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Archive for March, 2008

Improve Blog Monetization With CPM Advertising

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 — i.e., CPM advertising — that could improve their blog monetization further, and without affecting [...]

thumb How To Start A WordPress Blog in 9 Easy Steps

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 [...]

Cultivate Your Writing Skills to Improve Your Blog

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 [...]

How to Write a Killer Guest Post: The Art of the Clickthrough

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 [...]

Why Did You Choose Self-Hosted Wordpress?

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 [...]

February 2008 Review

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 [...]

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