I’ve gotten rid of CPM (BlogHer) on one of my sites. I was pleased with how BlogHer was performing, at least compared to other CPM networks, but that site just didn’t have the pageviews to justify having a large ad load on every page. It was bringing in about $10/month, and I don’t have another [...]
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I’ve been ridiculously busy lately:
I’m gradually replacing all the “free with link” articles on my “library sites” with PLR articles. These are not unique articles, but they’re generally better written and they don’t have the links that might be spammy. This has led, oddly enough, to some really positive feedback from visitors. Eventually, I hope [...]
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I’ve found a very quick way to get through my feedreader these days. When I look at a post’s title or first paragraph and figure out what it’s promising to reveal to me, I ask myself:
“Does anyone really know this, and if they did would they tell me?”
I almost always get the answer “no”, so [...]
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I’ve finally found a to do system that inspires my creativity, keeps me on track, and makes me feel like I’m getting stuff done – all of which reduces my stress. I got the idea from reading about Zen to Done, but I never finished reading the article (because stress gives me a severe [...]
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I realized within a day of posting my insane content writing goals for 2008 that I could use some help. Hired writers to the rescue! Right?
I’m not sure. How do you know that when someone sells you “unique” articles, they aren’t selling them over and over? Aside from asking people you know and trust, I [...]
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I’ve mapped out my goals for 2008, and they are huge. I had been planning to build more article reprint sites, but instead I’m revamping the ones I have into original content sites. This’ll be tough – they’re on a range of topics I’m not terribly familiar with. But I know how to research and [...]
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I started using Todoist a few weeks ago. It’s pretty powerful once you figure out all its functions. Here’s how I’m using it.
Nested sidebar folders. In the sidebar, you have a list all your to-do lists. Call them folders, projects, whatever. I set up three major categories for my sites: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Other. Then [...]
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I’ve got so much going on I haven’t even gotten around to posting about last month’s earnings. I’ll get to it, just not tonight. Right now, I’m too busy building about 20 new sites. Yes, that’s right – overwhelmed with projects, and my solution is to start more.
But there it is, and what I’m rapidly [...]
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Something’s been nagging at me for a while now, and I finally realized today what it is. My current business model seems to be:
Blog,
blog,
blog.
The idea being if I post often enough, I’ll eventually have enough traffic and my ad space will eventually be worth… what? A few hundred? Right now I have four sites I [...]
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Thanks to Empress for notifying me the feed to this site had stopped working. I forgot to fix up the CNAME entry for Feedburner when I moved hosts a week ago. It’s now working fine.
(You’d think the fact the feed stats dropped by about 75% percent last week would have clued me in!)
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