Plenty of people out there will tell you how to make money with a blog. Darren Rowse is apparently one of the best. John Chow is another guy making big money off blogging. A quick Google search reveals 47 pages of web pages (20 at a time) that want to tell you how to “make money blogging.” I’m not sure how many people have time to read each and every one of those 928 Google entries to learn how to make money with a blog, but I have a good idea how they read, and I’m sure that many of them will sell you a program to show you how to make money blogging for just $500 $400 $300 $197 $37.
In no particular order, this is your standard list of ways to make money blogging.
Keyword Content
You need to have good content, with your embedded keywords jammed into each post as many times a possible, but without seeming obvious. If you want to help people make money blogging, you should tell people that you can help them make money blogging. It’s like a thesis. You tell them that you have tips to help make money blogging, you tell them the tips to make money blogging, and then you tell the reader that you have given them tips to make money blogging.
The content of your blog should be focused on Read the rest of this entry »
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For some time, I’ve been reading and using the Alexa redirect machine. Basically, if you use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blowitoutyourpiehole.com to link to this site, it will count to Alexa as a hit to add to your Alexa ranking. It’s a neat way of getting an Alexa hit if you don’t have any Alexa widgets on your site or get visited by a spider or someone who doesn’t have javascript turned on. Whether the ranking is accurate or not is not a matter for discussion here.
I just posted a link over at the new Blondeee Blog and used the Alexa redirect, and it’s now a big fat 404 error. Now if the Alexa redirect machine is just having a temporary down time, it shouldn’t affect much, assuming that the Google and Yahoo! engines don’t start wiping their databases of the pages.
If Alexa has turned this off permanently, it will seriously drop page rankings and incoming links across the globe. If anyone used this for their adsense target, bad things worldwide will happen.
I don’t see anything out in the blogosphere about this, so maybe it’s just a temporary outage or it’s just a load balancing server issue. Maybe, just maybe, blowitoutyourpiehole.com has a jump ahead on the rest.
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So I have more hosts to compare. I’m just going to do a comparison of the Yarmulka Taqueria Max Host plan and the IX Hosting Business Plus plan with the Host Monster Plan. The way I see it, the more information anyone has to decide on a host, the better. Before you sign up for anything, make sure to see if these hosts have any reviews that would sway your opinion.
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HostMonster |
Yarmulka Taqueria |
IX Host |
| Disk Space |
600 GB |
10 GB |
1,000 GB |
| Monthly Bandwidth |
6,000 GB |
200 GB |
8,000 GB |
| FTP accounts |
Unlimited |
3 |
Unknown, but more than one.
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| MySQL databases |
100 |
3 |
100 |
| PostgreSQL Databases |
100 |
0 |
100 |
| PHP 5 |
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| SSH Available |
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| SSL Available |
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| Free Domain Name |
(with 12 month minimum signup) |
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2 domains |
| Free Setup |
(with 12 month minimum signup) |
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| Guaranteed Uptime† |
99.9% |
99.9% |
99.9% |
| 3 month billing |
$7.95/mo +$30 setup |
n/a |
$9.95/mo |
| 6 month billing |
$7.95/mo +$30 setup |
n/a |
$59.70 half yearly ($9.95/mo) |
| 12 month billing |
$7.95/mo ($94.50/year) |
$7.95/mo ($94.50/year) |
$119.40/year |
| 24 month billing |
$5.95/mo ($142.80) |
$7.95/mo ($94.50/year) |
$214.80 |
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The more I look, the more I find that whatever plan, whatever features you’re looking for, whatever price point you need, you’re bound to find it. You may need to make a couple of adjustments, but you’ll find something pretty close. List the features you’re looking for, find a host that has those features at the price point that you’re looking for, research the product, and go for it. Then, make sure you’re an affiliate, and write about it.
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A few days ago, I wrote about my future domain host. I’m always looking for cheap domain name registrations, and since they had an introductory special, I used Yahoo! as my domain registrar for blowitoutyourpiehole.com in its first year. Most of my domain names are registered through Go Daddy. You can register a .com name from them for about $10, and a domain name is a domain name. As long as you get complete control over your domain registration, and your domain name servers, a domain name is a domain name. Seriously, I can’t figure out why people pay $35 a year for a domain name when you can get the identical product for a third the price.
A while ago, there was a story or two about Go Daddy’s allegedly holding some popular site domain names hostage, but I wasn’t able to find anything recently that sounds accurate.
But it’s not like Nordstrom’s where you’re paying for the name ‘Nordstrom.’ You are purchasing the exact same product, especially if it is a ‘throw away domain.’ Anyway, with your domain registration, if you really need some name servers, take a look at EveryDNS.net. At your domain registrar, whether it be Yahoo!, Go Daddy, Network Solutions, or anyone, they will allow you to set your DNS servers to everydns, and configure your everydns domain name records to point where they need be.
