This is a little unusual sort of post, but worthwhile all the same.  The question I ask is, what blogs do you read?  It’s well known that many bloggers read many different blogs for many different reasons.  I’m no different to the masses, I read plenty.  Today it’s my intention to share with you some of the blogs I read on at least a regular basis.  It serves two purposes, Raise publicity for other blogs [...]

Twitter is a fantastic resource to use to build a following for your website.  It’s an even better marketing tool because you can very easily inform your followers of your new posts.  Your readers then, fingers crossed, retweet your post links, meaning their readers can read your post.  This repeats… BUT, what if you don’t have a Twitter following.  What if you just have a few people?  How do you build that following?  Stick with [...]

Everybody has heard about etiquette at some point in their life.  The unwritten rules of social engagement, I guess.  You know the ones I mean.  Be polite, and remember your pleases and thank yous.  Be grateful, and courteous.  Yada yada yada… What’s this got to do with blogging?  Simple – blogging is another format of social media.  The key word being social – interacting with other people.  If you’ve reached this site, you have either [...]

Websites have dramatically evolved over the past decade from dull boring pages of poorly presented content to some of the many interactive sociable sources of information they are today.  The main cause of this has been the evolution of blogging.  What is for many, a popular past time, is also a profitable means to a living for the successful few. We all strive to have some extra cash in our pockets, and a popular method [...]

I have only been running my blog for just over 5 weeks, and I have seen increases in my web traffic, resulting in massive increases in my Alexa rank.  At the end of my first month I wrote a summary of things, as I will do again at the end of month 2 (around August 10).  But what have I done that has resulted in such an increase?

Everyone would love to make a little extra cash – let’s face it, in the current economic climate, the cost of living is getting beyond a joke.  Some extra cash is always a relief as it eases the strain.  Some of the most straight forward ways of generating more income is to get another job.  But who really wants to be working longer – if they really have to?  I know I don’t, and I’ll [...]