Over the past few months I’ve been working hard with Adii improving my network of blog’s overall quality. Adding new plugins, removing some third party services that slow down loading times, driving traffic and improving the blogs design. Basement Guru was one of the blogs under the knife and received a major overhaul and now features a three column K2 solution.

I have also completed a blog purchase which I’m very excited about, The Cool Crowd is now officially in my stable of blogs. I bought the blog from Adii and have already scouted a writer for it. The blog is a little out dated so it’s loosing traffic fast but we will resurrect this with some fresh posts and cross blog network advertising.

We also introduced a new way to promote the network of blogs - In the past each blog’s rss feed used to display the latest five posts on every blog in the network. The contextual advertising experiment didn’t work and resulted in little click throughs. So now we have gone the themed ad block route which will hopefully grab the visitors attention.

Here’s an example of the ad blocks on Bandwidth Blog advertising Daily Glamour, Sa Rugby, Basement Guru and Monkeys Fist.