Dark and Random Humor - need reviews and advice

[drummer_412]

I've signed up with pingomatic. Is this something I have to do every time we post, or is one time enough?

[nmmb]

I do it every time!

[basketofeggs]

Holy crap-o-rama this is funny. Something about it made me physically not able to stop reading. What does that say about my mental health? Who freakin cares!

I think that the only thing you could do to make this better would be to link some of those words to humorous places that fit the theme.

In my blog site, I put a section called "stupid is, stupid does" to catalog actual human stupidity.(some of mine included) I try to work out exactly why common sense is so wrongly named, but I just never figured it out.

www(dort)secretbasketofeggs(dort)com -- stupid is, stupid does (tab at the top of page)

[drummer_412]

I think that the only thing you could do to make this better would be to link some of those words to humorous places that fit the theme.

I'm not sure how to do that. We are computer idiots, so we're still learning. I did get a Twitter account up and running today and have it linked to the blog. You can follow us @order_ofthe_fez. It's nothing fancy, but it will do for now.

[basketofeggs]

If you are using Wordpress, it is easy and I can walk you through it.

When in your wp-admin dashboard screen, start typing or editing a post. Just above the area to view your writing, and at the right side, are two tabs called Visual and HTML.
If you are typing under the HTML tab, all you need to do is highlight the word or phrase you wish to link, then select the BLUE "link" button. Now add the URL of whatever you wish to link to in the box provided. Press update or publish to see the results. It is a good idea to have the page you wish to link opened in another window or tab, so you can highlight and copy/paste the URL code instead of trying to remember it.

If you are typing under the Visual tab, again highlight the word or phrase you want to link, and then hit the button that looks like a chain link. A box will open asking for the URL, the Target, Title, and Class. For my purposes I only mess with the Target tab, with it you can dictate how the link will open... will it open to a new window, or open over the top of your web page.

I do this with my Adsense HTML code also, to turn simple words into a link to a paid ad. Sometimes you need to adjust to make things fit and flow more nice, but I think this method of advertising is a lot less intrusive to a reader.

Finally, this is a great way to link to internal pages on your own site. Wikipedia uses this method to traverse all over the place on their site. It is supposed to help with ranking as well.

Did this help? you can see examples on my blog www(dort)secretbasketofeggs(dort)com the two best tabs to see this are "Who is this Guy?" and also "Law", as I use the word links the most there. the Blog BLog BLah tab shows a lot of examples of internal linking.(the New Posts-posts)

-bryan

[drummer_412]

I don't use wordpress, but I imagine it should be fairly similar to what you are saying. As soon as I have some time to mess with it, I will try it. Thanks for the help. I'll check out your blog too once I get a free minute. By the way, we have two new posts up since yesterday. Take it easy.

[drummer_412]

We would love more comments from people who have looked at the site. We have made some changes and are now on Twitter.

[copiousbeauty]

Your rants are great, and funny!

[JoshScanlan]

Great blog. I do a humor blog as well, perhaps we should do a link exchange. Check mine out and let me know if you're interested.