From the monthly archives:

January 2007


Which blog platform?

January 29, 2007

PC World has created an excellent chart of blogging platforms. If you’re new to blogging you’ll find it useful. As someone who’s used all the listed platforms, WordPress gets my vote for all-round excellence and usefulness. I also love Blogger for its sheer speed in setting up a blog. Typepad gets my vote for the [...]

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Blog or Web site?

January 26, 2007

Whenever I launch a new site, I put a WordPress blog into a “blog” subdirectory. I like a site AND a blog on the same domain because: * more bang for your buck – you get blog search results as well as ordinary search results. Having both gives you more visibility; * flexibility – you [...]

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Getting started as an affiliate blogger

January 21, 2007

One of the easiest ways to monetize a blog is to market others’ products and services as an affiliate. While affiliate marketing is easy, because you don’t need to create a product, store inventory, or fill orders, it does have its pitfalls. The major pitfall is to treat affiliate marketing as a form of advertising. [...]

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Proposals: how to get pro blogging gigs

January 16, 2007

As a freelance professional blogger, you can get work via job sites or out-sourcing sites, but the best way to work with the companies that you want to work with is to create a proposal. The biggest stumbling block to creating an irresistible proposal I’ve found is in my own mind. You need to give [...]

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Building your blog empire

January 10, 2007

A new blogger, who’s already an experienced affiliate marketer, asks whether it’s best to create just one blog, and promote it, or start off with a blast and create ten or more. ** It depends. Let’s say that you have: * a personal blog, that’s an online portfolio which prospective clients can visit to learn [...]

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Guarantee your blogging success – with persistence

January 8, 2007

Blogging is a long term project: you won’t create a super-successful blog in a week, a month, or even a year. Think long term – years, rather than months. Yes, you can have some success early – you’ll see your traffic increase each week, as search engine indexing kicks in, and as you do promotions. [...]

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Cash blogging: make money as an affiliate

January 5, 2007

The eternal question is: “How can I make money from my blog?” (Or, “how can I make MORE money from my blog”? ) Many bloggers set up affiliate blogs. That is, they create a blog which is a sales tool for a company (think Amazon Associates), and when they make sales, they get a chunk [...]

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Blogging Your Blogging Business

January 3, 2007

As a freelance blogger, you’re running your own business. This means that you should blog your business in exactly the same way you blog other people’s businesses. So how do you blog your blogging business? It’s simple. Just blog. (Note: your business blog should be separate from your own personal blog.) Tell people what’s happening [...]

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Apps to make blogging easier

January 2, 2007

The more complex blogging is for you, in terms of what it takes to get your posts onto your blog, the less you’re going to blog. And blogging MORE leads to more income, no matter how that income is derived – whether you’re blogging for others as a freelance blogger, are selling ad space on [...]

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