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  website copywriter

  2 years ago

  Content is indeed king and a good solid interactive community is probably considered the backbone of a blog's success. I believe this to be true more than ever, thanks to your post. Going slightly off-topic here...caught your review on John Chow. Great job on that one, too. :)
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  Derek Anderson

  2 years ago

  Google Adsense seems to be way over cooked. It may work for those that place it so it appears to be the link that people want to click on in order to...keep reading or get more info or some such. I have had Google Adsense...I wrecked that. The next was Yahoo publisher ads...I have made about $20.00 in 1.5 years...I really like Project Wonderful. It started out slow but once I copied what someone else did on their site (ad layout) the profits have soared. (I'm not retiring soon) I have been averaging about $0.75 per day for the last 2.5 weeks. Check it out
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  Steve

  2 years ago

  I tend to agree that Adsense can be a hard mistress, but I think that it really just has a steep learning curve. Depending on where you place your ads it can be completely useless or pretty great. Project Wonderful looks a lot like TextLinkAds, which is pretty slick. I'll check it out. Thanks Derek!
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  Programming And Tech

  2 years ago

  Great post!! I thinks I'll have to read it lot of times to remember
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  Kaye

  2 years ago

  Great post! When people say that content is king, I take it that it at least has to either entertain or educate/inform me. Unless your visitors know you personally, then you won't be able to hold their attention for long and repeatedly unless you offer them something that will enlighten them. That's why How-To blogs are popular.
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  Lord Matt

  2 years ago

  That was a super post. Well done.
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  jf.sellsius

  2 years ago

  You are an excellent communicator which is my definition of good writing for the web. If you're a novelist, blogging may not be the best medium.
  
  We have used many ad sources and found Text Link Ads and Blogkits to be the better earners. Google Adsense was not a good earner for us---but not being tech guys we might not have tweaked it properly. Amazon was even worse.
  
  Great blog. You got a new subsciber and we rolled you.
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  pia

  2 years ago

  Why shouldn't fiction be a viable blogging form?
  
  I think I understand how to market myself and how to become an a A list blogger as I was a Technorati A list blogger for two years, but I'm not interested in blog a log or any of the social networks.
  
  I like to write. I like to comment on people's blogs. I have purposely let links slide, not go after them etc, because when all is said and done, it's the quality of writing and the quirkiness of a blog that appeals to me, not being a "big" blogger which is too much work for little tangible reward--I'm not in blogging for the money
  
  I think that people who don't see fiction in blogging are being narrow minded. I think that web2.0 is too formalized already. I don't like being told what to do and how to do it.
  
  It's not your post I'm responding to, but the comment before mine which made certain presupositions both stated and unstated
  
  A person may be a great communicator in photos, film, and all sorts of verbiage.
  
  A great blog--means different things to different people and that should be acknowledged
  
  At this stage in the blogosphere we shouldn't be putting constraints on what we think good blogging is. In five years it might all be different.
  
  I loved the last part of your post
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  Steve

  2 years ago

  On some of the parts of this I tend to agree. Narrowly defining blogging seems to be the wrong way to go about doing things, however, this post was specifically geared towards people who want to become "A-list" bloggers in the classical sense.
  
  Well, at least as classical as any concept that is less than a decade old can be.
  
  In that case, I'm asserting that you must start placing a few boundaries around what "A-List" blogging entails.
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  shaz

  2 months ago

  Thamks for great information!!
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