Is Your Blog Worth Five Million Dollars?
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Can You Really Make Money From Blogging
I finished listening to a brilliant podcast interview from Yaro Starak with seven figure Australian blogger, Alborz Fallah. You can gather a lot of great tips from how a regular blogger turned a hobby into a hugely successful million dollar business. Alborz went from writing about his passion for luxury cars as a hobby to employing regular content writers and attracting high profile investors to make him a extremely generous seven figure annual income through his Car Advice blog ( I love the slick template design).
Yaro Starak is renowned for his own blogs, namely Entrepreneurs Journey and his Blog Mastermind course. Now Yaro doesn’t presume that everyone who takes the course will become wildly successful overnight, or be in the same earning league as himself or Alborz Fallah. However the valuable content and education you will gain makes this course a superb bargain.
Who Is This Blog Mastermind Course Suited For?
Serious bloggers who want to take their hobby to the next level so that they can develop and grow their own blog into a revenue earner. Maybe you have a blog already and are not seeing the results you had hoped for. Or you may need to establish your blog as an authority in your niche and want to help kick start your business to success.
Visit Yaro Starak’s blog to listen to a recording of the interview. You also have the option to download the MP3 file, which is what I did to listen to at my convenience. Oh yes, you should definitely take a sneak peak at how Yaro makes money down at the Entrepreneurs Journey blog in his revealing two part video presentation.
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Website Traffic Edition Of The Newsletter
It’s been a while since he last edition of the Miriadz Cyber Times Newsletter was published. However today’s issue is ready to read online.
The main subject today is “Website Traffic”!
Click here to check out the newsletter.
Enjoy!
Ad Surf Daily Generates Free Website Traffic
Ad Blindness
I’m sure you may be aware that it takes about 7 times or more for your ad to be absorbed by prospects. Well in my case I normally take the advice of my work colleagues who may have had prior experience with any particular program or product.
Now when I mention the words friends and colleagues I’m referring to people I am in regular contact with who share ideas and tips amongst each other. This is TRUE networking. Whereas with some people I only hear from them when they want to SELL ME SOMETHING. No explanations no HELLO or how are you today? JUST COLD HARD SELL!
That’s why it has taken about 5 times before I even considered one particular program. When you have friends that really research a program and have tested it out BEFORE announcing it to you is when you know people have your best interests in mind.
This is what is called true “LEVERAGE”. The same courtesy should be afforded to people who have subscribed to your mailing list and newsletters. Be sure you have reputable and trusted sources before considering endorsing a product or service.
Now we are all human and sometimes something doesn’t go as planned for a number of reasons. However at the very least test out a service and see if it can benefit you and your business.
Anyway with that said I want to share a website that allows you to surf for traffic to earn credits towards views to your assigned websites. It is similar to the way in which Traffic Swarm works. There is one main difference and that is if you decide to purchase advertising credits you can earn a residual income of 25% of your initial ad purchase.
Now most people are interested in driving more traffic to their website and Ad Surf Daily does just this for you. It is easy to register a free account and set up your websites. I recommend using a web page rotator such as Page Swirl or BizRotator so that you can easily manage multiple websites and keep track of statistics to.
Without tracking you have no clear way to evaluate results of your advertising campaigns. These resources are free to use so there is no excuse not to use them regularly.
Anyway I highly recommend Ad Surf Daily. You have the option of purchasing ad credits to boost views to your websites and can invite people you know to join too. I suggest using social networks to refer others. You can view some of the networks I am a member of here. Just remember to network with people and DO NOT just blast your latest opportunity to them. A signature fle under your name should suffice especially in forums.
These forums accept blatant ads. Participation is high so YOU MUST make your ad stand out and post REGULARLY.
Try BlogThings Plugin For Your Blog or MySpace and Facebook
What Does Your Taste in Music Say About You?
BlogThings is a free quiz website with lots more fun topics to choose from. Thanks to Pamela Heywood my day got started off with fun as I took the multiple choice quiz.
BlogThings allows you to add the code (copy and paste) to your blog or simply place a direct link from your blog so people can check out the site for themselves.
Or add BlogThings to your MySpace and Facebook profiles.
Well I let it rip and took the quick quiz and this is my results:-
“Your musical tastes are intense and rebellious.
You are intelligent… but in a very unconventional way.
You are curious about the world. You love doing something new.
In fact, you enjoy taking risks and doing things most people would shy away from.
You are very physical. It’s likely that you’re athletic, but not into team sports.
You have the soul of an artist. Beauty and harmony are important to you.”
Looks as though I better calm down as I may need to undergo psychological evaluation. :shock: Though I have been known to inflict my “crazy humor” on friends and family. Ask my two boys!
