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New Concept: WidgetBucks & AuctionAds, I’m Not Buying. 2007-10-05 04:40:06 Why do people use AuctionAds
and WidgetBucks on their sites? I personally do not use any services which display auction products, why? because they don’t work. How do I know this? Well, I would not buy a product advertised on someone else’s site, even if it had ‘best price’ all over it. The top three reasons why I would not and people would not want to buy products.
It involves me having to go through a checkout process, some are long and complicated.
My credit may or may not be maxed out already.
I just cant’t be bothered.
I am not specifically looking for products at the site I am on.
I have to this date not bought an actual material product online.
The probability of someone clicking on an AuctionAd or WidgetBuck ad and going to buy the product is much less than the probability of someone clicking on a PayPerClick ad or another affiliate program ad. The fact of the matter is that people are reluctant to spend money.
Look at the bigger picture…h Read more:Buying
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Blog Review: JohnCow.com Revamped 2007-10-05 03:07:27 The recent improvement to the JohnCow.com website has it’s good and bad points. The page is nice, visually the banner is pleasing, but on the left and right hand side below the banner there is too much going on, you have ads, pictures, recent readers from mybloglog…it is just a very busy splashpage, almost busy enough for me to navigate away from the page.
The page also has some good points, the navigation is very clear on top of the page in a horizontal line up (this is an absolute must for any good blog, as they tend to get very hectic from time to time). One thing which really impressed me was the new orange dropdown menus, a great way to keep visitors on the same page, not needing them to navigate away from the page. That is definitely two thumbs up material!
The JohnCow.com homepage has not really changed much except for making it more visually pleasing to the eye. Although a blog change can be a good thing, it must be thought out, planned and made BETTER.
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Blog Promotion: DailyMoolah Feature Story 2007-10-03 07:18:08 DailyMoolah advertised on JohnChow.com earlier this year. The website successfully attained many visitors as can be seen in the Alexa chart. This proves why it is worthwhile to advertise on websites which are more popular than yours. Many people may know this knowledge but are scared to give up big bucks to advertise their websites. It took JohnChow a while to build traffic, why waste your time (another year or two years) to build your own traffic when you can piggy back on JohnChow’s clients for a few bucks.
DailyMoolah is a story to remember, look at the traffic statistics, this blog began getting a lot of traffic in mid July 2007, and that is when the 125×125 ad was placed on the Chow man’s site. People clicked on the link and went to dailymoolah.com, they liked what they saw at DailyMoolah and they subscribed to the RSS feed and kept on coming back to the site for more. The site, www.dailymoolah.com is now so successful it has an Alexa ranking of 105,433 and see
Blog Review: DailyMoolah 2007-10-02 06:15:36 DailyMoolah.com has been steadily rising throughout it’s time in the blogosphere. One question remains, how will it bridge the gap between a good blog and a great blog? There are two options, one, it stays being a ‘good’ blog or he gives his site a whole redesign and ups the anti on the content by making it more focussed and less ad based.
DailyMoolah.com is not a bad website/blog but it is not the best one either, the ads are all over the place and it is not a place where I can sit down and read the updated in a relaxed environment, yes, I can subscribe to feeds but sometimes I want to be on the site.
To go deeper into the Navigation and Functionality…it is very easy to get lost on this blog, there are quote, a lot of links, unquote. All in all this blog has good points and bad points as all blogs do, my tips for making this site better than it already is.
Put more content
Reduce ads or blend them in more
Make navigation a breeze
Update the theme
How do you
Concept: Next Internet Millionaire 2007-10-01 07:14:23 12 Aspiring Entrepreneurs, one goal, to win $25,000 and a the possibility of joining Joel Comm in a new internet venture. Joel Comm and Eric Hollmund present ‘The Next InternetMillionaire
.’ Filled with challenges, eliminations and competition between two teams.
