Archive for October, 2006

A Couple Adsense Tweaks Make For 315% Increase In Revenues

Monday, October 30th, 2006

My efforts to increase blogging revenue with Adsense continue. The latest small changes I've made have had quite an effect. Of course I can't give any specific numbers, but the overall revenue figure I mentioned is real. That's right, I tripled my blog template's revenue earning capacity ...

Hell No! Bloggers Shouldn’t Have To Disclose

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

The advent of PayPerPost.com has create many rifts in the blogging community, and lately I'm hearing about "Bloggers Pledges" and the like, and I think it's time to settle down. When, exactly, did "blogging" get so high and mighty? Would you take a look at some of the ...

Google Adsense On Blogs - Tweak Or Die

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I've been spending the last few months tweaking Google ads on more and more and pages, and I must tell you, blogs really suck for earning money via Adsense. I mean, people, I'm not kidding. I have a CMS that I custom designed which outperforms my blog design ...

An Entire Generation Of Commenters Are Gone

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I started blogging here in March, and in that time I've seen several generations of commenters come and go. I have no idea if this is natural or not. I think some of it could be related to the subject of this blog (professional blogging). Maybe some ...

Quality IS NOT A Differentiator For Blogs

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I think this statement might come as a surprise. But if we consider the words of marketing maven Jack Trout, then we believe that "quality is not a differentiator" for any product, even blogs. It's an interesting though, because most bloggers probably consider it a very important part ...

Should A Blogger Reveal Their Weaknesses To The World?

Monday, October 16th, 2006

This is a bit of a followup from yesterday, when I asked how personal do bloggers need to be? Let's assume that being personal is a good thing, and you decide to put a lot of yourself into your posts. Then we can take that example a step ...

How Personal Do Bloggers Need To Be?

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

I've noticed that some of the most popular blogs get into great detail about the author's life. I mean, they pour over every possible personality quirk, as the author examines herself. I find I don't want to blog like that. I'm not at all interested in delving ...

The Technorati Top 100 Blogs

Friday, October 13th, 2006

When you think of a "Who's Who" list, you think of the most prestigious members around. Only the true elite could reach a height like this. So it is with the Technorati Top 100. This list is made by determining which blogs have the most backlinks. ...

Levels Of Comment Spams Are At An All Time High

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Man oh man, those comment spammers have their robots working overtime. I'm amazed at the amount of it I'm getting. Getting messages from "freerape" is certainly exciting, but it's only better when I get 100 of them at once. I guess this means Google has never been ...

Issues Of The Blogosphere Are Painfully Boring To Me

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Lately I've been thinking that I should post more often here. But that means extending my sites on subjects such as reporting on news in the "blogosphere", and frankly, I can't bring myself to do it. First, I hate that frigging word. Second, I'm not sure where ...