Archive for March, 2008

Many bloggers and webmasters are familiar with AdSense and its potential to generate excellent revenue for blogs and web sites. Unfortunately, many bloggers and webmasters focus too much on AdSense and forget that there are other types of advertising that could improve their blog monetization further -- and possibly without affecting their existing AdSense income. After all, there's only so much AdSense optimization that could be done. Photo by RichSeattle via Flickr AdSense is great, ...

Over the past few weeks, my friends and I wrote about different aspects of blogging and how to position your blog more successful. In this post, I would like to take a step back and talk about how to start a blog. Specifically, I will discuss how to start a self-hosted WordPress blog since we already established that it's one of the best platforms to start on. Photo by rocatis via Flickr Please note the discussion ...

One of my favourite metablogs, Skelliewag, recently published a post saying that, in blogging, your writing style is not as important as your ability to get your ideas across, and that traditional print writing style can be a hindrance in blogging. Photo by incurable_hippie via Flickr I think Skellie is half right. Blog writing style is different to the various print writing styles - it's usually shorter for a start. If you're writing an informative post, it ...

Now that we've figured out who we want to write a guest post for, the trick is to figure out how to get those readers to become your readers. By choosing an appropriate blog to write a guest post for, we know that their audience and your potential audience has a lot of overlap. But the get their readers to click through to your blog, we have to make them not only interested in what ...

In my "12 Essential Companion Accounts for a Successful Blog" article, Lisa from Greener Pastures asked: "I am on the free Blogspot Software, but I notice everyone keeps mentioning Wordpress. Could you talk more about this? I'm thinking I should convert, but wanted to keep my budget on this project as minimal as possible." Instead of answering by saying why Wordpress is good, or why Blogspot (Blogger) is bad, I have asked a few of my friends ...

Each month, I will be doing a short review to say thank you to all the readers, contributors, and referrers. Contributors Thank you to the following individuals for contributing content to Blogthority: Paidtwice of I've Paid For This Twice Already... Plonkee of Plonkee Money My Two Dollars of My Two Dollars Four Pillars of Quest For Four Pillars Top Referrers I am thankful for every visitor sent. Although I can't list all referrers, I'd like to list the top 10 here: Moolanomy My Two ...