Archive for April, 2007

The Blogging For Dollars Craze Rolls On

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Despite doomful predictions, there are still a number of people out there banging away at their keyboards in the hopes of earning serious cash from their blogs. Why wouldn't they be? Blogs are great sources of recurring revenue, and they beat digging a ditch with a shovel, so ...

Tipping Point For Blog Traffic

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I've often wondered if there's some sort of "tipping point" when it comes to traffic generation to you blog. It seems to me that as I hit the 1,000 post blog on Absolutely.Fa-bulo.us, the traffic really seems to have kicked into high gear. With 1,000 posts, you now ...

New Source Of Blog Traffic

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I've been noticing a pretty significant new source of blog traffic in recent days. Google has added a "related blog posts" entry to the bottom of many SERPs now. It seems like they now automatically figure out which posts are related and send some traffic along. Here's ...

Mega Blog Versus Blog Network

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Blog networks have been in action for years now, so the idea isn't too earth shattering. The concept of organizing blogs around specific keywords is a sound one. But for small entrepreneurs entering into the new media space, how good of an idea is it to start a ...

The More You Shoot, The More You Score

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I was watching Paul Wall on "Get Money TV" on YouTube yesterday, and it dawned on me just how much wisdom this guy really has ;) Paul Wall was talking about dating, and he said that just like in basketball, the more you shoot, the more you score. ...

Tim O’Reilly Wants YOU To Have Some Ethics

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Tim O'Reilly, a noted blowhard web evangelist, wants to get bloggers to agree on a set of ethics. He's pushing the idea hard, despite a good bit of resistance. "A lot of this is really kindergarten ethics. It's the adult way to handle this kind of thing. How do we ...

Pushing A Blog To The Next Level

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Let's say your blog traffic has reached a plateau and has been steady for some time. Does that mean it can't go higher? Of course not. If there truly was a "glass ceiling" for every blog that was quite low, that would make the world an uninteresting ...

Sticking To A Schedule Or Being Spontaneous

Monday, April 9th, 2007

When you decide on how you want post in your blog, you can either wing it, or try and stick to some sort of highly regimented schedule. Or your efforts might fall somewhere in between. But you already know that you have to establish consistency in your posting, ...

Malaysian Bloggers Join Forces In Union

Friday, April 6th, 2007

It what seems like an inevitable move, Malaysian bloggers have joined together in a new alliance. The bloggers are joining forces because of bad treatment they've been receiving from their government. As the saying goes, "there's strength in numbers". About 50 of Malaysia's popular online personalities held a meeting ...

Why Do I Blog?

Friday, April 6th, 2007

That's the question asked by intrepid and exalted Singaporean blogger Tan Kian Ann in his post Why do I blog? I'm tempted to answer with the simple truth: for the money, but that answer is not the one I'll make for two reasons. 1) It sounds so damn bad when you write ...