http://www.keepblogging.net/sixth-month-report-working-hard-behind-the-scenes/ http://www.keepblogging.net/sixth-month-report-working-hard-behind-the-scenes/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:01:53 +0000 Sam http://www.keepblogging.net/?p=1949

This is the sixth month report.

Not a lot of changes happened during last month. I’ve been pretty busy with university exams so I decided to shut down post production a bit instead of posting low quality articles.

Anyway, there are some posts that deserve a special mention.

As for the blog stats, I’ve added a new way to make money blogging thanks to Justhost which gives me $60 for each referral I get, which is quite a lot.

This has boosted my earnings, although I still have to break the $300 – $400 average I make monthly.

Daily visitors remains the same, still have to break the damn 100 UV/day barrier. Still happy though.

Pageviews remains the same also, with 2.3 pageviews per visitor. The average time spent on the site did decrease to about 2 minutes per visit, which is still enough to keep me happy.

There’s stuff –something for you, for free, that you may like- that keeps cooking behind the scenes, most of them are surprise so you will have to wait.

Apart from that, I’m working to create another blog –actually, a web because I won’t update it every day nor even every week so it can’t call itself a blog- with useful info.

I’m supposed to finish my exams within a week so I will –hopefully- stick back to my post frequency.

To end this post, here are the top 8 post from last month.

How to increase social media traffic

See? Titles are always very important

You shouldn’t create a make money blogging blog

Why you should create a make money blogging blog

Make money blogging – Only for heroes?

How to create a blog on local host – Videotutorial

List of 80 blogging tips

What can you learn from The Godfather

Thanks for reading.

]]> http://www.keepblogging.net/sixth-month-report-working-hard-behind-the-scenes/feed/ 3

This is the first keepblogging.net video tutorial.

This is a featured post.

This means that it will remain on the top frontpage even if I publish new posts. To see the newest posts scroll down the page.

On this tutorial I’ll teach you how to create a blog on local host so you can tweak your blog without any risk.

Check it out!

I’m working hard behind the scenes so I’ll quickly let you know what’s going o non keepblogging.net.

Exciting stuff, certainly.

So, briefly said:

1) I’m working on new video tutorials that will be pretty useful for both beginners and mature bloggers.

2) I’m working on some wordpress designs, cooperating with Carl Ocab from carlocab.com that will be free for you to download.

You’ll surely like that.

3) The post frequency will be decreasing, at least for some time as I need to take care of University. Exams are going on right now and I don’t have too much time to post decent articles.

It’s better to drop the post frequency rather than keep blogging lower quality posts.

4) Guest posts are going well. I’ve already received some guest posts that are currently under review that will be published pretty soon.

5) More ways to make money blogging soon!

Hopefully once I finish my exams –march- I’ll be able to go back with my post frequency -6 posts per week- with high quality articles.

In the meantime get your chances to write for keepblogging.net and get free exposure on a site that’s visited by bloggers.

Check the guidelines.

That’s that. More good news than bad news, thank God.

Wish me luck for my exams!

Thanks for reading.

And learn from an internet marketing guru?

Then you should read this.

In case you didn’t know, Shoemoney has already released the Shoemoney System. What’s this all about? Check it out.

Shoemoney was a regular guy just like you and me. 5 years ago his life changed and since then he has made more than $10,000,000 online.

Nope, didn’t make any mistake nor add more zeros.

You’ll directly be taught by the guru itself.

If that wasn’t enough, Jeremy made deals with Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Sponsored Tweets, etc and everyone that applies will be rewarded with $2,500 quickly start growing.

To sign up go to Shoemoney System site and follow the instructions. I think it’s a great opportunity, a great chance that you shouldn’t let pass away.

Thanks for reading.

PS. Quick! Limited seats!

We all know how hard is to get exposure whatever your blogging level is –unless you’re really a problogger- so I’ve decided to open a guest post section here at keepblogging.

Although there’re tons of blogs out there that gets more traffic than mines, I thought it will be good for you guys to get exposure here to.

Take a look at the conditions and what you’ll get.

So let’s start with the conditions shall we?

Conditions to post on keepblogging.net

-          Content must be unique: For our mutual benefit, content should never be duplicated or we’ll get some bad SEO strikes.

