Archive for January, 2008

I'd love to say "Everyone should read my blog." Well, maybe everyone should, but not everyone will. Every blog has a target audience, no matter if they realize it or not. Defining who *is* interested and reaching those people is a key concept to your blog's growth and development. Why? Photo via Wikimedia Commons If I try to cater to a wide variety of interests, I'll end up providing useful content some of the time for a ...

Finding a good web site name is not as easy as it used to be. Actually, it hasn't been easy for a long time now because a lot of good domain names have been taken. However, it is still possible to find the perfect domain name for your blog. In this post, I will share with you how I ended up with names like Moolanomy for my personal finance blog and Blogthority for my meta-blog. Seven ...

If you hit publish, have every expectation that your work will never die - especially if you'd rather that it did. Wisebread - A Case in Point Just the other day, a group blog that I subscribe to, Wisebread, posted an article about a photographer's business model. Essentially, one of the writers had paid for professional photography and then - despite the terms of the agreement - made copies of the prints. Like copying and sharing music ...

If you are planning to start a blog to make money on the web, you need to read this. I am not referring to people that have some tangible products or services to sell and want to start a web site as the digital storefront. I am talking about entrepreneurial people who felt that they can make money online by putting together some blog posts along with affiliate links, Google AdSense and ...

I write a blog about personal finance - specifically about my family's specific and personal approach to how we handle our finances. It isn't meant to be a blog with the most up-to-date cutting edge personal finance ideas, although my hope is that every reader learns a little something along the way they can apply to their own situation, but it is a blog with a unique hook that anyone can copy yet no ...

Writing the first post for a blog is never easy -- it is an art in itself. For me, this is an opportunity to say how it came to be, what the blog is all about, and why you should read it. So why did we start this blog? My friends at the M-network and I have been blogging for various lengths of time, but most of us started sometime in 2007. We got ...