Trying To Make Money Blogging

Follow or No Follow?

Most WordPress blogs come with the rel=’nofollow’ tag. This means that when your leave your comment and your link is displayed in your name you don’t receive a precious backlink. Lately I’ve been thinking about removing this the rel=’nofollow’ tag as a kind of reward to people who can actually be bothered to comment on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Follow or No Follow?", url: "http://www.funk13.com/follow-or-no-follow.html" });

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Starting A New Blog. Nightmare? Or Childs Play?

Yesterday I started working on a new blog, I'm going to use this blog to try and make some money with Adsense. A lot of people will tell you that Adsense is dead and how you must stay away from it. A lot of posts like that will have clever little links in trying to get you to sign up for another ad network. They don't give a crap about you, they just want to earn their fee from getting you to sign up. Anyway, in this post I'm going to give you a run down of how I got my blog up and running. Choosing my domain Finding a new domain can be a pain in the ass. The domains you want are all taken and you usually end up with something you don't really like. Rather than having to waste my time trying to get PR, Google links, Yahoo links etc. I went and bought a domain with most of this already done for me. You might think this is going to be expensive, trust me, it isn't. Head over toSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Starting A New Blog. Nightmare? Or Childs Play?", url: "http://www.funk13.com/starting-a-new-blog-nightmare-or-childs-play.html" });

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What Do Blog Readers Want?

The best way to keep your readers coming back is to provide them with great content. Anyone can write a blog post, but it’s writing blog posts that people will find interesting, exciting and make them want to voice their opinions that counts. I’ve found that writing 300-400 word posts taking the piss or criticizing [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What Do Blog Readers Want?", url: "http://www.funk13.com/what-do-blog-readers-want.html" });

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