-          Content must be niche-related: This blog’s topic’s about blogging tips to make money blogging. Can cover from blogging tips to SEO, social media, ways to make money blogging… Something related.

-          Content must contain at least 400+ words, as it’s the avg here.

What will you get?

-          Exposure: The blog gets over 100 unique visitors per day –and growing- and more than 180 pageviews per day.

As you know, I’m already making money so people are interested about that.

-          You’ll get a dofollow link with the chosen anchor text for life here, so you’ll get SEO benefits.

-          You will be able to post your Twitter profile so you can increase your chances to get new twitter followers

-          I’ve some subscribers to my Stumbleupon account. I usually –except for the past two weeks- get 80 unique visits per every article stumbled.

For each guest post you write here I’ll stumble –or Digg it too- any article you want.

That increases your chances to be seen. Just remember to add the article you want me to stumble or digg.

So, if you want to write a post for keepblogging.net you only need to copy and paste the article and email it to me using the contact for below.
[contact-form]
I’ll review it and get it touch with you in no time.

Would you want something more?

Do you like something more? Something especial you would like? Drop a comment and we’ll see.

Thanks for reading.

Our friends from SEO Company have released an article which includes 136 of the best SEO tools out there.

I think it’s really a must share and a must read, so I thought I’d make a post about it.

This SEO Tools page has links to the best SEO Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher.

So, without further delay, here’s the link

136 SEO Tools

Enjoy and see you at Google’s top!

Thanks for reading.

I’ve had problems with the blog today.

It was a headache but everything seems to be working fine.

I had a dofollow blog directories list wrote for Monday but as I didn’t have the time to write for today because of the issues I was talking about I’m posting it now.

Here’s the list. Enjoy and remember the anchor text.

Thanks for reading.

It’s always a good moment to write a blogging tips list.

I’ve elaborated a new list that contains 50 old blogging tips plus 30 new ones.

Here’s the full list.

1. use wordpress

2. get a unique domain

3. if you have the time to learn Search Engine Optimization, don’t hire a SEO

4. get a unique design

5. have a friendly design

6. link your website on an internal way for easier navigation and increasing pageviews and time spent on your site

7. make a design to give away

8. add a link on the design’s footer to get backlinks

9. comment on other blogs

10. join problogger community

11. be funny

12. be kind

13. show proofs about your success when you can

14. add images to your posts

15. make brainstorms

16. read probloggers blogs

17. use social media, but use it on the right way or it can kill you

18. make a big list

19. make interviews with probloggers that are on your niche

20. share your experiences, bad ones too. People read your blog to learn.

21. go to famous events when you can (world blog expo)

22. always give first before you try to get something

23. don’t blog for money

24. blog about whatever you want, having the knowledge or without having it, but just blog about something you’re willing to learn about

25. write your own pdf

26. build an email newsletter

27. build relationships

28. don’t be affraid to give advice to a big blogger

29. read matt cutts blog

30. use google’s webmaster tools

31. stick to a post frequency

32. DON’ T! quit your job to start blogging for money

33. when starting, don’t compare your blog with problogger’s blogs

34. care about alexa ranking if you want to make money blogging

35. use automatic ping services

36. link to older posts

37. use recommended plugins

38. don’t think about doing it, do it

39. don’t blame yourself for your mistakes, learn from them

40. answer to comments

41. be patient

42. don’t use black hat seo

43. never underestimate blog directories

44. don’t get crazy about submiting your sites to search engines. do it if you have time and concentrate on google

45. seo on page optimization

46. seo off page optimization

47. offer a full feed

48. be original

49. bad comments? great, keep blogging you’re on the right way

50. don’t be affraid to link to other blogs

51. Test your blog on every browser

52. Focus on content

53.Organization – one hour for the content, half for social purpose, half for design

54. Put keywords on your domain name

55. Expand your blog

56. Take your blog as a business

57. Take x amount of time per week to build backlinks

58. Use Aweber

59. Use ninja affiliate plugin

60. Make deal with bigger bloggers, make them happy to benefit from their traffic

61. Don’t offer your own sponsors spot as a contest prize

62. Make lists

63. Use top commentators plugin

64. Use CommentLuv plugin

65. Linking won’t hurt, do it

66. Write your own ebook

67. Don’t write your own ebook

68. Participate on other bloggers contests giving cool prizes

69. Hire someone to design a wordpress theme and release it for free with a footer link to your site

70. If possible, post every day or at least as much as you can

71. Make brainstorm

7 2. If you find a big deal don’t keep it to yourself, share it

73. Don’t focus on making money

74. Be weird, weird people use to be original, original bloggers succeed

75. Make some video-tutorials

76. Set up your gps system: trace a plan and follow your way before starting to blog

77. Avoid to change your posts urls / permalinks

78. Take an amount of time per week on finding new traffic sources

79. Do some business that could increase your blog’s popularity

80. Keep blogging

Would you add something?

