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
Friday Phrase Auction: Make Money Online
2007-10-05 23:17:00 This week’s phrase up for auction is the obvious one, make money online. If you’re wondering what the hell I’m talking about, take a moment to read this description of the newest advertising opportunity available here at BloggingExperiment.com. For the rest of you, the starting bid is $5.00USD (that’s like what, $1.50 Canadian these days?) ... More About: Money , Auction , Make Money , Make Money Online , Online
New Innovative Advertising Option Available!
2007-10-05 23:12:00 Ladies and gentlemen, earlier this week I promised you a new and exciting opportunity for advertising here on Blogging Experiment. Well here it is. I’m excited to announce that every Friday from now on, Blogging Experiment will be holding an auction. Bids will only be accepted through comments left on the post and the auctions ... More About: Site News , Advertising , Innovative , Inno , Vert
Reverend, You Should Be Ashamed? and Smarter
2007-10-05 15:00:00 Update: The post has been updated to cite this blog as the source and the Reverend has apologized. We all make mistakes from time to time, thanks for fixing this one. I’ve also removed the nofollow tag from my links in appreciation. Ok, I’m not usually one to give scrapers or plagiarists any press or attention ... More About: Blogging , Sham , Shame
Heroes? Lessons on Blogging
2007-10-04 20:44:00 Ok, this post is probably going to solidify my spot in the Geek Hall of Fame but oh well. One of my favorite TV shows running right now is Heroes . It’s basically an X-Men knock off but the story lines are solid and hey, who doesn’t like a show full of superheroes? Anyway, I’m also ... More About: Blogging , Lessons
Want Chris Garrett to Post on Your Blog? So do I
2007-10-04 18:17:00 Alright, I don’t normally enter contests that require a link, but this one is a bit different. First of all, this isn’t really a contest. Also, it’s something that I think you readers would like to know if you don’t already. Chris Garrett of chrisg.com is offering to guest post on your blog as well ... More About: Post , Blog , Blog Marketing
Reader Discussion: Be Careful What you Promote?
2007-10-03 22:00:00 All the recent hype and then disappointment with BlogRush, the issues with Widgetbucks, and my personal feelings about Dealdotcom, I began to ponder a question that sprang up when JohnChow was heavily promoting Algoco. I have to admit, I’ve gone back and forth on the issue and I’m still not sure I have settled on ... More About: Promote , Blogging , Reader , Blog Marketing , Discussion
Our First Advertiser!
2007-10-03 18:19:00 Ladies and gentlemen, bloggers of all ages, I’d like to introduce you to Blogging Experiment’s first advertiser, Neil Duckett! As you’ve probably noticed, though, this add doesn’t look like most of the other 125 x 125 ads that are so popular these days. It’s actually just a picture of Neil that he’s using to promote his ... More About: Site News , Vert
A Few Quick Notes
2007-10-02 20:15:00 I’ve got a random collection of things I feel like I should mention but don’t necessarily warrant their own post. So, I figured I’d throw em all together and let you sort them out. I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 without incident. The only hiccup was with my FTP client. I’ve said it before and I’ll say ... More About: Notes , Quick
September Wrap Up
2007-10-02 17:30:00 Wow… I can’t believe it’s that time again. Another month has flown by and what a month it was. I made $75 this month from affiliate sales. Two people this month purchased the SEO Book and I had another Text Link Ads sign up as well. While this is a long way from my goal ... More About: Site News , September , Wrap
Upgrading?
2007-10-02 00:52:00 Well, it’s time to take the plunge. I’m upgrading to the newest version of WordPress. It should only take a couple of minutes but please be patient if it screws a few things up. More About: Site News
Woops!
2007-10-01 20:37:00 Ladies and Gentlemen, I hate writing these kinds of posts. Unfortunately, I can’t just sweep this one under the rug. You see, when calculating the prices for the newly released advertising options, I made a pretty large error. For the 125 x 125 ad blocks, I intended to keep the cost per thousand impressions (cpm) ... More About: Site News
Why I Don?t Use AdSense
2007-10-01 17:45:00 Over the weekend, Ognjen of Ioncenter dropped me an email that I thought would be great for this week’s Reader Question Session. Ognjen asks “I was wondering, why don’t you use Google AdSense in your blog?” Well, to be honest there are a few reasons. The first one being that my AdSense account was banned more than ... More About: Adsense
Digging For Gold?
2007-09-28 23:00:00 Wow… what a week! Two articles hitting the front page of Digg in the matter of a few days bringing in over 100 new comments. With that in mind, today seemed like the perfect time to profile a new site that has sprung up that hopes to follow in the footsteps of the milliondollarhomepage and ... More About: Gold , Earn Money
Earn $150 for 90 Minutes
2007-09-27 23:10:00 I’m not sure how many of you readers out there also subscribe to Marketing Pilgrim (if you don’t you should) but I figured I’d pass this post along just in case you missed it: I received an interesting offer from the folks at Goodmind. They offered me $150 to take part in a study that would ... More About: Earn Money , Earn , Minutes , Utes
The Art of eWar
2007-09-27 19:30:00 Over the years some people have accused me of picking a lot of fights online. Of course I’d say that the fights pick me but either way you look at it, I’ve had my share of experience in virtual dust ups. Recently I’ve been on the outside looking in at a few online battles and ... More About: Blogging , The Art
Blogging Experiment Now Offering Advertising!
