Making money with affiliate programs is not a difficult job but to become successful you must find successful affiliate programs. Each internet affiliate program works slightly different from other internet marketing affiliate programs and as such need to be treated differently. Internet marketing affiliate programs are used to promote a variety of different products for the sponsors who in turn pay percentages or flat fees to those who help generate the sales.
In order to find successful affiliate programs it is necessary to take time to conduct some research. Not all internet marketing affiliate programs will work for everyone, so you have to look at the internet affiliate program in terms of potential earnings. Making money with affiliate programs requires the members to have a product that will generate many sales and residuals that make it worthwhile.
Internet marketing affiliate programs that offer higher click through payments are not necessarily the ones that promote the concept of making money with affiliate programs. Those internet marketing affiliate programs may pay high residuals but if they don’t but if you don’t get the traffic, the internet affiliate program will not be profitable for you. Sometimes an internet affiliate program that pays less residuals will generate more traffic for those interested in making money with affiliate programs.
If you want to find successful affiliate programs you want to look for those internet marketing programs whose products have a larger target audience. Making money with affiliate programs that promote products such as books and CDs will be more successful than an internet affiliate program that promotes memorabilia of low profile artists and entertainers. You want an internet affiliate program that you can promote to your friends, relatives and acquaintances that will purchase items the sponsor of those internet marketing affiliate programs offers.
The quest to find successful affiliate programs can be long and tedious, especially if you aren’t certain what to look for in an internet affiliate program. Because internet marketing affiliate programs are so abundant, it can sometimes be difficult to find successful affiliate programs from among so many internet marketing affiliate programs. Often that means trying several internet marketing affiliate programs and choosing those internet marketing affiliate programs that offer the highest potential for success.
You want to find several successful affiliate programs preferably those that fit in with the scheme of your website. For example, if you are an artist, you may wish to choose internet marketing affiliate programs that promote artwork and other memorabilia of other artists. You can choose other internet marketing affiliate programs, but you are likely to be more successful with those that mirror the theme of your website. In addition, you are more likely to heavily promote an internet affiliate program that is within the same scope as your website.
You shouldn’t limit your internet income to making money with affiliate programs. These are good sources of income but even if you find successful affiliate programs, you may need to supplement your income with other sources of income. The success Internet marketing affiliate programs depends upon the consumer buying habits thus a depressed economy can affect your potential for making money with affiliate programs. The sponsors may also reduce the residuals of internet marketing affiliate programs when their profits are lower.
Using internet marketing affiliate programs as a source of residual income is an excellent choice. When you find successful affiliate programs do some heavy promotion that will allow you to obtain future residuals from your internet marketing affiliate programs. Try the affiliate programs I have here on my blog on the right side like MoreNIche, trafficswarm, inboxdollars, and the others I have posted on my blog. Just click and find out more about them. Thank you..
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Plan and launch your PPC campaign
Plan and launch your PPC campaign and keep track of its progress
If you want potential customers to form a traffic jam at your Web site, Make Pay Per Click work for you, it just might do the trick.
Discover how to
Use the right keywords to trigger your ads
Figure your breakeven point
Write ads that reach your customers
Calculate return on investment
Use geo targeting
Track your ad results
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If you want potential customers to form a traffic jam at your Web site, Make Pay Per Click work for you, it just might do the trick.
Discover how to
Use the right keywords to trigger your ads
Figure your breakeven point
Write ads that reach your customers
Calculate return on investment
Use geo targeting
Track your ad results
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Vista on Screen Keyboard
How many of you remember talking about an on screen keyboard for Windows XP awhile back? Come on, don't be shy, raise those hands! Well, recently, several of you have been asking about that very same thing for Windows Vista. I don't know if a bunch of you just upgraded to Vista or if you just now remembered about the on screen keyboard option, but I can tell you're dying to know more about the Vista version! So, I guess the least I can do is put your inquiring minds at ease. Here we go!
