Everyone Loves a Great Blog
Posted on October 21, 2007
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Ok, Blogging Web 2.0 is a great blog (in my humble opinion!) but that’s not what this post is about!
In my last post highlighting the benefits of using free blogging platforms to increase your profile and exposure online, I hinted that there are many resources out there that can help you to achieve success.
Blogging Web 2.0 is still relatively new in the blogging world, but already has accumulated more content than its age would have people realize, unless of course they’re regular visitors here. One thing that we have come to know that’s so important here is to make many good friends in the blogging world.
I don’t mean by going out an simply adding names to a community list or similar, I mean really making
friends with real people who are as passionate about blogging as we are.
In my travels through bloggertown I’ve bumped into some really nice people that I now count as friends. I visit their blogs regularly and they in turn visit mine and I think we all have something to share with one another in terms of information, assistance and good old fashioned entertainment in the guise of a jolly good read!
This site in particular is the perfect place for friends to get together and interact.
It’s also a great place to help other bloggers by raising the profile and awareness of their blogs. Most of this can be done by bloggers commenting here as well as guest posting - it all helps to increase the profile of your blogs on the blogging map.
Another way is by highlighting a particular blog that we’ve found by ourselves (as opposed to being told about it), especially if it has something particularly valuable to offer our readers.
One such blog is run by a really nice guy called Grizzly Brears and is entitled How to Make Money Online for Beginners. There’s a lot of good reading on that site, so it’s taken me a while to get through it, but what I found in there has turned out to be an Aladdin’s Cave of precious free knowledge, a lot of which I’ve never found anywhere else.
I’ll get to that in a moment.
Grizzly’s articles are all highly enjoyable to read, although as he admits himself they can be a bit long winded. But I personally find that even more attractive as it means he gives away a lot of his thoughts in each post. They are all very well written and easy and enjoyable to read, which is so important in a blog - it makes you want to read more and eager to return often to see what he’s written next!
So what did I find in Grizzly’s Aladdin’s Cave?
Treasure is the best way to describe it.
Real treasure in the form of free knowledge and wisdom. If you’re just starting out and even if, like me you’ve been around for some time, the information in his mini-series is eye-opening to say the least. I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know before about setting up free blogs and promoting them. Sure I already knew some of it, but there were many points and snippets that I hadn’t known about before.
And I’m now incorporating them into some of my newest blogs and projects.
Grizzly has hosted this blog on the free Blogger host, just to further highlight that it can be done and he also makes a decent amount of money from his blogs, further adding weight to his expertise in this field.
So if you want to learn how to really make money online with free blogs, click on over to Grizzly’s blog, close the door, take the phone off the hook, get yourself comfortable and prepare to learn!
Then come back here and see what else we’ve got for you!
Terry Didcott
Author and Creator of Blogging Web 2.0
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Affiliate Link Cloaking Part 1
Posted on September 24, 2007
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If you are an affiliate marketer you probably wondering why you never make any sales. Maybe your are not even aware that some people steal them from right under your nose. But how can that be - it’s easy really. If you are like most people promoting clickbank as an affiliate marketer, then those in the know will simply replace your clickbank id with theirs when they are about to purchase a product from your site. What this means for you is two things.
- You won’t get a commission as the sale is officially going to the buyer who stole your link
- You will get very frustrated and eventually give up altogether on affiliate marketing
Either way it isn’t a very nice experience for you. But there is a way to cloak your links quite easily provided you have your own web hosting.
If you don’t, then there is still ways to circumnavigate this issue by cloaking your links with an URL shortener. Instead of having an ugly URL that would read like
http://www.vendor.com/12grus?=xxxx or similar, you could have one that reads
The following 4 sites allow you to cloak your link for free:
- Diop - you can cloak your link by choosing your keyword.
- Tiny URL - create a tiny URL from a long and ugly one, the downside of this site is that most good URL’s are already taken
- Read This URL - with this one you can even tag the links
- Memurl - Lets you create a mnemonic URL that looks like this http://memurl.com/kusipe
These cloaking helpers should however only be used, when you don’t have your own hosting - e.g. your site/blog is on a free platform.
A much better way to install a redirect link is via .htaccess. To do this, you will need to navigate through your CPanel to - File Manager - public_html - .htaccess - click on edit file - then put in the following code:
Redirect /recommends http://www.youraffiliatelink.com
What this will do in effect is to redirect the affiliate link from your website with the extension of the folder name you gave it. In my case the folder name is “recommends”. So the link I would advertise would be
http://www.bloggingweb20.com/recommends instead of the ugly looking affiliate link. Make sure that you leave one space between your “Redirect” and the backslash (/) as well as between your folder name and the beginning of the URL.
Naturally, there are even more ways to cloak your affiliate links, but for now we will leave it at that as it will keep you busy in learning new things. (For those who didn’t know this)
Keep your eyes out for Part 2 of this series.
To your Success
Monika Mundell Creator and Author of Blogging Web 2.0
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Blogging, Social Networking and Web 2.0
Posted on September 18, 2007
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When we as bloggers get into our stride and start writing each new post to our blogs, we’re not usually conscious of the implications of our actions on a wider scale. We simply love blogging and creating our hopefully very readable essays on the subject that we are passionate and enthusiastic about.
But implications there are and on a much wider and more noticeable scale than we could ever imagine, if we were of a mind to investigate along that particular road.
By implications, I mean our humble scribblings have an effect on a wider sphere than just the small corner of the blogosphere that we and our blog inhabit. That’s because once we hit the “publish” button, our work is there for the whole online world to see, should the so desire! There is a huge readership out there just waiting to read what you have to say. But unless you make it known that your newest piece of literary genius is ready for the viewing eyes of the masses, your great post may go completely unnoticed and unread.
That’s why we have a phenomenal social networking machine in the guise of Web 2.0 - a leviathan in terms of promotion and advertising for your blog and it’s valuable contents.
Web 2.0 and the plethora of social networking sites that abound online are a real boon for blogging in general and the humble blogger in particular. They give every blogging enthusiast the means to promote their scribblings to the rest of the blogosphere and to read the ramblings of like-minded bloggers in their thousands simply by joining one of the social networking sites and getting to know other bloggers in their sphere of interest, or niche.
We have very bigs sites, like MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and Bumpzee where many thousands of members get together to learn about each other and to let each other know about their own existence and that of their blogs. Then there are a rapidly growing army of smaller sites that do pretty much the same thing.
The bottom line for all of this is that the new blogger with something to say can now have a very real and wide reaching voice in the world of blogging thanks to social networking and web 2.0 - things that haven’t been around for all that long but that are already making a huge mark of the way we do things online.
This very site is getting ready to brace itself for a tidal wave of bloggers who will descend on its shores to post their own words and by doing so, spread their own name and blogging ability to a much wider audience than they had before they got here.
So if you are reading this and feel inspired to add your own personality to these pages, strike while the iron is hot! Register now and leave a quality, original and inspiring post of your own to add to the soon to be growing list of eloquent authors that will be beating a path to our door!
Count on it!
Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.0
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