Only a quick post today, but before I get into the topic I wanted to say “Thank You” to the 500+ people who cared enough to stumble last Friday’s post. It was great to see that traffic spike!
Caroline Middlebrook has just released her new free eBook “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress“. It’s 39 pages of basic how-to, and the process it describes isn’t limited to blogs with text link ads, AdSense blocks or 125×125 ads. In particular, she covers most of the important plugins that we use when we set up a blog as part of our ‘publicise’ activities. Other topics of interest are installing and activating themes, permalinks, and (if you want it) getting AdSense up and running.
As an aside… we don’t use AdSense on client blogs. The revenue is minimal, and I don’t see the purpose of working so hard to get a reader onto your blog, only to then give them multiple pathways off it again.
In essence, she describes the process we go through to set up a client blog. Only we haven’t yet got around to detailing it in a public-use document.
Highly recommended and you can’t argue with the price.
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2 Coryan // Jan 7, 2008 at 10:49 am
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m gonna head over there right now to check it out! BTW, I found your blog from the comment you left at RemarkaBlogger.
3 Nicole Simon // Jan 7, 2008 at 3:53 pm
You should consider that there is a difference between the reader of your blog and the visitor through a search engine. The first one will blend out advertisement in their minds, as they are savy.
The second one will look out for advertisement becuase if the site is done well, the advertisement will be additional information for them, thus will click.
4 Mark // Jan 8, 2008 at 12:59 am
@Coryan: Caroline’s blog is a great lesson for us all - she’s only been blogging for a short while, yet she’s still snagged something close to 1,000 subscribers. I think she’s got a lot to tell us.
I only found remarkablogger a few days ago, and it’s a mighty impressive blog. There is so much material in the archives, and I’ve already spent way too much time looking at it
5 Mark // Jan 8, 2008 at 1:06 am
@Nicole: Agreed, however the danger is when the search visitor clicks off your site via AdSense, you lose the opportunity to impress with your content and have them as a subscriber. This to me is a bad outcome.
Disclaimer: My experiences with AdSense have not been financial nirvana, so I guess I am a bit down on AdSense at the moment. Why lose a potential subscriber for a few lousy cents?
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