http://blogspinner.countwordula.com Monetizing and managing your weblogs Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:06:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As embarrassing as it is to admit, this site was running on WordPress 1.5.2 up until earlier today. But now I've upgraded to WP 2.7.1, and I'll be writing about the process here in the near future. http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/upgraded-to-wp-271/ If you hadn't noticed, WordPress 2.7 came out recently - and ahead of schedule from what I've heard. Personally, I love the slick, sexy 2.7, after being hugely disappointed with 2.5. It takes a bit of getting used to, what with the serious interface overhaul.  Now WP 2.8 is on ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/vote-on-wordpress-28-features/ For those of you that have been planning to move your blog but weren't sure how to go about it, check out this 20-point checkliist at Performancing. While it is focused on WordPress, much of it applies to nearly any type of blog move. In this case, the move was both ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/need-to-move-your-blog/ March marks two years since I first used AdSense. This has been a relatively good month, and if the trends it showed continue, then there's hope for my own sites :) Traffic: Traffic was at least higher than February. That is, the average pageviews per day is probably the highest it's ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/blogspinner-march-2007-milestones/ These posts are way overdue, due to being so busy with blogging projects. So I've combined them into a single post with two summary sections. JanuaryWow, is it February already? I was so busy catching up all the work I couldn't finish in December and January that I've not being staying ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/blogspinner-milestones-jan-feb-2007/ Once again, I've been so busy that this "milestones" post is an afterthought. As with 2005, December 2006 was a weaker month for pretty much everything, compared to October and especially November. Here is a brief summary of my blogging milestones, mostly in the area of revenue/ monetization. Traffic. Traffic was ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/blogspinner-december-2006-milestones/ This past week, I either purchased or agreed to the purchase of 7 sites, to bring my tally to 8. Except in my eagerness, I ignored checking into a few things before forking over my money (or agreeing to barter freelance blogging work in one case). I figured that I've ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/monetizing-blogs-series-buying-sites/ This is a summary of my personal and professional blogging activities, published with the intent of encouraging newbies to stick with it. Content: My own content has had a dramatic decrease. I've been trying new writers, and they're just getting up to speed with regular posting. Chitika: Not enough revenue to warrant ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/blogspinner-november-2006-milestones-2/ [Disclaimer: I am being paid for this review of ReviewMe, but am not obligated to write a positive review. Furthermore, I was one of the beta testers of the site.] ReviewMe is a brand new site that launched Nov 9/06 and is essentially similar to PayPerPost in that it's a ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/reviewme-the-full-review-writing-revenue-for-bloggers/ This is a shortened version because once I again I lost a crapload of writing by mistakenly pressing delete in my fave editor. Although now I no longer have a fave. I'm taking a different approach to these milestones: Chitika: More clicks in a single month than since late last Fall. ... http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/blogspinner-october-2006-milestones/