10 Blog promotion tools: Meh!Add these tools to grow your blog readership. Though there is a place for tools to help a blog readership grow, blog marketing and marketing through blogs is extremely overdone. Yes, these are directed towards marketing professionals but they send out the wrong message and end up in generating unwanted pages with bogus content and Akismet fodder. There is no shortcut, no miracle tool, no ten steps to blog nirvana. If you are a blog author, entrepreneur, marketer or a new blog author, there is one surefire tool to grow your readership and get visited/read by a bunch of people. Wait for it … Write good content. Keep a lazy eye on all tools, features, themes, widgets, scripts, plugins, links, readers, browsers and everything in between, but write good content. I try to help people start and popularize good (and useful) blogs by guiding them in […]

Ready for more aggressive monetization? The following line really struck a chord with me: Even if you have a “real” job and your blog is your hobby, I think your family would appreciate something more than an additional few lattes a month earned from your blogging. A nice dinner out, gift for your partner, car payment, chipping away at the nagging credit card debt. That pretty much the same idea I had in mind when I started Qlue to give a chance to the regular everyday blogger to make a few extra bucks on the side without the hassles of purchasing and maintaining a web hosting account.

How Much Is Your Blog Worth? There are two links on that page. One that points to LeapFish where you can evaluate the value of your domain name and the other points to this page where Dane has used some real world data and live Technorait information to calculate the value of your blog. Don’t break out the champagne just yet. 🙂