Blogging ExperimentBlogging ExperimentThe Blogging Experiment will chronicle my quest to take a brand new blog from earning absolutely nothing, to a full time income in just one year's time. The countdown is on and to be honest I have no idea whether or not I'll make it but either way, y Articles
Using a WordPress Page as your home page
2008-02-27 17:15:00 Welcome to the first ever Word Press Wednesday! Each week we’ll be answering as many of your questions about the blogging platform WordPress as possible. If you have questions you’d like answered that aren’t covered here, feel free to drop them in the comment form below. With that out of the way, let’s jump right in! I?d ... More About: Wordpress , Home , Page , Home Page
Digg?s 20 Questions: a Town Hall Recap
2008-02-26 07:05:00 Digg just held it’s first town hall and while there were some ustream issues, especially with the audio, I think there were quite a few interesting nuggets of information disclosed and a few questions conspicuously dodged. I was intending to live blog the event but that ustream didn’t seem to like that idea much. In ... More About: Questions , Digg , Recap , Town , Hall
The Best of Both Worlds: Useful and Profitable
2008-02-26 03:03:00 Last week, Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com released a 5 part guide to keyword research for bloggers. While several people, including myself, have covered the topic, Brian took the guide to an entirely different level. Each section discusses different aspects of keyword research (such as “How to find Post Topics that Score Big” and “How to ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Worlds , Profitable
5 Tips for Being Married to a Blogger
2008-02-23 04:30:00 Ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to announce the first (and probably last) ever guest post by my lovely and talented wife. She tried to claim that she didn’t have anything to offer my readers, I knew better and after much begging and groveling, she finally agreed to give it a shot. Of course, I couldn’t ... More About: Blogger , Tips , Blogging , Married
Advertise on Blogging Experiment?s RSS Feed!
2008-02-21 20:00:00 As many of you have probably noticed by now, I’ve implemented a plugin called Feed Footer that allows me to append a footer to the end of each blog post in the RSS feed. I’ve been testing the plugin for a while using two simple links one pointing to the advertisement page, and the other ... More About: Site News , Blogging , Experiment , Advertise
New Must Have WordPress Plugin
2008-02-21 16:30:00 I’m not usually one to repost content that I’ve seen on other blogs but I’m making an exception in this case. Graywolf of wolf-howl.com published a post yesterday about a new plugin and after checking it out, I knew I’d have to share it with my readers. It immediately jumped into my list of “Must ... More About: Wordpress , Word , Plugin
Mid-Week Roundup
2008-02-20 22:42:00 image source: anna wolf I’ve got several news and notes to pass along but none of them seemed particularly post worthy on their own. So, I decided to pull them all together in a lightning round of sorts that I’ve dubbed (at least for now) the mid-week roundup. Here we go: Only three entries so far in ... More About: Site News , Roundup , Week
WordPress Wednesdays: Coming Soon!
2008-02-20 19:00:00 Ever since we released the Blogging Experiment theme for sale, we’ve been getting more and more questions about how to do different things in Word Press. Unfortunately, I’m not anything close to resembling a web designer and most of the questions go shooting straight over my head. As I’ve mentioned before, the themes were designed and ... More About: Wordpress
American Idol: Lessons on Blogging
2008-02-19 18:17:00 It may surprise you that I am willing to openly admit that I watch American Idol . It’s not, after all, a show you’d think a lot of guys my age watched. But, believe it or not, it’s actually become one of my favorite shows. Why? Well I have a sense of humor that some would ... More About: Blogging , Lessons
Tools of the Trade
2008-02-18 16:00:00 About a month ago, Daren (aka Problogger) published a post called 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers. As a big fan of Mac’s and of course a blogger, I found his post incredibly useful. I’ve been using ImageWell, one of the applications he mentioned, for my blogging and can’t tell you how helpful ... More About: Tools , Blogging , Trade
Less is More Experiment Results
2008-02-15 15:00:00 About 3 weeks ago I decided to test the “less is more” theory in terms of my posting schedule. Previously I had been publishing new posts every day Monday through Friday. However, after reading several comments about improving your blog by posting less often, I decided to give it a try. So how did it go? To ... More About: Blogging , Results , Experiment
Welcome ZenHabits Readers!
2008-02-12 02:31:00 I’d like to welcome any Zen Habits readers that have found their way over from my guest post entitled 5 Inspiration Hacks for Creative People. If this is your first time visiting Blogging Experiment I’d like to introduce you to the site. As the header reads, this blog chronicles my quest to take a brand new ... More About: Site News , Readers
Under the Microscope: MedStore.biz
2008-02-11 19:26:00 I’ve discussed affiliate marketing countless times on this blog. However one niche I haven’t mentioned yet is prescriptions and supplements. A lot of times people immediately think of “PPC” (in this case, pills porn and casino) as soon as they hear prescriptions. The truth is though, prescription affiliate sales can be a great source of income. Most affiliate programs in the niche give you credit for all sales over the lifetime of any customer you refer. As your referral base continues to grow, it wouldn’t be tough to imagine affiliates generating some significant passive income. With so much money to be made, it’s no surprise companies in the industry hope to recruit as many affiliates as possible. In fact, when MedStore.biz asked me to put their site under the microscope, they asked that I focus exclusively on their affiliate program. When landing on the affiliate information page, you’ll immediately see that MedStore boats an impressive ... More About: Microscope
Make Money Selling Our Theme!
