The top 3 laws of blogging. Law #1 is write. Law #2 is write some more. Law #3 is never stop writing! I know this sounds quite redundant. Writing is the untold key to successful blogging. The more you write, the more traffic you get, the more money you make. Yeah, I know sometimes it's not easy to 'just write'. Sometimes we
Google Trends is the untold hero of my blog. Google trends is my hero. I'd almost given up blogging. I actually was about to call it completely quits this past summer. I was making maybe $20 per month, and working my ass off. Then I saw a post at digital point forums, someone said they'd heard someone had gotten a lot of hits by
The first major goal of blogging: Finding and Setting your Post Frequency. You want to make a living doing this right? You're in this for the long haul, am I right? You don't want to be a one-night stand blogger, do you? Then you must set short-term goals. My first goal was to make $100 per month off my blogs. The goal I'm working on
Everybody is talking about the economic problems that America is facing(and not just America)... We also are aware that the major players are the banks and financial institutions, but apparently the company that used to own the internet - Yahoo is looking to cut jobs, and is losing money. They are expecting a large dip in their
Is Google trends the new linkbait? There are sites popping up that create random text posts using keywords from google trends, and other sites of such, but when you view the listing in google it's apparent that it's a scam-site even before visiting. I must say, blogging about Google trends topics is very smart. It's obviously what
Google Trends made me crap myself... I checked twice, and nope it ain't chocolate pudding... I've been blogging recently about google trends and the ability to make money by capitalizing on popular topics. As far as I'm aware blogging about popular topics is not yet against google's terms... So last week I blogged about Hurricane Hannah,
Image via Wikipedia The past few days I've been experimenting with google trends. Google trends are hot topics of the moment. I wrote one tiny post using the keyword phrase Hurricane Gustav track, and have gotten about 500 hits in two days. Not too shabby, I can always use more traffic, and I have impression based advertisers who pay me
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Using google trends to increase traffic... Using google trends is pretty easy and straight forward, it's also a great way to find new niches for new blogs and topic web sites. First thing you want to do is go to google trends. Next you're gonna want to click on 'More Hot Trends' on the bottom right.
Google Trends update: Yesterday I mentioned delving into google trends as a way to bring new traffic. Yesterday I wrote a post about Mackenzie Phillips, Del Martin Dieing, and Hurricane Gustav track. Each of these topics were at that point in the top 5 google trends. I know I planned to write 25 posts on google trends topics, however I
I just read of a study on getting traffic from google trends, and thought I need to get in on some of this action, so here's what I'm going to do in my first experiment. I'm going to write 1 blog post each on the top 25 topics of the day. Tomorrow I will check back and let you know what I've received in teh way of traffic. These won't be
