Groovy Entrepreneur

29 Different Types of Blog Posts

2008-06-04T13:02:00.009-05:00

As an avid blogger, i write alot and a variety of different blog post types. I decided to write a list of the different types of posts i write across my network of blogs. To my surprise the list came in at 29. Below is the list.

Please bookmark, write about, link to, Stumble or Digg it. Thanxs, Missy.

The Story Post
The Review Post
The List Post
The How-To Post
The Feature Post
The Interview Post
The Link Love Post
Video Post
Photo Post
Breaking News Post
The Celeb Piece
Hot Trends
Deals, Discounts, and Freebies
"29 Tips" Post
Contest Post
The Q&A
Poll Post
Feature a Commenter
The Weekly Blog Post Round Up
Niche Local Alerts
Ask The Blog Owner
Blog Milestones (increased RSS subs, google rank, alexa)
Blog Owner Accomplishments (educational, certificates attained, etc)
Blog Owner Product News (NEW! ebook, report, etc)
Best Post Of The Month
Niche Post Round Up
Blow Owner personal News (family news, birth, marriage, new job, winning the lotto, etc)
Niche Gizmos & Gadgets
The Trivia Post

Regardless of your niche, your audience, or your type of blog, there are quite a variety of different types of blog posts you can write. Save this list for future reference, print it out or bookmark it.

Feel free to share your own (type of blog posts) below in the comments section.

The Secret To Article Marketing.

2008-05-06T11:46:00.007-05:00

Jim Kukral, an established blogger and internet marketer, has decided to give article marketing a try, and see how much traffic he can garner by submitting articles to EzineArticles.com

Watch the video as Jim describes what he believes is "the secret" to generating traffic to your blog, with the use of article marketing. He has begun the article marketing experiment and will report back results in 30 days.

Watch the video for what he believes is "the secret" in article marketing.

NEW Yahoo Messenger Affiliate Program from CJ

2008-04-21T20:17:00.007-05:00

New affiliate program opportunity from the Yahoo Affiliate Program over at Commission Junction. The latest affiliate offering from Yahoo is The Yahoo Messenger. For every U.S. based subscriber you get to Download Yahoo! Messenger, nets you $1.00 commission.

Please note that CJ only counts IE browser based leads as valid. (IE=Internet Explorer) No Firefox referrals will count. Yahoo Messenger is a popular instant messaging tool, also known as an IM client. Easy, free, and popular (Yahoo Messenger) makes for a good affiliate program to promote.

Start your social media or email marketing campaign today, and earn $1.00 for every US and IE based download of Yahoo Messenger.

Should you Advertise on a Blog?

2008-03-31T12:30:00.003-05:00

If you're not a blogger, but do have a website or sell stuff online, Should You Advertise on a Blog?

This is a valid question and Chad Randall over at AdvertiseSpace.com did a solid job on answering it. He wrote a kick-in-the-pants post on 7 Reasons YOU SHOULD Be Advertising on Blogs.

The reason which struck a chord with me the most, was #1, "Bloggers Are Very Influential". He goes on to state that the reason blogs have become a popular advertising medium is because,

"The powerful influencers are quickly shifting to the small voice. I’m not
talking Oprah here, I’m talking about the single parent stay-at-home mom that
loves the book, the 4 hour work week, and hates Windows Vista. Bloggers are
generating dedicated readers and followers that not only test out or buy a
product that they recommend, but the readers too are blogging about it. It’s a
waterfall of influence if even one prominent blogger likes your product. I
reference those to products, because that book popularity was spurn in the
blogosphere and Vista was killed by it. Bloggers can make or break your product.
Get in front of them early and let your product grow with them…"

For all "7 Reasons You Should be Advertising on Blogs" head over to Chad's site. Can you think of any other reasons why blogs have a become a go-to resource for marketing and promotion? Leave a comment below.