First of all, to get to the on screen keyboard in Vista, go to Start, Control Panel and click on the Ease of Access link. Next, click on the Ease of Access Center link and you will then see all of the accessibility options Vista has to offer, including a Magnifier, On Screen Keyboard, Narrator and High Contrast. For this tip, we're just going to focus on the keyboard, but feel free to browse through those other choices later on! To begin, click on the On Screen Keyboard link and wait for it to pop up. Once it's up on your screen, you can start using it however you wish. You can use it to type an e-mail, to work on a Word document or whatever you may be doing. Just use your mouse to click on the letters and they will show up just like you were using a real keyboard. Awesome!
There are also some additional options you can choose from when using the on screen keyboard in Vista. Under the Keyboard menu, you can choose between an enhanced or standard keyboard (it just changes the way the keyboard looks), a regular or block layout and you can choose how many keys you want your keyboard to have (either 101, 102 or 106). Under the Settings menu, you can opt to have a clicking sound when you're typing, you can decide which typing mode works best for you and you can even change the way the font looks. There's even a Help menu if you need further assistance. The on screen keyboard is just something you can use to give your typing fingers a little rest. I love it and I'm sure you will too. Give it a try on your Vista computer today! Source: Steve at Worldstart.com
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First of all, to get to the on screen keyboard in Vista, go to Start, Control Panel and click on the Ease of Access link. Next, click on the Ease of Access Center link and you will then see all of the accessibility options Vista has to offer, including a Magnifier, On Screen Keyboard, Narrator and High Contrast. For this tip, we're just going to focus on the keyboard, but feel free to browse through those other choices later on! To begin, click on the On Screen Keyboard link and wait for it to pop up. Once it's up on your screen, you can start using it however you wish. You can use it to type an e-mail, to work on a Word document or whatever you may be doing. Just use your mouse to click on the letters and they will show up just like you were using a real keyboard. Awesome!
There are also some additional options you can choose from when using the on screen keyboard in Vista. Under the Keyboard menu, you can choose between an enhanced or standard keyboard (it just changes the way the keyboard looks), a regular or block layout and you can choose how many keys you want your keyboard to have (either 101, 102 or 106). Under the Settings menu, you can opt to have a clicking sound when you're typing, you can decide which typing mode works best for you and you can even change the way the font looks. There's even a Help menu if you need further assistance. The on screen keyboard is just something you can use to give your typing fingers a little rest. I love it and I'm sure you will too. Give it a try on your Vista computer today! Source: Steve at Worldstart.com
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What does the term WiKis mean?
Ah, yes, the famous wikis term. I love this question, so thank you very much for asking. I think I love this question so much because of the answer, which just happens to be something I myself use quite often. It seems as if different types of wikis have been popping up all over the Internet these days, so some of you may have already briefed over this before. Either way, keep reading to learn more about the awesome things that make up wikis!
Just to give you an idea, the most popular wiki is called Wikipedia. (You may have heard of this one before). It's a huge online encyclopedia that always offers definitions, explanations, etc. on any term you look up through the Google search engine. Wikipedia offers up more than a million articles on all sorts of subjects. It's also among the top 100 most popular Web sites in the world.
Now, back to wikis themselves. All the other wikis available today are massive online resources that anyone can access. They are just full of simple, plainly laid out information. The simplicity is their highest selling point, because people just flock to simple things. Don't you? I know I do! I like to keep things as easy as possible in every situation. Along with the simplicity, wikis are easy to find for anyone who uses the Internet regularly.
The next thing that makes wikis so popular is that anyone who goes in and reads the information provided can edit it if they deem it necessary. If you feel there should be some changes made to an article, just click on the Edit link at the bottom and you can type in or delete what you want. You and everyone else who use the wikis act as a community to keep the information factual to anyone who reads it. Everyone works together to keep spammers away and to make sure everything stays reliable. Editors, writers and the administrators of the wikis also work within the community.
Some of you may be hesitant to trust the information from the sites, but that's where the community and the community tools come into play. The wikis provide a set of tools for anyone to use while they visit a site. Some of those include a revision history, a watchlist, a recent changes page, etc.
