Zen Zoomie’s Place: Chronicles of a (Wannabe) Pro Blogger

I’m back! And as promised—here’s the anxiously awaited first post in my new series of case studies. This first post offers a glimpse into what how some of today’s top bloggers started out. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so keep checking back as we explore what makes some […]

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Just a quick post to let you know that I won’t be able to post any new updates for the next several days.  It’s not very good timing since traffic’s really been improving here, but unavoidable.  Please check back on Monday, July 30th for the first post in my new series..How the Great Blogs Began!
Cheers,
ZZ….

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I’ve often wondered how some of the top bloggers started out. How did Darren Rowse, John Chow, Rand Fishkin, and Jeremy Shoemaker cut their teeth? How about today’s rising stars: up-and-comers like Courtney Tuttle, ….
Are their current sites (the ones we know so well) their first ventures into the world of […]

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Week two’s raw stats…things are looking up!

Google PageRank: N/A
(Google should be recalculating PageRank soon, so I hope that this will change during the next update!)
Alexa Traffic Rank: 557,205
(Improved from ‘No Data’ on 1 July, and 8,000,000+ on 7 July, 1,336,647 on 14 July)
Yahoo Inlinks: 808
(up from 80 two weeks […]

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On Wednesday, I talked about a sneaky trick that some black hat search engine marketers are resorting to. If you didn’t read that article, you should. But in the meantime, I’ll catch you up. The bottom line is, if you downloaded a free WordPress theme, there’s a chance you’re providing free advertising […]

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I love the FireFox browser, and I use it almost exclusively. But I had a problem. The Firefox bookmark toolbar just didn’t have enough space to hold all of the sites I wanted to have quick access to. So I recently started using a Firefox add-on called Smart Bookmarks Bar v1.2 that […]

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Yet more evidence that the business of blogging is nothing less than war, and you need to be prepared to defend yourself.

I just ran across a scary post at www.bracingyourbrand.com that took me back a couple of steps. Robert Kingston, the author of that site, had recently started using a new WordPress theme. […]

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I just ran across this must-see article on Business Week online where they give a run-down on 13 of the Internet’s top Bloggers. Here’s a teaser of the Bloggers they profiled…check out the article for all the juicy details!

BoingBoing.net
Revenue: > $1 million a year

ICanHazCheezBurger.com
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Protecting your domain from cyber-squatters and typo-squatters is a good idea, but there’s a right way and the wrong way to setup SEO-friendly redirects for your domain aliases.

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Getting out of your shell and participating in comment discussions in the Blogosphere is a great way to get your name out there, build relationships, and build links back to your own site.
As a matter of fact, we just got our first link back from the man himself–Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net–for a comment I […]

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