Bill Tracking Is Essential For Good Business

2008-03-28T22:09:00.006-05:00

As a small business proprietor or innovative entrepreneur, the majority of business responsibilities fall on your shoulders. To Ensure that your business stays on track, you need to be diligent with your business expenses.

Even if you are using an accountant or other professional services to manage your spreadsheets for income and expense, it is up to you to track and record everything. Not only do you need to keep accurate records to grow a prosperous business, you will need a detailed account of expenditures for tax purposes. Your accountant or computer software can only produce as much good information as you provide.

As a sole proprietor, it is all too easy to get caught up in the trap of using personal money for business expenses. While it may be necessary during the initial startup phase, it will soon become important that business and personal financial matters do not continue to mingle.

One way to do this is by establishing a credit card account on behalf of the business and use it responsibly only for business related purchases. This will help you to easily track expenses through the itemized monthly statements. It will also help you to keep tabs on money spent in relation to the income you receive. Allocating income to pay the credit card bills every month will give you a guideline as to how much money you need to be earning every month to keep your business on track.

Keeping excellent records is important for so many reasons, some of which may not be initially recognized until you have been in business for a longer period of time. Projecting future financial figures will become increasingly important as you navigate through the business world.

If you plan to seek additional financial funds to expand your future by applying for a loan or approaching investors, your financial records from day one will become vital.

In addition to the expense tracking, opening a separate credit card account for your business will allow you to build up credit for your business. Today’s credit card offers are designed to fit the needs of small businesses and there are plenty of reward programs you can select from that will benefit your company.

Programs like cash back rewards, discounts on office supplies, and many other incentives were developed to support the interest of small businesses and entrepreneurs. Once you have established credit on behalf of your company, paying the bills on time and maintaining a solid credit history should become a priority.

People typically start a business with the intention of remaining open for the long-term. The financial records and credit you maintain during the early years will most certainly stay with you for a long period of time. Making the effort to do it correctly in the beginning will make a huge difference in the end.

Do not hesitate to enroll in a class or two to brush up on your record keeping skills or outsource the financial work to a professional who has the time to work with you every step of the way. Simply handing over your information to another party with no communication or follow through is a recipe for disaster.

Stay on top of your financial records at all times and be diligent about tracking and recording each and every bit of income and expense for your business.

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This was a guest-post from Tisha Kulak. Tisha is a writer for Creditorweb.com, where she writes about business credit cards and responsible credit card use. If you would like to write a guest-post for Groovy Entrepreneur, just shoot me an email.

Are you net addicted? Does such a thing even exist?

2008-03-25T11:00:00.002-05:00

Interesting article today on Yahoo Tech, where doctors are mulling over the inclusion of "internet addiction" into the books. The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", book will come out again in 2012, and this is the book that lists all the recognized mental disorders.

Read what one doctor has to say about it,

"Dr. Jerald Block of the Oregon Health and Science University is the latest voice pushing for this inclusion, noting that tech junkies display genuinely debilitating behavior, including drug-like cravings, withdrawal, and a constant need for more and better gear - just like a substance addict might exhibit".

I personally believe that this is a problem and will only grow with time, severe cases will pop up, like someone found in their chair who spent the last 20 hours on the net, and expired from too much gaming or twitter-ing.

How much time do you spend on your websites and blogs in a week?

3 Domain Names Up For Sale

2008-03-19T20:02:00.003-05:00

I wanted to give my readers and visitors a heads up on a domain sale i'm having. I have a few names i'm offering up for grabs, see list below. If interested, contact me via this blog.

Blogs-4-Sale.com
EnviroAffiliates.com
GroovyLocal.com

These domain names are all registered with Namecheap. Mostly i bought them for development into blogs, but my time is quite strapped tight. So i'm selling these for now.

Get the name you want at Afternic!

