What is your Blog worth?

Ever wondered if its possible to sell your blog and how much it might be worth? If you have been a reader of this blog for a while you will know that the original owner sold it last year for $9,500. Not a huge amount in the big business sense, but then again hardly peanuts.
So how do you find out the worth of your blog. Well firstly lets make some assumptions here. You have ad revenue, you have RSS subscribers and you have more than single digit page views everyday.
There is a very useful tool called cubestat which will do the calculation for you.

As you can see from the screenshot, having entered the URL it returns some pretty nice information. An estimated value, the number of page views and the estimated ad revenue. Nice to be able to track this type of information if you are considering a sale. Of course, an estimated value doesn’t necessarily equate to a sales price, especially in this economy.
If nothing else you can find out the value of your favorite blogs. Be Sure to Leave Your Comments!

Contextual Ads and Affiliate Programs- Why Topics matter

Why Topic Matters
Contextual Ads - Different topics and keywords within topics will trigger different ads in contextual ad programs and as a result will earn different levels ‘per click).
Affiliate Programs - Similarly, different topics will open up different levels of earnings when it comes to affiliate programs. For example a blog about books that uses the Amazon program is only ever likely to make small commissions per sale as the average book might only be worth $20 and the commission with Amazon is generally in the 5-8% range. On the other hand I know of publishers in the financial website game who use affiliate programs that can pay out at $100 per sale.
Indirect Methods - Obviously different opportunities (with different income earning potential) arise for bloggers with a profile in different niches. For example a blogger known for his movie review blog might not have much demand for consulting work but could find a way to syndicate his blog to magazines or newspapers. A blogger with a good profile in the PR industry might not get picked up as a writer in magazines but could land himself a well paying job or some consulting work.
Age of Blog: - a good wine matures with age - as do many profitable blogs (and most profitable businesses for that matter). There are many reasons why this is the case and while some blogs do seem to rise from nowhere to dominate the blogosphere - most do not. Here’s a few reasons why blogs tend to get better with age:
Quantity of content - I find myself saying this to new bloggers repeatedly but don’t expect to get a lot of traffic to your blog until you have a substantial level of content in your archives. Of course quality of content is vital, but at least at some level numbers of posts do count and unless you’re going sell your soul and to get into splogging quantities of content take time.
Search Engine Optimization - While some SEO experts claim they can have you at the top of Search Engines quickly (and some can), sustaining high rankings through legitimate methods means building a site over time. Climbing the rankings in SE’s is the result of many things including good content (lots of it) that gets links from others - both things that take time.
Reputation - Building an online profile and presence takes time n the same way that it takes time in real life. People look for consistency in your blogging overtime and will want to see that you not only talk the talk but walk the walk. As you do this you’ll find your readership grows.
Network - Connected with a good reputation comes networking opportunities. I shudder when I look back at my first blogging efforts and how naive, ill-informed and poorly run they were. I have a long way to go when it comes to learning about the web, blogs, design, writing etc and I stil have alot to learn I guess we really have to take a long time before we actually lern everything there is to know but as long as we try and put forth an effort this is what counts through trial and error we will learn. You can read all the books, blogs and articles you want on blogging (and I’d encourage you to do so) - but so much of what you can learn about blogging for money has to come from on the job experience - which again only comes with time.
Time Invested: Lastly I’ll add that the time a blogger is willing and able to invest into their blog is a factor worth considering. One thing I do know is that if you want to make your blog succeed you also have to invest alot of time into it and I because Im ill cannot do this altho I wish I could blog all the time all day , like a regular job but I cannot. But many of you may be able to invest more time into your blog. This is a bit of a catch 22 situation of course (the more you earn the more time you can put in and the more time you put in the more you can earn) So How Much Can a Blog Earn?
I’m not about to put a definitive answer on it except to say that every blog is different and the evidence that I’ve seen from interacting bloggers and their blogs over the past year is that bloggers are earning anything between nothing at all and millions of dollars. The upper end of the spectrum is of course rare and those earning very little are in the majority, but bloggers earning decent income is becoming increasingly common. Probably the best way to find out what you can earn from a particular blog is to start that blog and test the waters.
Give yourself a time limit of a few months to get a feel for the topic and see how it goes. While it’s important to realize that a few months is not really enough - it is enough to get an understanding for whether it’s a topic you feel you can sustain, what the click values and CTR might be in contextual ads and even to get a feel for what type of readers you’ll attract. This blog is fairly new and I will not lie I only have a few readers visiting but hopefully more readers will find this blog informative and come back and tell their friends about it if not I will just have to keep trying..... If the signs are good - invest more time into it - if they are not, consider trying something else. Be Sure to Leave Your Comments!

