The decision to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing isn’t as simple as using your blog posts as advertorials. The real affiliate marketing potential of your blog, after all, lies with the influence you have over the community of your readers.
Because blogs are a social medium, the readership is more than an audience. It’s a community. You have influence in that community because you’re a community leader (i.e. the blogger), and as a community leader you have a reputation.
Your potential as an affiliate marketer, then, stems from the influence that your…
Even though I’ve been a freelance writer since 1993, I haven’t done much work on the road, ie, when I’m traveling. Outside of checking email, updating my blog and firing off a few proposals, I usually don’t do much in the way of actual writing when I’m away.
Well, this time it’s different. I was in New York City last week (business/pleasure) and am in St. Paul, Minnesota this week (pure pleasure). During this 10-day sojourn, I have actually completed client projects on the road. Following are some pros and cons…
Welcome to the 5th Reader Blog Critique. Once again, last weeks critique was a success so thanks to everyone who reviewed Let’s Sermo.
This weeks critque is Balkhis, a blog which covers a lot of topics including making money online, search engine optimisation, web design, WordPress and more.
I spoke to the the owner, Syed Balkhi, about what he thinks he needs to address on the blog. Here’s what he had to say :
- Regarding the blog content, which categories do you prefer?
- What do you think about the new design to the site,…
WordPress is not only a great blogging platform, it’s also a very flexible content management system and can be used to build just about any type of content driven website. One type of website which I love using WordPress for is the Mini Site. Granted, there are much lighter CMS scripts available which would do the job just as well however I always use WordPress as it’s quick and easy to install, it’s free, it is SEO friendly and there are thousands of plugins available which can enhance your site. More…
Abdylas Tynyshov contacted me today about a new a new script he has developed called AdesClrPicker. The script is free to download and is very quick and easy to use, infact, the download file is just over 1mb in size.
So what does the script do? Well, if you are like me then you probably capture colors from your desktop on a regular basis to help you design and edit your blog, logos, screenshots and more. For example, if you see a great color scheme on another website and you want…
