Popular Articles on Dosh Dosh: August 2007

August was yet another month for Dosh Dosh and most of the articles for this month were focused on various aspects of internet marketing. Halfway through the month I asked if you had any questions for me concerning topics covered on Dosh Dosh.

I will still be answering some of the questions asked through some upcoming articles. If you still have any queries of any sort, please do send me an email so I can add it to the list.

For more information on why I do these monthly summaries and how they can help your own blog, please see my article on the benefits of roundup posts.

Without further ado, here are some of the more popular articles for August 2007.

1. How to Make Your Blog Attractive to Advertisers and Traditional Media

Traditional media has a growing interest in blogs. Large advertisers as well, have money to spare and they are looking for blogs which offer the best platform for their brand. If you own a well established blog within a particular niche, you have a potential money maker. Here’s how to attract both big advertisers and traditional media.

2. 7 Ways to Use Microblogging Services for Traffic and Brand Exposure

Micro-blogging services as a means to generate exposure for websites and businesses, particularly because they can send traffic through the insertion of relevant links. They can get interested users to visit your website and may increase your audience size over time.

3. How to Make More Money with Your Website (without Getting More Traffic)

It’s possible to increase the amount of money you earn from your blog or website without increasing the amount of traffic you currently receive. This article will provide some useful details on the various methods and principles you can immediately use to improve the overall net revenue from your website or blog.

4. Opportunity Costs or How Not Watching TV will Help You Make Money

The amount of money you can earn online depends on how you manage your opportunity costs. The principle behind this is simple: Review the time commitments you currently have and focus on projects that give you the greatest returns.

5. How to Advertise Your Website or Business: 8 Paid Advertising Models

Advertising is one easiest ways to get targeted traffic to your website. While advertising isn’t an end-all solution for increasing your site income or audience size, it can definitely create more mind-share and brand exposure. Here are a collection of ways to market your website to relevant audiences.

6. How to Make Viral Linkbaits Work: Four Characteristics of Success

Linkbait refers to content that is created with the aim of getting people to link to it. Viral linkbaits work to increase search and referral traffic to a site and eventually sales or ad revenue, if it is monetized. I’ve previously listed several qualities of a good linkbait and now I’ll like to add three additional factors which will increase your linkbait’s potential for success.

7. The Problem with Meta-Blogging: Being Unique in a Saturated Niche

Meta-blogging is porous as it allows you to write about blogs existing within multiple topic fields and niches. If you’re already in the meta-blogging niche, the four tips below may benefit you directly; if you can create extraordinary content, you will build an audience and make more money from your blog.

8. Can You Make Money Without a Niche?

Many experts have claimed that having a clearly defined niche for your site is extremely important when you want to develop accumulative income from all your websites. We’ve previously looked at how niche markets are related to making money and now I’ll like to deal with the subject of making money without a clearly defined niche.

9. Seven Easy Ways to Get More Weekend Traffic for Your Website

These short-term strategies will allow you to get traffic very soon after you implement them. They will not only reduce your weekend traffic dip but may get you even more traffic to your website than the weekdays.

10. How to Make Money Using Get Paid To Websites: Beginner’s Guide

I thought it’ll be helpful if I revisit the topic of Get Paid to Websites, which is actually a proven method of making money online and one that is particularly useful for those who are unfamiliar with the process of building websites or selling online.

11. How to Reduce Banner Blindness and Use Effective Ads that Work

Jakob Nielsen has published the results of new eye-tracking studies and affirms once again, that banner blindness is indeed a real phenomenon. If you display your own ads or buy ads from another website, the following methods might help to reduce the likelihood of banner blindness

12. Case Study of a Teenage Millionaire: Ashley Qualls and WhateverLife.com

Her numbers are indeed impressive. 17 years old high school dropout. Made more than $1 million. Earns as much as $70K a month. Owns a website that attracts more than 7 million monthly visitors and 60 million page views. I’m referring to Ashley Qualls, the founder of Whateverlife.com, a free MySpace layouts website

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