Entries from May 2007

Helping visitors browse your content, Part 2

Date May 31, 2007

This series of articles is about helping your visitors find the information they want, or you want them find, as quickly as possible. The easier your site is to browse, the longer visitors might stay.
In part 1 of this series I compared blogs to libraries to emphasize how important it is to provide search options […]

Helping visitors browse your content, Part 1

Date May 29, 2007

Unless you started blogging very recently, the content of your blog won’t fit on your first page. In fact, most of your content will be scattered over several pages.
The key is to make your visitors find the information you’re presenting. There are several ways to make your visitors find information on your site.

Let them search […]

What triggers you to donate?

Date May 28, 2007

If you like this article, buy me a beer.
This line suddenly appeared on the bottom of posts from a couple of blogs. This is the author’s way of asking for donations. But my question to the readers is: What triggers you to donate to a person/organization/event?

The cause?
Is it the reason why the person asks for […]

Is it wrong to blog for money?

Date May 28, 2007

One piece of advise: “If you start off blogging for money, you might as well not start at all.”
Remember this sentence, we’ll get back to it later.
I’ve been reading (about) blogs for a while. It was not until I clicked on a Google ad, which led me to John Chow’s site, that I understood that […]

Useful Links: Week 2 and 3

Date May 27, 2007

Due to a heavy work load last week (actually still a lot to do) I’m posting the useful links I encountered of those 2 weeks. There is a lot of pretty nice stuff out there to read.

Success from the Nest: Tony writes a nice article about The Mistake of Waiting for Your Start-Up to Be […]

My trip to NY is cancelled

Date May 26, 2007

A while ago I started a campaign to visit the Future of Online advertising conference in New York. Since then I’ve been constantly talking to possible sponsors locally to see what they can mean to me. The main problem I was having is that this was on too short of a notice to have funds […]

Monetizing with Amazon

Date May 25, 2007

One of the other monetizing options besides Adsense is the Amazon affiliate program.
People still love to read books. That’s what keeps Amazon in business. What’s so great about that, is that they pay you up to 10% of the price of an item that was sold though your affiliate account.
Building links
There are several ways to […]

Case Study: Exploring Suriname

Date May 14, 2007

In the blogosphere there are a lot of niches covered. The most covered niches, making money online and blogging, are successful, because more people are getting interested in making money with blogging. I want to try out a different niche: tourism.
Tourism at the moment
Suriname is a tropical country on the north coast of South America. […]

Useful links: Week 1

Date May 13, 2007

Every week I’ll be posting links to articles on the net that I consider useful to myself, so useful to my readers.

Darren Rowse: 5 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity. This article links to a couple other articles about creativity.
Daily Blog Tips: Daniel writes about Blogging and Productivity.
Community Spark: Martin provides tips for Writing content […]

Some link love to fellow Group Writers

Date May 13, 2007

I participated in Problogger’s Top 5 Group Writing Project with an article in my other blog. And now I’m spreading some link love to all the participants. Please check them out, who knows what great blogs you discover.

Become Blog Worthy by Sarakastic
The Top 5 Mind, Body & Spirit Books by Talia Mana
The Top Fives by […]