What do you think? Does having a Linkin Park plugin on Facebook, watching Robin Williams videos on YouTube and Richard Branson sound like an average person to you? 
Well I am sane (I think ) I just have wide interests but most of all I love life!
Go and check it out for yourself… What Does Your Taste in Music Say About You?
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I need to say a HUGE thank you to many regular readers, subscriber and my online friends for your support and friendship.
Even though I haven’t been blogging as regular as usual I have the pleasure of knowing that you guys are still visiting my website and getting some value from my content.
How do I know that?
Well of course I check my statistics now and again but judging by the activity of people signing up for free and paid services from recent posts like Animoto and deep into my archives I know that I’m providing a resource of value to many.
Phew!
Wouldn’t it be a let down if the opposite were true. No chance of that.
So thank you for:
- Digging me
- Bookmarking me
- Sending me your thoughts, feedback and suggestions
- Your comments
- Broken link notifications
- Topical requests and everything else!
I could go on but I think you get the idea… -»(¯`v´¯)-» Thank You! 
So people tweet me, follow me and all that good stuff. I’m actively getting more into Web 2.0 so you’ll see my sketch, as you can see in my header picture, popping up here and there. I’m also seeing many Facebook and MySpace friends in MANY other social communities so it’s my turn now.
Thanks everyone,
Nancy P Redford
P.S.
Something pretty darn BIG is launching tomorrow, Friday May 16th 2008 @ 09:00 AM CDT / 2:00PM UK GMT. Reed Floren’s Internet Marketing [IM] Giveaway JV. A WHOPPING 1,600+ JV partners are in including little me so get ready for a jam packed week of freebies and super gifts.
Create Google & SEO Friendly Page Titles
A great way to learn good effective search engine optimization is through video tutorials. People find video easier to follow as they can watch each step of the process. If you’ve heard of Aaron Wall, who is renowned for his excellent ebook aptly titled the Seo Book you’ll know that he is a leading authority on SEO.
Aaron also has a super resource at his blog where he openly shares a wealth of free resources, tools and training for any webmaster such as a Keyword Suggestion Tool and Rank Checker amongst otheres. On that subject today I have included one of Aaron’s videos for you. Enjoy!
Watch Create Google & SEO Friendly Page Titles at YouTube.
Free AdSense Ready WordPress Theme Prosense
TOP TIP
If you can make your own WordPress theme you could follow the tips of Dosh Dosh by
giving the theme away for free and stating that users must keep the links intact which
link back to your website through a ‘Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence’. This is a brilliant way to get people to link back to your site. A true win-win situation.
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Getting Into MySpace
Hey today’s the day when all of the pranksters come out to play so be on your guard. HAPPY APRIL FOOL’s DAY!
I just wanted to let you know that I gave gone against all of my principles and set up
a MySpace account. Like many I view MySpace and similar sites as a place where people just mess around and get in trouble at work! However after several colleagues have been boastingabout how they are making money from their collection of MySpace accounts I had to see for myself what the fuss is all about!
So far I am looking for REAL friends, people in my industry, people I know online and
of course my visitors and subscribers.
You’ll certainly recognize a few Internet and Affiliate marketers amongst my MySpace friends. So before I add a permanent link to my sidebar I wanted to cordially invite to you to addme to your MySpace friends and of course send me a “Friend Request” to be a part of my crowd too.
I will probably add a personal video or slideshow later when I find some good photos of me, friends and family so hang tight until then. For now you’ll just have to get accustomed to “The Better Half Of Me”, this slogan will make more sense once you visit my page at MySpace. One very positive aspect I have found with having and sharing my MySpace account is that I get to see some of my long term subscribers who have added themselves as friends. Normally I don’t bother to add an image of myself online but I guess people really do like to see you in photo or video.
Do you think we are getting more voyeuristic and narcistic with Web 2.0 sites online?
Well I don’t like looking at myself too often unless I’m brushing my teeth.
What do you think?
I remember Mark Wielgus talking about how more bloggers should do video to reveal themselves to their readers or at least make their own videos for content and to boost their SEO. Mark’s personal view is that text only blogs can become dull and he prefers to watch video blogs or listen to podcasts, especially if he has been a long term subscriber.
I personally enjoy reading articles with the occasional video here and there but long
audios I hate unless it’s a Teleseminar. Anyone who rambles on for a length of time is
mind numbing for me so I’m not into podcasts, even though they are extremely popular and good from a marketing perspective.
Even popular bloggers do not have a photo of themselves on their blogs in the “About Us” section like DoshDosh but for me it’s the content that counts. Besides maybe some people look so bad it would be a crime to reveal themselves. I do like caricatures of people and have seen everything from Homer Simpson to Jessica Alba on avatars.
