Monthly Archives: September 2008
Lost interest in your blog? Then sell it!
Blogging More than any other type of website, blogs are more likely to be abandoned or sold. There are many reasons for this. Some bloggers struggle to find the time to update their blog whereas others get frustrated at the lack of money they make. However I believe the number one reason blogs are abandoned is lack of interest ie. the blogger loses interest in the topic or in the blog itself (sometimes referred to as Blogger Fatique). There are several ...
Continue readingMonetizing Your Blog Through Affiliate Marketing
Making Money So you’ve been blogging for a while. You’ve chosen a niche a topic that you’re passionate about and you’ve optimized your blog posts. You’ve become an authority blogger who generates organic traffic, and your visitors leave comments. But one questions still looms: how do you monetize your niche content? If you’ve built your blog into the community of readers that a blog is supposed to be (and not vacuous ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: Why You Should Never Give Away All Rights to Your Content
Writing There are a plethora of new sites popping up on the web where freelance writers can sell their content. This is in addition to older sites that have become very popular, eg, AssociatedContent.com, Constant-Content.com, Helium.com, etc. New Sites That Allow Freelance Writers to Sell Content I reviewed one of these new sites on my blog last week, TheSyndicatedNews.com. One of the things I like about pay-for-content sites is that you can sell your ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : LessonInLife.com
Reader Blog Critique Last weeks Reader Blog Critque proved to be a real success. Feedback was slow at first however soon readers started giving their thoughts on Xfep and David was very appreciative of the effort everyone put in. The 2nd blog to be critiqued in this new feature is Mohamad Zaki’s Lesson In Life. Online since May 2007, LessonInLife is aimed to provide self-improvement advice in a more personal and casual way. It covers a variety of topics ...
Continue readingUBD Release Citrus Theme in 6 Colors
WordPress Themes Yesterday Unique Blog Designs announced the release of their new Citrus Theme. The Citrus Theme is a premium theme which comes in 6 colors and is incredibly easy to modify to suit your needs. The theme costs $79 for a single domain license, $99 for a mutli domain license and $149 for a developer package, which comes with the original psd files. Nate Whitehill was nice enough to send me a copy of the new theme so that I can try it out. My friend ...
Continue readingWhy Interviews Are So Great
Blogging Over the last few months I have taken part in several interviews on other blogs and doing so has made me appreciate why interviews are so great for blogs (infact, Steven Snell from Traffikd posted an interview with myself today). Interviews are incredibly easy for both the blog owner to setup and the interviewee to take part in too. In this post I will look at why interviews are so popular with bloggers. You have probably noticed that many of ...
Continue readingMonetize Your Twitter Background
Social Media Twittad is the latest venture which is looking to monetize Twitter accounts. The premise of Twittad is similar to AdComo. You first need to set the price and duraton of an ad in your account (most seem to be selling on a per week per month basis). Once set up your ad listing shows the price to advertise on your account and the number of followers you have. It also shows how many people you are following. Since users set the price themselves I ...
Continue readingBloghology Blogging Magazine Launched
Around The Blogosphere Andrew G.R. from Jobacle wrote a post on Blog Herald today about the launch of a new blogging magazine from Bloghology. Apparently an initial run of 40,000 copies will be available 4 times a year. Subscription for the printed version will cost $20 a year in Europe and €30 a year everywhere else. I would love to subscribe regularly to a blogging magazine so I hope that it proves to be a success. Perhaps by only publishing every quarter they ...
Continue readingChrome : Google’s browser released tomorrow
Internet News Google posted today that they will be releasing a beta version of their new browser tomorrow. Called Chrome, the browser will be available tomorrow in 100 countries for versions of Windows. Mac and Linux versions are to follow at a later date. Google decided to launch the new browser via a comic. You can see the comic in full here and if you take the time to read it, you will see that it explains most of it’s new features (it’s 38 ...
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Five wordpress plugins to attract more traffic
WordPress Plugins Of late, tons and tons of people have resorted to blogging to hit a fortune. It might be one of the most lucrative means to earn by expressing what’s in your mind, but you just can not possibly win an audience by mere writing posts. You need to accessorize your blog with plugins and widgets for attracting every single person who is interested in the written genre. Here goes a compilation of 5 most helpful plugins to gain traffic to your ...
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