2008 March

_Mar 31 08

As promised in a recent post here is an income statement for monies generated by upstartblogger.com in March 2008.
Given the simple nature of my advertising and monetization strategy this is a very simple statement.
In March 2008 this blog made $2,300.
Traffic and ranking statistics for March 2008 show 38,746 unique visitors, 84,872 page views, 710 RSS […]

_Upstart Blogger income statement for March 2008

_Mar 29 08

_Ashley Morgan_Software_8 Comments

Regular readers will know that I am a loyal Mac user. I used windows once, a very long time ago. Never again. It was a painful experience that I have no wish to go into.
So, with a deeply ingrained hatred of all things Microsoft, imagine my dilemma when recently I was presented […]

_Linux guru needed

_Mar 28 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging Money_2 Comments

My fellow blogger Deb Pang Davis sent me a link to recent New York Times article in which a handful of apparently successful bloggers, who are already making good money, try to convince readers that blogging for money is a waste of time.
I read the article and was annoyed but not particularly surprised. Could […]

_Believe the hype not the press

_Mar 27 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging_No Comments

Upstart Blogger is slowly moving up the Technorati rankings and is currently sitting very happily at number 177 with an authority figure of 3298. This means that 3298 blogs are currently linking to Upstart Blogger in one form or another and that only 176 other blogs have more inbound links, according to Technorati.
To say […]

_The rise and fall of the A-List bloggers

_Mar 26 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging_11 Comments

I first met Jo over ten years ago when I began working with Enormous. She was, and is, the wife of Enormous drummer Graham Boffey. And now, she is all set to step into the exciting world of pro blogging.
If you have been magically redirected here via jobeaufoix.com Jo’s domain name is currently […]

_Jo Beaufoix is going pro

_Mar 25 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging_1 Comment

Blogs that have focussed content attract the most traffic. The search engines love them and loyal readers come back for more, again and again.
This presents a problem for the successful blogger if they want to add content to their blog that could be considered off topic by their subscribers. Adding content to a […]

_Clone your blog and rocket your traffic

_Mar 24 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging_2 Comments

It’s a depressing fact that the majority of blogs are scams. Some are automated spam blogs. Others are hand written, affiliate scheme pimping, newbie traps. They clog up the internet with a combination of automated junk and carefully crafted deception.
The only thing that binds every blog is it’s need for attention in […]

_March 2008