Can Contests Hurt Your Blog?

This site covers how to start a blog, build traffic and make money blogging. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This morning I noticed that well over a dozen different blogs on my regular reading list are running contests. All sorts of contests, too, from […]

Blog Maintenance And Pursuit of PageRank

There was a time, way back when, that I had no idea what PageRank meant. Much like my days of chastity, effortlessly slim thighs and an all-night bladder, I can barely recall that time.
Fact is, if you’re Blogging For The Money, PageRank matters. Yes, in theory PR represents Google’s opinion of your site — as […]

Focus Your Blog To Improve Traffic And Profit

“What do you blog about?
Having a succinct, specific answer when someone asks what your blog’s about is the first step toward improving your traffic and, ultimately, to increased blogging income. As we’ve discussed before, people read blogs for two reasons: to get information and to be entertained.
Blog advertisers know this, which is why […]

Know Your Readers To Retain Them

Why do your readers visit your blog? Is it for your content? Or have search engine queries led most there by accident, their visits never lasting more than a few seconds?
There are advantages to knowing why readers read your blog as Wayne Liew explains in this morning’s must read.

Treat Your Blog As A Business

I received the following email today from a fellow blogger (who asked not to be named) in response to my entry on how to write paid reviews worth reading.

Kate, I get the part about more information in reviews and all but if they’re only paying $7 how am I supposed to pay my bills AND […]

How To Increase Readership While You Sleep

This morning’s must read entry is from Moshin at Blogging Bits.
Do you know I have picked up 50 new subscribers during previous two weeks?
That’s probably not very interesting. What’s interesting is that I haven’t posted anything in the past two weeks! (because of illness)
I bet now I’ve got your attention, eh?
He got my attention, […]

Readers Have Limited Attention Spans

Even if your blog design isn’t like a bad comb over the fact remains that 75% percent of internet users will not view or return to a page that takes longer than 4 seconds to load. Seventy-five percent.
Those huge spikes in traffic which come from someone submitting your site to StumbleUpon, Digg or BloggingZoom are […]

5 Quick Ways To Improve Your Traffic Today

Sundays are notoriously slow times in the blogosphere, with many bloggers choosing to give their fingertips (and brains) a day of rest. Even if you’re one of those who like to skip a blogging day now and then, there are still ways you can improve your traffic without sitting down to write an entry.
1. Comment […]

Understanding Basic Link Theory

In theory, the greater the number of links to your page the better. In practice, who is linking to you, what they link to, and what anchor text they use can all drastically affect your site. Once you understand how links work you’ll be in a position to leverage your own authority when linking within your blog’s pages. But first you must understand that when it comes to incoming links ( both from others as well as cross-links in your own pages) more is not always better.

10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins

That big long list of plug-ins at the WordPress site looks a bit overwhelming. Here are 10 Must-Have plugins to help your blog work better.

How To Write Paid Reviews Worth Reading

I don’t write paid reviews. I write blog entries which happen to make me money. What’s the difference? It’s all in how you do it.

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