Archive for November, 2006

One Year To Blogging Success

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

I've heard "one year" bandied about as the time when blogs blossom. I can believe it. I can say for sure that "six months" was pretty insignificant. I also think the one year rule applies mainly if you're promoting your blog as hard as you can. ...

Blogging Makes You Write A LOT More Than Most People

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Before I started blogging, I didn't right much. Now it's all I do. I guess this is a good thing. But now it has me thinking: if I'm writing every day, maybe I should right something like a book or a screenplay and get paid a lot ...

Blog Marketing: Commenting Is The Slow Road To Traffic

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

People always tell you to comment in blogs as a way to build you traffic to other blogs, but let's be honest, it's like taking the slow boat to China. I've been making my living online since 8/2004 and I can tell you one thing: the only significant source ...

Adsense Bloggers May Just Get A Small Pay Raise

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Okay, don't get too excited just yet, but I feel a recent development will help earn the average Adsense Blogger a slight raise. Google has made significant changes to Google Adwords, which should have a trickle down effect for "honest publishers" out there, like bloggers. Here's a few articles on ...

Netscape Changes Front Page Ranking Algo - Does Anyone Care?

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Still looks like Politics to me Netscape recognized that their website had become a train wreck. It was a literal walking Frankenstein, with user-generated content that was constructed so oddly, almost anyone visiting the website for more than one minute would realize the inmates were, indeed, running this asylum. ...

Can’t Get Enough Blogger Interviews?

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

If you just can't get enough of reading blogger interviews, then a new website run by the usual suspects might be in order for you. The Blog Herald bloggers I like to refer to as Team T'N'T are on the job and interviewing everyone and their uncle. Make sure ...

Size Does Matter - Your Blog’s Archive

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Bigger really is better. At least when it comes to the size of your blog's archive. The real money in any blog comes down to the quantity and the quality of posts in the archive. It's for this reason that new bloggers struggle, and almost all "A-List" ...

Pre-writing Blog Posts And Posting Later

Monday, November 6th, 2006

This is a trick you see everyone recommend from time to time. I know I've planned on doing it on several incidents, but I haven't. If you have a ton of excess material, this type of method should be a must. Whether you can "save" posts for ...

Blogging: When You Don’t Have Anything To Say - Be Quiet

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

That's the long and the short of it. Let's say you're a person who prides themselves in their ability to pound out a blog post no matter what the conditions. You figure your archive will be at least one post bigger, and your readers will have one more ...

Writing Naturally Versus Writing For Search Engines

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

With this blog, I've tried very hard to write very naturally, and to make sure that I don't place too much emphasis on writing material for the search engines. And I've definitely done this. And it shows. In my stats :) When I was totally obsessed ...