Have you all been watching the Next Internet Millionaire? If not you are missing out on something great. At first I was very apprehensive about the show, I was thinking it’s a wannabe style show. But I urge you to reconsider, as I found out it is an extremely informative and addictive (in a good way).
This heralds another success for Joel Comm, internet superpower and mogul in his own right. He has written a new york time bestseller and is continuing to pursue cutting edge ways of getting himself into new niches. The Next Internet Millionaire is a great show and it is worthy of a Small Fish, Big Money Southern Star Award.
Each show features successful internet entrepreneurs in their own niche and they expl Read more:Concept
Multiple Streams of Income Videos 2007-10-16 07:07:00 AskJoelComm.Com is at the forefront of providing web entrepreneurs with quality web videos which last about ten to five minutes in length each. The site alone probably has 40 to 50 videos created by Joel Comm. These videos are absolutely fantastic and they get the seal of approval from this website and so many others.
Joel Comm has created these videos to help the everyday blogger who is attempting to monetize their sites by using AdSense, Kontera and various affiliate programs. These have been recorded from a conference which Joel held but they are all fantastic, great sound, great powerpoint visuals etc…
These videos will not only get you hyped about monetizing your site it will also get you off the ‘lazy couch’ to make you go and do the things he recommends. The funny thing is that so many people are still using AdSense the old fashion way, I could list a huge bunch of websites who still use AdSense without thinking.
When I say “….AdSense without th Read more:Income
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OpTempo.Com Reviewed 2007-10-15 00:48:06 I found OpTempo as one of the commentators on a recent post. He was able to provide me with some very constructive comments for the post so I decided to contact him and arrange a review exchange. My review is as follows:
OpTempo.Com: www.OpTempo.com is an experiment in rapid paced blog, there are some very highly ambitious goals for the website in the about me section which are absolutely fantastic. Why would someone want to write 10 posts per day? There are many answers to this, but one of my main responses would be that if you are writing so many posts per day you are bound to be indexed by Google within two months or less. Post frequency matters if you want to be indexed in Google.
How’s the blog? Does it look good? OpTempo is a very good blog, it provides readers with a very broad range of topics to read upon, these links and others are neatly arrange in a column dedicated to the site’s navigation (very good for readers). The blog is very well organised, although it ha
SmallFishBigMoney.Com gets Reviewed 2007-10-15 00:00:29 We recently got a FREE review from OpTempo.Com, thanks a lot to the owner of OpTempo - Frank Carr. For your site reviewed free, you can visit his website to get one.
This is the review
“The About page of the site is quite good and explains who Fabian is and his goals for the site. He says this about the kind of sites he likes:
Fabien likes quality blogs and websites where the owners have really taken their time to design the blog and not plastered 20 million ads all over to make it look like a flea market (even they are more organized than some blogs I have seen…)
Well, he should love OpTempo since it’s like a flea market by design.
Let’s take a look at his site.
Site Design/Theme
SmallFishBigMoney uses the Modernpaper theme created by Performancing. This is a very sedate but well designed 3 column theme. There is a lack of personal touches that I would like to see, such as a logo or something along those lines.
As is his stated preference the advertising is also rather low
Quality Traffic: The Real Way To Get It. 2007-10-14 07:29:10 Yes…we have all heard the sounds of free traffic in the blogosphere, in one blog or the next. I know that the idea of getting free traffic is so cool, fun and exciting but the quality of traffic you are probably getting with social networks is passive traffic, people who may come to your site once and then never come again…
So…how do you get, high grade, professional quality traffic? You COUGH UP THE DOSH. Yes, you have to, it is the only way to get good traffic. Cough up the dosh and do the following.