Blogging Tip #42 - Keeping Track of Comments

2008-03-18T16:39:00.005-05:00

I'm constantly forgetting where i leave comments, because i visit so many blogs and sites on a regular daily basis. So here is blogging tip #42. If you use Wordpress, there are several wordpress plugins to help forgetful souls like me to keep track of comments left. One that i like and use on several of my blogs is appropriately called, Subscribe to Comments. If you don't have this on your blog, go add it. Trust me, it will help in bringing people back who have left you a comment.

If you're on blogger, you're in luck, because recently Blogger realized the importance of this also, and added a field in the comments section, which allows commenters to be notified of follow-up comments. Simple, but genuis move on the part of Blogger.

There is one more i want to share with you, this one is a third party app, it is called Commentful, and can be used on a variety of sites, not just blogs. This one is feature rich, and not too difficult to install or add.

It's simple to forget where we leave comments, but there are several tools that exist to solve this problem. That concludes blogging tip #42.

inspiration - 10 best plugins for comments

3 Easy Ways to Keep Ranking High in Search Engines

2008-03-11T20:34:00.007-05:00

Blogging entrepreneurs know more than anyone the importance of search engine rankings, or SEO. But with literally hundreds of thousands other blogs on the internet, how can you keep yours closer to the top?

Here are 3 Easy Ways To Keep Your Blog at The Top:

1. Keywords

Your posts should be simple, straightforward and comfortably readable by visitors. When you consider your post topic, stick to one keyword or phrase. If you're blogging about laptop batteries in general, don't frequently switch between different brand names as examples. Use the phrase laptop battery as often as comfortably possible, switching out pronouns like "it" whenever you can. The more often a certain phrase is used in your blog post, the clearer it will be to the search engines what your blog is about. This is SEO 101.

2. Stay Focused

Just above, don't float from one topic to another. Most blog posts should be in the 200 - 500 word range. Stick to one topic per post, and keep it focused, concise and clear. This will give the search engines, and your readers, a simple message each time. People visit commercial blogs to get quick snippets of information. If they are looking for information on laptop batteries, that's what they want to read about. Keep your post dedicated to one main point, and if the information is pertinent to another subject link to (or from) the other information.

3. Get Links

This is probably the simplest part. Consider the broad topic of your blog, and write a few general articles on it. Then, take that article, and submit it to free article directories, like Associated Content or Hub Pages, along with a backlink to your blog. You can also create free blogs (like those here at Blogger) and post snippets or teasers of your full blog post. Use sites like Squidoo or WetPaint to showcase portions of your blogs focus (a lens on maintaining a laptop, or a Wiki on computer models). Most important is that you stick within your niche, and only get links from related blogs or sites. Relevancy is key.

These 3 tips will provide relevant and useful content to your readers, while increasing your blog's presence on the net. Try these 3 methods in your blog and watch traffic and rankings increase.

5 Top Wordpress Plugins for Blog Entrepreneurs

2008-03-08T18:41:00.002-06:00

You've planned and prepared, and now you have your blog. If you're like hundreds of thousands of self-hosted bloggers out there, you're using WordPress. Besides the fact that it's extremely easy to use, WordPress is extraordinarily expandable, lending itself to hundreds of different plug-ins to extend the features of the program.

Choose your plugins carefully though, as each plugin will increase your blog's load time just abit. Without further ado, here are "5 Top WordPress Plugins for Blog Entrepreneurs".

1. All-In-One SEO Pack
This plug in will extend the tagging, description and title functions of each of your posts to make them a bit more search engine friendly. All-In-One SEO adds the extra fields to your header "meta" data, and you specify the tags, title and description when you create your post. You can also use it to "rename" your title bar text to something more user friendly.

2. Anarchy Media
Anarchy Media is a quick little plug in that lets you easily embed videos from YouTube, Google, Revver and most other video sharing sites. With the click of a button, you can insert a new video and set its size and location in your post or page.

3.CForms II
This is an extremely useful and versatile contact form plug in. You can use CForms II to create any number of individual contact forms to embed in posts or pages, or to replace the built in WordPress comments function. Be warned : CForms II, while very useful, also has a very high learning curve. After installation, expect to spend 20 to 30 minutes reading documentation.

