One of the most powerful ways to drive traffic to a blog is to write a product review. This is done frequently by technology based blog’s however it can be used by any type of blog. A music blog could review the latest guitar pedal, a parenting blog could review the latest baby toys, a sports blog could review the latest DVD and just about any blog could do a review about a book which covers their topic.
Why are product reviews so good at driving traffic?
The reason for this is simple…
Hope you enjoy this weeks roundup 
Page Views - Are they Dead? - Darren brings up some good points here. Are page views relevant for blogs?
How can interlinking benefit your blog? - A good post from Mani about interlinking.
SEO Guide - A complete guide to search engine optimisation from Chirs Beasley (AKA Aspen).
10 free promotion ideas - Crystal brings you ten ways to promote your site or blog that won’t cost you a dime.
How Top Bloggers Earn Money - Posted this morning, Zac looks at some of the blogosphere’s biggest earners.
7 Signs You Have Lost…
I’m sure that most readers are aware that John Chow got penalized from Google last month. The number one theory and the one which is probably right is that Google are punishing him for his ‘Make Money Online’ linkback campaign. From the very start of this blog I have been very critical of John using this technique to gain traffic as the only one who seemed to benefit from it was John Chow. Some bloggers seem to be very pleased with Google for doing this, as if John’s campaign somehow justifies…
I wasn’t online online as much as I usually am at the weekend because I got my new laptop delivered. After installing everything I needed onto my new laptop and transferring all of my files I quickly realised how much my blogging is going to get easier. Before I went travelling last November the motherboard in my desktop pc burned out so since then I have been using my Sony T250, a 1.2GH centrino laptop with a 10.6″ screen. Whilst it still allowed me to work, I certainly found the…
If you run a Wordpress blog then chances are you love plugins. Plugins make life easy. They help organize your blog: the comments, the posts, the sidebar, the SEO.
But with thousands of different plugins, is it possible to overdose? Have you caught yourself uploading multiple zip files to your plugins directory, only to forget what you’re adding?
You Know You’re ODing on Plugins When…
You spend more time with your plugins than you do with your posts.
You get defensive when people ask you about your plugins.
You secretly add plugins late at…
Kumiko from Cash Quests recently turned off her comments for a week to see what difference it made to her blog. She has decided to keep comments switched off for the time being.
This is an interesting topic which I have read some posts on recently. Kumiko’s decision to switch off blog comments gives me a good live example of the pros and comments of doing this.
Why Kumiko has decided to switch her comments off
Kumiko has explained her reasons for switching off her comments however I disagree with some of those reasons. Below…
