You know that you market your blog, right?  But who are you marketing to?  Do you have any idea what type of users are on your blog?  I thought I would mention a couple of ways that you might be able to find out. First Ask them.  Easy huh?  Well, it really is.  Set up a poll, ask their age or some other type of descriptive question. ... read more

The first thing that you might be thinking is “why would I share my ideas?”.  Well, if they work for you, why not pass them along to your readers?  I am not talking about the secrets that made your blog famous, or the ones that made you some money.  I just mean the little tactics and experiments that might be helpful to bloggers that are... read more

There is a lot of information out on the internet for just about any topic you can think of.  But when it comes to marketing on the internet, besides reading, you should be doing.  There are some high quality blogs out there providing everyone with everything from the basics to advanced information regarding the marketing of your blog.  Take it all in, or as much... read more

After seeing the city that I live in, go about installing multiple round-a-bouts at a highway intersection, I got to thinking about marketing and making money online in general.  *Side note: the round-a-bouts are installed at the on ramps, off ramps and one intersection right near the intersection.  So if you can picture it, good luck, but for this case, just take a regular round-a-bout.* I started... read more

Using websites like Digg and Sphinn is a good way to get your blog’s name out on the internet.  Writing up nice, detailed posts about any specific topic you wish, and submitting them to these sites is a good way to gain traffic. www.sphinn.com is just like Digg.com, in that a user will be submitting a news story, post or website for other Sphinn members to rank... read more

I sat around at various homes this holiday to celebrate Christmas.  All I could think about was marketing.  I have been trying to market this blog any which way that I can.  I have been all over the Forums at Digitalpoint.com and various blogs to find tips.  I did very little work on my blogs/websites and it was nice to have a break in all... read more

If you are like me, you want traffic to your site.  One way that I have been getting traffic to my site is through clickthru.com.  Clickthru.com is sort of an incentivized traffic web exchange web site.  The idea is that you view member web sites for at least 30 seconds.  Each site you visit for that long, you get $.01 in “ClickThru Cash” or CT. ... read more