Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 |
Stupid me — what with all the powerful features WordPress provides that I don’t even know of let alone use, I thought this functionality was already built-in. Apparently not.
Why not, WordPress? That it’s missing from WordPress’s basic set of features is surprising considering how critically important it is, I feel, for us to have interactive sites. This does nothing if not help tremendously in that respect.
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 |
Yesterday, we took a look at a few of the very basic ways blog publishers can monetize their sites. I left out techniques specific to writing new posts since, if you remember from the start (and the title should be a clue), this is all about trying to generate income from editing and publishing other people’s stuff.
Yes, boys and girls, AdSense, affiliate programs and other revenue models that revolve around “advertising” can indeed pay off. But advertising isn’t the only possible way to monetize this project.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007 |
In the first installment of this guide (which has proven to be Wordpreneur’s most popular post to date), we pretty much just went through the basic start-up and operations formula for editors — not necessarily writers — to get into the online publishing game on a blog platform.
As promised, now we get into the good old “how to bring money in” part of it.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 |
A “blog,” as you all know, stands for Web log, At its core and most basic, a diary, in case anyone’s asking. But just like everything else in this world, it’s morphed into something else that people need, in this case a very powerful but yet relatively easy to implement — but more importantly, easy to comprehend — online publishing solution.
Which means that never before has it been easier (and I do mean that quite sincerely) for editors to get into publishing online without doing much in the way of creating new content. Through the use of all this new-ish blogging tech and other resources available today, in other words, it’s now relatively simple for a solitary editor to become a productive (and profitable) publisher.
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Monday, October 29th, 2007 |
I just spent the better part of the day changing the site’s “theme” design, which took far more time than I thought it would. Which means I couldn’t get around to writing the stuff I was planning on writing today. Sorry about that.
But let’s see if we can salvage something “educational” from today’s experience.
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007 |
Busy day (leak in the @#$@#^& basement). So let’s get right to work…
You’re trying to make money with a blog that sucks? More power (and luck) to you. But if you’ve come to the conclusion that not sucking is more likely the path of least resistance towards blog monetization nirvana, Inkthinker Kristen King’s It’s Not You, It’s Me(me): 9 Tips for Making Your Blog Suck is an excellent place to start.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 |
Yesterday, I introduced you to the AdSense-Deluxe plugin for WordPress that lets you very easily manage and control your blog’s Google AdSense advertisements.
But AdSense surely isn’t the only thing I use it for.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007 |
You may have noticed that the AdSense advertising that usually appears in the middle of these Wordpreneur posts has changed in appearance a tad. Thank my friend William Bontrager for a recent comment he made here on Wordpreneur (more on discovering really useful tips in blog comments).
What you may not have noticed, however, is that the AdSense formatting has changed throughout the blog, in all the posts.
How’d I do that so quickly?
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007 |
My friend William Bontrager reminded me of a couple of things in his unsolicited comment on the latest Wordpreneur Carnival edition. The first, of course, is the tip on ways to freshen up possibly stale AdSense advertising.
The second? That you’ll often find really good and useful tips and information in a blog post’s comments, not just the post itself.
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007 |
Thanks everyone for your submissions to this week’s Carnival. Can’t use all of them since some really just don’t fit into our little slice of the blogosphere.
And an interesting number were little more than “look at this” posts that link elsewhere for the real meat. I’ll link directly to the meat in this Carnival. Although if I didn’t know it existed before and it was your submission that brought it to my attention, I’ll give you and your blog credit.
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