How to Ruin a Blogger’s Day

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Subscribing is a great way to avoid being asked to come in on SaturdayAs I was driving home from work today, I was thinking about what my post would be about today.  I had several rough ideas, but nothing concrete.  After grabbing [...]

Crazy Ways That I Have Tried to Get Traffic

It’s okay, you can admit it, you have probably attempted some crazy techniques in order to get some traffic for your blog, especially when you were starting off. Recently I ran across a guy on Digital Point that was promoting his site (which was basically just some adsense and a host gator ad) by [...]

Understanding who Reads your Blog

When I first started this blog, I thought that my posts would mostly be about different ways to make money and rants about me hating my job. Since most of us become frustrated with our jobs, I thought my target audience would be gigantic. In addition, it was my hope that people who [...]

Side Effects of Blogging

Don’t you just love commercials for prescriptions in which a nice soothing voice talks about the side effects of the medication? “Side effects may include drowsiness, dry mouth, diarrhea, indigestion, loss of appetite.” or “Side effects may include death.” These ads are so weird, I find them amusing. My favorite one is [...]

Is this blog just a Splog???

Wikipedia defines a splog as: “an artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors, and/or use [...]