Some of the other popular wikis are WikiTravel, WikiHow, Wikitionary and SwitchWiki (and don't forget Wikipedia). You can find any of those and more by doing a Google search online. If you haven't already, check out some of the wikis. They are awesome sources of information and you'll be amazed at what you can find!
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Just to give you an idea, the most popular wiki is called Wikipedia. (You may have heard of this one before). It's a huge online encyclopedia that always offers definitions, explanations, etc. on any term you look up through the Google search engine. Wikipedia offers up more than a million articles on all sorts of subjects. It's also among the top 100 most popular Web sites in the world.
Now, back to wikis themselves. All the other wikis available today are massive online resources that anyone can access. They are just full of simple, plainly laid out information. The simplicity is their highest selling point, because people just flock to simple things. Don't you? I know I do! I like to keep things as easy as possible in every situation. Along with the simplicity, wikis are easy to find for anyone who uses the Internet regularly.
The next thing that makes wikis so popular is that anyone who goes in and reads the information provided can edit it if they deem it necessary. If you feel there should be some changes made to an article, just click on the Edit link at the bottom and you can type in or delete what you want. You and everyone else who use the wikis act as a community to keep the information factual to anyone who reads it. Everyone works together to keep spammers away and to make sure everything stays reliable. Editors, writers and the administrators of the wikis also work within the community.
Some of you may be hesitant to trust the information from the sites, but that's where the community and the community tools come into play. The wikis provide a set of tools for anyone to use while they visit a site. Some of those include a revision history, a watchlist, a recent changes page, etc.
Some of the other popular wikis are WikiTravel, WikiHow, Wikitionary and SwitchWiki (and don't forget Wikipedia). You can find any of those and more by doing a Google search online. If you haven't already, check out some of the wikis. They are awesome sources of information and you'll be amazed at what you can find!
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Learning How to Make Money Blogging
There are two major types of business models that
entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first
and most common way to turn a blog into a profit
making machine is to sell advertising to different
companies and brands who want to reach that blog's
readers. The second kind of money making blog is one
that helps a single brand improve its image by creating
positive associations between the blog and the product
in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can
make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen
mind for marketing.
If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising,
there are two basic ways that you can go about
recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site;
you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you
can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
Within the first group, many people make money
blogging by selling space through Google's AdSense
program. The advantages of this program are numerous,
as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger
or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most
people discover that they make less money through this
method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.
Selling advertising directly to companies who want to
put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take
quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you
have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the
topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route.
People who have a strong background in sales and are
experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit
of money by renting blog space to interested companies.
The most serious problem with this model is that you
often have to build quite a sizable readership before you
can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to
do several months of work before you start to make
money blogging.
As blogging becomes a more and more lucrative
business, a lot of established companies are considering
how they can get into the action. One way that
companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by
having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for
their corporation. Often, a company will employ an
established blogger to create a weblog designed
specifically to appeal to that company's customers and
to create positive associations with the brand in
consumers' minds. More than one writer who never
even dreamed that he or she could make money
blogging has been approached by a company and
offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.
The Web..
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
The How Of Blogging
What about the how? Bloggers invest significant time in creating and updating their blogs, as well as driving traffic and retaining their audiences.
One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week. The most influential bloggers are even more prolific. Using Technorati Index data, we analyzed the posting and tagging behaviors of bloggers according to their Technorati Authority. Over half of the Technorati top authority bloggers post five or more times per day, and they are twice as likely to tag their blog posts compared to other bloggers.
From their use of RSS feeds, video, photos, and mobile updates, bloggers are also tremendously sophisticated in leveraging the available tools to make their blogs more robust.
Bloggers employ a variety of technologies to attract visitors. Top audience-building strategies include: listing their blog on Technorati and Google, commenting or linking to other blogs, and tagging blog posts so that they are more easily searchable. All of this hard work has paid off — half of active blogs attract more than 1000 monthly visitors.
