Can You Really Make Money From A Personal Blog?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

Is it possible to earn a full-time income from blogging. John Chow says he is doing just that. Total Blog Income For August 2007: $17,828.61 The amazing thing about the income figure - aside from the number itself - is I set it in the heart the summer. The other amazing thing is it will most likely be broken next month as those private ad spots kick in. Here is the income breakdown. * Affiliate Sales: $7,244.00 * ReviewMe: $4,200.00 * Private Ad Sales: $2,370.00 * Text Link Ads: $2,157.88 * Kontera: $1,000 * Google AdSense: $490.94 * FeedBurner: $131.18 * CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...

September 2, 2007
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Search Marketing

How To Contact A Blogger

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

(Lorrelle) 10. Have No Expectations and Silence Is Not An Answer. Just because you went out of your way to contact the blogger, don’t expect them to respond, react, or do anything. Expect nothing and be pleasantly surprised when you get something. If the blogger has not responded, do not make crap up in your head about what they are thinking or feeling about your email. Silence is not an answer. It is merely the sound of nothing. Honor nothing as nothing until you have more information. I like Lorrelle's Rule No. 10. Too many times people send an e-mail and get nothing back then think, "Oh, they hate me," or "I guess that's a no." It could be that the person you e-mailed is on vacation or CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...

September 1, 2007
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Online Reputation Management

Cool Tools From SEOmoz

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

I love free tools. SEMmoz has some cool new ones and I think these should help most webmasters. If you'd like to know what is the strongest page on your domain or what other websites are hosted on your IP block, you can do that. These are useful tools. For instance, if you think you might be having a spam problem you can check to see who is on your IP block. If you live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of spammers present then that could be hurting you at the search engines, not to mention it could mean that your domain name is being blocked by certain ISPs without your knowing about it. A little bit of investigation and you CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...