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

While researching what has made JohnChow.com so successful, I came across an interesting question on a recent post. John Chow accepted a ReviewMe offer. That, in and of itself, is nothing new. Chow frequently reviews and promotes websites for a flat $400 fee. The thing is, it turns out that […]

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If you read the last three articles in the How the Great Blogs Began: The First Posts series, you probably noticed that most of the 15 blogs profiled had significant "spikes" in their Alexa traffic ranking at various points in their life. In most cases, traffic drops back off after the initial spike, […]

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You already know blogging can be hard work! When you throw a full-time job (and then some), family responsibilities, and the unavoidable hiccups of life into the mix…it’s no walk in the park. So if you’re going to create a successful and profitable blogging business in the spare time that remains, it […]

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Something’s been nagging at me for a while, and today I finally realized what it was.
There’s no proof!
 
Opinions, random musings, reporting, and advice are everywhere in the blogging world (as it should be). But with few exceptions, there’s no supporting material behind the posts other than the author’s experience and creative license.
For most […]

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It’s a question that this blog set out to answer, and based on the sheer number of "make money online" blogs out there, it’s on a lot of your minds as well. Can any John Doe start a new blog and turn it into a profitable and successful blogging business in a relatively short […]

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With Round 3 of "The First Posts", it’s time to broaden our horizons a bit (read The First Posts Round 1 and Round 2).
So far, the blogs I’ve profiled in this series have focused on the Blogging Blogs..blogs that are focused on providing advice and resources about creating a successful blog, making money online, search […]

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Have you upgraded your WordPress blog to v2.2.2 yet? If not, you should. And if you’re not keeping an eye on the latest announcements from the WordPress Development Blog (which show up on your Control Panel Home Page), START.

From the WordPress error tracker, here are the bugs fixed in this release:

Highest OMG BBQ […]

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This week’s report covers two weeks (last update was July 21st).

Google PageRank: N/A
(Google should be recalculating PageRank soon, so I hope that this will change during the next update!)

Alexa Traffic Rank: 497,601
(Improved from ‘No Data’ on July 1st, 8,000,000+ on July 7th, 1,336,647 on July 14th, 557,205 on July 21st)

Yahoo Inlinks: 1,566
(up from 80 on […]

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While writing my weekly Saturday stats update, imagine my surprise to find that I’ve jumped from a rank of 465,071 two weeks ago to #1 in the world today! Talk about progress!

Ok, after checking the stats at a couple of other blogs, it appears that I’m not alone in this honor. Every blog […]

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I was pleasantly surprised to find that three of the comments to my How the Great Blogs Began: The First Posts and Round 2 posts came from the profiled bloggers themselves! A special thanks to Jeremy Shoemaker (ShoeMoney.com), Lorelle (Lorelle.WordPress.com), and Brian Clark (CopyBlogger.Com) for stopping by and taking the time to comment […]

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