BLOGGER PROFILE
Time spent blogging
Bloggers invest a significant amount of time in creating and updating their blogs, as well as other blog-related activities.
Time Spent Blogging Each Week
One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week, and about half spend more than five hours weekly on their blog. Only 15% of active bloggers spend less than one hour per week on their blog.
Blogging with help
While the majority of bloggers manage their blogs solo, among professional and corporate bloggers, one in ten pay staff to contribute to their blogs.
Employ any Staff for Blogging
One in five corporate bloggers have paid full-time or part-time staff. Across both professional and corporate blogs, a higher percentage have unpaid help.
Technorati 100, Next 500, and Next 5000 comparisons
We analyzed the Technorati index data to see whether higher-authority bloggers behaved differently from other bloggers.
Posting by Technorati Authority
Group Average Authority Avg Days Posting
(June 2008) Avg Monthly Posts
(June 2008)
Top 100 6,084 23 310
Next 500 1,551 20 125
Next 5000 439 13 25
Blogs with higher authority are typically updated more frequently than blogs with lower authority. The Technorati Top 100 blogs had more than twice as many postings in June 2008 as the next 500, and more than 12 times as many postings as the next 5000.
Posting Frequency
Technorati Top 100 bloggers are twice as likely to post ten or more time daily compared to the next 500, and 14 times as likely than the next 5000. Looking again at Technorati's tracking data shows how often the Top 100 bloggers post each day compared to the next 500 and the next 5000. The Technorati Top 100 are prolific, with 43% posting ten times per day or more often. Only 8% post once a day or less frequently, compared to 13% of the next 500 bloggers, and 22% of the next 5000 bloggers.
Technorati Top 100 bloggers are twice as likely to use tags in their posts
Tagging blog posts is another way of ensuring that people can search for relevant content within a blog.
Percentage of Bloggers who Use Tags
Technorati's tracking data shows that the Technorati Top 100 bloggers use tags much more frequently than the next 500 and the next 5000 bloggers. The Technorati Top 100 bloggers are twice as likely to use tags in their blog posts compared to the average of the 5MM active bloggers tracked in June.
Broad categories are the most popular tags
Technorati index data uncovers the most popular tags during the month of June. “News” was the #1 most-used tag by bloggers, appearing close to 200,000 times over the course of the month.
Most Popular Tags
(June 2008) Times Tag Used
1 News 191,403
2 Music 71,531
3 Video 63,855
4 Internet 56,849
5 Blog 56,733
6 Politics 53,986
7 Life 52,805
8 Business 50,413
9 Videos 40,162
10 Movies 36,205
11 Technology 35,456
12 Family 34,745
13 Travel 33,172
14 Sport 31,646
15 Sports 30,323
16 Entertainment 28,413
17 Software 28,269
18 Diary 28,499
19 Humor 28,230
20 Art 25,852
General categories such as news, music, video, politics, and business tend to be the most popular tags.
Technorati's top bloggers had eight blog posts tagged “News” on average
Technorati's Top 100 bloggers use this tag more than two times as much as the next 500, and 19 times as much as the next 5000.
Average Number of Tags/Blogger by Technorati Authority
Shown here are some of the more popular tags and how many times those tags were used on average by the Top 100, next 500, and next 5000 bloggers. This data reinforces the fact that Top 100 bloggers use all tags more frequently than other bloggers.
Trends can also be tracked by looking at tag growth over time
Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis player who made it to the finals of the U.S. Open, saw his popularity grow once he beat Rafael Nadal on September 7, 2008.
Posts by Day about “Andy Murray”
Posts tagged “Obama” peaked during the Democratic National Convention, reaching their highest point on the day of his acceptance speech and the day following (August 28 and 29, 2008).
Posts by Day about “Obama”
Posts tagged “McCain” spiked on August 29, 2008, the day he chose Sarah Palin to be his Vice Presidential running mate, and then again during the week of the Republican National Convention.
Posts by Day about “McCain”
Sarah Palin had more tagged posts than Obama or McCain after her speech at the Republican National Convention on September 3, 2008, confirming the intense interest about her across the media and the blogosphere.
