Success breeds success - and one example of that is the ‘JohnCow.com‘ competition on their blog. And no, this isn’t JohnChow.com, which makes about $30,000 a month - this is a site making a play off the name (and possibly getting traffic from the misspelling). Nonetheless, I’ve been watching the...

I was reading a blog post today in which the author talked about the high price of blogs and how expensive they are to sell (he noted that blogs regularly sell at twenty times the monthly revenue). I feel the problem with trying to sell a blog is that you’re...

What is Pinging? The word ‘ping’ has a long history both off and on the Internet. In 1983, Mike Muus wrote a tool to check if other sites were up and accessible (http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html) Somewhat like a sonar ping in the submarine movies, a single packet was used to see if...

What Are YOU Promoting? Using a blog means one of three things - you’re promoting yourself, your product, or somebody else’s product. At least, I HOPE you’re promoting with your blog - if you’re not, then what exactly is your traffic doing? And what use is it to you, except...

If the site looks a bit changed, it is - I’ve just replaced my custom BBB template with my new template from ActiveBlogging.com The difference: • I can change colors and settings from the Admin panel, now, instead of direct php tweaking. • Easy Adsense - pick a location, paste my Adsense...