advertizing...

I have a blog that is using a drupal cms.

For advertizing it, what avenue should I take?

Since it is not using the most relevant blogging software, is there anything specific I should be doing? Thanks.

http://www.gooddog.ca

 

Not sure what your asking for but if I were you I would seal the gap between those three dog pics and the ad unit to the right of it. Use CSS positioning. position:absolute;top:##px;left##px;

 

Thanks for the suggestion, I will make the changes:

I basically want to know how to promote my blog? Is promoting a blog the same as promoting a regular site? Or are there different things I should be doing? Thanks.

 

I wouldn't call gooddog.ca a blog, really. It seems to be a useful and functional site (although you might want to change the ad placement so it's more subtle). Just promote it the same as any other site.

However, I'd recommend making a custom theme: one that's dog-orientated. Take a look at drupal's phptemplate theme engine and the theme box_grey is a good starting point.

good luck, mate.

 

Im not sure what you mean by grey theme, I do not have that option??

 

box_grey is a theme that can be downloaded from drupal.org (you'll also need the phptemplate theme engine if it's not already installed).

 

Thanks, will install it.

It says that it is an evaluation version, do I have to end up buying it?

 

What's an evaluation version? phptemplate and box_grey are GPL, afaik.

 

Ok i've implicated the box_grey, and even moved ads to bottom of posts, anything else?? thanks for input...

 

Yes, if your provider has mod_rewrite installed for apache then enable clean urls in the durpal settings. This will make the urls easier to read and remember and more search-engine friendly.

If you're not good with graphics, then ask a friend who's good to make your site a custom logo ... something unique, small (about 5-10k in size gif is good).

ONLY after setting a custom logo, disable showing the site name and change the following in page.tpl.php (box_grey/page.tpl.php):

<h2 class="content-title"><?php print $title ?></h2>

Code (markup):

to

<h1 class="content-title"><?php print $title ?></h1>

Code (markup):

Apparently, some search engines like H1 tags so you'll then have 1 per page that relates to the content's title.

If you have, or will have, people advertising on your site you could use the banner module to manage this and will give the advertisers more options.

I assume you use drupal's adsense module for managing adsense? This is great because you can disable ads being showed to your own user and also limit adsense to the pages you specify (I believe) which makes it easier to keep inline with google's adsense TOS.

good luck, dude! and: woof woof! ;-)