2008-02-07 18:34:00 Not long after we put the Blogging Experiment Theme up for sale, it became obvious to me that we needed to set up an affiliate program to allow other people to sell it as well. We get more sales, and the affiliates get to make money selling a product without having to create it or ... More About: Selling , Money , Earn Money , Make Money , Word
WordPress 2.3.3 Released
2008-02-05 16:53:00 As many of you may already know, Word Press 2.3.3 has been released and includes an “urgent security” upgrade. According to WordPress “A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.” For many of you, this ... More About: Wordpress , Released
Make More Money with Sponsored Reviews
2008-02-05 15:00:00 When looking at the blog income report for January, many of you noticed a drastic increase in the income from Sponsored Reviews . A couple of you asked how I had been able to get so many extra reviews from one month to the next. Well, I’m going to break my own advice and explain how ... More About: Money , Earn Money , Blog Marketing
January?s Blog Income Report
2008-02-01 18:16:00 Well I can hardly believe it but it’s that time of the month again. It’s February 1st and while I hadn’t had much time to work on this post before today, mother nature cooperated and dumped about 8 inches of snow on the area, giving me the day off work. Anyway, if you recall the ... More About: Site News , Earn Money , Blog , Report , January
Help Me Lose!
2008-01-31 17:52:00 That’s right, I’m hoping you, my faithful readers, can help me lose…. weight. You see, I’ve agreed to participate in a group charity project called SEOs Fight Fat. The news wasn’t supposed to get out until tomorrow when the contest officially starts but since someone else already spilled the beans, I figure it’s ok for ...
Under the Microscope: SEOmeter.com
2008-01-31 04:23:00 As many of you know, I’m an in-house SEO for my day job, so naturally topics and sites involving SEO are near and dear to my heart. So when I was asked to put SEOmeter.com, a new free SEO tool, under the microscope, I happily complied. The concept behind the site is simple, but incredibly ... More About: Microscope
A Niche Blogging Experiment
2008-01-30 15:30:00 “Find out how you can make loads of money from Google AdSense!” “Google AdSense is just a hobby, but it pays my mortgage!” “Scientifically proven methods of exploding your AdSense earnings… Instantly!” If you’ve been around the make money online niche for long, you’ve probably come across these impressive claims or ones just like them. Programs or products ... More About: Earn Money , Blogging , Experiment , Niche
Kontera Pulled Early
2008-01-28 15:00:00 Well, that didn’t take long. Two weeks after I first added Kontera’s contextual advertisements to the site, I’ve pulled them off. While I initially planned on giving them at least one month long trial, I’ve pulled them down and will test them on one of my other blogs. Why? Simple… money. My experience so far with ... More About: Early
Under the Microscope: AfsLoansOnline.com for Small Business Loans
2008-01-28 02:41:00 One of the aspects I think is most overlooked in the make money online niche, is the option of obtaining financing for an online business. I can’t count the number of times I’ve read that people have great ideas but need funding. And, while many people think of approaching venture capitalists, they often don’t consider ... More About: Business , Small Business , Loans , Small , Microscope
Learn from the Gold Rush: SHUT UP!
2008-01-24 18:09:00 In 1848 a foreman working in a lumber mill noticed something strange as he was working. He mentioned this to his boss and the two began to investigate a bit further. Before long it became obvious that the foreman had discovered something that could make both men incredibly wealthy. Knowing that if their secret got ... More About: Gold , Blogging , Rush , Learn , Shut
24 : Lessons on Blogging
2008-01-22 22:36:00 Right now, bloggers are plotting to make money online, my blog needs content, and if I succeed with this post it may help me with both. I’m Blogging Experiment author Ben Cook. This is going to be the longest post of my life. Ok, so this isn’t really going to be the longest post of my ... More About: Lessons
Less is More Theory Put to the Test
2008-01-22 05:00:00 I’ve been debating the issue of changing my posting frequency for quite some time now. I’ve considered both writing shorter but more frequent posts, as well as writing longer posts less often and really hadn’t come to any conclusions. However, Darren Rowse recently published another one of his one question interview series in which he ... More About: Blogging , Theory , Test , Theo
Feedburner Freaking Out = Profit?
2008-01-18 20:17:00 Many bloggers logged onto their site today and were astonished by the number of subscribers Feedburner was reporting for them. I’ve read accounts of blogs going from 300 to 3,000 and over at ProBlogger the count went from 41,000 to 100,000! The glitch has been tracked down to FeedBlitz reporting drastically inflated numbers something which ... More About: Blogging , Profit
Under the Microscope: AudioAdHosting.com
2008-01-18 06:02:00 To be honest, I’m was surprised that AudioAdHosting.com asked me to review their site. Not only have I already taken a fairly strong stance against the Paid Per Play model, but the domain listed to be reviewed is simply redirected to another site that promises webmasters that they can earn from every visitor (web-audio-ads.net). As best ... More About: Microscope , Cope
Trying Out This Twitter Thing
2008-01-18 00:17:00 When I see several people that I look up to, all doing the same thing, I tend to try and follow along. Call me impressionable but I figure if people like Donna, Darren, Andy, and Andy are all on Twitter , I probably should be to. I still have no real idea on what exactly this beast ... More About: Blog Marketing , Thing
Learn From My Mistakes: Track Your ROI
2008-01-17 06:00:00 Wow… just typing out that headline made me feel dumb. Anyway let me give you a little bit of the background info before telling you exactly how I was an idiot. After the good income from theme sales last month, I decided to advertise it a bit. I purchased one of the stripe ad spots ... More About: Track , Learn , Stakes , Mista
Lessons on Blogging Meme
More articles from this author:2008-01-16 06:27:00 Throughout the Lessons on Blogging series, I’ve discussed concepts and principles that popular TV shows teach about blogging. The series has been very well received, with several posts becoming popular on several social media sites and attracting several new incoming links. At the end of each post I mention that I haven’t covered all of ... More About: Meme 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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