Marketing 
24 Comments 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?
Make Money 10 Comments 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 bet if you’re reading this now, you don’t either.
The internet is a great resource which has been used by many to carve new careers for themselves. What’s more is it is relatively straight forward – so why doesn’t everyone have an internet job? What stops the masses from being successful running a website and making cash? Read more »
Marketing 4 Comments Managing a blog is not always as simple is first appears. I mean you have to write regularly, and write well. You have to advertise to get readers. Okay, so you don’t have to – you can blog just to get things off your chest. But, if you are like me, and thousands of others, and wouldn’t mind making a few extra pounds (or your own currency), you want readers to visit your site so you can monetise through advertising, affiliate marketing and selling stuff. I recently wrote about how writing good comments boosts traffic. Another valuable source of traffic is blog directories. There are literally tons of them. Read more »
Blogging Tips 11 Comments Social networking has taken off in a massive way in recent years. It is easier than ever to communicate with anyone in the world. It used to be that websites were quite boring pages of just information, and if you wanted to talk to people, you used chat rooms or email. With the development of various web technologies, and their ease of use, more often nowadays, readers can interact with the authors of their websites via commenting.
When you are starting out a new venture, blogging about your passion, say for example, about holidaying in Disney 
, you want to try and get as many visitors as you can to your site. You will read a million times over, on this site included, that commenting on other blogs is a great method of marketing. Read more »
Marketing 10 Comments Marketing is one of those words I’m sure you have heard thrown around in business circles. So you’re probably wondering what it’s got to do with websites? Think about it this way, marketing is essentially advertising. There are plenty of ways you can market your website to get more visitors, or if you run an online business, get yourself more clients.
Many webmasters think little beyond setting up keywords to their website, and use the same words throughout their site. Then when that’s done, you submit your site to some of the main search engines – Google, Yahoo and Bing. But is that enough?