All Posts Tagged With: "Blogging"
5 Existential Blogging Tips
Most of us want to turn a buck with our web sites. Even if your motivation for producing the site isn’t monetary, profitability is an undeniable yardstick for success.
Traffic determines just how much success your site is going to enjoy. Traffic is a reflection of how well you’ve done optimizing your site for search engines, [...]
WordPress Blog And Server Optimisation Masterclass: Introduction
I’ve been blogging for nearly 3 years now and this site has gone from a handful of page impressions and dollars per day to around 600k page impressions and $15k per month. In that time I’ve moved hosts a few times, moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server, changed blogging platforms, tried numerous plugins [...]
1Mar2008 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
How Comment Sniping Catapults Your Rankings
Last year I opened an account at betterthanbacklinks which gave me a blog profile on a PR7 site. The service afforded me vast editorial powers like the mods lording it over on the almighty wikipedia or about.com portals. My SERPS skyrocketed in no time.
Shortly after, the site moderators of betterthanbacklinks released for free a software [...]
How To Increase Your Adsense CTR by 1% With One Simple Change
Although my performance has dipped over the last couple of months, Google Adsense still remains my number one source of blogging revenue. I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking my ad positions to find the optimal positions, adding section targetting and making the most of smart pricing to maximise my earnings and I thought [...]
17Feb2008 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
Move Over Alexa, Here Comes IZEARanks
The problem with web metrics provided by Alexa and Compete is that their numbers are totally dependent on what they gather from users who are using their Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbars. Mostly this consists of people who are trying to inflate their website’s Alexa and Compete ranking by running the toolbar. In other words, [...]
22Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 16 comments | Continued
First Look At Wordpress 2.5
Wordpress is used by more readers of Connected Internet than any other blogging engine or content management system. Wordpress 2.4 developed into so many changes to the system that a Wordpress 2.4 release has been abandoned altogther. The new release will be Wordpress 2.5, and is scheduled for an April 1st release.
There is still a [...]
5 Professional-looking Free Wordpress Themes
Great content can lose momentum if it’s wrapped in a brown paper bag. Your site design impacts content layout, advertising space and most importantly, it influences how your readers perceive what you have to offer.
There are no shortage of bad looking Wordpress themes. Many times I will pass by a site without really scratching the [...]
Are 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 | Continued
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 | 22 comments | ContinuedSubscribe Now!
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