Luke’s $10k A Week Blog

I have finally landed a new job: I will be breaking down boxes at IdaCold, here in Nampa, ID. It is a place that does froxen hash browns. Apparently staffing agencies are much more likely to find something for you if you call in multiple times per week… Which I have been doing ever since I got married.

It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. I’ll make $7/hr. It starts tomorrow at 6am. At 8 hours, that’s $54, approximately 1/200th of my $10k goal for this week.

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Don’t you love blogging? I sure do. It’s not all about the money, you know. It’s about the fun. Here are seven simple ways to keep it fun.

1. Challenge yourself. Give yourself a specific challenge. For example, to write a new post every day. Or learn and write about everything you can on a specific subject for a week.

2. Make friends. There are all kinds of people out there. Some of them are bound to share many of your interests. Interact with them, not only on your own blog but theirs as well — or wherever you can get ahold of them.

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Blogging about yourself is easy. It encourages you to give personal opinions and open up about your feelings. Unfortunately, this means less time spent talking about facts that you know for certain, or that are useful for the readers. Furthermore, it can easily detract from your sense of authority. There’s a reason scientific papers don’t start out with “In my opinion…”

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I have a request for all you savvy blog readers out there. Please tell me what you love, or hate, about my blog. I’m all ears. Be as critical as you want.

Some things that I’m still working on at present:

1. Theme. Hopefully this new theme will bug me less than the old one. Don’t get me wrong, it was a great theme — but it had some things about it that didn’t seem professional to me. For example, it put the H2 tag in lowercase instead of titlecase. Also, the blue-purple color really didn’t seem good to me, so I replaced it with black.

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Blogging just doesn’t suit me. You sit around and write long posts with no real purpose, trying to make money. Well I’m fed up with it. You can’t make money blogging. The big guys have already taken the market share. Nobody’s interested in what I have to say.

Making 10k per week is a sham. Bilge! Who makes that kind of money? John Cow, er, John CHOW doesn’t even make that kind of money! You can’t ever make 10k blogging. In fact, unless you’re born with some kind of special mutant super-power — or a huge inheritance — you can’t make 10k in a week. It’s just not possible.

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Surprisingly, the one thing I get the most attention for from the search engines is something I wrote one brief piece on, namely Raising Red Worms. Here’s all of my results. Note: anything with “10kluke” in it was just me checking.

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The title for this post was “borrowed” from a recent TUK posting — where you’d better post a quick comment or you’ll fail at life. Anyway, he makes some great points:

I will tell you one thing right now - if you read posts and don’t comment, you are wasting your time. I used to be like that too - I used to bounce from post to post in the blogosphere, just skimming, rarely commenting… before realising that ultimately, I wasn’t doing anything of use to improve my own blog. By commenting, you are.

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Last night I was inspired to write some link bait. It didn’t turn out so well, in my opinion. I only realized this after I published, as happens when you are sleep deprived. I’m going to leave it up, of course. I submitted it to Digg — but the fact is it was crap, so I undug. Oddly enough, I got a comment. IIRC, It was like “OMG you actually watch that show???”

The fact is, all articles are potential link bait. Someone somewhere might very well link to you. But some articles are more likely to float to the top of a social bookmarking site than others.

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I just signed 10kluke.info up for a new site called rssHugger. The brainchild of Collin LaHay, it is an interesting, and unconventional blog-promoting tool. I think it has the potential to become a very big name in the blogging industry.

While the original plan was to charge a $10 entry fee, it is currently possible to get in the directory for free. In exchange for writing a review of rssHugger, and provided you can pass a manual inspection for quality non-spam blogs, your entire RSS feed will be featured in their searchable directory. The review can be avoided if you want to pay $20 to be featured directly.

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There’s a lot of different styles that are employed in blogging. Here are five that I have found to be pretty common. They are not mutually exclusive of course, so you’ll find that the themes run together in many highly successful blogs. If you want a highly successful blog, it can’t hurt to imitate them!

1. Niche marketing. These are sites deliberately constructed to target a niche and sell to it. It can be gardening, weight loss, whatever. Raising red worms is an example of a niche that I am interested in.

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