Lately I have been working with Demand Studios as a writer. For those of you who don’t know what Demand Studios is, the company provides content for sites like eHow, LiveStrong, and others. They pay based on a flat article rate (up to $15) for 400-500 word articles, or you can write articles and earn [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I signed up for SocialSpark.com and submitted my blog for review. After a few days, I received notice that my blog was rejected. At first I was a little surprised, but after reading their terms more closely, I realized I did make a mistake. The reason my blog [...]

About 1 month ago, I did the unthinkable: I took a successful website I had developed (heathives.com), and I completely re-branded it to a new domain  name (cholinergicurticaria.net). The website is about a medical condition I have known as Cholinergic Urticaria. The reasons I wanted to re-brand the site can be summarized below: I wanted [...]

The web is full of articles on how to promote your website online. You can do SEO (search engine optimization), you can swap links, do PPC ads, create youtube videos, banner ads, and all sorts of creative things to increase your traffic. So I thought I would list a few easy ways to promote your blog or website [...]

As I have mentioned in other posts, I have been experimenting with ways to increase my blog income for a while now. I have tried various ways to monetize my blogs. At this time, I am using only Adsense, but I soon hope to experiment with paid reviews, freelance writing, and more. I have tried a [...]

The other day I was editing a simple PHP file in notepad for one of my blogs.  So I saved the file as example.php.  As I went to save it, it automatically converted the save format like this: example.php.txt At first I didn’t notice this, and when I uploaded the file to my server, the page [...]

Saying that someone is an introverted (or antisocial) blogger almost sounds like an oxymoron. I mean, bloggers write content that may potentially be viewed by thousands (or even millions) of people. How could any blogger possibly be an introvert or antisocial? In some strange way, I have managed to pull it off. I can now [...]

One of the things I love about blogging is being able to share tips with others. I think bloggers all share a common interest, and we need to stick together to help one another succeed. In fact, I have learned so much from other bloggers along my journey (both new ones and older ones), that [...]

I have several Google Alerts set to certain topics that I frequently blog about (so I can keep tabs on new developments).  One thing that really annoys  me is when I get an alert, and a site is in the alert with content scraped directly from my own article! GRRR! There is absolutely no reason [...]

I absolutely LOVE WordPress blogging software. If you are a blogger, or thinking about blogging, I  highly recommend you go and download the free version of WordPress and use that for your blog. I have used it for over 3 years now on various blogs, and I love it. And the best part is the [...]

I received an email from Chitika recently, explaining that they will now offer a new version of the premium ads, which they are labeling “select ads.” What do Chitika Select Ads Do? What is the Difference Between Select Ads VS Premium Ads? Select ads can now be displayed to non-search traffic visitors. This is a [...]

A few days ago I posted about experimenting with new ways of increasing my blog income. One of those strategies was experimenting with paid/sponsored posts. So after some research I decided to sign up with a company called “social spark.” So I went to the trouble of adding my blog, joining the site, and all [...]

I have now been a blogger for nearly 3 years at this point. While I really enjoy blogging (especially the writing part), I have struggled in making the income pay enough to match the effort. At this point, I am only making around $300 per month with all of my blogs, and this is via [...]