Reader Questions | Blogging Experiment

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Typically I don’t write blog posts on weekends, but I’m trying to continue my “great first impression” since I’m still new in town. Don’t get used to this 7 days a week stuff : -) I was thinking a lot about what kinds of things I’m going to discuss on ...

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While I was writing the LOST: Lessons on Blogging posts, I was struck by the fact that I’m not practicing what I preach when it comes to one of the lessons. The last lesson was to “Know Where You’re Going” and I wrote that “Taking the time to create a ...

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I’ve never tried this before but I figured I’d give it a go. If you’re familiar with Shoemoney’s question and answer posts, you’ll know the drill on this. Basically between now and tomorrow afternoon send in any and all questions you have for me and I’ll compile them into one ...

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Last week when I mentioned that I’d be using a plugin to rotate the 125×125 ad blocks that you see on the right of the page, I hoped it would generate some interest. It certainly did that, however, it did not interest the people I was targeting. I received several ...

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Usually for Monday’s Reader Question Sessions I pick and choose which question to answer. However, today there was an overwhelming number of questions in the comments and my inbox, all about the same thing. And, since I’m a big proponent of the “give the people what they want” school of ...

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Last week, when I explained why I don’t use Google AdSense, Fiar’s comment among others, suggested there would be interest in reading about how I find alternative programs to monetize my sites. Apparently one of the big obstacles of getting away from AdSense is the trouble people have of finding ...

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Over the weekend, Ognjen of Ioncenter dropped me an email that I thought would be great for this week’s Reader Question Session. Ognjen asks, “I was wondering, why don’t you use Google AdSense in your blog?” Well, to be honest there are a few reasons. The first one being ...

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One of the easiest ways to find out how well your blog is reaching people is to look at the level of comments. Are people interacting on your site? Are they actively participating with you and your content or are they just consuming (reading) and moving on? The comment level ...

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As you may remember, yesterday I interviewed Muhammad Saleem asking all sorts of social media questions. After publishing that interview I was able to contact Karim Yergalliyev (aka supernova17) and get his opinions on some of the same questions. Let’s start of with the same question I asked Muhammad yesterday, ...