4. WPPost Ratings
WPPost Ratings does exactly what the title says : it lets your readers rate your posts. You add one piece of information to each post/page you'd like to be rateable, and a 5-start rating system is available for your readers. This is also particularly useful for product or program review blogs, or for developers who offer code available for download.

5. AdSense Injection
With this one page plug in, you can automatically "inject" AdSense into your posts. In the admin panel, you specify your publisher ID, some styling options and ad location within the post. On the front end, your ads will appear where you want, without requiring you to add any extra code.

There are loads more, these are but a small sampling of useful Wordpress plugins you should take a look at.

Which other Wordpress plugins do you recommend?

Groovy Entrepreneur Biz Card Wallet

2008-03-03T18:37:00.009-06:00

I typed in my blogs name in Google, and towards the bottom of the search results was a listing for a (Groovy Entrepreneur) business card wallet.

Naturally i was curious as to what this item was, so i clicked on it, and found a funky 70's physcedellic print business card wallet from Etsy. I'm gonna send an email to the seller (katesy) and let her know this is too darling, and that she picked a great name for it. (wink wink)

NOTE: I'm in no way affiliated with this item, the shop, or the seller.

3 Ways To Monetize Your Blogs

2008-02-25T12:30:00.011-06:00

I've been blogging since April 2007, and i like to think i've learned a few tricks since those early days. I have several blogs, including my main flagship blog ( Groovy Vegetarian ) a blog dedicated to the most wonderful city in the world, ( Groovy Chicago ), and of course this one, my ( online entrepreneur ) blog.

I have recently begun looking into monetization methods for these and all my online properties, and as of today, my blog money makers include:

Google Adsense
Direct Private Ads
Affiliate Marketing

Let's take a closer look at each model. Below are my experiences and opinions so far.

GOOGLE ADSENSE

My income with Google Adsense has increased steadily since i added it to all my blogs, and is now making me money daily. I should hit the elusive $100 payout very soon. This is perhaps the easiest blog monetization method, but you wont get rich quick quick with this one, Google Adsense takes time. Essentially you just slap the code on your site, work on bringing in traffic, and the ads delivered are based on your sites content.

Easy Score: Super Duper Easy

DIRECT PRIVATE ADS

As for private ads, i've set up an advertisers page on my flagship blog, and the inquiries are now starting to trickle in. I also use Project Wonderful, a new advertisers marketplace where ad space is sold via auction. My biggest pet peeve with this site is that it is not very consistent. Advertisers peep in and out throughout the day with their penny auctions. Its quite annoying. I had my sites listed at .30 per day (which equals to about $10 month) but because of the flaky nature of the auction model PW uses, i decided just this weekend to bump-up the daily rate to $1.00

Easy Score: Easy Enough

AFFILIATE MARKETING

This is by far the most challenging for me, but carries a great deal of potential. My aim is to master it and use it regularly on all my sites. My biggest mistake to date with A.M. is signing-up with too many affiliate networks, now im drowning in options and way too many offers to choose from. The biggest two networks are Commission Junction and LinkShare. Another (but fairly new one) is PepperJam.

With affiliate marketing, the positives are that you get to choose which product or site you promote, payouts are pretty good, and there is alot of flexibility involved. The negatives are you have to seek from a plethora of offers, sometimes relevant offers aren't available, and trial and error is the name of the game. My best advice here is to pick one (or two) top networks and work with these exclusively till you gain more knowledge and experience.

Easy Score: Most Challenging, but greatest potential for income

Internet marketing is a vast and interesting field, i love it. With the constant challenges, there is always something to learn. As i get more experienced and make more money online, i will share more of what i have learned and also what has not worked.

To close, i want to share with you, some of my favorite resources for blog monetization, SEO, and general online income research. Problogger, Just Make Money Online, Net Business Blog, and One Mans Goal. (each provides invaluable advice daily)

YOUR TURN

If you run a blog and have found easy monetization methods, other than the ones i have mentioned above, please share them below. Thx, Missy.

