Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

New Bloggers Tend To Focus On The Wrong Things

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Everyday five million new people start blogs. Okay, the number's not that high, but you get the idea. A lot of damn people decide to become bloggers every day. I think it's great. I know I jumped right into blogging without a second thought and I've ...

A.P. Picks Fight With Bloggers, Backs Down

Monday, June 16th, 2008

It's getting obvious to just about anyone that old-line newspapers are in their death throes. The A.P., an organization that's owned by 150 newspapers, has decided to fight back against the erosion of their business model by new media, in a good old fashioned ham-fisted way which indicates their ...

You Want To Make Money Blogging? It’s As Simple As A Country Girl

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Making money blogging is the easiest damn thing in the world. I can't believe I hear people cry about how tough it is. There's so much information out there on how to get started and what to do, that you must not be paying attention. Or, it ...

Commercial Blogging Has A Unique Set Of Challenges

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Blogging is a relatively new media, but it's starting to mature in many ways. More and more money has been invested by companies as they attempt to "control" the conversations in the blogosphere. More commercial content isn't a bad thing. Without a profit incentive, much high quality ...

Pounding Away In The Blogging Trenches

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

That's what I'm doing. I'm still pounding away in the trenches of blogging. I've never made the A-list, never had a ton of RSS readers, or followers, but I have learned to manage to blog profitably. Currently the efforts of my wife Heather and I are pulling ...

Summer Blogging Plan

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Summer is here, as evidenced by the first warm weather I've seen around these parts in what seems like years. Summer is a bittersweet time for most internet marketers. On the one hand, who doesn't love the great warm weather? But on the other hand, we all ...

Buzz Bissinger Braylon Edwards

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Buzz Bissinger, Braylon Edwards, and Will Leitch recently appeared on "CostasNow" to talk about sports blogging. Buzz Bissinger came across as a complete numbnuts. Here's a guy who's completely threatened by new media and has the audacity to claim that blogs are the cause of the "dumbing down" ...

Twitter Is Down A Lot

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Twitter seems to be having more than their fair share of woes from a technical standpoint. The site doesn't seem to be stable at all. Not only hasn't been responding for direct access, but their badge is slowing down my websites! You have people linking to you for ...

A Strategy For A High CPM Low Traffic Website

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Let's say you have a website that has high CPM, but low traffic. How bad of a situation is this? IMHO, not too bad at all. It means you've found a niche that pays well, but you haven't gone far enough in developing traffic. It's much ...

Google Always Wins

Monday, May 12th, 2008

When it comes to generating revenue, I always come back to Google. Why? They traditionally pay me the best, over time, of any ad program I've tried. At this point I've tried all of them and have made some conclusions. First, it seems like Google ...