Blogging - Upstart Blogger

Apr 07 08

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Michael Arrington and John Chow are two high traffic bloggers at opposite ends of the blogosphere. One plays the clown to con people into signing up for affiliate schemes and the other plays the business man but is often woefully inaccurate. I’ll let you decide which is which. However, despite their flaws, […]

The easy way to get Michael Arrington and John Chow to link to your blog

Apr 03 08

Ashley Morgan_Blogging Money3 Comments

The highly popular wordpress theme designer Small Potato recently sold his blog and wordpress theme business to internet entrepreneur Pawel Ciszewski. Although the original asking price was around $65,000 the actual price paid was, according to reasonably reliable sources, less than half that figure.
I know what it’s like to buy a blog, and I […]

Milking the WPDesigner.com cash cow

Apr 02 08

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Yesterday I posted an April fools day story. The story revolved around John Chow being a Google Android who had gone rogue. It was a bit of fun and got a handful of diggs. Thanks to everyone who linked to it or posted links to it.
While I was happily having a friendly […]

How to lose thousands of subscribers overnight

Mar 28 08

Ashley Morgan_Blogging Money2 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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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