The Apple iPod Shuffle Price Lowered to $49

2008-02-20T13:26:00.006-06:00

Apple has decided to cut the price of its entry level MP3 player, The 1Gb iPod Shuffle, to a meager $49 and the 2GB model is now at $69. Previously the Shuffle was $79 for only 1 Gb. (240 songs)

My guesstimate is that Apple has a new model coming out and this model most likely will soon be discontinued. The iPod Shuffle is tiny, does not come with LCD preview, but it still is a sleek and cool MP3 player.

via - Huff

If you've been meaning to pick up an Apple iPod Shuffle, now is a good time to snatch one up.

PayPerPlay Audio Ads. Yay or Nay?

2008-02-01T20:12:00.000-06:00

There seems to be alot of talk on the web these days about audio ads, specifically Pay Per Play. This is a new blog monetization tool for bloggers, and a new advertising platform for companies.

From what i can gather on PPP, bloggers sign-up their blogs, add a widget to their sidebar or somewhere on the homepage, and an audio ad will play on the blog, when visited. Everytime the audio ad plays, the blogger will get a few cents for this action. No clicking on anything is required. This is a totally new service and just went live today. In case you're wondering, no, i have NOT yet added the code here to GE. I'm holding out on feedback from other bloggers.

What kind of ads will be playing? Well, according to affiliate Charles at NetAudioAds, the companies that have signed-up so far are very large companies, including Taco Bell, HBO, Harley Davidson, and more.

To add your blog, head on over to the sign-up page at PayPerPlay. If you have it running on your blog now, please chime in below and share your thoughts.

Missy.

What business blog model are you pursuing?

2008-01-21T13:26:00.000-06:00

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What business blog model do you specialize in? According to Bryan (my online BFF) over at One Mans Goal, has conjured up a neat post on 3 business models to make money blogging.

Bryan goes on to explain that there is the flagship blog model, then the niche blogs model, and the blog flipping model, where you make and sell blogs for profit. I guess i'm a mix of all three business models, because i have my main blog (Groovy Vegetarian) i also have a few niche blogs, and just last month, i sold a blog.

Which blog model are you pursuing? Can you think of other blog business models?

G34 Media Domain Portfolio Keeps Growing

2007-11-27T22:29:00.001-06:00

My domain portofolio for G34 Media keeps growing and growing. I have acquired the following domain names and although most are not developed, many are fully functional sites or blogs.

Take a look through the list, as some of the domain names are for sale, to discuss acquisition, shoot me an email through my contact form above.

Groovy Vegetarian - vegetarian blog
Groovy Chicago - blog all about the windy city Chicago
Groovy Local - undeveloped (for sale)

Veggie-Blogs - my first blog created with blogger (for sale)

Bink You - free image host

Vegetarian Myspace Layouts - undeveloped, for now domain name redirected to a page on my main blog

G34 Media - network blog

Enviro Affiliates - undeveloped
Blogs-4-Sale - undeveloped (for sale)
Ecosexuals - undeveloped (for sale)

The Role of Search Engine Optimization: How Relevance Can Increase Your Bottomline Through Your Website

2007-11-26T11:17:00.001-06:00

The Role of Search Engine Optimization: How Relevance Can Increase Your Bottomline Through Your Website.

Relevance is key to ensuring that your website is noticed and that it maintains your presence on the internet. It is also the reason why some websites are just naturally inclined to earn more compared to others. When it comes to relevance on the internet, nothing beats the power of search engine optimization. SEO is what keeps other people aware of who you are. More than serendipity, it is also the reason why you appear in search engines each time people make searches related to your business or site topic.

