16)
Yeah! A Famous Interview post that is in the top 10. I didn’t think anybody cared. Actually they don’t care Scholar Mel. What 5,199 people care about is Lindsay. 
The original baby name post. Who would have known that the 2011 baby name post would surpass this crazy idea. 2,455 views.
I’ve got to be honest, I’m not a big fan of cute little kittens. So this is why I wrote a post about ugly cats. Apparently people love ugly cats also.
Top 10 Most Brainless Ideas
The following are my worst posts ever! I’m not sure if they are the worst because they suck or because I didn’t have an audience to read them. You be the judge, just don’t do it so harshly. Oh, and every post below has 5 hits each.
Nigerian Passenger Attempts To Blow Up International Flight
Seems like a very serious post right? It is but people don’t want serious, they want silliness. I reported on something that 1,000 other real journalists reported about. Borrrrrring!!
American Idol Week 1 Elimination Spoiler
Do you remember that show called American Idol? I blogged about it. Why? I don’t really have a clue. I was new to this whole blogging thing and thought people would actually care. Sorry.
Take Note Of Not So Dumb Changes
In this post I mention that I changed the look of Dummies of the Year! I said that I added a Saint Homer to the header. I don’t even remember this.
This post is very ironic. I mention that the converter box is a bad idea because people who can’t afford to have one wouldn’t have access to things like Tornado warnings. The apartment I wrote that blog post in was destroyed in the Joplin, Tornado. What was meant as humor became tragically sad.
English words change pronunciation depending on what part of the world you live in. There is one word that is not acceptable to ever get wrong. Read this post to find out which.
I use to put little bragging buttons on my blog. Top Blog Area was one of those buttons. I never got traffic from them but it looked cool to have top rankings. All was fine until they banned me. They did this before I wrote about Conan O’Brien Adult Titles!
100 People Flush Cruise Ship Back To San Diego
Crap, crap, crap and more crap!
Conan OBrien or Jay Leno. Who Will Leave for FOX?
Nobody went to Fox! The poll on this post received one vote from the Scholar. Polls are still open if you care to vote.
Don’t tell Ahmnodt Heare but it seems a lot of people want Chuck Norris for president. What people don’t want is to read a post about Chuck Norris for President.
Joaquin Phoenix Disaster On David Letterman
I knew this was a hoax! Nobody believed me. The sad thing is the video for this post has been marked as private so I went ahead and removed it.
Your Most Brainless Post
Leave me your most brainless post in the comments below. In a pretty anchor text if you know how. If not then just leave the title of the post along with a link. I look forward to seeing your worst!
Update: Or leave your very best post with a link in the comments. The first two comments were of men gone crazy thinking that their sites deserve eternal damnation because of the worthless filth they produce. 
Google+ Project | Will it Fart on Facebook
Google is at it again. Remember Google Buzz and Google Dud (they had something else but I can’t remember what it was, so I’ll just call it dud)?
Now Google is trying something new. Their plan is to Fart on Facebook with the Google+ Project! I don’t usually use the word fart but the good phrases like Google+ Project | Will it Kill Facebook and Google+ Project | Will it Murder Facebook were already taken by millions of bloggers.
The Google+ Project was started so that you can connect with people you really want to connect with, because on Facebook you are just wasting your time with a bunch of people you don’t really care about.
Google+ Project was also started because Google is desperate to catch up with Facebook in popularity. Google really hopes to make it possible for you to have two accounts open simultaneously so that you can waste your life away at double the speed!
Family is Important
We all know that family is important and with Facebook it is impossible to keep up with family. This isn’t the case with Google+ Project. With the Google+ Project you can keep up with family (this isn’t actually true but the videos below would have you believe this).
Actually maybe the people you really want to connect with is friends and not your miserable family. If that sounds like you then just keep up-to-date with your family on Facebook and don’t mention that you have a Google+ account.
Will you abandon your Facebook account for the new Google+, will you have an account in each or will just stick with Facebook?
Please add this to at the beginning of your comment “Google+” so I can shamefully try to rank for it in Google. 