The AdSense trap: True story from a fellow blogger. If you were advised to remove unwanted and unqualified Google Ads from your AdSense, try not to click on those ads to find the links. Just hover over them with the mouse and type in thr URI.

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 […]

WordPress is a winner A few weeks down the track and I’m still loving this WordPress blogging system. Thanks to the plugin archtecture and drag and drop sidebar ‘widgets’ I can quickly and easily make customisations to the blog and adjust the layout. and The other thing to note about WordPress is it’s flawless (to-date) performance in stopping spam comments and trackbacks. The ‘Akismet’ plugin has so far stopped 601 spams without a single error, and no tweaking or training required! It’s excellent. Nice to hear such kind words.

Text Link Ads Calculator Figure out exactly how much you could be making from putting up Text Link Ads on your website/blog. (Not an affiliate link)

WP Theme: Nikynik One column, dark, bottom sidebar theme for WordPress. This theme looks a little busy but might work for some people. Interesting header pictures.

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. 🙂

Read on a blog, overheard in real life: I don’t want to date him-and-his-f@!*#ing-blog.