Get A Paid Review (Go to an up and coming website…you can even ask other bloggers if you can have one for free)
Buy Ads on a very popular website (JohnChow, ProBlogger, Shoemoney etc…)
Buy a Link on a very popular website
You must give to receive. Especially when money is involved. I must keep coming back to my earlier example of an advertiser’s success
http://smallfishbigmoney.com/2007/10/03/cover-story-make-money-online-with-dailymoolahcom/
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(TTZ Media) John Chow Stop By 2007-10-14 01:00:29 This afternoon I saw a friendly face on the Small Fish Entrepreneurial College section, John Chow came for a visit to my MyBlogLog profile. Thank you John Chow for stopping by! It is always a pleasure when someone like JohnChow stops by my profile over at MyBlogLog and possibly the website as well.
It seems like JohnChow is having to manually check all TTZ Media affiliates before they are approved into the program. This is why I see him on the MyBlogLog readers, thanks for stopping by John Chow, to check if my site is good to go for the TTZ media network. I will be trialling TTZ media on this blog and I will see how it goes for me. I will try it instead of WidgetBucks.
BLOGRUSH: Getting Traffic? 2007-10-12 21:16:57 BlogRush promised us ‘A Flood of Targeted Readers’ to our blogs. Unfortunately as with everything that promises lots of traffic it did not deliver for many. Why? The BlogRush widget is a great idea and in theory it should be able to provide different blogs with traffic each day, considering the amount of people who have signed up to it.
I have not received too many people via BlogRush but I still believe it is worthwhile. If only there was a better system of managing and equalising the amount of traffic which goes to each blog, but that is hard to do when some people post a lot (3 to 5 times a day) and some others post once a month (BTW: your blog is dead).
I believe that BlogRush should tighten it’s strings and accept only frequent blogs and quality blog, blogs which have excessive banner ads should not be accepted…quality control? So what do you think? Tell us about it by commenting right here on our website, we use DoFollow so your Technorati will get some e
Throwing Away Visitors for Fun! 2007-10-12 07:28:26 So, you got excited about the using the RSS chicklet on your website from feedburner. You got so excited that you decided to display that you have 1 to 20 readers…REMOVE IT NOW! YOU ARE THROWING AWAY VISITORS. It is unfortunate that so many new bloggers do this in our day and age.
By displaying that you have only a small amount of readers you are telling your visitor to leave your site, it is common sense. Let’s say I come to your webpage tomorrow, oh yes, I click on a link that leads me to your site; before I have even scrolled down I see a little thing that says 5 readers…’Guess what I do next…?’
Did you guess? I hope you did. Well…my browser it still up, but I am checking out ProBlogger, not that small site that had only 5 readers, I don’t trust that site for a minute, do you? This is why people should not be displaying RSS readership until you get at least 100 subscribers.
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Small Fish Big Money, Web Design Tweaks 2007-10-21 00:11:10 As you may have noticed, Small
Fish Big Money
has been experiencing some much needed renovations. We have put a new custom banner up, we have a neat set of links on the left and some easy content on the right. I believe that our design changes are definitely for the better…as you can see on our footer, we began with the Performancing Theme: Modern Paper.
…We have definitely come a long way since then, I took it upon myself to customize the page as much as possible and ensure that the content was presented in a way that was visually pleasing. Of course the site will be changing even more as we go along but we are just keeping our readers up to date!
Some more site news: We are now at the 1 million mark with Alexa (that’s great!) and we have been getting lots of RSS subscribers with hopefully more to come. I will give a shout out to all my good friends at MyBlogLog.Com who continue to visit my site! Thanks a lot!
Watch out as SmallFishBigMoney.Com leads the way toward Read more:Tweaks
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Your Blog On Top! Traffic and So Much More! 2007-10-18 07:16:33 You have all heard that you need to keep on posting, posting and posting more to get the traffic you need. Well, I am sorry to burst your bubble; this method will surely fail. If you want to continue posting only four times a week without anything else…I am sorry to say but your blog is doomed!