2007-09-26 23:02:00 When I first started writing for Blogging Experiment I decided I would give myself about 3 months to get it off the ground before I would start to make money off it. I figured that would give me a long enough period to build up a healthy level of content, and hopefully a decent sized ... More About: Site News , Advertising , Peri
New WordPress Features Released
2007-09-25 18:10:00 If you’re like me, the only thing you look at on your Word Press dashboard is the right hand side that tells you how many comments are waiting for moderation and the sites that have linked to your blog recently. Of course, that means that you might miss announcements from WordPress and today that would have ... More About: Wordpress , Features , Blogging , Released
5 Ways to Attract More Comments
2007-09-24 17:30:00 One of the easiest ways to find out how well your blog is reaching people is to look at the level of comments. Are people interacting on your site? Are they actively participating with you and your content or are they just consuming (reading) and moving on? The comment level on this blog seems to ... More About: Blogging , Comments
A Second Opinion on Social Media
2007-09-21 19:00:00 As you may remember, yesterday I interviewed Muhammad Saleem asking all sorts of social media questions. After publishing that interview I was able to contact Karim Yergalliyev (aka supernova17) and get his opinions on some of the same questions. Let’s start of with the same question I asked Muhammad yesterday, what do you think of the ... More About: Social , Media , Opinion , Blog Marketing
Top Digg User Answers Your Social Media Questions
2007-09-20 20:18:00 On Monday when I postponed the regular feature Reader Question Session, I promised it was for a good reason and that I’d make up for it. Well today is the day that I’m hoping to deliver on that promise. After having one of my posts hit the front page of Digg , several of you began asking ... More About: Social , Media , Questions , Blog Marketing
Send Me Your Social Media Questions
2007-09-20 16:54:00 As you may recall, I postponed Monday’s Reader Question Session but promised it would be for the better. Well I plan on publishing the special edition question session today, however, I’d like to get as many questions as possible. So, please, ask away! What would you like to know about social media? What do you ... More About: Social , Media , Questions , Send
For Better or Worse, Digg has Changed
2007-09-20 16:08:00 This morning I checked my email and found one from the Digg staff about their recent changes to the site. Basically they’ve completely overhauled the member profile pages, in an attempt to become more social and make it easier for their members to connect and network. Now I’m sure this is going to have some ... More About: Blog Marketing , Chang , Chan
BlogRush: Dead on Arrival
2007-09-19 15:00:00 Well, the stats were bound to come in and unfortunately for BlogRush, they fell short of a “flood of targeted traffic.” In fact, they fell short of even a trickle. Granted, I’m not one of the big guys that I wrote about in my post bringing up possible issues with the service. So, how did they ... More About: Blog Marketing , Dead , Riva
How To Inflate Your BlogRush Credit Count
2007-09-18 20:01:00 Whenever any new program or system is released, exploits and manipulations are sure to follow. Unfortunately the blogosphere’s latest darling, BlogRush is no exception. Here are two quick and easy ways to artificially inflate the number of credits you earn in the new system. This post is a “how to” not a “should you” post. ... More About: Credit , Blog Marketing , Count , Flat
Debate Points Not People
2007-09-17 23:00:00 A while back I suggested picking a fight as a method to stand out from the crowd, stir up a bit of controversy, and gain traffic and readers. While several posts on this blog and even more of my comments on other blogs are perfect examples of this (I even wrote a post which illustrated ... More About: People , Blogging , Debate , Points
Don?t Rush to Sign Up for BlogRush
2007-09-17 15:00:00 If you checked out any blogs in the make money online or blogging about blogging niche, chances are you’ve already heard plenty about BlogRush . For the rest of you, according to their website: “BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need: More Readers For Their Blog. By adding the BlogRush Widget ... More About: Blog Marketing , Sign
Free Just For Signing Up
2007-09-14 22:01:00 So many of you seemed to respond to the announcement that AuctionAds was giving away $25 just for signing up that I figured I’d compile a list of programs and services that give you free stuff or free money for signing up. I’ll update this list as I come across more offers and if you ... More About: Free , Blog Marketing , Signing
What Hosting a Blog Contest Can Do for You
2007-09-13 19:00:00 It’s been one month since I launched the Complete Blog ging Package Contest and almost two weeks since the winner was announced. While we all know what the prize package was, I’ve been asked a few times what kind of benefits this site saw as a result of the contest. And, since my mission on this ... More About: Site News , Hosting , Blog Marketing
I Can See You!
2007-09-12 23:39:00 Hey, you! Yes… you. No, not you reading this via RSS but YOU, the one actually on the site… I can seee you! Ok so that was maybe a little creepy but how cool is this? This map is a real time look at where the visitors of this site are currently located! Well I’d imagine ...
Make the Most of Each Image Search: Free Your Images!
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 20:15:00 Yesterday, I explained to you how to get extra visitors to your site using alt text and title attributes on your images. Unfortunately, not all searches are created equal. As I mentioned previously, people might not be as likely to click on your image if it’s not labeled correctly. In addition, people that search for ... More About: Images , Free , Search , Blog Marketing , Image 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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