I was talking to a girlfriend of mine a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been friends for over 17 years. We used to work at the same legal publishing firm in New York City (ahh, the good ole days).
Anyway, our conversation that day left me thinking how the mind of an entrepreneur is vastly different from that of somewhat who works in corporate America. Let me explain. And yes, this does have to do with blogging. I’m taking the scenic route in getting there though, so bear with me.
A Half-Million…
What to do when google decides to hide one of your pages.
There you are, following the rules you have decided are true. Write good quality, unique content, generate a few backlinks and hey presto ! Your site will be found and rank in the search engines for the keywords you have targeted.
You are generating traffic (and income) then all of a sudden, wham! Traffic dries up. No search engine traffic. When you do a search for your pages, you discover – to your horror - that the pages in question…
Today Darren Rowse announced the release of his first book entitled ‘ProBlogger Book — Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income‘. The book was co-written with former BloggingTips author Chris Garrett and is now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The book is available in paperback and it’s 240 pages covers such topics as :
- How Bloggers Make Money
- Direct Income Earning vs. Indirect Income Earning methods
- Why Niches are Important
- 20 Ingredients for a successful blog post
- Optimizing advertising
- Which advertising platforms work best
- Expert analysis of Technocrat’s Top Blogs - why they work
The book was…
There has been a lot of buzz lately about Blogging to Death ever since the New York Times wrote about the deaths of high-stress bloggers Sunday. It’s discussed in the recent post here, “Is Blogging Killing You?” There is also a post, “What’s Wrong with the Blogosphere?” at Performancing, where Raj Dash points out:
I find one day’s blogging to be far harder work than producing, say, 1,000 lines of computer code in one day. (The industry standard for programmers used to be about 10 lines of finished code per day.) Each…
Why having a slow website will hurt your blogging income - A great post from Peter Alguacil about the negative affects of a slow blog.
Why you should actively link out from your blog - Don’t be a hater, spread that link love people!
New Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Design - Yaro beefs up his blog with a brand new theme.
52 easy ways optimize your blog while on your coffee break - Jennifer Slegg’s huge list of ways to optimize your blog.
DarkCopy - A simple, full-screen text editor.
Be a Blogger: Five Cures for Writer’s Block - Some good tips on how…
1. TEST KEY COMPONENTS OF YOUR WEB DESIGN FIRST
If your website or blog is not generating any traffic, there is not even a good way of testing the main ingredients of your marketing campaign to see why it’s not working. And you can’t roll out a large traffic campaign before you’ve tested your site because you risk losing sales and looking unprofessional to potential business partners and affiliates.
The only way to combat this problem is to get instant traffic to your website so you can test key components of your…