What you need to do to be proactive in blogging:
Build Content
Yes, you have to be building content, at least one post a day for any blogger (new or expert), if you miss a post for one day, make the next post really worth the wait. Building content is a quintessential part to the success of your blog, your content may have some high ping keywords which Google search will be very attracted to and may include in their search results. Building content is the basis of any successful blog, but…
Don’t Stop There!
After you have started building you content you have to make sure everything else is falling into place…by this I mean: make sure you have branded your website we
Small Fish, Calling the Community! Traffic, Monetization, Review and More! 2007-10-21 07:07:16 Small Fish Big Money is having an ASK week, we are asking YOU what you want more of, if it is more posts about traffic, monetization, promotion, more blog reviews, more net discussion…anything you want. If you have a question or a suggestion please email us to us by using the very handy form on our CONTACT US page. I will be answering all of your questions, throw it at us here at Small Fish Big Money and we will answer it for you.
For all of my RSS readers this is especially important for you people because you see my daily posts and I want to know what you enjoy the most so I can keep writing about it. If we know what you want us to talk about we can give you more of it and make it more focussed.
So, what are you waiting for? Do you have a question? Do you absolutely need it to be answered but don’t know where to start? Do you want some help with ad placement, are you having trouble putting it in the right place? Well, I am here to help you get all of your questions ans Read more:Calling
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Reviewback Reviewed, “Free Blog Reviews” 2007-10-28 04:02:58 Reviewback is a service associated with AdGrid work. The reviewback service is a blog review exchange service…what a great idea! Yes, it may be a great idea but the interface definitely needs some work. I have two problems with this service so far and they are as follows: quality control, customization and searchability.
QUALITY CONTROL So…I thought that finding a couple of blogs who want to review exchange with me would be good. Was I wrong or was I wrong? The service is filled with so many blogs which have limited content and bad web design, not to mention extremely short posts. Of course not all the blogs are like this but a heck of a lot of them are. They need to have a system whereby the blogs are checked out and allowed into the program…let’s face it, no one is going to want to exchange with blogs which are not of a high standard…at least I would not want to.
CUSTOMIZATION: The service is very limited in providing the user with a sense of custo Read more:Free Blog
Google PageRank Going Up! Thanks Google! 2007-10-27 05:24:25 For SmallFishBigMoney things have been on a very steady rise recently. At Small Fish we are dedicated to posting good quality content in a friendly environment. We have done just that, we have also been actively publicising our blog on trusted systems such as MyBlogLog (thanks so much MyBlogLog Readers), BlogCatalog (Thank you too!) and BUMPZee (thanks a bunch!).
Our Google
Page Rank is now at 2/10…my persistence, effort and dedication that I have put into creating this website and making it as good as it can be from day 1 is beginning to pay off. I have successfully attained a PageRank
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of 2 after 27 days of blogging. As you may remember this blog found it’s beginnings in early October 2007.
So…why is my PR going up and everyone else’s going down? There are many reasons to this but one main reason is that I do not participate in text link selling I only do things like blog review exchanges etc…which is good content for my readers and good content Read more:Going
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BlogRush Quality Traffic, New & Improved 2007-10-26 21:24:37 The deletion of 10,000+ blogs from BlogRush to maintain quality is absolutely fantastic. The removal of non English blogs has some good and bad points but I am not here to debate that. So, what do all these new BlogRush improvements mean? Does it mean less traffic or more quality traffic? Many bloggers out there lost out on some friends in their networks because their blogs were removed from the program (Evil MoneyMaker John Chow).
The changes will probably mean more quality targeted traffic to your blog, they kept our site in the program, this is most probably a testament to the success of Small Fish Big Money. I call on a post which I made on October 13th BlogRush - Getting Traffic? this post discussed that BlogRush needed some sort of quality control and guess what? It happened. The deletion of 10,000 blogs is evidence of exactly that.
BlogRush will soon unveil more phase 2 plans including the new interface (dashboard) and smaller widget. These new changes will no doubt bring a gre Read more:Quality
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