Over the course of time, a blogger must overcome certain challenges, obstacles and generally rough times if he wishes to remain and grow; no matter how long you’ve been in the industry or what’s your current status - you will eventually face serious challenges that will test your consistency and passion.
I’m going a similar phase right now - I feel another, bigger test is ahead.
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After a forced hiatus I’m slowly getting back into my normal routine and hopefully the new features for March should be up soon. Today I want to talk about something everybody has been asking about: my best earner.
Over the last 3 months I’ve been reading a lot of questions and even complaints in the comments about the fact I don’t “share” my biggest earner, some have even tried to claim that I’m faking my earnings in various funny ways.
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5 days after paying $500 for my new VPS from Media Temple, I finally get my sites up and working on their server. The damage done to me by the recent downtime is significant and not everything is working perfectly so far; the funny thing is - I may be moving again in less than a week! why?
- Media Temple’s primary support method is a US toll-free phone number, the number is not toll free for international callers.
- Somehow, this very important piece of information is not mentioned anywhere on their site.
- Why is this information important? here’s an email I received from their sales department after complaining about slow responsiveness for my submitted support tickets:
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One of the golden rules in blogging is to never get too emotionally involved, it usually leads to nothing but trouble.
But I’m going to break that rule because I’m about to go literally insane at the moment, and you know the reason. I guess I’m now learning what I’ve been told many times: You get exactly what you pay for.
Anyway, I don’t want to rant too much. I’ve just placed an order at Media Temple, I’m getting a virtual private server and hope it will be robust enough to host my sites.
The post on my biggest earner will be published after the transfer.
Thanks for understanding, I really do appreciate it..
Allen
I promised March would be an even more exciting and interesting month here at AlleNation, and even though a leap into the domain market wasn’t planned, I found myself spending about $180 on 5 domain names since the beginning of the month.
When you first hear about someone spending “so much” on domain names you’d probably think it’s rather crazy than exciting or interesting; many people have hundreds of domain names in their portfolio with minimal reselling or developing potential, which makes their domaining experience futile.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case for me until now; out of the 5 domain I bought so far I parked one and put it for sale at Sedo on March 2nd, and yesterday -merely two days after- I received an inquiry about it.
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In this post we continue the series about paid reviews, it will give you no less than 12 tips on getting the most out of your reviews, whether they’re paid or not. Read the first two posts in this series before trying to grasp this one:
The fact February only has 28 days didn’t help my Adsense averages, but instead of whining about this and about the fact that Dreamhost was down for a whole day and loading extremely slow (have you noticed it?) for the next last 5 days, I’m putting together a recovery plan to perform better in March.
Earnings for February
February: the month of the slacker
March is going to be interesting, more than you imagine. A lot more.
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In the first post of this series I took John Chow’s review of my blog as a case study, my verdict was that the review was well worth the $100 I paid. After that post a lot of people were asking if it’s worth the current price - $250. Well, let’s see.
Before I you we answer this question, let me note that this article may be geared more towards those who are looking to buy reviews specifically from Chow, but outlines the same principles of buying paid reviews from any blog.
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Some 20 days after I’ve been reviewed by request at John Chow Dot Com, I think it’s time to release a much awaited verdict. This post will actually kick off our next series, which will talk about blogging reviews: whether you need or should get one, and if you do - how to make the most of it.
But before discussing why & how, let’s see what have John’s review brought to this blog in terms of instant traffic, RSS subscription and loyal readership. Was it worth my $100?
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Finding the right niche is often about finding the right audience, the audience you can connect, inspire or just feed with news and information from that topic.
Regardless of how well you’re currently doing with your own audience, expanding your potential reader base can only benefit you, delivering whatever kind of value freely to as many people as you can is they key for success, especially with blogs.
Here are 3 tools you can use to expand your potential reader base:
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