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Make Money 2007-11-11 19:24:00 What blog would be a blog without opportunities for money!
Here are 2 great programs I use to generate money.
Sponsoredreviews
Smorty
Enjoy! Read more:Money
Limiting Advertisements 2007-11-27 18:22:00 If 50 advertisers emailed your blog and offered $10 dollars for 2 months of banner advertisements, would you take all of them, or just some of them.
I'm seeing to many blogs now a days that have their entire sidebar COVERED with 125x125 affiliate programs, Paid to click ads, Adsense, and other money making schemes. All the flashy colours that the advertising companies use to draw attention Read more:Limiting
, Advertisements
A Fast Blogging Connection 2007-11-27 18:09:00 I love broadband internet. It is so much faster than dial-up. I used to have dial-up and it took me 2 minutes to connect TO the internet. Another 5 minutes to load google..I didn't even try online gaming.
Now that I have high-speed and a laptop, I use wi-fi internet and this means that I can travel where-ever I want within a 100 foot radius of my wireless router and stay connected to the Read more:Blogging
Design - A Crucial Factor in the Blog World 2007-11-26 14:27:00 What would you rather go to: A blog that has a generic template provided from blogger or a blog that has taken the time to customize the blog so that you cannot tell what template the blog uses and it looks "Original".
This post is going to be about the factors of a good blog design. We recently upgraded our template so now we feel that it is easier to read and faster to find an article you are Read more:Crucial
, World
Comments - Quality vs Quantity 2007-11-25 08:58:00 Hello everyone!
While replying to all the comments yesterday on the post: Comments
- Do YOU want more?, I found one that made me realize that comments sometimes aren't the greatest thing to have.
"Beth said... Good advice although I've tried them all with mixed results. The biggest obstacle to overcome are the "cliques" who comment on each other's blog posts which, are Read more:Quality
, Quantity
Comments - Do YOU want more? 2007-11-24 12:09:00 Everyone here that runs a blog usually likes to see comments on most of their posts. Comments
are a way to promote your blog, and add input into the topic that the blogger has posted about. There also nice to see when you have worked hard on a good post. I've compiled a list of ways to get more comments onto your posts..
Heres 5 detailed tips about them that you probably wouldn't consider.
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Featured Articles: Great Attention Grabber 2007-11-23 15:28:00 Hello everyone! We hope you enjoy our blog edit with the 3 headers at the top of the page as much as we do. It took a couple of hours to get it just right and we hope there are no glitches/bugs in the display!
Today's post will be about something we have incorporated into our header, FeaturedArticles
.
Featured Articles are a great way to show viewers that have come from another website what you Read more:Great
A "Clean" Approach 2007-11-23 15:12:00 When I'm not blogging profusely, telling people my ideas and thoughts on how to improve blogs, I like to chill. I usually order a pizza, have some crackers or chips...But OH-NO! Whats this? I've made a mess!
Time to bring out a vacuum cleaner..
Not just "Any" vacuum cleaner. I'm talking about a Dyson vacuum cleaner as it helps me get the job done. It never loses suction and has no replacement Read more:Clean
RSS 2007-11-12 14:17:00 What are the benefits of RSS?
RSS gives benefits to both readers (users) and web publishers.
1. It gives you the latest updates.
Whether it is about the weather, new music, software upgrade, local news, or a new posting from a rarely-updates site learn about the latest as soon as it comes out.
2. It saves on surfing time.
Since an RSS feed provides a summary of the related article, it
Make Money Online - Too Many Blogs? 2007-12-03 06:50:00 Lately, I've been seeing more and more blogs that have the title or the "Niche" to make money online. All of these blogs seem to be popping out of nowhere! Let's take a look at what I mean using the wonderful search engine Google...
Here are the two most popular and most heavily searched types of blogs (in my opinion).. "Make Money
Online" blogs and the "Blogging Tips/Hacks" blogs. If you take Read more:Blogs
Weekly Website Review 2007-12-02 14:38:00 The Daily Rambler is going to start doing weekly website reviews. We will focus on design and what could be improved. It is the same as this.
