If you register for Elite Retreat by today, April 30, the room is free -- a $750 value. If you entered the contest for a free ticket and intend to attend regardless of whether you win or not, you should go ahead and submit your application anyway since they'll refund your registration fee if you win.
Alright, I know many of you are dying to make some money with your blog despite my advice to be patient, so I figured I'd throw you a bone today and list the top 10 blogs that I've found about making money by blogging. First, though, this was a surprisingly hard list to come up with -- partly because I tried to limit it to making money with blogs in particular (not just any website), but mostly because most people who start a blog about making money online do it to make money online. That don't actually have a ton of experience doing it, so they're not going to be able to teach you much. It only makes sense if you think about it, though. If I know how to really make money online, am I going to spend my time telling you, or am I going to spend that time making more money? Keep reading »
Many of you may hear a buzz this weekend about Google's "PageRank update," so I wanted to clear up some misconceptions so that you don't lose focus on what's important. PageRank (or PR) is a measure of the link weight pointing to a page. The more links you get from pages that have more links to them, the higher your PageRank. PageRank is just one of more than 100 variables that determine where Google ranks a page in the search results. ... Keep reading »
Time for another collection of links for those of you who have subscribed to the feed and don't get to the site often. Keep reading »
Several weeks ago, I read Matt's "How I Got 283k Feed Subscribers in 1 Day." The way he did it was to take TechCrunch's FeedBurner FeedCount chicklet and put it on his own site. By changing the link on the image to point to his own RSS feed, though, few would realize that he didn't actually have that many subscribers. I found it very interesting, but that was about it since I knew I'd never have any reason to fake my feed count. Over the next few weeks, though, I found myself repeatedly coming back to this statement: I can see the logic behind someone wanting to use a more popular feed image. Showing a larger subscriber count than what your blog has naturally makes your site seem more popular which unfortunately makes new visitors more likely to stick. Keep reading »
Just checking out my MyBlogLog visitors this morning and came across my favorite name so far: BadNewsBlair from anyBlair [dot] com. Love it.
If you're serious about your blogging, you should consider attending the upcoming Elite Retreat in Orlando. I went to the first one back in December, and it led directly to me getting to the point just three months later where I was working 100% for myself. If that's at all on your radar, I would highly recommend this conference over any other. Here's why. Keep reading »
One of the ways I mention in "11 Free, Easy Ways to Get Visitors to Your New Blog" is blog carnivals. Well, carnivals aren't always just grouped by blog topic. Mother Jones has a great post today listing a few carnivals in categories you may not have thought about.
Back in February, I mentioned that the MyBlogLog widget could possibly be something that would generate traffic to your blog all by itself just by virtue of you using it. Well two and a half months later, MyBlogLog (MBL) becomes more and more valuable to me every day so I wanted to revisit it and talk about why I've developed such a fondness for it. Keep reading »
Back in February, John Chow wrote about 10 Blogging Mistakes To Avoid. He's dead right on 9 of them (not sure about #10 ;) ), and it's definitely worth both a read now and a bookmark for reading at least once a week from now on. I know I will.