Posts from — April 2008

A flat tire doesn’t roll very well, although it’s an easy fix. But what do you do when your blog doesn’t seem to be rolling the way you want it to?
Take this quiz to find out which areas of your blog need your attention.
What is your level of fulfillment (not the amount of time you’re [...]

One of the first methods many bloggers approach to monetize their sites is selling space for banner ads. However, studies show visitors have become blind to banner advertisements. In “Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings” Jakob Nielsen reports:
The most prominent result from the new eye-tracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the [...]

Change is inevitable and at some point you’ll want to make changes beyond your blog theme SEO tweaks . You might want to change the width of a column, the size of a font, a color, or a graphic here and there, but editing WordPress themes can be like working in the dark. WordPress creates [...]

While you’re waiting for your blog to make it big and your monetization plan to really kick in, you might be looking for other ways to earn cash. One skill you’re developing by blogging is very marketable in the online world. Blogging exercises our writing skills.If you can write, you can earn money. Contrary to [...]

Method 1: Make money through paid posts and reviews.
Bloggers make a direct exchange of time for money in the paid-posting model. A product review or related post is written and published by the blogger for a predetermined amount of money, then the blogger moves on to serve another advertiser; usually there are no long term [...]

Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey started blogging to build backlinks for his business website. Since then he has not only become a problogger, but mentors others as well through Blog Mastermind.
He’s a busy guy, so his response to my one-question interview was straight to the point. The question was, “What is the secret to your [...]

Everything might be going along fine, then one morning you wake up and just don’t want to do it anymore. The same blog which used to be your pride and joy, where you watched its statistics improve like an over-protective mother, now feels like just another nagging chore. You would delete the whole thing if [...]

If I asked you to come to Seattle and meet me in a little cafe I like, would you attempt the journey without some sort of map or set of directions? Not if you intended to actually find the place. Sure, you might come to town anyway and take in a few of the obvious [...]

PayPerPost and affiliate marketing through articles and blog posts are both frequently cited as prime make money online opportunities. For make-money bloggers, both seem the perfect arrangement; just write posts about products and services, then get paid. You don’t have to worry about developing products or gathering advertisers, but you can still make money.
Some condemn [...]

The default permalink structure for WordPress blogs does little for your search engine optimization efforts, but what is the best alternative?
WordPress offers two suggestions on its “Customize Permalink Structure” page of the dashboard, but are either of these the best way to go? The answer is a resounding “it depends”.
The Options

Default: Not the best choice [...]