The premise is simple. You submit your site to me and I do a review. You better hurry though because it might be a long time before your's gets reviewed if you submit it after 20 people (1 person per week = 20 weeks). This is a free service and the only Read more:Weekly
Blogrush - Not as much traffic as stated. 2007-12-02 09:00:00 Everyone knows of Blogrush, that 180 pixel wide box that displays articles from other blogs related to yours. If you think about it, its pretty smart technology. The only 3 problems with it is that for one, if someone is reading your article and sees an more interesting one in that little Blogrush box, you'll easily lose a reader and perhaps a potential subscriber.
The second problem with Read more:traffic
A "Clear" Picture 2007-12-01 14:40:00 What would you rather read on a blog...
An informative post with textThat same informative post with text and a couple picturesThats what this post will be focused on today. By adding pictures to your blog posts, you attract attention to your articles faster. When I go on to a blog, I usually look for a pictures in the article and then read why that picture is there. This strategy works best Read more:Clear
, Picture
Upcoming of The Christmas Season 2007-12-01 12:37:00 Since the great jolly holiday of Christmas
is coming forth, I've created a list to help the blog owners realize, that Christmas is usually a time when people go out, sing carols, eat candy-canes and live happily with their families. Unless your website or blog is very popular with thousands of readers per day. The list that follows are things to expect during this season:
Less Traffic to your Read more:Upcoming
, Season
StumbleUpon Traffic Test 2007-12-01 12:03:00 I've been reading lately how much traffic Stumbleupon brings you. When people stumble posts here however, I haven't gotten more than 4 people from it.
Stumble!
So that's what this experiment is going to be about. All you have to do is click the following button, and I will report here tomorrow how much traffic it has brought.
Then on Monday I will post a detailed report about Stumbleupon based Read more:StumbleUpon
Too Many Blogging Posts? 2007-11-29 14:31:00 Theres a real question that every blogger asks themselves at one point or another: "How many posts per day should I be doing?" I've done this many times, but I've successfully found out a great amount per day that keeps people interested in what I have to say. Thus allowing people to come back everyday around the same time to see something new. The answer is...
1 post per day. I've decided Read more:Blogging
Christmas Gift Special - Personalized Photo Gifts 2007-11-29 14:07:00 I was stumbling a couple hours ago and found this really original website that takes your pictures and puts them onto gifts. Since its getting close to Christmas
, I thought I'd do a special post.
This would be a great gift for anyone that likes PhotoGifts
. These can range from bed spreads (left), pillows, blankets, and dog beds.
The company that runs this is called Visionbedding and states, " Read more:Special
, Personalized
, Christmas Gift
RSSHugger 2007-11-28 17:59:00 I heard about this service from a friend and am going to test this. It claims that its RSS feed promotion, so why not try it.
RssHugger has a black and orange theme and it look professionally done. You have 2 options when you sign up... One is to purchase the link for $20 and the other is to write a blog review. Yep, You guessed it. I'm writing this to be included in their program so why not
Partial Posts.. Alright!! 2007-11-28 15:49:00 This post is going to be about that little "Read More..." link that we see on many websites.
I found this tutorial on Etienneteo.com and thought it would benefit the readers here. This code that can be found will show you how to hide a post so that a "Introduction" or "Teaser" heading of this post. The following link for the tutorial is... Available here and by following that tutorial, it Read more:Partial
, Alright
Subscribers Buttons - How Much is Too Much? 2007-12-10 15:07:00 Want to know what is amazing? Only a small fraction of people that see your blog actually take the time to read your blog before leaving it to go to another one. Of those small fractions, you (the blogger) want to try and capture that audience and make them subscribe to your feed. After all, the more the merry, am I wrong?
