I had 26 responses to the following survey on twitter: "What time do you read your feeds the most, or see the most hits.."
My findings were both what I thought it would be, with a few twists.
I was pretty certain that Morning would be the best time of day. Other than that I wasn't very certain.
According to my small poll, I was correct
Posted May 7th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
Image by Vicki's Pics via Flickr
Many bloggers and internet entrepreneurs experience slow-downs in the summer months when it comes to online revenue, traffic, etc..
Why is this? Mostly because people tend to do more outside when its warmer, but should we give up completely on our blog during this slow down season?
My answer is a big NO!
Posted February 10th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
Image by mgonamission via FlickrIn times past this blog has been a blog about blogging. I've also blogged about marketing, and pretty much anything that mattered to me at the time. I'm finding now isn't the best time in the world to be starting a blog to make money.Sure I'm still making some money - not nearly as much as I used to, especially
Posted November 19th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
Well, this may not be blackhat but it's definitely gray.
The key to successful blogging that I've been mentioning lately is focused dedication and continually writing new content. You may notice that I don't always post new content every day to this blog, although I do try to. A lot of the content I create, I use on article sites,
Posted November 11th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
6 Techniques to get more RSS Subscribers to your Blog!
1. Comment on someone's blog who has as many or nearly as many subscribers as you do - Tell them you've subscribed to their blog. They may reciprocate - a lot will.
2. Ask your Readers to subscribe. Make it easy and blatant. If people see links asking to subscribe all over the place then
As many might be aware this blog was recently relaunched in March 2008, after about 8 months of silence.
Originally, I lost the blog posts that I'd had, and it appears google is still punishing me because they can't find the links to those posts anymore. Using a bit of ingenuity(aka the waybackmachine at archive.org) I've found the old posts
In Phase 1 of this project we had people submit their top 3 Pillar Articles. I've chosen my favorites out of what was submitted.
This is Phase 2. In Phase 2 we will create a blog post - linking to ALL of the top pillar articles.
Rules:
You must write a blog post that somehow uses all the keywords and makes sense - the most creative blog
Posted April 16th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
Announcements
As part of my Summer Road TRip - I need bloggers from Delaware, Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii!
To submit your blog just submit a comment to this post, which a link to your blog and why you think I should interview you!
We also still need Sponsors / Donations: Our sponsors will be featured in every blog post about this project, and that could
I've had an amazing week with traffic, and hits, I wish my adsense was a little better (1000 hits per day and only like 7 clicks the whole week...I need to monetize better).
But adsense and money isn't the end all to success, yes it's great, and someday it will come. The fact that my Readership has grown immensely (1700 new subscribers in one
Posted March 30th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
SEO, SEM, SMM
I receive a few submissions for my guest blogger spot, and I do appreciate them of course. However I think I mis-explained things. So far I've received links to articles that have already been written. I would only be re-publishing the posts. A Guest Blogger post is a post that is written explicitly to only be published on the blog that you're