Blogger has always been my blog platform of choice, though the serious bloggers all say to get your own domain if you want to hit the big time. Maybe one of these days, but not just yet. The good people at Blogger keep rolling out new widgets and doodads and I stop by from time to time to take a look at them. Followers allows you to keep tabs on blogs you like and lets others keep tabs on what is going on at your blog. Clicking on the Icon does not take you directly to the blogger’s blog, but…
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The Power of Lists for Bloggers
Top Lists grace the covers of most magazines and have to be a close second to Memes when it comes to blog topics. A good list can get you a lot of traffic, bookmarked in all those cool bookmarking sites-Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and most of the other social networks love lists. Hit one their front pages with your top list and get thousands of hits in one day. A good top ten list will make people want to come back and see what else you might be writing a list about. Or start a nice discussion about why the things…
I make money blogging, just not a lot
Over the past couple of years I have been trying to make money with blogging. This has sometimes been a pretty serious effort, sometimes pretty passive. I have blogged about events of the day and hit the keywords pretty heavy, so that many of my posts pop up in Google searches in the top ten. This effort has not made me rich, but it has make me some money with Adsense. Adsense’s evil twin is Adwords-while Adsense makes you money-sometimes even enough to buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks, Adwords spends your money. And while the nice thing about…
A bit of time with the Next Blog Button
Back in the dark ages, a few months ago, I used to look for blogs with the Blogger Next Blog Button. You rarely found anything interesting as it is so random that you had to rely on karma to find a good blog. But it was a fun way to while away the odd hour. Then I found Google Blog Search, Blogcatalog, Entrecard, and DoFollo, all much better at helping me find blogs I might like and want to leave comments on. Blogcatalog and Entrecard have their own little groups of Power Users who appear to be everywhere on those…
Do You Make Money With Your Blog?
There’s an interesting Poll on ProBlogger this month. The question was In October, How Much Did You Earn from Blogging? There was a wide range of options for this poll from I don’t make money blogging (780 or 28% of all votes) to Over $15000 (176 or 6% of all votes). My own humble efforts land me near the top of the list, without all that much money coming in. At this writing 2831 people answered the poll and I am a bit surprised at how many people are making thousands of dollars a month. My personal goals are to…
What makes a Successful Blog?
My old blog was a success. I had ten faithful readers who commented on my every post, just as I commented on their every post. We would write things that were inspired by each other. We told jokes to each other and wished each other well on our various adventures. We were, in short, friends. It was a rare day when this blog had more than a dozen visitors. But I would get the occasional odd passerby that would pause before hitting the Next Blog button again. I didn’t get more than a handful of comments on any post, but…
PostSecret-Post Secrets No More
Or maybe Postsecret will be back in a couple of hours. You never know with Blogger whether the thing will work when you want it to or just lay there like a sleeping dog. But it has become a part of many people’s week to run over to PostSecrets and see what the latest batch of secrets are about. The idea behind PostSecret is that people will send in their secrets on a postcard and this purging will free them of their demons. Hey, there a good reason Catholics have been giving confessions for all these years. But the story…