Entries fromMay 2007

I previously wrote an extensive guide to StumbleUpon, which gave a thorough introduction to using StumbleUpon as a means to direct massive traffic towards your website.

The article was pretty well received and I’ve gotten several questions from bloggers over the past two months.

The question I was asked the most often, was how to build up your own StumbleUpon network of friends, who might help to stumble your blog posts or webpages whenever interesting articles were to appear.

Just a short post to let everyone know that you can submit your website or blog to Snap, a search engine that allows you see preview images of search results on a separate viewing panel before you click on them to visit the website.

I’ve recently discovered this nifty search engine and was a little amazed to find that Dosh Dosh wasn’t indexed and included in their search results at all. I’ve tried searches for the blog title and URL but nothing came up.

How can I make money with MySpace? Or rather, should you even bother with developing MySpace as another source of online income? As a social network that sees very heavy daily visitor traffic from millions of users, MySpace has been the target of aspiring entrepreneurs, internet marketers and webmasters.

As everyone knows, traffic of all sorts can be transformed into profit through various monetization methods. MySpace is no exception.

A large number of webmasters, marketers and businesses are trying to promote their products on websites on MySpace and the effects can be seen in the large amount of spammy advertisements across the MySpace network.

This is an ongoing series of case studies which examines the processes that allow you to become an leader in your blog niche. It is important to understand that being a notable blogger in your niche will allow you to make even more money online. How so?

I’ve already mentioned the benefits of being an authority in your blog niche, which includes advantages such as a higher level of visitor trust and personal influence, which allows you to maximize your ad and affiliate selling potential.

When it comes to making money online, productivity is a key factor that can determine how much money you can make every week or month. If you’re trying to make money blogging, the quality of your output and it’s frequency is rather important because it can affect how fast you build a audience base or have the ability to monetize your blog.

Even if you’re purely interested in websites which pay you to complete offers, you’ll also require some level of intense dedication towards the nitty gritty work of filling in surveys, making trial purchases or tracking incoming payments.

Technorati appears to have made some new changes to their website by changing the style of several user pages and inserting a new ‘Authority’ rank which now determines a blog’s position within its Most Linked-to ranking system.

What’s equally important are the changes made to individual user and blog profile pages. There is the insertion of dedicated search engines which allow one to search within a blog, as well as a consolidation of WTF blurbs and user favorites within one page.

Here is a brief roundup of the changes made, along with some helpful screenshots.

The key to making money through affiliate programs or other forms of advertising is traffic, which is simply the sheer number of visitors who arrive at your blog daily.

In terms of affiliate marketing, the more visitors you have, the more opportunities or capacity you will have to recommend or successively promote any products, services or websites.

There are many different ways to market your blog and gain more visitors which will eventually allow you to make money through blog-based affiliate marketing.The use of blog traffic exchanges is one method you should consider.

Making money from a video blog has always been something on my mind, particularly in the last month or so. To clarify the title, I’m referring to blogs which are entirely made up of videos taken from other sources such as YouTube or MetaCafe.

This is distinct from vlogs, which are blog posts done in the form of videos by creative bloggers. While I think interesting and creative personal vlogs have huge monetization potential, they are obviously not for everyone.

I’m sure most of you out there have written some pretty good blog posts in the past month. These articles might be currently sitting in your archives or inner pages, only to be mostly discovered by search engine visitors.

Some adventurous readers might casually browse through your blog page by page, but not all have the time nor the inclination to do so.

A solution is to use roundup or summary posts, which are simply short link-heavy posts which highlight some of the great content you’ve written within a specific time frame.