Luke’s $10k A Week Blog

10kluke.info is already $15 along the way towards it’s goal! Don’t believe me? Check this out:

Smart
PageRank
Values this site at
$15

Of course, since it has cost me $16 already in hosting I’m $1 in the red. But at least I’m making my money back!

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1. Search engines. Blog search engines like to hear your ping on a routine basis. Once a week is not enough, and too many per day is just spam. A daily blog hits the sweet spot for the ping services and search engines, and keeps the bots crawling back for more.

2. Friendliness. People who come to your blog do not come to read an old article. They want to see what’s new with you. Making a new post that day (even if it was pre-scheduled) is the equivalent of saying “hello, how are you doing today?” Once their mammal-mind encounters that feeling, they will want to check back the next day to see if you really meant it.

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I was reading a blog post by Andrew Pavelski entitled 10 Reasons Why People Don’t Make Money Online. Here is my quick summary of each point:

1. Giving up too soon

   Most blogs across the net are abandoned, non-updated, and not making any money online. Instead of making money, they are just pieces of internet debris, collecting dust and never being visited. It’s hard to be certain whether their blog had enough potential in other respects, of course. But there’s no more certain way to fail than to quit when you’re not ahead.

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There are three good ways to title (and theme) a post.

1. Comparisons of wildly different things. Example: What Bloggers Can Learn From Donald Trump.

2. Numbered lists of simple points. Example: 10 Reasons Never to Get a Job.

3. Anything “How To”. Example: How To Become an Early Riser.

These always sound authoritative. Even if you’re not really an expert on the subject, you’ll sound like one. Further, in writing the post you will actually be more inclined to think like an expert.

Sharp, concise, well-supported thoughts with lots of original input. That’s what readers want, and that is what will boost your blog’s popularity the most.

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I was looking through some Digg posts and noticed this from OIBO. It’s an interesting, simple idea, for a blogger like me who posts daily: Recycle your old posts by rewriting them better and in different words.

It’s less work than staring at a blank page and writing a completely new article from scratch. The ideas are already in written form — they just need put into different words, hopefully better words. And it’s not really the same as copying and pasting; entire new content actually ends up being created.

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It has been over a week since I started posting once-daily on this blog. It is a great feeling to know I am succeeding at this. I just thought I’d write this (a day in advance ) to celebrate. I definitely have more ideas in store for articles that I would like to write. I just need to get enough time together and FOCUS.

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I’ve been educating myself (slowly but surely) on how to get more traffic on my blog — or any site for that matter. One of the most important things of course is to get Google to turn my pages up first on a search. The key factor in this is Page Rank.

I figured out how to give away page rank to valued readers who post comments. However, there are hazzards to giving away links indiscriminately. Whenever you link from one page to another, you automatically reduce the value of the one and increase the value of the other, to some degree.

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I have just installed the Nofollow Free plugin. This is good news if you have a blog or website and are looking to get some google ranking by posting comments here.

In case you didn’t know, Google recently implemented a convention of not counting any link labeled “nofollow” towards their rankings. The good news is that this reduces the chance that spammers will be able to get higher ranking from posting nonsensical comments to blogs. The bad news is that it keeps legitimate commentors from being able to tell others about their site as effectively.

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An extremely valuable plugin for me has been the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. I like to publish articles in advance, and wordpress’s default pinging behavior on this is really lame. It sends the ping as soon as you hit “Publish” then fails to ping when the article actually shows up on your page! MBP Ping Optimizer delays the ping to the time when the article shows up on your page.

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From wikipedia:

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1]

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