Some Enjoyable Posts In The Blogosphere 3-12-2008
Good news… I’m on school holidays, which means that I can spend more time writing for the blog (it is a good thing, isn’t it?). Anyway, I haven’t given much link love in quite a while to deserving posts, so I figured I should give them a shout.
Over the past few weeks some posts and launches have really amazed me, none more than Jason’s smooth launch of his new joint blog, Make Money Dynamo. It absolutely amazed me when I saw how many subscribers he attracted in such a short space of time, and then he revealed to readers of his blog how he managed to gain 1,273 subscribers in three days. This post is well worth a read, and so is the free download e-book on Make Money Dynamo.
Other great posts over the past few weeks:
- Design Matters – 10 tips For a Blog Design Makeover
- Keywords in Post Titles, Does it really matter?
- How “Work From Home Ideas” Made Google Top 10
- Importance Of Keywords (I liked this because it re-enforces the post I made earlier this week, How To Do Keyword Research For Search Engine Rankings)
- Are You Taking Advantage Of The Holiday Season? – I really should be, and you should be too
- Ten Tips for Stats Addicts – It was a guest post, but it was brilliant
Finally, I’d also like to thank Adam from Creadiv for his WPTone WordPress theme. In creating niche blogs I find it hard to find a well optimized adsense theme, and so this theme was like a gift from the Gods to me. Currently I’m using it on my newest mini blog, About Coral Reefs – Facts And Information.
I’m also probably going to be holding a big contest soon, so stick around or subscribe so that you find out when it starts.
A Review Of The Blog Comment Blueprint
My good friend Danny Cooper from LinkersBlog released his first product, the Blog Comment Blueprint, a few days ago, and since he has done quite a bit for me I decided to review it for him (and I really wanted to read it) 
.
A Brief Intro
Danny Cooper runs a blog called LinkersBlog where he talks about link building and does case studies. If you want to know more about him then I suggest you read his About page. Anyway, his blog shot to popularity one day out of the blue, and people were amazed at the publicity, traffic, comments and connections he was achieving. The reason behind this “rise to fame” was achieved through the complex art of good blog commenting, so obviously, the guy knows what he is talking about when it comes to blogging, link building and especially blog commentating.
What’s In The Ebook?
The Blog Comment Blueprint is split into 7 different chapters, each detailing about how the power of blog commenting can be harnessed for different reasons and effects.
- Facts About Bloggers
Blog Comment Blueprint
- How To Find Blogs To Comment On
- How To Make Money From Blog Commentating
- How To Build Links Using Blog Comments
- Blog Commentating For Traffic And RSS Subscribers
- How To Comment Faster
- How Blog Commentating Increases Your Technorati Authority
It shows that you can make money by blog commenting even without owning any website at all, and the techniques to do so are so simple. I already knew of the technique and had used it to success before reading the e-book, so I can safely say that the technique does work.
Who Should Buy The Blog Comment Blueprint
After reading the Blog Comment Blueprint a few times I have decided that it is definitely aimed at the newbies in blog commenting, blogging, or simply in making money online. It’s a great little resource for anyone who wants to become a better blogger or earn a bit more income on the side.
So if you’re a bit of a newbie to blogging, I highly recommend buying the Blog Comment Blueprint now.
Review Of DoublePlus.com
This review of DoublePlus is the review won by last months top commentator on this blog.
DoublePlus.com is an ecommerce development and marketing blog focusing on using the internet for marketing and business.It covers topics such as using a blog to gain visitors to an ecommerce site through search engines and how to build websites, mainly ecommerce development.
It also provides great detail and support on product merchandising, taking you step by step through creating your own great product description.
Running on an attractive and nicely modified version of Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme, the blog holds and impressive and valid PageRank 5. The colours are simple and relaxing to fit in with the mood of the blog, and the logo is a simplistic yet effective one, bearing two plus-signs, one overlapping the other, represent the domain and blog name, DoublePlus.
The blog also focuses on helping those using Miva Modules which is an addon for Miva Merchant, an ecommerce shopping cart. It can also help you as it has articles focusing on Search Engine Optimization, such as Building Authority And Inbound Links With Squidoo and URL Rewriting. It also uses the top commentators widget, so I’ll have to add this one to my list.
Remember, the top 2 commentators this month win a free 125 x 125 banner each for a month.
Sunday Summary: This Week’s Wrap-Up
Today marks another important time in the life of this blog – I’m starting “Sunday Summary: This Week’s Wrap-Up” as my weekly link roundup to be done each week from now on, to share some of the good stuff with the world and give some well deserved link love.
- StandOutBlogger made a great post telling us 5 Things He Hates About Bloggers and the way they act, thinking that success and popularity should be theirs straight away.
- LinkersBlog put together a Link Building Glossary of all terms you will ever come across when link building and their definitions. I’ll always be refering back to this.
- Syed from Balkhis finished a 4-part series on how you can increase your traffic through simple tweaks to your design and site structure. The first article was: The Most Effective SEO Move You Can Make For Your Site.
- Jason from TheUniversityKid gave us a Step By Step Guide To Promote Your Own Webmaster Product and generate some nice sales. I’m thinking of making my own product soon (free to my readers of course).
- Jay from SuiteJ gave us 5 reasons Why Website Flipping Is Too Easy. And I agree with him – the amount of resources and information free to everyone make it quite difficult not to have an easy time flipping sites.
- Ryan from SmarterWealth tells us What To Do When We Hit “The Wall”.I was actually going to write a post about this next week, but when I saw that Ryan explained it all so well, I don’t feel the need to anymore.
- Sly from SlyVisions is giving away 3 prizes of $15 each just for subscribing to his blog.
This week seemed pretty eventful to me in terms of great articles. Of course, breaking news in the blogging world was that Entrecard is for sale. I was one of the first to know about it but didn’t blog about it simply because everyone else was. Look’s like it’s not for sale anymore.
BloggerLee Review
This review is being given to Luna over at BloggerLee after winning it in the contest I held earlier in the month. It’s not paid or influenced in any way.
Before this competition, I had stumbled across BloggerLee. I expected it to be another blogging tips blog, but instead I found a great personal blog with funny content and images, news and a bit of content on how to make money online, such as this article on site flipping.
Luna is a university student, and this is a trend I have noticed emerge on the internet recently (I mean, I’m in highschool). She currently now owns two blogs, which I know can get pretty hectic if you don’t manage your time well, so I congratulate her on that. The second blog is WeblogEngineering.
Luna’s design is simple and refreshing, and really gives it that personal touch which I feel we all need. Go over and check out her blog at bloggerlee.com.