I’m working on a new list. Would you add something?

You can drop ideas here and I’ll link to your blog with your desired anchor text.

Hope you enjoy.

Thanks for reading.

It seems like my fear was absolutely justified.

Remember my post telling that my Twitter account had been banned? You can check the post here if you haven’t, but to sum up, I was complaining because my Twitter account had been banned without any reason.

Better said than ever: without any reason.

I submitted a ticket to Twitter support that never got answered back, but I already know what happened –which I also explained on that post-

What happened is that a funny guy started to create multiple accounts and following me. Once done, the guy reported me because of spam –which is absolutely stupid and ridiculous- and achieved what wanted.

I don’t know why, but that happened.

Anyway, I created a new Twitter account. You can follow me @ Sam_kb if you feel like so.

Beware as people just don’t like to play fair.

Thank you all for your support on this issue –which isn’t really important but an issue nonetheless- you’re all great.

Thanks for reading.

I enjoy and learn reading great blogs.

As we talk about great blogs some domain names start flashing within my mind. One of them is, obviously, Copyblogger.

I was inspired for one of the –recently typical- what [insert famous here] can teach you about [insert whatever you want here] so I decided to write using this method.

I started my research, looking for some famous guy or movie that could teach something that is blogging-related or at least internet related.

It was hard, but just before giving up I thought about a movie that could be used as an example while you blog, and particularly about a character.

I’m talking about The Godfather and Vito Corleone.

What can Vito Corleone teach you about blogging?

This may sound weird but actually a lot so let’s start.

1) One of the things that matters the most to Vito Corleone is relationships, considering them as the key to succeed and the most direct way to have power –social power- and popularity.

We’re always talking about how important relationships are when it comes to have a healthy blog and a profitable business.

Corleone was right; you can’t ignore relationships if you ever want to succeed. Not only with your blog but with every business, both off and online.

2) “[…] because there’s nothing more important for a man than its family” is one of the famous quotes from that great movie.

I think we can change the words “man” and “family” and introducing “blogger” and “community” instead of them and have a great blogging advice.

The blogging community –such as problogger.com- can help you to achieve what’s stated on the first point: relationships and social power, as it’s a great way to introduce yourself and start meeting friends.

3) If you ever have seen the second part of the Godfather, you would have noticed that Corleone, when starting, just focus on give no matter what he could get in return.

The same can be applied on the blogging world.

Some bloggers may feel depressed because they see that despite all their efforts linking to other blogs to get some links in return, or despite their efforts to get a ‘fair’ deal with a famous bloggers they just don’t get nothing positive, it always looks like you are the one that puts the work and the others that gets the profits.

Be patient. You always need to give before trying to get. It works like this with every business.

Work hard and you’ll be rewarded, guaranteed.

4) The Godfather’s known because he exactly knows how to return a favor. Always quid pro quo.

People like to see a favor returned back. I stated on the point number three that, in order to succeed, you need to give before you try to get something, especially when starting.

Returning a favor when someone offers you something is as important as the point above. Returning it without the need to be asked to is what we’re talking about. You’ll be even a better blogger than you already are.

5) When making deals –with other families or where other families participate too- the Don’s always caring about the competition, looking at what other families will get out of the deal and making sure that it’s his family the one that gets the most out of it.

Well, this is a good example about what you need to do because you always need to take a look at your competition, especially from the SEO viewpoint.

Do you have something?

I can’t think now about something more that could be taught by Don Vito Corleone. Have you ever watched the movie? If so, what would you add to the post?

Remember that there’re always new sources to learn from. You only need to see things from a blogger’s perspective. Possibilities are endless.

Thanks for reading.