Archive for December, 2006

Blogging in 2006 - How Did You Do?

Friday, December 29th, 2006

When all was said and done, I had a pretty decent blogging year in 2006. I didn't get serious until March, but I managed to press out a great bit of content this year (with the help of my wife Heather), that is turning into an archive that generates ...

Waiting For Traffic Is Death For A Blog

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Even if you started your blog today, you have to be aware that they only way anyone can find your content is if your promote your blog. It won't take truly agressive marketing to find readers, but it will take consistency. If you ever plan on making your ...

Going With The Flow Around The Holidays

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

I haven't been posting as much in the last so many days because of the holidays. I've decided that there's no need to fight the reality that many people have been more pre-occupied with the holiday season that reading my content. But today, I must report, sees many ...

Bloggers Have No Choice, They Must Disclose Advertising Relationships

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

The FTC has decided to really change the way people do word of mouth marketing, and they've made a lot of specific changes to how website owners must list information. These changes are really huge, and could represent a cataclysmic shift in how people operate online. If you ...

Down And Dirty Google Sitemap Generation For Wordpress

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Everyone needs to get their blog into Google Sitemaps. There are a few plugins out there that will do the job, but I've come up with my own down and dirty method which is working quite well. I recently wrote up the how Google Sitemaps has helped me ...

Blogging Begins To Pay Off

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Founding a blog network in March of 2006, I had basic ambitions of building a new revenue stream for myself, where none had existed before. Why? Blogging has some definite advantages over traditional websites. I knew when I started that the process would be a learning curve, ...

One Great Thing About Marketing A Blog

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Marketing blogs is not the toughest job out there. It's time-consuming, but there are ways to market blogs that can be effective, and free. The easiest way to market any blog, I've found, is to simply stay on-topic with the blog and post about things that people want ...

Most Bloggers Don’t Need To Become Podcasters

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Okay, this might come as a surprise, but not all people are born to be announcers or video personalities. This is as true in the "Blog'O'Sphere" as it is anywhere in real life. But bloggers are impetous people, and podcasting doesn't really cost much money to do, so ...

Will Bloggers Have To Disclose?

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

The debate about whether blogger should disclose their business relationships concerning products they push will probably be affected by a recent FTC decision that makes new rules concerning "Word of mouth" advertising. At one point in time "Word of mouth" advertising was considered to be the byproduct of an ...

Blogging In Support Of A Product Or Service Is Key

Monday, December 11th, 2006

I've been using blogs in two ways primarily since March of 2006. These two ways are: 1) Blogs where the primary objective is to produce income 2) Blogs where the primary objective is to support a product that I sell What I've found is that number 2 has been a lot more ...