Comments on: How did you find my site?

By: viridari

viridari — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:24:23 +0000

Honestly, I would rather not have to run ABP. Too many of the sites that I *do* like have gotten obnoxious with the ads so I enabled it a couple of months back. The more some of these webmasters do to get around ABP, the more obnoxious the ads get and thus the more determined I am to block them.

When it was as simple as one banner ad and some unobtrusive Google ads down the side, I didn’t care so much. I try to keep it from being obnoxious on my own blog but I do fiddle with it from time to time (not that it really makes me any $$$ to speak of)

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:18:24 +0000

No I don’t get ads and yes I use Firefox. As an webmaster I despise AdBlockPlus :). I try to maintain a balance between making money and unobtrusive. The Chitika Ads are about as obtrusive as I plan to get. The pop ups I’m talking about are the ones that some people install on WordPress as a Plugin where it shows a snapshot of the link before you click on it.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:03:57 +0000

Thanks!

Yeah, there’s one implementation of those pop-up links that really bug me, the double underline one I’ve seen on some news sites. (But then, that’s basically advertising, not a preview.) The WordPress one has recently been “enhanced” to include a banner ad, which does make it a bit annoying. No biggie, either way.

Have you considered a cigar review index? You can, of course, click the “Cigar Review” link above, but that gives you a chronological list of reviews. If you’re looking for a specific cigar, it can take a while to find it. Take mine for example.

By: viridari

viridari — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:55:26 +0000

Ads? You get ads?

Poor fellow. Upgrade your browser! Get Firefox 2.0 with the AdBlockPlus plugin. Pop-ups and pop-unders go away. Flash ads are gone. Web sites look so much nicer, so much less obnoxious, and you don’t have to sift through the ads to find the real content.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:43:48 +0000

I’ve added the link. :) Personally I find the pop up links to be kind of annoying because they always seem to get in the way when I’m trying to read the site.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:09:15 +0000

Hmm… I don’t recall how I found your site… I would expect it was the result of a search for review on a specific cigar…

I pretty much check in daily. Your blog is one of 26 cigar blogs I have aggregated in Google reader.

What would I most love to see on your blog? A link to mine! LOL! Anyways, the star rating sounds like a good idea. I also dig the little pop-up link preview that some WordPress blogs have. Overall, I think your blog is improved a great deal recently.

By: stinkie

stinkie — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:53:59 +0000

hReview is one, http://www.aes.id.au/?page_id=28

star rating is another. http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/star-rating/

But I think DG Review would be a cool set up. If I ever get time to play with it I would like to add it to my site.
http://www.dangrossman.info/wp-dg-review-site

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:09:01 +0000

What plugin did you use for the star votes?

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:49:14 +0000

We (stogiereview.com) use wordpress for our blog. Seems to work ok. You can customize it and add features, I just have not had time to explore.

I check the site usually daily or every other day. I did a general search for cigar sites at least a year ago and found your site.

By: mirjana

mirjana — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:45:03 +0000

I found your website through a bar website. This is my first time! I smoke cigars on occasion, the last time i smoked one… well, three, was when i won a bar chef competition for Hilton Hotels. That was definately an occasion! I like your site.