I would like to write more in-depth articles. I've been working on a guide to MSBuild for months. Same with Subversion, deployment of web projects, unit testing - all of these are seriously substantial topics though, and I can't do them justice in a short blog post. That's not a real problem, I don't think - I've always believed that if you post, post something worth reading.
In previous jobs, a large part of my work has been advising companies on ways to improve their sites - in terms of traffic, conversions rates, etc. I like finding ways to improve sites. Which brings me on to ReviewMe. ReviewMe is a site where individuals or companies can pay a blogger to review their site. In many cases this results in little more than a paid post - "XYZ.com sells fish tanks. Their site is pretty. Go to XYZ.com for your fish tanks." and so on to hit the 200 word minimum.
Personally, however, I believe ReviewMe presents something of an opportunity. Many people visit this site looking for ways to improve their own (people looking for ways to improve their conversion rate make up a substantial portion of non-cheat-sheet-traffic), so I have decided to join ReviewMe, in the hopes that by looking at other sites and suggesting ways to improve them, readers of this site can find ways to improve their own.
And, of course, to make some extra money for myself in the process.
My hope is that ReviewMe reviews will work like case studies, and in that context be interesting, engaging and useful.
If you would like your own site reviewed, you can order a review here. If you would like a specific part of your site looked at more than another, that's no problem.
This is an experiment, for now. Please do let me know if you hate the idea, or think it could be helpful - if it's no use to you, the reader, then it's not going to last long!
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I think you have the background to do reviews of scripts etc for stock photography or just for photo galleries related to their SEO potential.
A lot of sites resulting from the use of the existing kind of scripts aren'et doing very well in the SE as they aren't optimized for that.
In general they are with too little text and a lot of other kinds of functionality isn't SEO friendly.
Not to promote my own stock photo site http://www.azFotos.com but I have simply not dared to convert it to any existing dynamic solution as I haven't found the ideas possibility yet.
As online photos are a big thing at the moment and only growing I really think you could de a good job - and income - by focussing on that field. Many of the existing commercial solutions have affiliate potential for your income.
The only really SEO optimized solution I know of is http://www.acclaimimages.com/ but that isn't available to others, as I know.
Its not only because of their intensive link exchange that they get a lot of traffic see http://www.acclaimimages.com/links_out.html but mainly because of the whole structure has been develope with SEO as a high priority, obviously.
As I remember they had a higher PR earlier (PR6) so may be Google has seen it as too much optimization.
- Just my input :-)