Entries fromJuly 2007

One of the best ways to make money online is to create profitable websites that provide steady income. We’ve already seen how blogs make money in a previous article, which I’m sure has motivated many of you in several ways.

Making money through blogs, websites and online businesses really do require a lot of online time in front of the computer.

That’s just the case for every bootstrapper or online entrepreneur who is trying to make lots of money on the internet. Everyone wants their projects to be automated and passive, while providing recurring income that increases every month.

Researching on what other blogs are writing on a specific product, website or program is useful because it not only enriches your own personal knowledge but provides you with reference sources and ideas for the creation of content.

The easiest way to find out what other bloggers think about a specific website is to do a quick query for it on a blog search engine.

Typing in the website name will usually show you who are writing about the specific site. However, you might also want to examine the type of links a specific website receives from other bloggers

It’s generally easily to manipulate the ad placement on your website and tweak it for optimal performance but one should note that there are some factors outside of your control.

These include the different browser, operating system and screen resolution used by the visitors on your website. What you perceive to be a highly visible ad placement will often differ from what your visitors see.

Enter FoldSpy, a new application which allows you to determine how your site looks to your visitors, while offering an effective way to set up your ad placement scheme.

I was browsing around Sphinn when I came across across a Greasemonkey script which allows you view the actual webpage from any site within a frame in your feed.

What this means is that you’ll get to see and post comments directly to any blog from Google Reader and more importantly, read the entire article even if it is a partial or truncated feed.

I’ve just installed the script and tested it. It works beautifully and I was able to easily view the full content of some blogs running partial feeds. Here are some screen shots of the tool in action on Aaron Wall’s blog.

In my recent article on traffic building using Flickr, I’ve mentioned that StumbleUpon users love to stumble images as it allows them to adorn their StumbleUpon blog with all their favorite pictures.

Some StumbleUpon users have made photo stumbling into an art form and their blogs feature fantastic collections of meticulously selected pictures, placed alongside poetry and commentary.

This article on photo stumbling will offer some detailed tips on how you can use and optimize your images in order to increase the potential of receiving more stumbles and hence, visitors to your website.

Blogs can be highly profitable as a recent Business Week report on full time bloggers reveal. The ability to make money from the simple act of blogging or writing is an attractive concept to many, particularly when one realizes the amount of income blogs can really generate.

Business Week’s article offers several mini-case studies with income and traffic reports for several websites and I found it a rather interesting read, although I’m already familiar with the blogs profiled.

Some of the blogs included in Business Week’s list include popular blogs like Boing Boing, Shoemoney, Problogger and Perez Hilton.

Flickr is a social photography website which allows you to upload and share your pictures with friends and family, registered Flickr users as well as the general internet audience.

Like its closest rival Photobucket, Flickr functions as an image host but its main attraction lies in the social sharing of images with a large community of the interested viewers.

Many amateur and professional photographers use Flickr to showcase their work in return for constructive criticisms from others. Bloggers are also avid users of Flickr because it helps them to save on bandwidth while providing image backup in the unlikely scenario that all their files are wiped out from their servers.

Collis from NorthXEast writes about how your choice of a blog niche affects your blog’s growth in the long run. He suggests that distinguishing your blog from others within a competitive niche is important for success.

I have been thinking of this for some time and I’ll just like to add that there’s some sort of a traffic ceiling for every niche you choose.

For example, the ceiling for Dosh Dosh’s niche is much lower than the celebrity or tech niche, which will always have a much large potential audience.