Want To Sell Ads On Your Blog? Introducing CrankyAds.com

I am very pleased to announce that CrankyAds.com, my new ad management system for bloggers, is ready for a full public release.

You can download the plugin for free from here -

http://www.crankyads.com

The plugin is currently available only for WordPress bloggers, however in the future we will have options for any website.

It has been tested on over … Read the rest of this entry »

How We Made A Three Person Partnership Work

In case you missed it, last week Gideon Shalwick and Leslie Samuel, my two partners in Become A Blogger 2.0, along with me (Yaro), hosted a live webinar.

Before I begin telling you some of the background story about how this new partnership came together and the challenges we faced, I want to make sure you know … Read the rest of this entry »

Just Released: Our Ten New Become A Blogger 2.0 Training Videos

About four years ago I partnered with Gideon Shalwick to create ten free videos to teach one thing – How To Set Up A Blog.

The videos were deliberately focused on beginners, people who wanted to follow the steps presented in a video to learn how to do each task necessary to create a fully functional, optimized and beautiful … Read the rest of this entry »

How To Sell More Ads On Your Blog

I previously explained my simple formula for pricing ads on your website. If you missed the article, please read it first here -

How Much Should You Charge For Advertising On Your Blog?

Now you know how much to charge, the next step is exactly where to place the ads on your site so you can achieve these goals -… Read the rest of this entry »

How Much Should You Charge For Advertising On Your Blog?

So you have decided to sell ads directly to sponsors on your website or blog.

Great idea.

I’ve made money using this method since the early 2000s. It started off as a trickle – my first ad sale was direct to a small business for $50 a month for one banner on my card game website. From that point forward … Read the rest of this entry »

7 Insights Every Blogger Should Know

What is more important: quality or quantity?

The easy answer to this long and heated debate is both are very important – and I’ll give you that, they both are, but for free content I am in the quantity camp. Go ahead and paste me and leave 1,000 comments telling me I’m wrong – I don’t care, I will read … Read the rest of this entry »

My Most Challenging Year Part 2: A New Business Is Born

If you haven’t read part one, you can do so here – My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes

At the start of 2011 I set up this blog to run as automatically as possible.

A stay at home mum friend, Steph, from my city Brisbane came on board as editor and head of new writer recruitment. … Read the rest of this entry »

The Real Skinny On Duplicate Content

The issue of duplicate content is a rather contentious one in the world of Search-Engine Optimization. There were for many years – and perhaps still to this day – myths floating round about duplicate content penalties.

Essentially, folks were told that if they produced duplicate content then they would be punished, and many thought that this meant you could not … Read the rest of this entry »

Forget SEO And Think Local

I know the headline is a bit contradictory. Local search is still considered SEO by those near and dear to our hearts.

Maybe for you targeting people all over the world makes sense. I’m certainly not saying to forget it completely, but I read a lot blogs semi-regularly and you might be pretty well served if you started catering to … Read the rest of this entry »

The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide To Set Up A Profitable Website

If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look at the new EJ step-by-step guide to set up a profitable website.

You will find it under the “How You Can Start” tab in the navigation bar above, or click this link –

How You Can Start: A Step-By-Step Guide To Set Up A Profitable Website

You will have to … Read the rest of this entry »

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Blog Mastermind Closing Forever This Friday (Plus A Story About Video Games, Magic And Skating)

When I was about 5 years old I discovered my first love – video games.

It all began with a nintendo entertainment system. There was nothing more important in my life at the time than Super Mario Brothers.

My passion grew as I grew, going from nintendo to the sega master system, to the mega drive, the super … Read the rest of this entry »

The Research Is In: How Important Are Facebook And Twitter For Your Google Rankings?

Today, our triangle of the most important ingredients to ranking well on Google, as suggested by SEOMoz’s search engine ranking factors report and interpreted by yours truly, will be finally completed as we drill down into how social media influences our search engine rankings.

By the way, I’d love for you to let me know how well I did with … Read the rest of this entry »

How To Write Award Winning Blog Headlines

I remember when I was putting together the Blog Mastermind course four years ago, writing lessons on how to produce powerful blog content. I felt very confident teaching this area except for one topic – how to come up with effective blog headlines – which I felt deserved an entire course in and of itself.

The headline is the first … Read the rest of this entry »

How My Biology Blog Landed Me My Dream Job

Yeah, I know. It’s not what you want to hear about on a blog about Blogging and Entrepreneurship. Who comes here to know how to land a job? Isn’t the entrepreneurial dream never to have to work for anyone but yourself? Isn’t it all about working smart and not hard? Can you be an entrepreneur and still have a full Read the rest of this entry »

7 Blogging Tips You Can Apply Today

About a month ago I wrote an email to all the columnists on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com with some advice on how they could achieve more rewards from their writing on this blog and also some tips to improve performance of their articles.

As I was writing the email I realized much of the advice is good old fundamentals for successful blogging. I … Read the rest of this entry »

A Simple Tip To Raise Your Profile And Get You Lots Of Attention

Last week, I was asked a series of very interesting and valid questions by one our readers, Malik Mirza. Malik wanted to know about ways to deal with continuity and consistency, marketing and competition in blogging.

Because there’s such a wealth of experience among the different writers on this blog, I suggested asking some of the other … Read the rest of this entry »

Who To Listen To When It Comes To Making Money With Your Blog

Over the past three years my site has grown through a variety of methods, some of which I have discussed in my previous articles, and some that I’ll save for another day, but throughout, my goal has always remained the same: deliver what the readers and audience want.

As The Sports Chat Place has grown from just a handful … Read the rest of this entry »

Why I Am Cutting Costs And Changing Business Models

The last few months have been interesting. I’m currently going through a transition phase. While I experience this process I think about my business goals, what kind of money I want to make, how I want to make it and what roles I specifically want to do. This takes time.

It’s an exciting process, one that very much appeals to … Read the rest of this entry »

6 Steps To Monetize Your Website Successfully

How I Used My Offline Knowledge To Make Money Online Part 2

This is the second part to my previous post:

Every new blogger is looking for a way to monetize their website as quickly as possible. One of the questions that I get asked the most from … Read the rest of this entry »