So in order to do that, you need some buttons so that the reader will Read more:Subscribers
, Buttons
What If - Hardware Crash 2007-12-06 16:11:00 Wouldn't it be terrible if your hard-drive just suddenly stopped? I've found some pro backup to DVD software that saves me precious time that I can be spent doing other things. Such as blogging, or cooking (Yes, I am an avid cooker in case none of you people knew, for a sample dish, click here :) ) . The Backup Software I'm using is the best thing to backup your precious files to DVD, CD, FTP or Read more:Hardware
Christmas Decorations - Are You Going to Use Them? 2007-12-07 15:09:00 Getting more into December and closer to Christmas
, this is going to be my last post for the weekend.
However, I have recently added a banner that has Christmas Decorations on the background and I was wondering if any of my readers were going to do the same? Are you going to change your design, change the banner (like me) or just leave it the way it is? The possibilities are endless.
If you are Read more:Going
How To Increase your RSS Subscribers By 33 Percent 2007-12-06 15:36:00 I was recently reading Datmoney.com and he was talking about forwarding your RSS post from your blog feed to your feedburner feed. I had delayed this for months, but I decided to try it.
Within the first night, My subscribers jumped from 46 to 54 and then today it jumped into the 60's. Had most of the readers not been using the feedburner feed? It was quite a simple concept and I feel like I Read more:Subscribers
, Percent
Creating an article worth reading 2007-12-05 15:18:00 I'm a subscriber of many blogs, but I was recently link baited by one of the blogs by saying, "Decrease your Alexa Traffic Ranking to under 100,000 In One Month". Although this is an effective way to gain readers that are interested in that topic, it usually makes people pretty angry when they find out that the information with that post is useless and has been said millions of times over...
In Read more:Creating
Website Review -www-dubaiapartments-biz 2007-12-05 14:52:00 I've seen many travel sites over my days, but this one that provides hotel apartments in dubai
really caught my eye. Lets look at some key features that makes a unique site or blog...Shall we?
Unique DesignClarity of What the site offersOriginal Content and good colour scheme.The first paragraph will be about the unique design of http://www.dubaiapartments.biz/.
As soon as I type the site into my
The Importance of Responding to Comments 2007-12-04 17:07:00 Every blog webmaster knows that adding your comment to another blog's post is a way to express your opinion. However, lets say you ask a question and would like an answer, so you comment on the specific post expecting a response. After a while however, you realize that the author will never respond and you have wasted your time.
The purpose of this post is to educate my readers on why Read more:Comments
Make Money Online - Too Many Blogs? 2007-12-03 06:50:00 Lately, I've been seeing more and more blogs that have the title or the "Niche" to make money online. All of these blogs seem to be popping out of nowhere! Let's take a look at what I mean using the wonderful search engine Google...
Here are the two most popular and most heavily searched types of blogs (in my opinion).. "Make Money
Online" blogs and the "Blogging Tips/Hacks" blogs. If you take Read more:Blogs
Weekly Website Review 2007-12-02 14:38:00 The Daily Rambler is going to start doing weekly website reviews. We will focus on design and what could be improved. It is the same as this.
The premise is simple. You submit your site to me and I do a review. You better hurry though because it might be a long time before your's gets reviewed if you submit it after 20 people (1 person per week = 20 weeks). This is a free service and the only Read more:Weekly
Blogrush - Not as much traffic as stated. 2007-12-02 09:00:00 Everyone knows of Blogrush, that 180 pixel wide box that displays articles from other blogs related to yours. If you think about it, its pretty smart technology. The only 3 problems with it is that for one, if someone is reading your article and sees an more interesting one in that little Blogrush box, you'll easily lose a reader and perhaps a potential subscriber.
The second problem with Read more:traffic
A "Clear" Picture 2007-12-01 14:40:00 What would you rather read on a blog...
An informative post with textThat same informative post with text and a couple picturesThats what this post will be focused on today. By adding pictures to your blog posts, you attract attention to your articles faster. When I go on to a blog, I usually look for a pictures in the article and then read why that picture is there. This strategy works best Read more:Clear
, Picture
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