Posts by Day about “Sarah Palin”
Bloggers are using tools on their blogs
Bloggers are also tremendously sophisticated in leveraging available tools to make their blogs more robust or easily updatable.
Tools Used on Blog
More than eight in ten have a commenting system, archived posts, and have built-in syndication. Others use video and photos on their blog, or update their blog via a mobile device. On average, bloggers use seven of the 13 tools listed.
Among those with widgets, the majority of bloggers use at least four widgets on their site and two-thirds would include a widget with an ad on their blog.
Among those blogs with RSS feeds, three in four support full-content feeds.
How bloggers attract visitors
Bloggers are savvy and resourceful in generating traffic.
How Bloggers Attract Visitors
Top traffic-building strategies include: listing their blogs on Technorati and Google, commenting on or linking to other blogs, participating in a blogroll or blog directory, and tagging blog posts so that they are more easily searchable. Active bloggers have learned a variety of techniques for attracting visitors to their blog, conducting an average of five different activities to attract visitors. 28% do at least seven activities.
Bloggers are also adept at linking to and from other sites — they have a median of 29 links from their blog to other web sites (with a mean of 3400), and a median of 30 links from other web sites to their blog (with a mean of 4800).
To build loyalty with readers, bloggers create events for their readership
In order to retain visitors to their blogs, sophisticated bloggers are creating readership events.
Have you ever worked with your readership to create an event, either online or in person? Type of blogger
Corporate bloggers Professional bloggers Personal bloggers
Yes, in person 10% 8% 6%
Yes, online 13 14 11
Yes, both online and in person 24 17 13
No, I have not created an event with my readership 53 61 70
The majority of these events are in person, with one in five personal bloggers hosting an in-person event and one-third of corporate bloggers hosting an in-person event.
The vast majority of bloggers are tracking their site visitors and monthly pageviews
Only 5% of bloggers did not know how many monthly pageviews their blog received. All this hard work has paid off for active bloggers in terms of site visitors. Half of bloggers attract over 1000 unique visitors per month.
Tool Usage
Google Analytics is the most common tracking tool (used by 2/3 of bloggers)
Sitemeter and Statcounter used by one in five bloggers
42% use more than one service/provider for their analytics
Over 100 different tracking tools used
The majority of bloggers use Google to track blog visitors. However, bloggers do use a range of tools for site analytics, as our survey respondents mentioned more than 100 different tracking tools.
Bloggers are investing money
Select bloggers are investing significant money in their blogs (including hosting, marketing, staff, and paid contributors).
How many dollars have you invested in your blog over the past year? Dollars invested in blog over past year
MEAN US$ invested MEDIAN US$ invested MAXIMUM US$ invested
ALL $1,020 $50 $200,000
U.S. bloggers 635 80 75,000
Europe bloggers 2,140 15 200,000
Asia bloggers 940 30 70,000
Corporate bloggers 3,790 200 200,000
Bloggers with advertising 1,800 100 200,000
Bloggers without advertising 100 0 5,000
Bloggers with advertising invest significantly more money in their blogs than bloggers who do not accept advertising. The mean investment in blogs is $1,000 over the past year. However, the median investment is only $50. European bloggers and corporate bloggers invest more in their blogs on average, as do those bloggers who have advertising support.
Day 4
Blogging For Profit Day 2
The What And Why Of Blogging
Which of the following is a "must have" when signing up for new cell phone service?
Internet access Plenty of minutes
Unlimited texting
Top tags
news
sarah palin
politics
john mccain
barack obama
apple
economy
united states
media
iphone
Blog posts mentioning news per day for the past 30 days.. Source: technorati, State-of-the-Blogosphere
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One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week. The most influential bloggers are even more prolific. Using Technorati Index data, we analyzed the posting and tagging behaviors of bloggers according to their Technorati Authority. Over half of the Technorati top authority bloggers post five or more times per day, and they are twice as likely to tag their blog posts compared to other bloggers.
