The Other Side Of ProBlogging: Making Real Money Right From The Start Of Your Blogging Career
In this post Ali Hale from the Office Diet shares some tips on how to make money from blogging by being a ‘Staff Blogger’. Learn more about Ali in the footer of this post. You started a blog with the dream of making a living from writing about something you ...more
Blogging for Dollars
11 Striking Findings From an Eye Tracking Study
image by s-revenge If you’ve got a spare 10 minutes today check out Eyetrack III who have published some great findings in their latest eye tracking studies of news and multimedia content sites (found via Direct Creative Blog). There’s loads of juicy goodness in the full article but here are ...more
Featured Posts
Light or Dark Blog Backgrounds? [POLL RESULTS]
Our last poll asked readers whether they preferred light or dark backgrounds in blog design. The results were: The majority like ‘Light’ backgrounds but a fair chunk of readers think it depends upon the blog design.
Reader Questions
Megatrends and Blogging
Yesterday I spent most of the day at a conference here in Melbourne called the Future Summit. My role was ‘guest twitterer’ on the official Twitter account for the summit for a few of the sessions. The presentation that I found most helpful today was by Alison Sander from Boston ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme – Working with a Designer [PART 2]
Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme. In my previous post, I talked about what I do when commissioning custom WordPress theme design. It left where the job started. In this post, I’ll talk about the steps that follow – working with ...more
Blog Design
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme – Working with a Designer
Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme. When you’re designing your blog all sorts of options are open to you – starting with a free theme (that you can later edit), through a premium customizable theme (like Thesis or Revolution2) and ending ...more
Blog Design
Chitika Mega Units – Publishers Reporting Massive Increases in Earnings
Chitika (the #2 way that I make money blogging) have come out with a handy new ad unit option for publishers wanting to monetize traffic arriving on their blog from search engines – the ‘mega unit’ premium ad unit. This ad unit is a 550×255 pixel sized ad – it’s ...more
Chitika eMiniMalls
Be Consistent and Useful – Thoughts on How Often to Publish on Your Blog
In the last task of our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge I encouraged bloggers to set up a plan for the next steps in their blog. As an example I set up a hypothetical Blogging Calendar with an activity for each day of the next month. Here ...more
Writing Content
Should I Add a Donation Button to My Blog?
A question that hits my inbox or is sent to me on Twitter from time to time is – ‘Should I Add a Donation Button to My Blog?‘ When I first started blogging 7 years back it was not uncommon to see bloggers attempting to add an income stream to ...more
Blogging for Dollars