Monthly Archives: November 2008
Pint Sized Blogger Receives Letter From Obama
Around The Blogosphere CT Moore emailed me today about a 7 year old who got a letter from Obama, 5 days before the election. No doubt this only made the news because it involves the President Elect but what interested me was the kids age. Apparently the blog was setup for a school assessment. A part of me is encouraged by a kid so young getting into blogging though a big part of me thinks that the kid should be out in the playground playing with other kids instead of ...
Continue readingSEO Tips for Affiliate Bloggers: Link Titles
Blogging, Making Money When you link to a page, Google will follow that link, index the keywords on it, and determine what keywords that page is relevant for. But it will also index the anchor text used in the link. This is why links that are descriptive are better then just using “click here.” This is why when I blogged about the importance of internal linking last week, I touched upon the trade-off between linking to an affiliate page and linking to a ...
Continue readingJim Kukral Launches The Biz Web Coach
Blogging News I got a chance to speak to Jim Kukral yesterday about the launch of his new coaching website TheBizWebCoach.com. If you are looking for a coaching or consultation service, I’m sure you will enjoy this interview and I recommend checking TheBizWebCoach.com out For those who don’t know you, can you introduce yourself and tell readers a little about your online experience. I’m Jim Kukral. I’m the super web geek that has been blogging ...
Continue readingThe $12,000/Year Blog Marketing Campaign Explained
Promote your blog In yesterday’s post on how to make $12,000/year from your blog, we discussed free and paid blogging methods for marketing your blog. Today’s post discusses how to decide which methods to use – free, paid or a combination of the two. How to Choose Blog Marketing Methods to Bring in the Most Profit The problem most bloggers have is that they literally have no money with which to market. But, you can still market using free methods. If you ...
Continue readingWin a Copy of the Ninja Affiliate WordPress Plugin
Competitions Today is the fifth week of our $1,500 Forum Competition. This weeks prize is a copy of the fantastic Ninja Affiliate WordPress Plugin (worth $97), which has kindly been donated by Max Blog Press. The Ninja Affiliate WordPress Plugin is an excellent plugin which lets you easily convert keywords on your blog into affiliate links. It is incredibly easy to use and should help every blog increase their affiliate commissions. Competition Details Here ...
Continue readingBlog Marketing: How to Make $12,000/Year from Your Blog
Promote your blog Now, while $12,000 is mere pennies to some, it’s a good, part-time job for others. The whole point of this blog post is the following, “if you want to make money blogging, you have to treat it like a business.” And, the earlier you do so, the better. This mean thinking about revenues, ad outlets, advertising budgets, etc. In short, everything you would put in a marketing plan for a brick-and-mortar business, for example, needs ...
Continue readingCommon Latin Phrases
Writing Yesterday I spoke about some of the most common writing abbreviations found in English. All of these were derived from Latin so I thought it would be good to follow the post up with an article about popular phrases which were borrowed directly from the Latin language. Latin was the foundation for many European languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. Many words in English are derived from Latin however there are ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : TechZilo.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 12th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of Thou Shall Blog had some great suggestions so it will be interesting to see what you guys think of this weeks blog. This weeks review is on TechZilo, a software and technology blog which was moved to it’s current domain in April 2007. Here are the questions the owner Sumesh would like to ask you all about the blog : What do you like and hate about the design? How many ads ...
Continue readingBlogging Jobs: How Much Should You Charge to Blog?
Blogging As a freelance writer in the age of new media, blogging for pay is one of the many types of writing I do. I first started doing this at the beginning of this year. Initially, I set my rates for blogging by the seat of my pants. Meaning, I had no clue how much to charge. Why It’s Hard to Price Blogging Jobs Blogging jobs were hard for me to price because: (i) it’s such a new medium that there are no “standard” rates; (ii) client posting ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – November 10th 2008
Links Another links roundup for all you news hungry bloggers 45n5 is now the DigitalProductReporter – After a small absence Mark Wielgus has returned to blogging and has moved his popular 45n5 blog to the domain Digital Product Reporter. The old 45n5 Top 100 list has been moved to here. Internet Marketing Top Blogs – The Ultimate Rankings – On the same day the popular Top 100 list was moved, Gyutae Park has launched his own Ultimate ...
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