Creating a successful blog is much more than simply writing great content and supporting the blogging community. Anyone who has decided to create more than just a place to post thoughts and daily happenings needs to approach their blog like a business, rather than a hobby. If you look at other businesses, both on and [...]
I was having a look at the latest Alexa rankings for a few sites that I frequent (Problogger.net, JohnChow.com and CourtneyTutte.com) and I noticed that the Alexa Reach Chart had crashed for each of the sites. Here is the chart as it looked at 10:00am today: I’m guessing that this is another temporary issue like [...]
It’s finally happend. Recently I’ve been reading more and more blogs that are greatly reducing their reliance on Google AdSense or removing the AdSense from their sites altogether. The most recent blog to jump off the AdSense boat is Problogger.net. Today, in his posting called A New Look For Pro Blogger, Darren states that he [...]
Well, it’s been over a month since I started this blog and so far I’m pretty happy with the results. Not only have I had a lot of fun working on the articles but I have learned a lot about blogging and see a great future ahead! Posting Success I’ve also had some excellent success [...]
I just read this posting by Courtney Tuttle over at CourtneyTuttle.com called 5,263 Words on Starting a Profitable Blog. Yes, you may look at this and say, “5,263 words? That’s an eBook not a posting!” I’d love to see Courtney turn this into an eBook rather than one big posting. A lot of people just [...]
I’ll begin by giving a quick apology for not posting anything yesterday. I decided it was time to get rid of a big portion of grass in my yard and put in a stone paver patio. I thought that it would take about 2 day or so to complete. I was wrong… Yesterday it was [...]
I received another great comment from Cooliojones from my recent posting called A Video Clip That Motivates You To Wealth. Coolio’s comment was: Ah, the Secret. I looked at this video a while back, actually I have it! It’s great as an inspirational source, but my question is, how long will you keep that feeling [...]
Ever since I started this blog I have been doing more and more research about generating organic traffic and increasing readers through my RSS Feed. Throughout the short but informative process I have learned a few key things about attracting and keeping readers. Show the Love When John Chow sent a link back to my [...]
Just before I started this blog a friend of mine introduced me to Article Marketing. The premise behind Article Marketing is to write articles that target specific words or phrases that are highly searched but have few ‘optimized search results’. If you can find these sets of words and get an article posted on a [...]