Have You Dropped Your Blog's Calendar Yet?

I've started a small redesign of Make Easy Money With Google And AdSense (this blog). A couple of weeks ago I redirected memwg.com directly to memwg.com/blog/adsense — yup, the home page is completely gone. Let's face it, this blog is the only active part of the site and has taken on a life of its own. The book it originally accompanied is almost two years old now, which is ancient history for anything tech-related (although, to be honest, most of the content is still relevant — it's still a good introduction to quality website creation and content monetization). Looking through my logs I can see quite clearly that the two most popular areas are this blog and (surprisingly) my Google Suggest Explorer (I see the weirdest queries there). So dropping the home page was a no-brainer and eventually will consolidate my PageRank and hopefully push the main blog page back up to PR 6 level.

Then today I dropped the calendar from the sidebar. Did anyone use it? Doubtful. I never use calendars on other people's blogs. There are better and easier ways to search blog content. As far as I'm concerned, the calendar is a waste of space.

Some other changes are coming to the sidebar and the header area. I'm also going to put in some proper archives, although I'm not yet sure exactly how I'll organize them.

The colors won't change, though. Yeah, it's a bright blog. So what? It matches the cover of my first AdSense book. (What, you thought it was a random choice?) Besides, you should see my house — no white walls anywhere, just the ceiling and the trim.

Have you dropped your calendar yet?

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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated (that just means it lost!) blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.

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