When it comes to increasing your bottomline through your website, SEO also plays several key roles. These include:

Search and find

Search engine optimization refers to your site's find-ready qualities that keeps it popping in the first page of every search engine inquiry. This means that each time someone uses a search engine to look for products, topics or services related to your site, you will be ranked high in the list. Say for example your site is search engine optimized and you're selling project management software. When people type targeted phrases and keywords like 'project management software programs', your site will appear high in the search engine listing.

So what does this do with increasing your bottomline? For starters, it raises awareness about your site. People immediately see you and become acquainted with your business. Furthermore, those who search for what your site has to offer are either ready to join or ready to buy. Second, as it has been proven millions of times already, people are more likely to click on the sites they find in the first pages of the search engine list than they would in the second or third. (Again, think relevance.) That means, they will click on the link to your site in order to view your offerings. Since you're relevant, you're more likely to attract a customer and close a sale or gain a member.

Traffic increase

Ranking high in search engines through optimization also helps your site's bottomline by increasing your traffic. Quite simply, you get more visitors simply because you're easy to find. In the highly intricate world of the world wide web, it can be difficult to stand out even if you have the best products or services to offer. If people don’t find you, you don’t get to sell anything, regardless of how good you are. With traffic increase, your rankings also strengthen. Each time someone searches for keywords related to your site, you will appear on the top spots in a search engine list. Now imagine 1,000 people using search engines typing the same or at least similar keywords in just one day. In all those 1,000 searches, your site is bound to appear and be clicked on, which increases your popularity.

Advertising Money

Another role that search engine optimization plays in increasing your bottomline through your website is by making you more attractive to advertisers. For them, highly popular and relevant websites are a gold mine, particularly because they have the potential to expose advertisers' products to more people. If you receive 1,500 visitors a day, for example and about 10% of these click on your advertisers' ads, that's 150 people getting introduced to your advertisers' products. Compare that to a website that receives only a hundred visitors a day. Since you're a reliable source of prospective customers to your advertisers, you get to earn more in commission for every transaction that gets completed. Less footwork on your part.

When you're conducting business through your website, promoting your products and services can be really tough. With search engine optimization, you don’t need to spend too much on advertising your business. People will come to your site simply because you're easy to find. That means less work doing cold calling, laboring over advertising campaigns or spending money and effort on snail mails and e-mails. Simply by boosting your search engine optimization program, you can increase your bottomline without spending too much on promotions, administrative costs or manpower.

Expanding beyond geographical limits

Search engines are not limited by localities. That means anyone searching for project management software anywhere in the world will be able to find you, whether they're in Prague, Hong Kong or Reykjavik.

You naturally expand your business' horizons simply through search engine optimization. Imagine global reach and you'll see that increasing your bottomline through your website just got easier.

Guest-post by the "SEO Virtual Assistant".

Cheap Domain Names $5.55 (any extension)

2007-11-24T19:58:00.002-06:00

Triple.com is having a massive holiday promo. Till December 6th, you can register cheap domain names for only $5.55 (no coupon code needed and good on any extension)

Their interface is pretty straightforward, i added funds to my account using Paypal, and was able to secure some domains in rapid time. My usual registrar of choice is Namecheap, but with this sweet sale, i decided to try Triple.

If you're looking to snatch-up some cheap domain names for your growing portfolio (like me) then head on over to Triple, but note that the $5.55 promo ends on December 6th.

Source: [Dot Sauce]

G34 Media Wordpress Theme by Magnus Jepson

2007-11-20T20:28:00.000-06:00

I have several blogs, and although most are on blogger, my main blog is on WordPress and i plan on using wordpress again for G34 Media. One of the features i love about WordPress is the many themes available.

I found this designer from Norway, Magnus Jepson, who so far has created three wordpress themes, and each one is clean, fluid, and very easy on the eyes. My favorite from his wordpress themes portfolio is one called "Woodpress" with a totally groovy wooden background. I think i will use it for G34 Media, my network of sites, domain names, and blogs.

See a screenshot below. Beautiful theme, isnt it?

