Maybe you’re gettin’ ready to take a little vaca somewhere. Maybe you’re swamped tryin’ to get that next great entrepreneurial venture off the ground. Maybe you’re just sick of posting on your blog day in and day out and wanna take a break.

After spending just over half a year creatin’ one of the most explosive blogs ever, takin’ profits from $254.72 in June ‘07, my first month at it, to just over five figures in December ‘07, I decided to take a break. Why? First, I’d made enough money between…

Even though blogs rely heavily on search engine optimization and the blogosphere to spread the word, you don’t need to have your own public relations team to get a little media coverage. In fact, there are several ways you can do your own PR for your blog for free.

Create a Press Page

The first step should be for you to create at least a press page for the media to visit. This should have some basic information about you as a blogger and about the site, and contact information (in particular,…

Since my last posting on the topic of free ways of generating web visitors to your blog was such as success, I am expanding a little bit on that topic for my conclusion to the topic. I will continue to explore all of the best ways to make sure that you are getting the BEST viewers to your blog that can possibly handle in future posts, and that means the quality of the viewers, not just quantity. If you want the viewers to come back continually and tell their friends…

This is a question we’ve heard before.  Is the blogroll dead?  Perhaps a better way to phrase the question is to ask whether or not your blogroll is an effective use of the valuable real estate on your blog.  In other words, is your blogroll bringing in an adequate return on your investment (in this case, the investment is your time and the space allocated to it)? 

Let’s face it, if your goals for your blog include monetization and growth, then every pixel of space on your blog should be filled…

Want more traffic for your blog? I’m sure you do. However, you also want results from that traffic. You want “good” traffic, traffic that does something for you when it gets to your blog. What you want your traffic to do varies - perhaps you want your visitors to buy a product, visit your online store, or click on a link.

So although the Web 2.0 social-networking traffic generating methods can be effective, they usually fail the “good traffic” test. Your visitors from Digg zoom through your blog, and vanish, like…