From the monthly archives:

September 2007


Make money by selling ad space on your blog

September 30, 2007

How much advertising is too much on your blog? You’re your own judge of that. Here’s a post to show you how top bloggers do it: How the top bloggers display their ads – Percentages and numbers says: “Blogging for money has become a million dollar business, top bloggers make thousands of dollars each month [...]

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New blog theme: Daleri – three columns and widgets

September 30, 2007

Further to my WordPress theme hunt. I installed Deliciously Blue, and liked it a lot. Eventually, I may go with this theme after all… Then I spotted Andreas Viklund’s Daleri theme, which is new to me. Three columns, beautiful navigation, so it’s now my choice. For the time being. I’ve spent a lot of time [...]

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Blogging: how often do you check your stats?

September 30, 2007

How often do you check your stats? It’s OK To Be A StatsAHolic says: “While there are lots of good reasons to check your stats, gaining more traffic from search engines is one of the very best. Mining known site data is one of the best ways to manage your SEO campaign. If you can [...]

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Blogging motivation – get inspired: success stories

September 30, 2007

Bored with blogging? Here’s your chance to get inspired, with: Top 5 Blogging Success Stories: Exclusive Quotes From John Chow, Yaro Starak And More I love this quote: John Chow dot Com got so successful because I was singularly focused on making as much money as possible for the blog. By showing massive monthly increases [...]

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Small business blogging pays off for real estate agents

September 29, 2007

Blogging pays off for small businesses. As you might expect, real estate agents are blogging with a vengeance. In Highly Entertaining: Realtors Suing Other Realtors TechCrunch says of active rain “It launched in June 2006, and by March 2007 had 20,000 bloggers, 12,000 of whom were real estate agents.” Now, according to the masthead, it [...]

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Choosing a WordPress theme for your blog – decisions!

September 29, 2007

I’ve just created a new blog, but none of the themes I currently use fit the topic of the blog, so I’ve been spending some time looking at new themes. I’ve narrowed my choices down to three: * Deliciously Blue * News Theme from Performancing * CopyBlogger Theme I like them all, for different reasons [...]

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Your blogging Web site or blog gets you blog jobs

September 28, 2007

One of the easiest ways to get a steady stream of blog jobs is to create your own blogging Web site and/ or blog. Your online presence establishes you as a blogger – it’s your sales agent and works for you right around the clock, every day of the year. It means you don’t need [...]

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Blogging for your readers: getting traffic from the search engines

September 25, 2007

You’re full of excited anticipation when you launch your blog. That’s natural. However, your enthusiasm can lead you astray: you forget to consider your readers and how they’ll find you. As your blog gets more content, and as time passes, most of your readers will find you via the search engines. On my writing blog, [...]

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WordPress can drive you crazy before you make money

September 24, 2007

If you want to make money blogging, there’s no better blogging platform than WordPress. But… I’ve been blogging since 2001 and switched most of my blogs to WordPress a couple of years ago, so the horrors of getting WordPress to behave exactly as I want it to are lost in the mists of time. However, [...]

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Monetizing your blog with advertising 2: Get paid for product reviews on your blog

September 23, 2007

There are several companies online which pay you to write advertising posts on your blog, but you can take the process into your own hands and eliminate the middle man. All you need to do is add your own ad to your blog’s sidebar: Get Reviewed On This Blog From $50 to $250 Then, set [...]

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