Carnival of the Capitalists and vacation
August 21, 2006 | Filed Under links, How to create a successful blog | Leave a Comment
Lots of good links at the Carnival of the Capitalists as usual. I am honoured to have my post about beggars mentioned among so many quality posts. Besides the quality links in the carnival, the host of this week’s carnival contributes with an interesting post about urging advertisers to be a creative by listing the 5 forbidden words of advertising.
I will take a vacation now. Will be back posting in mid-September.
The traffic volatility of a start-up blog
July 20, 2006 | Filed Under rich on eBay, learning from failure, Start ups, How to create a successful blog, Practical tips | 1 Comment
This is the stats over unique visitors to this blog the last month. The big spikes are due to the post about the “from mailroom clerk to CEO game from 1982.” This post was submitted by myself to fark, reddit, digg, shoutwire, joystiq and other PR & buzz sites and received some attention. If you think you have a post that will be of interest to such sites I see no problem in submitting them.
Not all hot tips from you to other sites are successfull though. My idea about selling 100 signed copies of a celebrity author’s book on eBay did not catch on. I sent some e-mails around promoting it, but no success. It was criticized for it’s unethical flavour and blatant use of child labour. It was so bad that it did not even generate a single spark of controversy.
Link carnivals part 2
July 10, 2006 | Filed Under How to create a successful blog | 1 Comment
The challenge of building a blog continues. Last week I submitted different blog posts to the following link carnivals. Any success? Yes:
The risks of selling your blog
July 6, 2006 | Filed Under Art of the Deal, Start ups, Entrepreneurship, How to create a successful blog, Money making as young | 1 Comment
College-Startup.com is a damn good blog with a great positioning in the blogosphere: One college student, on a quest, to make money.
Now it is put up for sale. Starting bid $1000. The price includes a Google PR rank of 5, unique design, pages indexed in Google, all the posts, a high technorati rank, links from high profile sites like ProBlogger and a monthly income of about $100 if I remember correctly.
The minute after I read the news, I removed my permanent link to College Startup.
But why Money Matador? Why are you removing the link to such a jolly fine blog?
The success and quality of blogs are heavily correlated to the inputs of the owner. A new owner may continue what was already started, he may even improve on the “product.” Or he may just put up lots of spam pages and monetize it with adsense to milk the juice of the site. Even though, there are probably cheaper domains to buy if you want to go that down that route.
Either way, I take down the link and wait for the outcome.
Hah! Nobody cares if your little pimple blog removes the link
Probably very true! But, if some other more influential blog owners think like me..
Another issue is the damage to the blog if it is not sold. Will the readers of the blog have the same relationship to it when they know the owner tried to sell it and was unsuccessful?
Let’s finish with a conspiracy theory
I am just writing this post to negotiate a lower price than the “buy now” price of $6500.
Edit:
He has already received a bid of $1200 and a blog real estate expert claims it is worth at least $1600.
A service to a lady: How to market a blog
June 25, 2006 | Filed Under How to create a successful blog, Practical tips | Leave a Comment
A lady with a grumpy old husband e-mailed me, she asked me how she could get started with this blogging thing. I answered her by sending her some links.
How to create a successful blog? Part 1: Using link carnivals
June 18, 2006 | Filed Under How to create a successful blog, Practical tips | 1 Comment
This is a brand new blog. Nobody reads it. In order to make it noticed in the blogosphere I had to do some research. I will try the ideas I read about and post about the success or lack thereof.
A search on Google for “how to create successful blog” & “hot to make successful blog” gave me some tips
There is a garden of information available on the subject, so I happily dug in.
Participate in link carnivals
I started by picking the flower of Harvey of Bad Example. In his post about getting blogs noticed he introduced me to the idea of a “Link Carnival.” A link carnival is basically something like a “free for all link” where you can get your relevant post mentioned among other posts by the carnival owner/blog owner.
First, I tried to get noticed by the Carnival of entrepreneurship.
I found a carnival that fitted my site content: Carnival of entrepreneurship. I sent them my post about the firewood business. I sent the tip using a very handy “submit your blog post link to the carnivals tool.” I eagerly await the results!
I will follow up with a post about other link carnivals I participated in.