From the monthly archives:

October 2007


One blogger’s (fake) food blog

October 31, 2007

Anyone can start a blog. Yes, even if you have no technical experience at all. In You too — yes, you! — can be a food blogger and LA Times reporter says: “This is the golden age of do-it-yourself publishing, and the bar for entry has never been set lower. Anyone with a computer, a [...]

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After the ouch – build and sell blogs

October 26, 2007

If you got smacked by Google, and your PageRank tanked, relax. There are many ways you can make money blogging without depending on text link ad sales. Among other methods, How to Monetize Without Google PR : The Blog Herald recommends: “Buy, Build and sell blogs – There will be quite a few people looking [...]

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Web presence – a job via your blog

October 26, 2007

One of blogging’s many benefits is that it lifts your profile and presence. How else could you display your expertise to millions of people? Disruptive Telephony: My new employer is… reports: “Then I got this email from a CEO of a company I’d never really heard of who said he’d found my blog posts and [...]

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Ouch, that smarts – a PageRank update that hurts

October 24, 2007

Apparently there’s been a recent Google PageRank update which has smacked many top ranking blogs and sites. Andy Beard’s “DIGG FAVORITES SLAPPED BY GOOGLE” has a list of some of the sites. He says: After the very controversial hit many sites took just 2 weeks ago for various degrees of selling PageRank or linking to [...]

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Blogs are growing into profitable media enterprises

October 23, 2007

If you ever doubted it, blogs are turning into seriously profitable enterprises. Yes, some blogs are profitable – very profitable reports: “More quickly than most anyone imagined, blogging is growing up. From the blogosphere’s anarchistic roots, a professional cadre is emerging that is creating an industry whose top-performing businesses now earn serious money. The industry [...]

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Trashing your blog – what to do if it’s not working

October 18, 2007

Darren at Problogger was asked a question about giving up on a blog – when do you know a blog’s not working out? On A Secret to Profitable Blogging – Trending Up Over the Long Haul Darren says: “You see early in my blogging ‘career’ I was close to giving up on blogging as an [...]

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The “nofollow” attribute debate – why should you nofollow your links?

October 18, 2007

If the paid links/ advertising/ nofollow-attribute debate is making your head hurt, Jennifer Laycock nails the main point. Does it benefit your readers? In Part Four – NoFollow is for Blog Spam…no Paid Text Links, wait…Paid Ads…Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings – Search Engine Guide Blog Jennifer asks: “Implementing [...]

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Blogging gigs: develop proposals for companies

October 16, 2007

Once you’re comfortable blogging, you begin to realize that there’s a whole world of blogging gigs available to you – not just the blog jobs which are advertised, but those which are not. Would you like to get gigs blogging for large companies which don’t have blogs? You can. Currently we’re at a unique place [...]

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Blogging for comments: encouraging conversations on your blog

October 15, 2007

Blogging has been called a conversation. However, on most blogs, getting the conversation started can be a puzzler. It turns out that Serbian bloggers don’t have any trouble starting a conversation at all – 100 readers may post 70 comments, and the commenters expect a response. International Blogging Blunders – How Blogs Differ in Other [...]

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Bloggers block – don’t be silly

October 12, 2007

“Blogger’s block” is just writer’s block, and like writer’s block, it doesn’t exist. It’s procrastination in fancy dress. If you’re stuck blogging, try: * Going for a long walk, and talking into a digital recorder; * Taking yourself and your computer to a coffee shop; * Making a list of ten things you hate, and [...]

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