Fish Don’t Fry in the Kitchen (and blogs don’t become awesome on their own)
Ok so there is a really good chance that I have gone Adsense bonkers in my posts recently, but for good reason. I mean I have actually started to make a bit of money from it. OF course now that I am movin’ on up, I find that the more successful I become, the more I check my stats. I figure that the Google Adsense OCD is permanent and has no cure.
So for this post instead instead of Google this and Adsense that, I have decided to write about…
Making your blog more awesome.
Some people would write things like ‘Increase Traffic to Your Blog in 5 Steps’ or ‘Cash in on Your RSS Feeds’ or ‘Top 5 Wordpress Plugins’ but not me, this is all about making your blog awesome.
So what defines awesome?
Well for me it is people coming to Living on Adsense, hanging out having a good time, learning something, and then come back for more the next day.
So for me to make this happen I have decided to do a couple of things that I think will help bring in people plus I need to measure the results. For this, I will measure the results in RSS subscribers. I am going to do something that a lot of people tell you not to do when you have less than 100 subscribers. I am going to share my RSS numbers near the top of the page beside the subscription link.
So here is how I am going to do it: Teach People. I am going to bounce from place to place sharing my blogging knowledge, then if someone learns from or enjoys the blogging wisdom I have dispensed, the will have the option to come to my blog and hang out, learn something, and then come back for more.
This isn’t entirely fleshed out yet. I just thought of it while watching and episode of The Jeffersons. Here is what I have fleshed.
Forums: 2 forums that I frequent quite often are The Bloggeries, and Adsense Chat. I plan on heading to those forums and effectively assisting as many people as I can. I will also start stellar threads that teach people. I will use content from my blog as a starting point for these threads.
Blog Catalog: I will search through the discussions and groups looking for people that may need help with some aspects of blogging or Adsense.
Yahoo Answers: I will scour through the unanswered questions and try to answer questions as best as I can and use my blog as a reference.
Twitter: I will get involved with Adsense and blog based discussions and provide insight wisdom to those crazy birds.
I am sure there are many other places that I could spread my wisdom and I will explore them as I find them. My goal is too have 75 RSS readers by the end of October. I encourage you to do the same, test it out, see if being a teacher will help make your blog more awesome.
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My feed numbers went UP after placing it above the fold (after 50)…and of course doing that marketing thing
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