From their use of RSS feeds, video, photos, and mobile updates, bloggers are also tremendously sophisticated in leveraging the available tools to make their blogs more robust.
Bloggers employ a variety of technologies to attract visitors. Top audience-building strategies include: listing their blog on Technorati and Google, commenting or linking to other blogs, and tagging blog posts so that they are more easily searchable. All of this hard work has paid off — half of active blogs attract more than 1000 monthly visitors.
BLOGGER PROFILE
Time spent blogging
Bloggers invest a significant amount of time in creating and updating their blogs, as well as other blog-related activities.
Time Spent Blogging Each Week
One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week, and about half spend more than five hours weekly on their blog. Only 15% of active bloggers spend less than one hour per week on their blog.
Blogging with help
While the majority of bloggers manage their blogs solo, among professional and corporate bloggers, one in ten pay staff to contribute to their blogs.
Employ any Staff for Blogging
One in five corporate bloggers have paid full-time or part-time staff. Across both professional and corporate blogs, a higher percentage have unpaid help.
Technorati 100, Next 500, and Next 5000 comparisons
We analyzed the Technorati index data to see whether higher-authority bloggers behaved differently from other bloggers.
Posting by Technorati Authority
Group Average Authority Avg Days Posting
(June 2008) Avg Monthly Posts
(June 2008)
Top 100 6,084 23 310
Next 500 1,551 20 125
Next 5000 439 13 25
Blogs with higher authority are typically updated more frequently than blogs with lower authority. The Technorati Top 100 blogs had more than twice as many postings in June 2008 as the next 500, and more than 12 times as many postings as the next 5000.
Posting Frequency
Technorati Top 100 bloggers are twice as likely to post ten or more time daily compared to the next 500, and 14 times as likely than the next 5000. Looking again at Technorati's tracking data shows how often the Top 100 bloggers post each day compared to the next 500 and the next 5000. The Technorati Top 100 are prolific, with 43% posting ten times per day or more often. Only 8% post once a day or less frequently, compared to 13% of the next 500 bloggers, and 22% of the next 5000 bloggers.
Technorati Top 100 bloggers are twice as likely to use tags in their posts
Tagging blog posts is another way of ensuring that people can search for relevant content within a blog.
Percentage of Bloggers who Use Tags
Technorati's tracking data shows that the Technorati Top 100 bloggers use tags much more frequently than the next 500 and the next 5000 bloggers. The Technorati Top 100 bloggers are twice as likely to use tags in their blog posts compared to the average of the 5MM active bloggers tracked in June.
Broad categories are the most popular tags
Technorati index data uncovers the most popular tags during the month of June. “News” was the #1 most-used tag by bloggers, appearing close to 200,000 times over the course of the month.
Most Popular Tags
(June 2008) Times Tag Used
1 News 191,403
2 Music 71,531
3 Video 63,855
4 Internet 56,849
5 Blog 56,733
6 Politics 53,986
7 Life 52,805
8 Business 50,413
9 Videos 40,162
10 Movies 36,205
11 Technology 35,456
12 Family 34,745
13 Travel 33,172
14 Sport 31,646
15 Sports 30,323
16 Entertainment 28,413
17 Software 28,269
18 Diary 28,499
19 Humor 28,230
20 Art 25,852
General categories such as news, music, video, politics, and business tend to be the most popular tags.
Technorati's top bloggers had eight blog posts tagged “News” on average
Technorati's Top 100 bloggers use this tag more than two times as much as the next 500, and 19 times as much as the next 5000.
Average Number of Tags/Blogger by Technorati Authority
Shown here are some of the more popular tags and how many times those tags were used on average by the Top 100, next 500, and next 5000 bloggers. This data reinforces the fact that Top 100 bloggers use all tags more frequently than other bloggers.
Trends can also be tracked by looking at tag growth over time
Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis player who made it to the finals of the U.S. Open, saw his popularity grow once he beat Rafael Nadal on September 7, 2008.