What are your thoughts on photos, videos and audio over text based blogging?
Don’t forget to visit: http://www.myspace.com/nancypredford
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Are You Ready For WordPress 2.5?
So I wake up today and change all of my clocks to one hour forward for the official start of spring time here in London, UK. After switching on my PC and logging in to my WordPress blog I discover the inevitable upgrade for WordPress 2.5 is ready. Looks like the Beta testers have sorted through most bugs (hopefully).
So What’s New?
Well when you head off to WordPress you can see the revamped design. A much welcomed sleeker design by Matt Thomas that uses the entire width of the browser with less of those wasteful white spaces. Take a look at the “sneak peak” to see diagrams of the new Dashboard which has more significance in highlighting important news and is now “widget” based. See more details and examples in diagrams within the development area. I must admit I tend to ignore the dashboard and go straight to the “Write” section and the occasional check of the “Plugins” area for notifications of the any new versions I need to download and install. You must watch the video from Matthew Mullenweg as he goes inside his own WordPress admin interface to show you some of the functionalities of WordPress 2.5.
Top Tip
If you have a test server or domain where you can install WP 2.5 you can perform tests for plugin compatibility and decide whether you like the new features over your current installation. This is a good practical tip to installation success before jumping head first into upgrading all current blogs.
I always use a test domain first as I am very familiar with the hours lost tweaking and battling with little errors, usually related to my customized header file. However it is more than likely that I will wait for feedback from other WordPress users before I commit to the upgrade. Particularly any concerns with plugin compatibility issues.
From what I have read about WordPress 2.5 so far I particularly like the “Few click plugin updates” as described below:
“Few-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory since 2.3 we’ve told you when they have an update available. Now we take that to the next logical step — downloading and installing the upgrade for you. This is dependent a little bit on your host set-up, and it may ask you for your FTP password much like OS X or Windows will ask you for a password, but it works well on majority of hosts we were able to test, your mileage may very, plugins in mirror may be larger than they appear.”
To all WordPress users, keep on submitting feedback for future features because at long last we are starting to see some excellent enhancements to the community software that I personally enjoy. Especially due to the fact that I need fewer addon plugins such as Redirection (changing Permalinks and not losing the old link structure in the search engine listing) and a few others because WordPress have integrated more functionality into the basic installation. There was a time when I refused to switch from version 1.5 to 2.0+ because I would lose too many important plugins. However in making that decision I found my blog became vulnerable to potential Phising robots so I had no choice but to go ahead and upgrade to the leastest version of WordPress. As a resulted I had to wave goodbye to some of my most treasured plugins. 
However as most of those lost plugins are built-in it has become a win-win situation.
Good luck to everyone who makes a success of the new upgrade to their blogs. I’ll be right with you very soon, maybe.
For now I will upgrade some of my plugins due, Sociable 2.6 and Google Sitemaps 3.0.3.1.
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Mike Filesaime Launches PayDotCom Widget Ads
Mike Filesaime has launched a new widget for his PayDotCom web site. You’ll find an introductory “How To” video presented by Michael Ambrosio. Easy to set up and add to your blog, especially if your blog theme is “wigetized” or widget ready. Where you can go into your admin area to view your “Presentation” and simply copy and paste your PayDotCom Widget code into your widget box. You’ll can view the complete process in the video.
Once you register at PayDotCom you automatically become an affiliate allowing you to earn commissions on referrals.
- Another passive way to earn PayDotCom commissions
- Showcases your listed PayDotCom products on other people’s web site’s and blogs
- Quick and simple way to promote PayDotCom marketplace products
Choose from a variety of categories depending on what type of products and services you wish to appear on your widget.
- Computing & Internet
- Sports & Recreation
- Home & Family
- Money & Employment
- Business to Business
- Fun & Entertainment
- Marketing & Ads
- Health & Fitness
- Society & Culture
Choose from 18 color templates to blend you PayDotCom widget to best match your site’s look and feel.
I must admit that it’s been a while since I last logged into my account but when I did I was pleasantly surprised by all of the changes. For instance there is now the following updates for this year:
Mar-11-2008 Cash Affiliate Referral Program
Mar-10-2008 Login Page Ads
Mar-07-2008 Site-Wide Ads
Mar-05-2008 Widget Feature
Jan-20-2008 New Feature Related to the Mailing System
Premium Text Link Ads - 30 Maximum - these ads are displayed throughout the site. I haven’t personally used them but if anyone would like to share their experiences please “Add Your Comments”. Or if you’d like to showcase your site where your PayDotCom widget is featured you’re welcome to do so by leaving a note and link in the comments.
I may decide to place the widget on my newsletter front page later today to test out whether people are interested in viewing PayDotCom products and the marketplace.
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