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Why Use Good Keywords

Using Good Keywords simply saves a lot of time and effort. Of course you could decide not to use Good Keywords!
You will have to visit a number of search engines and services... Type in your main keywords... Extract the output files... Save them... then repeat the same thing for each of your secondary keywords...It will take you a few hours...
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Good Keywords makes use of various tools provided by search engines like the Overture Search Suggestion Tool, Search Engines Like Yahoo, Google, MSN, Ask and other services like Alexa. Please note that you can manually do most of the tasks performed by Good Keywords. However using Good Keywords makes it all very simple, fast and straight forward.
You can also use Good Keywords as a meta tag creation tool. Keep adding the keywords you need into the Keyword Pad available within the software. Once you are done, a simple click will get you the required keyword meta tag... ready to be pasted into your HTML file. (Note: This is a legacy option. Most search engines no longer bother about the meta keyword tag)
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Site and Link Popularity Meter
Good Keywords is not limited to keyword tools alone. In addition it also includes a site popularity meter and a link popularity meter.
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The link popularity meter is for checking how many sites link to you. The results are obtained from search engines like Altavista, Lycos, MSN and Google.
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How to Download Images from Your Digital Camera to Your PC

Although most digital cameras come with their own software, Windows Vista has its own built-in wizard for downloading (or importing) images. (If your camera comes with its own downloading software, download your images with that program.) If your camera or card reader is supported within Windows Vista (check the manufacturer’s Web site or the specifications on the side of the box), you can use the Scanner and Camera Wizard to download images:


Enlarge1Connect the cable that came with your camera (or your external card reader) to the corresponding port on your PC.
This port is very likely your PC’s USB port. The Scanner and Camera Wizard screen appears when you plug in the USB cable from your camera.

Enlarge2If you want to assign an optional tag to the images from this camera, click in the Tag These Pictures text box and type the description.
By default, Vista uses the tag you enter to name the images and videos when they’re imported. For example, if you enter the tag Fun Photos, the filenames are Fun Photos 001.jpg, Fun Photos 002.jpg, and so on.

Enlarge3Click Import to begin downloading the images.
After the download is complete, Windows Vista automatically opens the Windows Photo Gallery with the photos you just downloaded in the pane on the right side of the window.

After the images have been transferred, you can unplug your camera’s cable. If you’re done with your images, you can close the Photo Gallery application.

PCs Glossary
application
A kind of software used for productivity or to create things (the software that does the work).
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cable
A means of accessing the Internet that runs through your cable TV coaxial connection.
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digital
A means of storing, transmitting, manipulating, or reproducing data, images and sounds by using groups of electronic bits represented by 1 and 0.
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port
A place on a computer where you can attach a device to send and/or receive information.
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program
A type of software that may or may not be used for productivity or to produce output, such as a computer game or a video editing program.
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scanner
A device that attaches to a computer and can create a graphics file of an object you place on the scanner (much like a photocopier, only a scanner produces a file rather than a paper copy).
PCs Glossary
screen
The part of the computer monitor on which information is displayed.
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software
Instructions that tell the computer hardware what to do or how to act; the brains of the computer.
PCs Glossary
USB
Universal Serial Bus; a computer connection that you can use to attach many different kinds of devices and peripherals to a computer.
PCs Glossary
Vista
The most recent version of the Windows operating system.
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Windows
The most common operating system on PCs.
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Get your Widgets or Blidgets from Widgetbox- Turn your Blog into a Blidget

If you want to turn your blog into Make a Blidget then go to Widgetbox there you an find all kinds of widgets you can use for your blogs or widgets you can use for fun not to mention if you want visitors from all over the world you really need a translator wisget to translate your page so go and check the widgetbox out now it has many widgets that I know you will like and I know you will find one or two you can use on your blogs. Drive more traffic to your blog with these fun and useful widgets. Works on Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, iGoogle or your favorite website.
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