Golden Blogging

Golden Blogging EBook is Live

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:25:05 +0000

The book is finally live to purchase, just visit Golden Blogging eBook to purchase for a cost of $67. I have decided against using ClickBank to sell the product and am using Paypal, just pay via the link and you will receive instant access to the book and members area.

The members area currently hosts over 50 videos related to Wordpress, blogging, making money and building mailing lists. Twitter marketing software is also included in the purchase price as well as the book itself.

Everyone purchasing a copy of the course will receive updates for life to the book and every month I will be adding more videos to the members area.

Golden Blogging eBook almost ready

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:05:49 +0000

So sorry for the lack of updates on this blog for a while now – I have been working getting the eBook finished off. Right now I am 95% of the way there, I’m just waiting for Clickbank to approve it and for some testimonials from pre-release reviewers. I’m really proud of the job I have done with this product, I think people are going to find it really usefull, when you signup for the book you also get access to a member’s area which contains over 50 videos about blogging and using Wordpress.

Make sure you signup for the mailing list to receive the first 2 chapters free when I release it, which should hopefully be by the end of the week.

Top 30 Blog Sales of all time

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:16:37 +0000

To show you the power of blogging, today we look at the top 30 sales of blogs of all time, in this list we have included single blogs, blog networks and blog platforms.

Some of the numbers are quite astounding. Could you build the next $100Million blog ?

Blog Name	Owner	Sold to	Amount
Ugo	Ugo Entertainment	Hearst Corporation	$100 Million
Fotolog	Scott Heiferman	Hi-Media Group	$90 Million
Paidcontent	Rafat Ali	Guardian Media Group	$30 Million
Tatter and Company	Chang-Won Kim /Chester Roh	Google	$30 Million
Weblogs Inc	Brian Alvey/Jason Calcanis	AOL	$25 Million
Ars Technica	Ken “Caesar” Fisher	Conde Nast Publications	$25 Million
LiveJournal	Brad Fitzpatrick/Six Apart	Six Apart to SUP	$20 Million
Bankaholic	John Wu	Bankrate.com	$15 Million
Deadline Hollywood	Nikki Finke	Mail Media Corp.	$15 Million
instapundit	Glenn Reynolds	AOL	$12 Million
Blog Herald	The Bloggy Net	The Bloggy Network	$12 Million
Wonkette	Gawker Media	Ken Layne	$12 Million
celebrity babies	Danielle Friedland	Times Inc	$10 Million
Tree Hugger	Graham Hill	Discovery Communication	$10 Million
Freakanomics	Stephen J. Dubner	NY Times	$8 Million
The Consumerist	Gawker Media	Consumer Media LLC,	$7 Million
World Hum	Jim Benning and Michael Yessis	Travel Channel	$6 Million
arseblog	Andrew Managan	OleOle	$5 Million
gCaptain	John Konrad/gCaptain	Unofficial Networks	$1.9Million
GardenRant	Susan Harris	GardenWeb	$1.3 Million
CGBlog	Peter Stinson	Unofficial Networks	$1.2 Million
Gridskipper	Gawker Media	Curbed	$750,000
Idolator	Gawker Media	Buzznet	$500,000
jkOnTheRun	James Kendrick / Kevin Tofel	Giga Omni Media	$400,000
Basic Thinking	Robert Basic	Serverloft	$66,000
GatherLittlebyLittle	GatherLittlebyLittle	The Financial Blogger	$15,000
momscashblog	Kristi	JJ	$10,000
Blog Oh! Blog	Bob Jiwakacau	Jainis Chalvecma	$10,000
Blogging Fingers	Matt Jones	Revenuewire	$6,000

Hopefully this list inspires you to work harder on your blog – it may not be exhaustive so if you know of any other large blog sales, please leave them in the comments.

15 Super Fresh Wordpress Blog Designs

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:56:25 +0000

In today’s roundup post I’m going to be taking a look at custom blog designs to give you an idea of how unique some designs can be. The designer’s of these blogs truly show what can be done with blogging software, talent and a bit of imagination …

1. Tarek Shalaby

2. Behind the Websites

3. Jesper Bernardino

4. SquareSpace

5. Outlaw Design Blog

6. Line25

7. Matt Mullenweg

8. Jono Buchanan

9. Tutorial 9

10. Web Designer Depot

11. Blog Spoongraphics

12. UX Booth

13. Mix Online

14. Blog Medianotions

15. Ollie Kav

15 Wordpress Hacks

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:15:21 +0000

Just found this article at Wpbeginner, 15 Hacks for Wordpress - there are some great hacks in this article such as separating comments and trackbacks, Changing default gravatar images and other gems.

Top 25 Music related Twitterers to follow

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:13:16 +0000

A lot of celebrities and musicians have embraced Twitter – in this round up post we take a look at 25 of the most popular for you to follow.

1. @johncmayer – Recording/Sandwich Artist

2. @iamdiddy – KING COMBS

3. @coldplay – The official Coldplay twitter page.

4. @ashleytisdale – The Official Ashley Tisdale Twitter Page. New album GUILTY PLEASURE coming 7/28!!!

5. @50cent – The Real 50 Cent

6. @souljaboytellem – Actor, Rapper, Producer, Gamer, & C.E.O. Of SODMG

7. @MCHammer – http://mchammer.com

8. @SaraBareilles

9. @MariahCarey

10. @petewentz – the official pete wentz twitter. bass, clothes, mischief

11. @AFineFrenzy – hi there, i’m ali. i’m in a band called a fine frenzy. life is funny. let’s have a laugh.

12. @markhoppus – he Official Mark Hoppus Twitter Page, for what it’s worth… Be warned, I tweet a LOT.

