Posts from — May 2008

The May edition of the Blogging Tips Blog Carnival is here! Here’s the way this works – You, the blogger, have submitted your top blogging tips. I’ve gone though, weeded out the off-topic rants and spam and put them in a pretty little package for you. This Blog Carnival covers money making tips, writing tips, traffic/SEO tips and a few other oddities that didn’t cleanly fit into a category.

Use this to gain a few tips, improve your blogging and discover some new sites!

Money Making Tips

1. Marcus Hochstadt gives a great post on how he’s banking by blogging. I Made $13,692.59 In Profits Last Month, So What?, saying, “Find out how Marcus Hochstadt makes thousands of dollars online.”
2. Wilma Janszen shares 9 ways to make money as a blogger Make Money Blogging: Make Money Blogging.
3. Zork Brauk has written a creative post on generating extra cash on the side… UFO Recession Tip 73 – Top 10 Blogger Recession Tips to Make Money, saying, “Competition is stiff. There are over 112 million blogs listed on Technorati at the end of 2007! We see you and we know that not every blogger is making money.”

Writing Tips

1. Shamelle has written a really cool post called 6 Things Simon Cowell (Of American Idol) Would Say About Your Blog!
2. Steve Osborne, a freelance writer and writing instructor with over 20 years of experience tells how Short Paragraphs Attract. Long Paragraphs Intimidate.
3. Jason shares a few tips on how to use your writing to draw readers in and keep their attention: Be a Blogger – How to Write for the Web
4. Colleen M. Johnson gives a quick list on Blogger Brainstorming, saying, “Got blogger block? Ten tips to get you blogging.”
5. The Whited Sepulchre offers tips for when you’re out of time and motivation and need to get a post out: Things To Write About
6. Cindy King shares a Book Review – Letting Go Of The Words – Writing Web Content That Works By Janice Redish, saying, “Letting Go Of The Words is a must read for anyone involved with a website or blog. This is not about the tools you need or anything technical. This book is about web content and information strategies. It’s about “planning, selecting, organizing, writing, illustrating, reviewing, and testing content”…that gives readers a successful and satisfying web experience.”

Traffic and SEO Tips

1. Riggie Freyer gives some excellent tips for getting backlinks from high Pagerank sites: How to Get Do Follow Links with High Pagerank.
2. Raivyn has written an great post on How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Through Word of Mouth Marketing.
3. Bryan presents a video case study on a blog looking to bring in more traffic Case Study: Make Money Online Blog Wants More Traffic.
4. Mert Erkal has submitted an old post, but he still has some good tips: How I Quadrupled My Blog’s Traffic In 3 Months.
5. Praveen shares a Simple Trading System: Using Long Tail Keywords to Help Create Blog Posts and Articles that Attract Search Engine Traffic.
6. George Tzenos gives a basic overview of generating traffic via viral marketing Spread Your Word The Viral Way And Boost Your Traffic.
7. Aaron Anderson talks about how Entrecard has increased his traffic, comments and RSS subscribers: Traffic Experiment Results: 308 Visitors In 6 Days
8. Brian Terry’s article: Become a Listbuilding Genius is focused on collecting e-mail addresses. This may be more useful for affiliate marketers, but, if done right, could be beneficial for your blog.
9. Ian Richardson gives some tips on getting better search rankings. Get Good Search Ranking
10. Craig Andrews offers his viewpoint on using direct e-mail to market your blog Proper Direct Email Marketing For An Internet Business (Don’t Kill Off Your Email List!).

Other Tips

1. SpiKe Introduces A New Way Of Prioritizing to make your blogging more productive.
2. Tim Gary tells of how positive thinking has affected his life: “six-pack” follow up – dang if it doesn’t work like it should!.
3. Cindy King presents Website Design – How To Hire The Right Website Designer For Your International Audience.
4. Rebecca shares some basic tips on on starting a blog: Instant Readership with a Travel Blog
5. Woman Tribune presents how they are Addicted to Entrecard.

If you liked any of these sites, leave some comments share some link love. If you want your post to appear in the next edition submit your article here.

Ever wanted to know what it’s like to travel at 75mph strapped to the hood of your car?

Now you can with the Yahama branded Dues Ex Machina “Motorcycle.” Inspired by Biomechatronics, Art Center College of Design student Jake Loniak has designed an electric vertically parking motorcycle controlled by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators. This concept vehicle is “worn” as an exoskeleton, battery powered and goes 0-60mph in 3 seconds.

Yea, the design looks real great until your crotch meets a bird at 70mph.

More pictures below:

Entrecard is holding two new contests in which they’re giving away over 75,000 Credits. This is a publicity stunt to announce their new e-book and a feature that bloggers have been asking for from day 1, the ability to add multiple blogs.

Starting today, you can add all your blogs to Entrecard simply by going to your Dashboard and clicking “Linked Blogs” in your Dashboard navigation. You will be able to choose whether to link your account with another EXISTING account, or to register a NEW BLOG with Entrecard, and automatically link it to your account.

You can switch from one blog to another, and drop or advertise as either one, from the very top right of your Entrecard screen. Where your email address is displayed there will be a link to “switch” to another account of yours.

Win 15,000 credits

In order to get in the pot for the bankroll of credits, you’ll have to add a second blog to your account. Entrecard will randomly select one winner in each of the following classes:

Entrecard is giving away a total of 75,000 credits, as there will be one 15,000 credit winner for each class. All you have to do is use their new feature to add Entrecard to your other blogs, or simply link your other blogs together using the “switch” button in the top right of the site. Winners will be picked on June 25th.

Write a Post Get 2,000 Credits

Entrecard is holding an additonal contest to help spread the word about their “add new blog” feature and their new E-Book. Anyone who posts on their own blog, mentions the new “add a blog” feature, and posts a link to their new E-Book wins 2000 credits. Just leave a comment on this blog post with the link to your post.