- Author: admin
- Filed under: Wordpress
- Date: Dec 1,2008
Blue Sensation
- Main body column to left
- Double advertising columns on right (125×125)
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Chrome Tweaks
- Two sidebars 125px and 300px wide
- Gravatars for comments
- Editable PSD logo
- Ad spots for easy monetization – 300×250px, 125×125px, 468×60px, 120×600px
- Widget ready – both sidebars support widgets
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Facebook
- Widget Ready
- A huge range of colour schemes available: Red, Pink, Yellow, Green, Grey, Black, Brown, Blue, Light Blue and Purple
- Brings the proven Facebook layout to WordPress
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Acosmin Mag
- Widget Ready
- A huge range of colour schemes available: Red, Pink, Yellow, Green, Grey, Black, Brown, Blue, Light Blue and Purple
- Brings the proven Facebook layout to WordPress
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Prologue
- Twitter like system for comments categorised by tags from multiple users.
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Rihanna
- Widget Ready
- Clean and simple
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StudioPress
- Widget Ready
- Ad Ready
- Customisable Welcome Section
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Acosmin Tech
- 3 columns with one 300px and one 125px sidebar
- Widget ready
- Editable PSD header image
- Ad spots
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Acosmin v4
- Two expandable tree columns
- Various ad spots
- Editable PSD header image using Trebuchet MS
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Seth Godin
“The word blog is irrelevant, what’s important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have a media platform where they share what they care about with the world.” Read the rest of this entry »
Wondering what blog industry think tanks and top bloggers believe their future will be? Read on…
Brad Feld
“In 2004 when Technorati started, the typical reaction to the word ‘blog’ was ‘huh – can you repeat yourself?’ Today, blogs are everywhere —even presidential candidates have blogs. The blog has forever changed the way publishing works —now anyone can be a publisher. The issue is no longer distribution; rather, it’s relevance.” |
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Chris Pirillo
Internet Content Producer (Since 1992)
chris.pirillo.com
“The idea of blogging will never disappear, but the process by content is created for one blog or a series of blogs will continue to undergo radical upheavals. This past year, we saw the introduction of countless “microblogging” platforms, to the point where they (themselves) have become a commodity —further pushing individual voices to the Blogosphere’s melting pot. Brand will continue to decentralize, and micro-communities will form within any one of the loosely-structured services (like FriendFeed, which values the continuation of conversation as much as it does the initiation portion).” Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Mindset
- Date: Nov 8,2008
The opportunity to create your own blog with little funding or technical ability has been around for some time now. I wanted to find out why people enjoy ‘their place on the Internet‘ and become a blogger?
Firstly to get an estimate on the size of the blogosphere we turn to
studies over at Technorati. There are several separate studies into the
actual number of blogs in existence. Most are
WordPress blogs but there are other platforms out their to blog from.
- Technorati says 133 million (June 2008)
- comScore MediaMetrix says (August 2008)
- eMarketer says 22.6 million are US bloggers (May 2008)
- Universal McCann says 184 million people worldwide have a blog (March 2008). They also say that 77% of active Internet users read blogs.
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Bloggers Blog But Why?
- Communication – sparking conversations regarding a timely event or interest
- Information – in the process of writing a quality post they gain further knowledge of the topic
- Influence – stating your opinion to the world and aligning others to your view
- Fame – to increase popularity of their profile among others and get attention
- Reputation – to become an expert on the topic
- Business – the blogger is employed to market a brand or product indirectly increasing sales
- Money – create content, build a readership and make money from ad revenue
How Did You Get into Blogging?
We at Blog Monies would love to hear how you entered the blogosphere. If you haven’t yet then start one now. It is never too late to get blogging!
With Internet users growing and wireless devices supporting broadband internet it is time to start making your share of the online revenue pie. Let’s start with the basics – 7 Sources of Online Passive Income
Passive Income is where you make money from sources with which you have minimal input into. You set up assets (websites with ads) and sit back and watch the money come in.
As the above demo shows, we will now be able to hit two birds with one stone. Logging on twice to Google’s blogging cornerstones is a thing of the past. You’ll now be able to find out exactly which pages generate what income at what time from what referrer. Tracking your users through your blog has never been so easy allowing us bloggers improved financial gain. Invites will be out soon it is now being gradually rolled out.
Will we now see only money making content on blogs with all else suffering economic cut backs? Well no. Luckily economics shows us one product swamping the market will drive down it’s monetary value allowing other niche topics back in the game. The diverse blogosphere will continue to evolve even under Google’s analytic/adsense microscope.
Happy 5th Birthday to WordPress and cheers to Automattic! Thank you for providing a stable evolving flexible blogging platform for the entire world to use!
(B-Day Tuesday, 27th May 2008)
Check out the stats from Nielsen Online:
- Blogger – 34,104,000 users – up 58% from last year
- WordPress – 11,440,000 users – up 444% from last year
- Six Apart TypePad – 10,601,000 – up 20 % from last year
- TMZ.com – 7,107,000 – up 10%
- LiveJournal – 3,366,000 – up 27%
Trailing in their dust come 6- Xanga 7- Thatsfit 8- Gizmodo 9- Autoblog 10- StyleDash 
C’mon WP fans! (Do you think it’s the scraper blogs fobbing the stats?) Comment below..
Nick Denton won’t talk to me. I’ve been after him for weeks. But the man behind the wittiest, bitchiest, most irresistible weblogs going–the gossipy Gawker and Wonkette, the gadget pageant Gizmodo, and the smut aggregator Fleshbot–is shutting me out, claiming he’s overexposed. He’s so serious about not commenting that he’s ordered his stable of blog writers not to talk to me either.
An oldie but a goodie – article about the creator of Gizmodo and his rivalry with the creator of Engadget.
Calacanis is late to the blogging game, or at least later than he was to the rise and subsequent overinflation of New York’s Silicon Alley. His strategy appears to be to exploit Denton’s weakness. Rather than paying bloggers a pittance, he’s partnering with them, letting them keep their sites and half the revenue generated by ads. His company is the Weblogs Inc. Network. Get it? WIN.
Snippets from the original article by Greg Lindsay
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Domaining
- Date: May 22,2008
Are you making money from parking your website domains?
Mine aren’t too flash. Out of 25 domains I have listed on a parking revenue service at Sedo I have generated the following stats for the months of April and May.
6 Reasons Steer Clear of Blog Networks
- Money – You only get part of the money!
- Guilty by Association – If the network looks bad so do you!
- Conforming - If you thrive on controversy posts consider your partners
- Inside the Square - Tunnel-vision from working with your blog partners rather than with the outside world (lack of inspiration)
- Growing Pains – Being drowned out by the big bang – network expansion may result in not receiving support
- Locked In - Did you start blogging to vent via writing? Deadlines, 1 post per day requirements, sounds like a job to me… bach humbug
(My views from the post on ProBlogger)
7 Reasons to Enter Blog Networks
- Relationships – communicate to your blog teammates through forums, chat, email lists for support all things blogging. You have already established raport by fighting for the same cause!
- Traffic – generating a loyal readership is hard work. Network blogging can offer cross-promotion and incoming links from your network allies making traffic flow a little easier.
- Expertise – are your blog skills sharp in blog platforms, marketing, net advertising, theme design and domaining? A huge help in a network of bloggers is to cry help at the top of your voice. Team work will prevail and you’ll be back on your feet in no time. Read the rest of this entry »