Posts by Day about “Andy Murray”
Posts tagged “Obama” peaked during the Democratic National Convention, reaching their highest point on the day of his acceptance speech and the day following (August 28 and 29, 2008).
Posts by Day about “Obama”
Posts tagged “McCain” spiked on August 29, 2008, the day he chose Sarah Palin to be his Vice Presidential running mate, and then again during the week of the Republican National Convention.
Posts by Day about “McCain”
Sarah Palin had more tagged posts than Obama or McCain after her speech at the Republican National Convention on September 3, 2008, confirming the intense interest about her across the media and the blogosphere.
Posts by Day about “Sarah Palin”
Bloggers are using tools on their blogs
Bloggers are also tremendously sophisticated in leveraging available tools to make their blogs more robust or easily updatable.
Tools Used on Blog
More than eight in ten have a commenting system, archived posts, and have built-in syndication. Others use video and photos on their blog, or update their blog via a mobile device. On average, bloggers use seven of the 13 tools listed.
Among those with widgets, the majority of bloggers use at least four widgets on their site and two-thirds would include a widget with an ad on their blog.
Among those blogs with RSS feeds, three in four support full-content feeds.
How bloggers attract visitors
Bloggers are savvy and resourceful in generating traffic.
How Bloggers Attract Visitors
Top traffic-building strategies include: listing their blogs on Technorati and Google, commenting on or linking to other blogs, participating in a blogroll or blog directory, and tagging blog posts so that they are more easily searchable. Active bloggers have learned a variety of techniques for attracting visitors to their blog, conducting an average of five different activities to attract visitors. 28% do at least seven activities.
Bloggers are also adept at linking to and from other sites — they have a median of 29 links from their blog to other web sites (with a mean of 3400), and a median of 30 links from other web sites to their blog (with a mean of 4800).
To build loyalty with readers, bloggers create events for their readership
In order to retain visitors to their blogs, sophisticated bloggers are creating readership events.
Have you ever worked with your readership to create an event, either online or in person? Type of blogger
Corporate bloggers Professional bloggers Personal bloggers
Yes, in person 10% 8% 6%
Yes, online 13 14 11
Yes, both online and in person 24 17 13
No, I have not created an event with my readership 53 61 70
The majority of these events are in person, with one in five personal bloggers hosting an in-person event and one-third of corporate bloggers hosting an in-person event.
The vast majority of bloggers are tracking their site visitors and monthly pageviews
Only 5% of bloggers did not know how many monthly pageviews their blog received. All this hard work has paid off for active bloggers in terms of site visitors. Half of bloggers attract over 1000 unique visitors per month.
Tool Usage
Google Analytics is the most common tracking tool (used by 2/3 of bloggers)
Sitemeter and Statcounter used by one in five bloggers
42% use more than one service/provider for their analytics
Over 100 different tracking tools used
The majority of bloggers use Google to track blog visitors. However, bloggers do use a range of tools for site analytics, as our survey respondents mentioned more than 100 different tracking tools.
Bloggers are investing money
Select bloggers are investing significant money in their blogs (including hosting, marketing, staff, and paid contributors).
How many dollars have you invested in your blog over the past year? Dollars invested in blog over past year
MEAN US$ invested MEDIAN US$ invested MAXIMUM US$ invested
ALL $1,020 $50 $200,000
U.S. bloggers 635 80 75,000
Europe bloggers 2,140 15 200,000
Asia bloggers 940 30 70,000
Corporate bloggers 3,790 200 200,000
Bloggers with advertising 1,800 100 200,000
Bloggers without advertising 100 0 5,000
Bloggers with advertising invest significantly more money in their blogs than bloggers who do not accept advertising. The mean investment in blogs is $1,000 over the past year. However, the median investment is only $50. European bloggers and corporate bloggers invest more in their blogs on average, as do those bloggers who have advertising support.
Day 4
Blogging For Profit Day 2
The What And Why Of Blogging
Which of the following is a "must have" when signing up for new cell phone service?
Internet access Plenty of minutes
Unlimited texting
Top tags
news
sarah palin
politics
john mccain
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