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Let’s Follow Each Other on Twitter, Shall We?

After reading about it virtually on every single website on the web, a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Twitter a try. I must say that, contrary to what many people claim to, I did not get addicted to it. It is certainly a useful and interesting application for some purposes, but so far I am using it with moderation. I log a couple of times during the day to check what other people are tweeting about. Once in a while I also post replies, links or ask questions. I still don’t get some messages that people write, like: “Hello everyone, how are you doing?” or “Going to bed now, see ya.’ That being said usually there are some interesting thoughts floating around, and cool links as well. I’ve read somewhere that Twitter is a middle ground between blogs and instant messaging, and I think that the definition is not that off the mark. Read more

A “Super” WordPress Theme for Affiliate Marketers

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money blogging, but with all the different monetization models and all the different theme out there today it’s more difficult than ever to find what you need. That’s why when developing the Super Affiliate WordPress Theme, I had only one group of people in mind - the blogger cum affiliate marketer. The Super Affiliate WordPress Theme is more flexible and ideal for affiliate marketers who get traffic from more than one source, especially via Google AdWords or other PPC (Pay Per Click) ads. If you’re getting free search engine traffic or social bookmarking traffic (from StumbleUpon for example) you can be more relaxed as to where that traffic ends up. In a typical blog layout, a single visitor might get to the content page, but before getting to the end of the content there are so many other links, sidebars, ads and other distractions that they can click on. This means that the ability to tunnel traffic to perform a single action (subscribe, buy, opt-in) is severely limited. Read more

Embracing the Status of Part-Time Blogger: 5 Practical Tips

I’m sure you read a lot about pro blogging and what it takes to earn a full-time income from your blog. This is a common topic among active bloggers and there are plenty of great articles that cover various aspects of the subject. With the huge amount of focus that is given to becoming a pro blogger, I think that becoming a successful and profitable part-time blogger is often overlooked. Earning a reasonable amount of money on a part-time basis is actually more desirable than most people realize.

The Benefits of Part-Time Blogging:

Stability - As a part-time blogger you can still have the stability of a secure full-time income from another job. There’s no need to quit your day job and jump in right away in order to be successful (although some have done it). As a part-time blogger you have the luxury of earning some money and building your business without the risk that would come along with going full-time right away. Less Pressure - As a part-time blogger with the stability of a full-time income, you won’t have the pressure to produce or to earn large sums of money from your blog. If you’re able to live off of your full-time income, the blog income is really just extra. If you have a down month when you don’t make as much as you would have hoped, it’s not that big of a deal. Read more

60 WP Blog Design

60 Creatively unusual WordPress blog designs that are a little bit more distinctive from the regular ones.

Link Tips: 06 April 2008

We have a mono-thematic collection of links this Sunday: improve your website. You will find huge lists with tips and techniques to improve your website, design better, optimize your blog, make it load faster and market it.

• Improving Your Website: Not for the faint of heart. This list includes 101 five-minute fixes to improve your website. Worth a bookmark.
• Why having a slow website is bad: You probably heard before that having a slow website is a bad thing. If you are still not convinced, or if you want to know how to solve the problem, check this post.
• E-Books for Web Design: The Mashable folks compiled a list with over 20 e-books and white papers that you can download to improve your web design.
• Internet Marketing Tips: 59 important internet marketing tips and techniques that you should be doing.
• Optimize your blog: 52 easy ways to optimize your blog while having a coffee break. Got love those simple yet effective tips.

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What is the Biggest Mistake That You’ve Made as a Blogger?

It’s time for a reader discussion/open thread and today’s question is: What is the Biggest Mistake That You’ve Made as a Blogger? What in your time as a blogger do you look back on with regret, wish you’d not done or wish you’d done differently?

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How Many Topics Should a Blog Cover?

Suzie has a post up on her blog which asks a question that many bloggers ask - often when they’ve started a personal blog and want to take their blogging to a new level, particularly in their quest to make money blogging. The question revolves around how many topics their blog should cover and whether they should have a ‘niche focus’. Susie writes:

“I also hear focus your blog on one topic. That has been my stumbling block. I want this blog to focus on the Law of Attraction in Action, AND I want to write about lots of other things that I am passionate about, including cooking, blogging, making money online, my art, people and causes, to mention a few.”

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5 Common Beliefs About Blogging

Blogging has changed the way we look at the Internet, I’m sure of that. Not only do blogs provide extreme leverage for businesses, but they also allow us to earn money from them if we manage to break into this ground. Despite the highs and lows of blogs, many people still harper beliefs that might stop them from getting started in the first place. To make sure you don’t fall prey to these misconceptions, read on.

Blogging is passe

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A Strategy for Building Niche Focused Blog Networks

Yesterday on the preview call for Six Figure Blogging I was asked about starting multiple blogs. I mentioned that if I were going to start a blog network afresh today as a single blogger that I’d probably do it focused around a single niche rather than starting focusing upon numerous topics with numerous blogs. This isn’t to say that starting a blog network with a wide focus on many topics can’t work - at b5media we’ve managed to grow to 315 blogs on everything from Tax to Bags to College Basketball to MTV Reality TV - however starting a network with such a wide focus is a challenging thing and to kick something off around a more focused niche has some distinct advantages.

Advantages of a Niche Focussed Blog Network

1. For starters having related blogs means you can cross promote and leverage the traffic from one blog to promote another
2. Secondly it has some advantages for selling advertising directly to advertisers. If you have two blogs on completely different topics it’s virtually impossible to sell ads on both of them to the same advertiser but if you have two blogs with similar reader demographics it doesn’t take much to upsell advertisers to run campaigns on both.
3. Thirdly - it can help with your SEO to be interlinking related sites.

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