Blogging
Spy on Your Competitors
Ever wonder why you’re not making sales despite the sizzling webcopy and the affiliate army promoting your product? That means some other blokes may be reeling your customers. Now don’t fret. Your solution is to do a bit of sleuthing. None of the cloak and dagger subterfuge of course- a bit of web snooping is [...]
7Jan2008 | Joseph Plazo | 4 comments | ContinuedAre You Directing Traffic Or Just Watching It Go By?
Your web site’s home page is going to see more hits than any other section of your site. Even people surfing in from Google will make your homepage their second stop if they are going to stick around for multiple page views. If your home page is all you are concerned about people seeing, then [...]
7Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 6 comments | ContinuedHow To Churn Tons of Unique Content
If you’re a shady article marketer or splogger (the folks who fill up sites with crap content for Adsense), you want lots of unique content. Unique content provides the backbone for thousands of your pages that handily bypass duplicate content filters.
Now there’s a problem with creating unique content: it’s taxing to create yourself, and expensive [...]
Feedback: New Year’s Resolutions For Driving Your Blog’s Growth
Well, another year is in the bag. 2007 was a good year for me and my family, and I hope you all prospered in 2007 as well. Now that 2008 is upon us, I’m sure that we’re all looking ahead, thinking about things we’d like to improve about ourselves, our careers and our web sites.
For [...]
MyBlogEarnings For December 2007
December saw the end of my first full year of trying to make money from this blog. Although December wasn’t a strong month, when I look back at the growth I achieved over 2007 I’m very happy.
If you’re new to the blog my old MyBlogEarnings reports are available, as well as my Guide To [...]
Feedback: How Much Traffic Before Dedicated Hosting Becomes Necessary?
Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]
27Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 25 comments | ContinuedRubicon Project - Are You On The Beta?
The Rubicon Project sounds like it could be the answer to a problem I face every month or so, when I am approached by a new ad network wanting me to try their ads. The problem is there’s no way of working out which network will perform the best.
For instance in the past Adsense [...]
Design And Monetization
Good design draws a reader in instead of repelling them. Good design makes your web site appear more credible. Design is secondary to content, but it’s an important cornerstone of your web site’s foundation. Since design is subjective, mastering the design that works for your web site is a task you will never really consider [...]
20Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 16 comments | ContinuedNew Eureka WordPress Theme Testing
I’m doing a bit of testing on the new Eureka theme over the weekend. There are still a lot of known bugs that the designer is ironing out, but I’m happy with how it’s looking so far. If you spot any new ones then please leave a comment below.
Overall, I think it’s looking pretty good!
Six Habits of Highly Kickass Bloggers
Millions of bloggers out there are constantly asking ‘What does it take to become a Kickass blogger with thousands of daily readers, and if it’s your aim, to pull in the big bucks?’
Although there is no guaranteed formula for blogging success, there are a number of factors that are common amongst successful bloggers. if [...]




