WAKEshine

This week I’ve relaunched the Bluebarb website.  I reworked it to use WordPress as the backend (previously it was pages created on Dreamweaver) and I’ve put a temporary homepage in place that lists the Google gadgets.

A friend is working on a tutorial that will help non-techie users add Bluebarb gadgets to their iGoogle pages.  I’ll add that as a WordPress page.

The original reassessment didn’t have any budget for advertising.  The idea was (for now, since I don’t want to put a LOT of resources into it) to just let it be discovered.  Of course, that’s been the idea with the Google gadget approach, too, but there are so many Google gadgets out there now that it’s almost impossible to get noticed in the directory.

I’ve recently discovered Project Wonderful and have had some luck getting some ads placed at 10 cents a day (you pay by the day, not by the click).  Ten cents a day is around three dollars a month.  I think I could afford that…maybe I’ll use that over the next three months and see if I can get some traffic going.

What else?  Add a comment and give me your ideas on how to get these gadgets onto some Google homepages.