Archive for July, 2006

The short shelf life of blog posts

Monday, July 31st, 2006

This blog post doesn't have long to live. In fact, it has 36 hours until its not news to anyone. To me, this is a very telling fact. It means you really only get one shot to gain maximum exposure for your article. If it falls ...

Is Darren the Problogger more powerful than Google?

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

I know what you're thinking: "Yes, Darren the Problogger is very powerful, but he's nowhere near as powerful as Google". At first glance, you might be right, but I have evidence to suggest otherwise. Last week, my referer logs showed that Problogger sent me THREE TIMES the traffic ...

Razib Ahmed - The Blogger Interviews - Number Four

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Razib Ahmed is a blogger for Know More Media (KMM) Network and he works for two blogs at KMM- SouthAsiaBiz.com and IndianRaj.com. He has been a freelance journalist for more than 10 years in Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. He has published over 400 reports and features in more than 20 newspapers ...

Crafty linking is the key to big money blogging - EMBS - Part 9

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Okay, we're getting into the nitty gritty of the Earn Money Blogging series, and now we're starting to mention some "fine points" as your overall knowledge of making money online goes up. One of the keys to making money blogging is to "direct" visitors to pages that are most ...

Setting a high standard for your blog

Friday, July 28th, 2006

When you set out to make your fame blogging, you need to realize that the world could care less. I can't think of a single human who will be excited to hear the news: "a new blog has started!". Look at the sentence, tell me what emotions it conjures ...

Have you been thumbd yet?

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Okay, it doesn't quite have the impact of being Dugg or being added to del.icio.us, but the web's newest social bookmarking/news ratings service thumbd.net is up and running. The website offers a way to give a "thumbs up" to the best content on the web. Yes, this was ...

The best type of traffic you can get from blogs

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

When you're blogging, you love getting incoming links. It makes you feel good, helps you search engine rankings, and is a source of crisp and directed traffic. But not all traffic you get to your blog is created equal. The best traffic, IMHO, is the traffic you ...

Blogging for dollars personality quiz - EMBS - Part 8

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Okay, in our "Earn Money Blogging Series", we've gone into detail on the ways you can make money. We'll go into even more details in future posts, but it dawned on me, we may need a way to look at applicants who want to go into the blogging for ...

Aaron Brazell - The Blogger Interviews - Number Three

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Aaron Brazell of Technosailor should be relatively well-known around the blogosphere. He's been contributing to multiple blogs for quite some time and is involved with writing for a number of pay-for-play blogs. Aaron was kind enough to take part in our Blogger Interviews series. If you'd like ...

Things I would do differently if I started my blog again

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Darren at Problogger (the other Darren), has posed one of his inimitable rhetorical questions. This time the question is "what would I do different if I started my blog today". I think this should be easy enough to answer. When I first started I think I did ...