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Would it Make a Difference?

So I got to wondering the other day while I was mowing the lawn… 

What is the effect of a high ranking blogger on a blog?  More specifically, if a more popular blogger were to comment on a rather unknown blog, what effect would they have on that blog?

Could I get someone like Darren Rowse of problogger.net to write a guest post on my blog by means of research– somehow measure the effect of this high ranking blogger posting on a blog that was relatively unknown?

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It’s That Time Again

Time for lots of links.

I’m running a bit behind, trying to keep up all these blogs as well as write interesting posts, and keep up with the comments.

So, this week I’m going to do some rapid fire links posts, each one a given topic from my delicious account.

Hope you enjoy!

New Affiliate Ads

I’m toying with something new here at MInTheGap.  Some of you may already have noticed what it is, but I thought I’d explain myself.

Up on the top right you will now see a random set of 4 ads.  This is different from the Square ad that occupies that space if you’re a first time visitor or viewing and old post.  These ads are affiliate ads which means I signed up and was approved for their programs and that if you buy something from them, or sign up with them, I get a percentage of the fee.

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Determine Whether You Will Run Advertising

Something you’ll want to think about, if you’re new to blogging or have been doing it for a while, is what you want to get out of blogging. There are many different things that can be rewards for running a good blog:

• Recognition: Yeah! I got my first comment that wasn’t mine!
• Friends: Where did you say you were from again?
• Enemies: Yes, I do believe that God created the earth, why do you ask?
• Money?

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Text Link Ads - Promote My Site, Please!

Text Link Ads (and their accompanying banner ads) carry a similar problem to Pay Per Post, but they also pay better than most of the other money making systems.

The problem that’s similar to PPP is that people are trying to get links on your site so that they can get “Google Juice” and reach your audience. And yet these ads pay the best and allow you to have a great deal of control over what gets displayed on your site.

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Google AdSense - Click Here

When I first started blogging on Brave Journal close to four years ago the only ads that you saw were the (sometimes blinking) ads that were placed there by Brave Journal themselves– on the top of the blog. They were irritating, and they did nothing for the blog itself, and so when I first moved off Brave Journal to a friend’s family site, I bragged about my new blog not having ads at all!

At the time I thought it was just nice not to have to have the things blinking at me, and I figured that it was better for my readers– at that time only two really followed me to my new home.

A friend of mine suggested I try a new service– Google AdSense– figuring that I could make a buck or two on the content I was already writing. I wouldn’t have to do anything to select the ads, and they had bunch of formats.

Since that time, I’ve experimented with a lot of different ad formats, to many different degrees of success:

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Yahoo Shortcuts

If you’re like me then you like to spruce up your posts with images, links and any tool that you can find that will help you do this is– and do it easily– is something that you’d want to try out.

Well, one of the great things about WordPress is that there are always people writing plugins and coming up with neat things– and this plugin is no exception. Yahoo has developed what is calls “shortcuts“. It’s a plugin that sits on your write post screen over on the right hand bar and watches what you write.

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A Spirit of Community

One of the big things that’s different between blogging on a site like blogger, typepad or wordpress.com and blogging out with your own domain is that you actually have to seek out relationships in order to get people to visit your site.

You see, these sites all have communities built around them.  You can see what people are posting about, your dashboard shows you recent posts by topic, and there is a little network that helps you get new visitors.

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