Seo Comic Strips

2007-11-09T19:03:00.000-06:00

I have come cross what i think are an internet marketers gem, seo comic strips. These are actually funny, too. See one above. Can you relate? As a blogger, i'm constantly thinking of marketing stuff. Like i recently started adding advertising spots available at some of my other sites, like my vegetarian blog, which has a PR4 rank. So my friends sometimes think i'm nutty. The seo comic strips which come from an seo company, are right up my alley.

They have a slew of them, so do pay the site a visit.

Google To Challenge Apple with gPhone

2007-10-30T13:58:00.000-05:00

Google is one of the most innovative web-based companies to ever grace the planet, but the same can be said of a few others, including Microsoft and Apple. I just read that Google is planning to develop cell phones, which sounds like a smart move considering they have so many applications that are or can be made mobile, and the list keeps growing.

I'm not a techy, so i'm not gonna pretend i know too much about the back-end aspect of the move, but this may very well prove to be some much needed competition for Apple, not to mention wireless carriers like LG, Motorola, and Nokia. Will they call their phone, gPhone? Most likely, to keep the brand in the minds and hands of online and offline consumers.

What do you think the google phones will look like or feature?

Contest: Win $200 in Cash with BAYB and Bidvertiser

2007-10-29T22:50:00.000-05:00

Blog About Your Blog is teaming up with Bidvertiser and is having a solid contest that ends tonite at Midnight where YOU could score $200 in cash.

Make money from your Website or Blog with BidVertiser

All you have to do is write about the contest, like me, and you're in the running. Bidvertiser is like Google Adsense, but with a much lower payout, at $10. If you haven't signed-up with Bidvertiser, now would be a great time, as they are giving away $20 in free clicks to new sign-ups.

Good luck in the contest!

5 Things a Web 2.0 Blog Directory Can Give You

2007-10-18T21:21:00.000-05:00

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There are numerous blog directories on the net, what you want to look for are directories that are, what i like to call, multi-taskers. Blog directories do so much more than just list your blog, they do some (or more) of the following:

they create community for your blog, with forums or boards
they provide link juice, with their PR status
they bring in traffic for you, but quantity and quality varies
many provide blog tools, like polls - stats - themes - icons makers - etc
they find you blog readers and/or visitors (super cool)

So next time you create a new blog, don't just submit to regular BORING site directories, submit to the web 2.0 Blog Directories.

Web 2.0 Blog Directories

Blog Catalog - discussion forums, shoutbox, NEW! groups feature
My Blog Log - recently acquired by Yahoo, that can only be a good thing
OutPost-Earth - rss feed based, front page has new blog posts updated frequently
BumpZee - top notch marketing gurus abound on this one daily
Spicy Page - cool name, join it, just because of the name
Fuel My Blog - up and coming blog directory, neat front page interface

There are others, but these are the coolest and all 6 are big multi-taskers. Give them all a look and best bet is to submit your blog (or blogs) to all of them.

Laters.

Are You a Blogger?

2007-10-12T12:38:00.000-05:00

This is a quick poll to see who that visits and reads me is a blogger. Please take a quick minute and answer my easy poll below. If you care to share how many blogs do you have and what do you blog about, hit the comments section.

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Five Dollar Wiki Gets You Permanent Page for $5

2007-10-12T12:15:00.000-05:00

One awesome way to promote your blogs is by using viral marketing techniques. Right now you can get in on the ground floor of a new wiki just launched this week, The Five Dollar Wiki.

42 pages have already been sold in a matter of days, and great keywords are up for grabs. Basically you pick two to three phrase keywords for your niche and you get a permanent page with links, ads, whatever you want to add to it. And at $5 a page, shoot, you can get like 4, and it would only run you $20 for permanent links. The traffic on the wiki is in the hundreds after only a few days.

You can do affiliate pages, ebay shop pages, blogs, whatever. Just no porn, anything like that is a no no.

Check out the Five Dollar Wiki and get a page before all the good keywords are gone.