Ashley Morgan

_Aug 26 08

101 free premium Wordpress themes, 50 Podcasts for bloggers, 75 ways to increase your google page rank, 99 lists that you’ve seen before and will no doubt see again. The lists of lists goes on and on. List posts are easy to write and seem to attract Digg traffic like bees to a […]

_Are list posts the acceptable face of blog spam?

_Aug 25 08

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I hate spammers. Everyone hates them. Parasitic pan handlers who make the internet a much less enjoyable place than it could be. So imagine my surprise today when my stats report a huge traffic spike, almost doubling my daily unique visitors over the weekend and, as if that wasn’t enough, doubling my […]

_An unexpected source of long tail income

_Aug 21 08

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Premium Wordpress themes are something of a mystery to me. I find it hard to believe that the people making, and selling, these premium themes, get the maximum benefit from their work. Giving away your Wordpress themes is a great way of getting a lot of traffic back to your blog. This […]

_The free premium Wordpress theme paradox

_Aug 20 08

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The new design, scheduled to roll out later this week, has run into something of a road block. What worked fine on my screen is looking less than perfect when coded for Wordpress. Fighting with code, forcing it to jump through hoops to keep dodgy browsers like Internet Explorer happy, and generally getting […]

_You bring the Wordpress skills and I’ll bring the traffic

_Aug 19 08

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In a few recent posts I have had the opportunity to share my opinions, in comments, on competition in the blogosphere, particularly between individual bloggers. Whilst I agree that the occasional subscriber race can be a great way to generate publicity, the potential audience is so big that there is no need for any […]

_Blogging is not a competitive sport

_Aug 18 08

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I have a project on the horizon that requires an ongoing cash investment of roughly $20,000 per year for thirteen years for a total of $260,000. I need to have the money in place, for the first year’s investment in three years time, by September 2011.
My plan, which I’m happy to share with you […]

_Easy long haul blogging to raise $260,000

_Aug 15 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging_5 Comments

There’s strength in numbers. That’s just one of the reasons that blog networks are so successful. All that traffic swilling around in one great pick melting pot of content. But, trying to build your own network is hard work as I discovered to my cost over the last few months.
Satellite blogging is […]