All Entries Tagged With: "Blog"
Blogging Newbies Rememer to Track Your Traffic
As a newbie, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to blog about, finding the right style for my blog and obsessing over whether or not my posts were any good. What I forgot to do was to track my traffic. The only way I could find out if my blog [...]
Make Blogging Easier – Blog Your Life
Every so often, I get the question from would-be bloggers “What Should I Blog About?” My response, depending on whether or not I’m in an inquisitive mode or not is usually either “Blog what you’re passionate about,” or I ask, “What do you like to do?” Some time ago, I decided I wanted to write [...]
Blogging, Polls and Surveys
I came across a neat little tool this morning. Actually, I received a survey from oDesk this morning asking why I have not secured any work assignments through them. The truth is two-fold, 1) I haven’t had time with the kids being home from school and 2) apparently there is a two-week window in which [...]
When Blogging Gets Tough, Press On
It’s no secret that a parent working from home has an additional challenge during the summer months. Keeping up with the regular writing, editing and posting routine is a lot easier when the children are in school. Unfortunately, they do get a rather extensive summer break and your blogging is affected by it. There are [...]
Pay Per Post – It Works
Further to my earlier posts on Pay Per Post and Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is, I received my first Pay Per Post payment. It all happened rather quickly. I submitted my blog to Pay Per Post on July 30th, it was approved on July 31st and I received my fist payment today, August [...]
What Should I Blog About?
Recently I received a comment from a newbie who is considering starting a blog, but doesn’t know what to blog about. The commenter posed the familiar question “What should I blog about?” I started to compose a post in which I was going to give the same advice that has no doubt been addressed several [...]
An Important Ingredient for a Successful Blog
Since making the decision to become a successful blogger, I’ve been checking out other successful bloggers. By successful, I mean they blog full time and their blogs provide the financial means for them to do it. A few characteristics of successful bloggers In each of the articles I’ve come across the two things I have [...]
Website versus blog which one is more lucrative?
Quite by accident I inadvertently conducted a blog vs. website experiment. In an earlier post I mentioned how I converted my website into a blog. In addition to the blog being easier to update daily, and having a more intuitive navigation I felt the interactivity with the readers would be a good thing. I don’t [...]
Feedburner Burnt My Subscribers
I’ve been having quite a time with Feedburner of late. Being somewhat new to this whole RSS and blogging seriously thing I’ve pretty much learned everything on the fly. Once I set something up, I like it when it works properly so I can forget about it and get on to the next. Well, unfortunately, [...]
Earning Money as an Amazon.com Affiliate
Bloggers and webmasters alike can earn internet income as an Amazon affiliate. The up side is that Amazon is well known and a widely used website for shopping. As a blogger, you don’t have to spend time building affiliate credibility. That being said, you still have to do your work if you want to make [...]
