This is dave lawson writing from somewhere just north of manchester - I have to say I really love this new system I have had rigged up to my DAF lorry, it lets me type by talking into a mic placed in front of my steering wheel - pretty neat for a trucker eh? I had it installed by david jackson so as I could blog while driving my classic old truck around - and it works pretty damn well - 95% accurate id say - over the 98% it claims.
I found it when I was hunting through the car insurance group database looking which trucks are best when looking to cut down the money i blow each month on insurance. It has worked out I am saving £500 just by going 1 engine model down - man I am happy!
[Keywords: DAF, Lorries, truck driving, insurance, 95% accurate, blogging ]
March 19th, 2008
Automoblog - the world of blogging about cars is just really getting established. With market leaders like awesome auto’s that show the worlds best cars that do the most mental speeds and look so so pretty, dealt out to the web on a daily schedule with wit and classic car comedic commentary. Other than that you get your smaller fry:
Small car fun related websites that just love cars, they chat about how they fix thier cars, what they think is going to happen in the car market and basically go on about the future car markets, or drive time music classics.
It really is a great thing that the automoblog is developing so fast - like a ferrari!!!
[Keywords: auto blog, car blogging, motoring blog, motor blogging ]
November 29th, 2007
Buying niche websites for business appreciation can be a choir. I tend to opt for the most profittable thing around, so whether I am blogging to sell or coding for cash I will usually tend towards whichever I think will provide the most ROI online.
So throw away all your mini mags and start making Microsites, small compact and functional. Microsites are a great use of programming time and can act as a business online platform to progress yourself and your finances expotentially. Essentially a great way to make money with a blog, microsites will allow you to focus your earning power in small bites to help boost your blog.
So if you want advice visit Critix, the dude has a great philosophy and seriously helps grow business’s. Backed by percentage shares in all the business’s he operates he can fund online business and eventures daily. His microsite business ideas have given us hope this month, providing great online profitibality without any fuss!
[Keywords: blogging for kicks, getting paid via blog, blog money, business blog ]
October 21st, 2007
The do-follow, or I-follow, movement has caused a resurge of blogs without the ‘nofollow’ link attribute applied to all comments. Since being introduced in 2005 by Google, the nofollow attribute is now added by default to any reader submitted links on many popular blog platforms. Removing the attribute is advocated by many bloggers.
Nofollow
Google introduced the nofollow attribute in 2005 to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results, and reducing spam in general. It was designed by Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen from Blogger.com webspam team. Its effect was described to remove the PageRank value of the link.
Different search engines treat links with nofollow differently. Google does not count the link as a vote, or index the target page if previously not indexed. Officially Google does not even make a note of the existence of the target page. Yahoo! follows the link, and may index the page, but the link won’t give more value to the target. Other search engines may, or may not care about the attribute at all.
Some links have been tagged nofollow in Wikimedia software since the introduction in 2005, but site wide adding of nofollow to all external links in the English language Wikipedia happened only in January 2007. Blogger included the attribute in comments and backlinks from early on. It was included by default in Wordpress comments from version 1.5 forward.
Do-Follow
Lately, especially after the introduction of nofollow to Wikipedia, nofollow has begun to be seen also as a negative thing. On blogs, commenting on other blogs has always been a way to market one’s own blog, and after the introduction of nofollow, this has been less effective. Some bloggers claim that they now see a higher amount of spam comments, allegedly because to get the same effect spammers need to spam more.
Before nofollow those who comment regularly on a blog would also get many backlinks for free. Now that most blogs are nofollow, there is less reason to become a regular, or to comment at all. The do-follow movement consists of bloggers, who wish to reward, and encourage commenting by giving back comments their backlink value.
How to Join
On Wordpress blogs there are many plugins for removing the attribute. Some plugins offer extra features, like nofollow for first time comments, or nofollow for old comments. The customizable nature of Wordpress templates, and plugins has brought many solutions to this problem. The most popular of the plugins can be found with a Google search for ‘do-follow Wordpress’.
If you have a Blogger blog, making it do-follow is as easy as removing each occurrence of “rel=’nofollow’” in the template. The template can be modified from ‘Blogger Dashboard’, under ‘Template’ - ‘Edit HTML’. The ‘Expand Widget Templates’ checkbox has to be checked to see the posts section of the code.
After you have removed nofollow from your blog comments, remember to tell it to your readers. When they know they are rewarded for their commenting, they are more likely to share their thoughts. They might even bookmark your blog, and return again. All this simply because you can make them fell their opinions are valued.
Sutocu is the author of Your Website Profit. The News Party and Digital Camera Information recommended.
[Keywords: nofollow, SEO, do-follow, reader activity, blogging ]
August 30th, 2007
On the internet there are typically 3 real ways to make decent money: AdSense(through google), YPN (through yahoo), affiliate marketing (clickbank, commission junction, or azoogle ads), or creating your very own product.
1 - Pay Per Click:
Text ads such as Google Adsense, Yahoo!, Kontera, and so on are a great way to supplement your income stream from your website. If you have a large reading base, or tend to have massive amounts of traffic to your site, implementing Adsense, or Yahoo! Publishing may be a great source of income for you.
Although no one should bank on these as their main income stream. Google or Yahoo! can change their terms of service in a heart beat, and your revenue could plummet. So make sure you’re checking all of your options before you use this technique as your main source of income.
2 - Affiliate Marketing:
Another popular, and higher paying source of online income from your site is by becoming an affiliate and promoting other peoples’ products on your website. This is a great way to make a little extra money with your site, as you don’t have to put a lot of effort into creating a product.
Although, you must “pre-sell” the user on the product to make them click the affiliate link. Although this may seem difficult, there are many ways to do this with ease.
Two very popular affiliate programs are:
Clickbank
Commission Junction
There are others, so make sure you look around and find out what service best fits your needs.
3 - Product Creation:
Product creation is one of the most effective ways of building a revenue stream from your website. You keep 100% of the revenue, and you also have the fulfilling feeling of owning something. Here are my steps to creating your very first product.
You’ll want to develop a decent reader base to your blog/website. Once you have them, begin to poll them with a form from Aweber, capturing their name and email address. When you’ve gotten plenty of questions, and a lot of people (make sure you’re staying in touch with them, answering random questions and giving them good content), you’ll want to take the main questions and develop a product out of them.
Once the product is done, sell it to the newly acquired list!
Web Design and Site Templates
Baseball Umpires
Unblock MySpace
[Keywords: AdSense, Blogging, Clickbank, Monetize, Umpires, MySpace ]
July 10th, 2007