So now you can load up on domain names from your domain name registrar, and host them in one place for maximum enjoyment.
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During my stumbles across the web for an inexpensive host for unlimited domains, I have decided to look at three more closely. Strangely, they all have the word ‘host’ in their names. Each offer unlimited domains, tons of storage space, and lots of goodies for less than a buck a month. Currently, blowitoutyourpiehole.com is hosted at racknebula.com for a whopping 99¢ per month for 100MB. 100MB is enough space for a Wordpress installation and a couple of other applications. Paying yearly, I get two months free. Translating that into the unlimited host world, I would have to find 600MB for $5.94 a month for six hosts to “break even,” or 800MB for $7.93 a month for eight months. Any extra value is a winner.
A couple of things that I’m not looking at here, but they’re pretty moot anyway. All the domains that I host will either be mine, or as a favor to someone. Email accounts will be handled by google apps for domains, so I don’t care how many email accounts the host has. I don’t need any newsletter lists, because between Yahoo!Groups and phplist, hosted newsletters are moot, as long as you have crontab access. I’m only looking at Linux hosting, because, well, let’s face it, Windows hosting sucks.
So let’s take a look at three unlimited domain Linux hosts, my current host, and a free webhost and compare them side by side. This information is taken off their webpages and is believed accurate as of 12/28/07. Read the rest of this entry »
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Introducing a new on-line advertising method that’s taking the world by storm. Pay Per Play audio ads. Each time your page is presented to a capable browser, a five second audio ad will play to the reader. Going back to the age of cost per impression, this could be HUGE, and the best thing is that at the time of this writing it is NOT a violation of the AdSense terms of service for a website owner to display both AdSense ads and PPP audio ads. An added benefit is referrals. The PPP plan pays dividends on two levels of referrals.
The system is being verified by a third party for correct advertising bids, and PPP is the only online advertising medium that is verified by an “independent” and unbiased third party. Take a look at what this can offer you: 100% ad conversion, weekly payouts, the ability to place it on all your pages in all your domains, and residual income. Honestly, it’s a no brainer, but get more information and make your own decision.
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So I’m nearing the end of my hosting subscription with one provider. And now, in the age of cheap, multiple domains, I’m looking to consolidate my hosting. Sure, there are the Free Hosts, which work by putting an ad on your page, but every once in a while you want a grown up host. Of course, there are dangers of having all your sites in one location.
I’m compiling a list, slowly but semi-surely of all the places that I can find that allow you to host multiple domains on their sites. Since most sites that do have different plans, ranging from one to unlimited domains, I’m only going to include their unlimited domain packages on my list. Also important to me is SSH and SSL support. Since I use Google Apps for Domains, I don’t care how many email addresses the host uses, and since it’s just me, I only need one ftp account. I’m not sure why most of the places that I’ve looked at brag about how many ftp accounts the provide, but it seems to be exciting to someone.
So here it is, the beginning of the list. It’s my Google Doc, which claims to be republished every time I make a change. That’s not to say that you will be seeing constant and instantaneous changes, but it’s a start until I decide that it’s too much for a little spread sheet and make it a new page in the Pie Hole Empire.
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BlogRush is in Phase 2, after introduction and taking everyone who applied. Now, they are cleaning up the spam blogs, non English blogs, and low quality blogs. They report cutting over 10,000 blogs from their network. I’m glad to see some networks cleaning up crap. In surfing between MyBlogLog network accounts, I see some sites that are in the beginning phases, non English, and “poor quality.” Most notably are the sites in the network that do not have the widget.
The scariest thing about BlogRush is that Blog It Out Your Pie Hole is still a network member. Maybe it’s the best thing.
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So I just checked my Alexa ranking. I had a little boost, up from 4,426,952 to 3,578,624, which is what by badge is now claiming. Right now, the toolbar is boasting an impressive 792,514. That’s up 3.6 Million in just a couple of weeks. I can’t say for certain what any one particular change was, but here is what I did.
I changed the site theme. Made it more aesthetically pleasing. It used to be a gawdawful orange, now, as you can see, it’s more crisp and it just looks better. I think that more people who have never been here could tell, through the universal ether, that the site is beautiful and they should come visit.
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A long time ago, I learned that if you only have one friend “Jim,” then when he comes in the door, you can say hello to “my only friend Jim,” because he is your only “friend Jim.” Linked on our blog is my only friend Andy and my only friend Danny. However, I’d like to introduce you to my only friend Cman.
Cman over at Cman’s Cognitive Content is giving away Free Money! All you simply have to do is copy and past this text, including links, follow the link to his blog and leave a comment to the post. That’s it! He is giving $1 via Paypal to the first 20 people plus a 2 month Text Ad on his other blog Profitable Productive Blogging to the first 5. The ad link is worth $20! This is Free Money and Free Advertising for a simple copy and paste, and don’t forget the comment. Because you need to know what he thinks.
If you don’t need to know what he thinks, you need to BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
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