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

Alexa data is poo…but it’s GOLDEN poo! The bottom line is that Alexa is a fantastic research tool. It’s freely available and easy to access. Set your expectations appropriately and you may be pleasantly surprised by what you find.

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Be wary of downloading free WordPress themes, plugins, and other software from sites you aren’t familiar with. You may get more than you bargained for.

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It’s that time again…time to reflect on the progress Zen Zoomie’s Place has made in the past week. My main goal this week was to break into the Technorati Top 200,000. We turned two months old on Aug 20, 2007, and achieved a Technorati rank of 177,547. Not bad!
Thanks Lorelle!
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In my last post, I asked what you would do if you were given this choice:

Option #1:

A guaranteed annuity worth $2 million at the end of 10 years (that’s about $41 thousand per year in today’s money with annual adjustments for inflation). However, you’re going to be told where to live, have very limited […]

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What would you do if you were given these two choices?
Option #1:

You will be required to stay in your current job for 10 more years.
You will be paid well, and receive annual pay raises roughly equal to inflation.
You will be told where you will live and what your specific job responsibilities are.
You will probably be […]

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I admit it. I’m completely ignoring my own advice tonight and spending way too much time on the 80% of my tasks that only contribute to 20% of my results. No, I wasn’t compulsively checking my stats. I’m watching TV when I should be focusing on the 20% of my tasks that […]

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Recognizing your blog’s top commentators is a great way to recognize those readers who have spent their valuable time contributing something back to your site. It’s a win-win proposition, especially for newer blogs. You encourage some feedback and interaction among your readers, and in exchange they can get a free site-wide link from […]

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This is the third and final post in my series dissecting the success of JohnChow.com. To see how John got his start in blogging, check out his first post ever in How the Great Blogs Began: The First Posts.
Last week, you saw how John Chow was able to leverage Digg.com to increase his […]

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StumbleUpon has the potential to generate some massive amounts of traffic to your site in a very short period of time. Zen Zoomie’s place has been stumbled a few times already in its short life. One thing I’ve noticed already is that the traffic coming from StumbleUpon has a very low attention span..visitors […]

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For new readers, a main goal of this Blog is to show you, step-by-step, how to build a successful blogging business from scratch. I report several metrics every 1-2 weeks so you can see how the site is progressing.
As you can see below, things are still improving, but the rate at which they are […]

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