Sell Your Blog!
Sitepoint has a forum dedicated to the selling of blogs, only $9.95 per listing.
For some thoughts on how to value a blog, read this article at Performancing.com.
26 Steps To Get 15,000 Hits A Day
Twenty six letters, twenty six steps, how convenient! These are some great tips on how to build a great site. Notice the common theme: Build great content.
Understanding Who Clicks Ads
If I were to divide up all the people who visit your blog into two categories, I’d split them up into searchers and readers. A searcher is someone who fired up a search engine, started to look for something, and ended up on your blog. A reader is someone who is going through their daily web routine and managed to end up on your blog, whether it be because you’re on his or her blogroll, subscription list, etc. A search will click on an advertisement where as a reader will most likely not.
A Blogger Must Be Patient
Patience is key for a blogger because it can oftentimes take weeks and months before the search engines find you. It will take time before you’ve written enough posts to attract readers and earn their trust. It will take time before you hit the coveted tipping point where all your hard work finally pays off. Until then, plug onward and upward and eventually the hard work will pay off.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of aspiring bloggers quit because they don’t see the fruits of their labor. While I don’t have concrete statistics, the sheer number of dead blogs out there is a testament to how difficult it is to persevere and continue to write when it seems as though no one is listening.
And when it happens, don’t consider yourself lucky. You deserved it.
Understanding Heatmaps
A heatmap measures how long the typical internet reader keeps his eyes transfixed on a certain location of the page and overlays that over your page. An example of a heatmap is available on Google’s Adsense Tips page and it illustrates a lot of important ideas.
How To Get Into Google Results – Trade Links
Getting into Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) is actually quite simple – get someone who is already in the Google results to link to you. Google constantly sends out spiders to look at webpages in order to keep its database current, getting into the database merely requires that you get on Google’s radar as a link from a blog or website already in the database.
Welcome to Microblogger
What is a microblogger? A microblogger is a blogger who likes the idea of becoming a problogger but hasn’t quite made it just yet. Everyone starts off, at one point or another, as a microblogger and through hard (and intelligent) work and diligence, works his or her way up to becoming a problogger.
What is the purpose of this site? Well, I feel the premier site for a blogger trying to generate the most income remains Darren’s Problogger.net but I feel that a lot of the ideas he’s pushed forward work well for mid-size to larger bloggers and don’t work as well with the little guys. I’m not saying a microblogger shouldn’t read problogger, because you 100% definitely should. (There is a wealth of information there and it’s like when your parents tried to teach you something. It may not apply now, but wait a few days/weeks/months and you’ll find that its very applicable.) I just think there’s a bit of information left unsaid that a small-time blogger may find valuable.
I basically only have one blog, Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, which I started from the ground up back in February. It started with a PageRank of ZERO, no presence in Google, fewer than 10 unique hits a day (half of which were from me, myself from home, myself from work), no RSS subscribers, and Google Adsense barely let me in the door.
It now clocks in at around 600 uniques, 400 RSS subscribers, a homepage PageRank of 5, and I received some press in the New York Times business section. I am still a microblogger but I think some of the things I’ve learned along the way and some of the thoughts I’ve had may have some value for some of you.