13. @twtfm – Share music on Twitter

14. @alyankovic – You know… the Eat It guy.

15. @johnlegend – The Real John Legend

16. @jimmyeatworld – A rock band from Arizona

17. @pitchforkmedia – The essential guide to independent music and beyond.

18. @amazonmp3 – Daily Deals and special sales on DRM-free, play-anywhere music downloads from Amazon. The official Amazon MP3 twitter feed.

19. @samantharonson – Don’t be mad, UPS is hiring.

20. @LennyKravitz – I am giving away two spots on my guest list for each show on my European tour. Starts 4/17 through the Summer. Let Love Rule!

21. @DaveJMatthews

22. @zoecello – Cello, computers and pancakes. The daily twitterings of a professional avant cellist and amateur nerd.

23. @PaulaAbdul – The Real Paula Abdul – American pop singer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.

24. @noushskaugen – Download an Exclusive song FREE www.NoushSkaugen.com – Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Idealistic Dreamer….Together we can change the world…

25. @questlove – your favorite twitterer’s favorite music snob.

9 Ways to share files on Twitter

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:51 +0000

In this post we will be taking a look at yet more apps which extend Twitter’s functionality – These apps make it easy to upload files and share them with your followers.

1. File Social – “FileSocial is the easiest way to share files on Twitter. You can upload any kind of file, from pictures to videos,PDFs or Power point… Whatever you want”

2. FileTwt – “FileTwt brings file sharing to twitter. With FileTwt you can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free.”

3. Tweet Cube – “TweetCube allows you to share files on Twitter. Simple as that. Blast out your images, videos, music and more with just a couple of clicks, and your files are automatically posted on Twitter”

4. Twit Doc – “Upload your file, shorten the URL, and post a tweet all in one easy step. No sign up needed. Use your existing Twitter account in the form below or download our FREE Adobe AIR desktop client which enables you to drag and drop your files into your tweets”

5. Twitizer – “The free and easy to use service for sending long texts, photos (or other pictures), video clips and/or audio clips (or podcasts) to Twitter directly from your mobile/cell phone.”

6. Twitter Contd – “Upload up to 100MB of images, audio, video, and documents.”

7. Tweet FTP – “Upload a file to either your own FTP server (coming soon) or to uploads.tweetFTP.com and share on twitter via public broadcast tweets or private direct messages. This site is secured with SSL and uses OAUTH (signin with twitter). Currently, you are able to upload very large files (one file at a time)”

8. Tweetafile – “The only thing that people can do through email that they can’t do with Twitter is send files. Now with TweetaFile, you can. Pictures, videos, documents… whatever you want to share with your followers or individuals, you can do it with Tweetafile.”

9. Twit FS – Filesharing for Twitter, handles all types of file and you receive a set of links to publish to Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Myspace, email, message boards, and IM

If you know of any other web apps in this category, please share them in the comments.

Manage multiple Twitter accounts

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:49:26 +0000

These days I’m find that I have quite a few Twitter accounts – my personal account, plus I register a new account for each new website I launch. It can be a pain managing all these Twitter accounts using their web interface so in this post Im going to take a look at apps which make this easier for you.

Web Apps

1. Matt – Multiple account twitter tweeting. Matt makes it easy to post to multiple Twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time.

2. Hoot Suite – “HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.”

3. Twitt Bot – “TwittBot is a service that allows multiple people to publish to a single Twitter account, and for a single person to post to multiple Twitter accounts”

4. Tweet 3 – “An advanced, Web-based Twitter client that supports grouping, Facebook, stats, multiple accounts, pretty pictures, trending topics, and all sorts of other cool, awesome, and fantastic stuff”

5. SpliTweet -”Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitor The definitive twitter client for heavy & corporate users. How many twitter accounts do you have?”

6. Twit IQ – “TwitIQ is an enhanced Twitter interface that provides insight into your Twitter stream and Twitter followers. With TwitIQ you get:

Full Twitter View/Update features
Keyword & Topic Insight into Tweets
Filters for Tweet streams
User Profiles with Keyword & Topic Insight
Integrated Twitter and Blog/News Search
Support for Multiple Twitter accounts
+ Many other UI enhancements”

7. Tweet Funnel – “TweetFunnel is designed for companies, organizations, academic institutions or anyone who would like to have more than one person contribute to a Twitter stream. You can also monitor for tweets mentioning your username, create stockpile of tweets for future use, schedule tweets and assign tweets to another user for follow up. Plus you can manage multiple Twitter account from one easy-to-use interface.”

8. Co Tweet – “Multiple Accounts and Multiple Users – Manage up to six Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login.”

As always, if we’ve missed anything out – please tell us in the comments.

Poll: What sort of posts would you like to see more of ?

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:20:48 +0000

Please take a moment to place an vote on this poll, its to help gauge what sort of posts are popular here on GoldenBlogging.com

Thanks a lot.

Your own url shortener for your blog

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:10:28 +0000

It’s a good idea to promote your blog posts on twitter, it allows you to instantly get some people to the blog post – quicker even than RSS plus you get the bonus of retweets if your content is good enough. We allready looked at a number of plugins for wordpress to utilize Twitter but there is a problem with these and they post your link using a range of URL shorteners so you get the traffic but no SEO benefit as your link is redirected.

By installing your own URL shortener on your domain you get links to your blog’s domain as well the traffic.

I was searching for a solution for this and found Yoururls.

First off you install the URL shortening script as you would Wordpress – create a database, add a user, then upload the Yoururls files and edit into the config file with your database details.

Once that’s up and running, you can download a Wordpress plugin from the site, enter in your Yoururls installation details and it will automatically post shortened urls using your domain to Twitter.