Blog Rash

How to Make More Money From Your Blog

StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004.  By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income.  Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06).  I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion.  In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there.  Would you like to know how I did it?

This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe).  I’ll even share some specifics.  If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later.

Do you actually want to monetize your blog? Read the rest of this entry »

HostMonster Web Hosting Review $5.95/Month for 300 Gigabytes of Hosting Space

We have tested the service and know the owners of HostMonster. HostMonster web hosting reviewsThey are one of the truely great companies that we have had the pleasure of dealing with. HostMonster provides users with fanatic support for a inexpensive price, a huge feature list, and a reliability rateing truly above the rest. HostMonster utilizes Quad Opteron web servers with UPS backups and a backup generator. In addition to the power backup HostMonster also has 24/7 monitoring and Mirrored Storage Backups.

Located in Orem, Utah. They have won many awards for their service from some highly distinguished analysts in the web hosting industry, and will no doubt continue to.
HostMonster Reliability

HostMonster provides powerful and reliable website hosting solutions. They custom builds their own servers, using quad processor Opterons, eight gigabytes of RAM, and Raid 5 arrays. One thing we know is that they are so concerned about the customer being satisfied that they will never oversell a server. They are situated on an OC48 fiber optic connection and have the capability of up to 2.5 Gigabits per second with 3,000 Gigs of Transfer per month.
HostMonster Price - $5.95 / Month!!

HostMonster provides reliable hosting solutions at very inexpensive prices. Their plan includes a huge amount ofdisk space (currently 300 GB ) and high monthly transfer allowance (Currently 3 TERABYTES or 300 Gigabytes hosting space ), a free domain study for life, free setup, free domain privacy registration (an $8.95 value), a free web site builder and many more great features. HostMonster also lets you host an unlimited number of domains on 1 statement for free. This is backed by a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee andombined with 24 hour fanatical technical and customer support with an average inactivity time of no more than two minutes or less makes them a great choice for individualized or business class web hosting solutions.
HostMonster Control Panel

HostMonster utilizes CPanel, which is a very widely used control panel. HostMomster has customized CPanel’s interface to allow for better useability. They include a long list of additional features that the industry’s other leaders currently do not offer. In addition, they offer a free demo of CPanel on their website.
Hostmonster Support

HostMonster’s 24×7 customer and technical support department is from the best in the industry with an average inactivity time of two minutes or less. Their staff is friendly and very knowledgeable.

Our Take On HostMonster
HostMonster wins our vote of support and we are mavens of the mark they are leaving on the web hosting industry. The combination of best in price, support, features, and reliability is a act to be followed. The 24/7 support staff are friendly, knowledgable and quick to respond in less than 2 minutes. The features that they offer outweigh thier competitors, and their network almost never goes down.

Blogrush by John Reese

I don’t know if it will work.

By now you will have heard all about BlogRush. (The widget you place on you blog and get credits for everytime someone clicks on it).

Almost every review site I have seen so far has the widget on it. I don’t have the widget on this site at the moment however I have installed it on another blog for testing purposes. I will let you know what happens. I won’t be installing the widget here anytime soon. I want to deliver useful content and see if I can connect with readers without a widget.

From the dozen or so reviews I have read, about Blogrush, these are the interesting aspects that have surfaced:

* The service has been heavily subscribed and the technical difficulties are still being ironed out.
* The keyword competition blocker filter may still need some work
* The links open in an new window
* The categories are not as contextual as they could be
* The widget can cause slow loading of the page
* The credits run to ten tiers - causing some to call it a pyramid scheme
* It is not a pyramid scheme because there is no money
* It is a fantastic way for John Reese to build a list
* It is a great way to get backlinks for John Reese
* John Reese can sell the remaining 10% of traffic to make money
* John Reese is  an excellent marketer with the power to make any release powerful.
* John Reese answers comments about Blogrush when he feels it is worthwhile.
* One guy claims it is old technology and several years behind where it should be….

It remains untested for the moment how many people will keep the widget installed after the first rush subsides. Will the blogrush widgets bring enough traffic?

Will people continue to sign up in a month from now?

see Blogrush if you are interested while you still have a chance to get in before others.

By rkelley

Too often in forums (and in a few of the questions the Shoe readers asked) I see something along the lines of “How do I make money online” or “How can I be successful in X within X time frame.” Every time I see this question I get pissed off. It’s like a flabby mortal saying “I want abs and big muscles by tomorrow” as he shoves another Twinkie in his mouth. Not. Going. To. Happen. Read the rest of this entry »

In his blog, Google engineer Matt Cutts tells us what Google thinks of paid links.

Here’s a summary: Read the rest of this entry »

When bloggers think of online advertising, the words Google AdSense immediately pops to mind. Google had done an amazing job capturing the internet advertising market with the AdSense product. However, Google is not the only game in town. As a webmaster, it is your duty to seek out other ways to monetize your site. As we all know, putting all your eggs in one basket isn’t the smartest thing to do. Yet I have come crossways countless blogs with no other means of monetization other than AdSense. Even my own blog was running just Google until a few days ago. Read the rest of this entry »

If 999,999 People Join This Group My Dad Won’t Kick Me Out

written by John Chow

19 year old Tiffany Stewart came home drunk one Saturday night and got caught by her father. Now he is going to be kicked her out of the house for being a problem child.

I tried to explain to my papa that it is normal for people my age to experiment with alcohol (most of my friends drink every weekend) - and that he is over reacting by kicking me out! I rarely drink and when I do it’s with friends I trust and we have a sobar driver! Dad thinks that NO ONE my age has ever consumed alcohol, and that I’m just a problem child. Since he refuses to “support my alternative lifestyle” I’m getting the boot. Read the rest of this entry »