31 Days to Build a Better BlogDon’t order “31 days to build a better blog” by Darren Rowse. It is a waste of money!

Surprised! Are you?

Don’t worry, I am not an anti-problogger or, a Hate-Darren-Rowse activist. In fact I respect Darren Rowse and his ProBlogger blog very much. Darren has been a source of inspiration for me and my blogs. I learnt blogging from Darren’s blog and his tips. He is one of my mentors in addition to Yaro Starak.

If that is the case, then why is it that I said that you should not order “31 days to build a better blog”?

CryingI lost my pagerank!!

Did this happen to any of you out there?

It was shocking to see that my website lost the pagerank that it had gained in the past 2 months, all of a sudden. I had worked quite hard to get the pagerank up there and suddenly when you see that you have lost it, it is quite heart-breaking.

It seems Google is busy working on some tweaks and tricks. A few days back we saw quite a few changes – that too, drastic ones, being applied to Adsense. In fact these changes helped my income from Adsense go up from about $3.00 per day to about $35.00 per day from one website.

RevenueHow to get the most of Adsense? A couple of days back I was browsing through a blog that I frequently visit and I found a very interesting entry about “Adsense earnings”. The entry was bout the decreasing earnings from Adsense PPC ads placed in blogs. There were quite a few commentators who felt that they had also seen a decrease in Adsense revenue over the past few months. This was indeed an observation that I too had. I feel that recession has had its toll on Adsense as well.

Hand-holdingHave you heard of somebody teaching you to be as successful as he is for free. “Free” – There is nothing free in this world, might be your response. Even if somebody is offering something for free, he would never help you be as successful as he is. If these are your thoughts, then I would not want to disagree!

But, indeed there are somethings that are free. If you don’t believe me, then just browse over to this link and see for yourself.

Tools-and-moneyYou have not made a dime from your internet marketing business since you started out on the journey. Is that you?

Frustration is creeping into the mind and you are wondering as to what is it that needs to be done so that you earn that first dollar from the internet marketing business. Is that you?

95% of all Internet Marketing journey ends in a disaster. Don’t panic at this statement. Your success is a coefficient of your choice. In this respect, I would want to quote a statement from one of my favorite movies – The fantastic four: the rise of the silver surfer.

IdentityA simple tip that could give your blog a new identity – have you come across one till today. No? You are right, because there is none.

The success of any business depends upon how you and your product is identified by your customers. When the competition is fierce as in Internet Marketing business, an “Identity” makes all the difference. But how will you create an identity of you own, especially in blogging and more so if you are in a niche that has a lot of competition?

What constitutes identity? What are the ingredients of identity?

List-building

“The Money is in the List” – How many times have you heard this? Innumerable times! Is there frustration in your voice when you answered? You sound like me. It is the same frustration that I saw months ago when I was reading some good blog post on list-building, like you are doing today.

Wordpress

The success of your blog largely depends upon how well the blog is being managed. In one of my earlier post, I had compared Blogger and WordPress. I had also mentioned that WordPress was any day my choice. Though WordPress installation is a cake-walk if you follow the world-famous 5-minute installation from WordPress, there are instances where the installation reaches a dead-end and you are left gasping for breath. What is the reason for this?