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 Brief Intro about yourself? My name is Shannon Lilly and I love to blog, make money on line, learn and teach others to do the same that I do! I run several blogs including my favorites InfectedByBugs and ShannonLilly.com. How did you get started? This is actually a funny story… See I had been reading the big name blogs for some time. However I was getting tired of the virtually endless amounts of posts that they did on useless topics that were not about MMO or the Blogger themselves. I know BlueVerse agrees with me in this regard and thats one of the reasons I continue to read BlueVerse daily! BlueVerse was really my inspiration for starting, I have known Gnet for some time via forums and msn chat and when I found out he had a blog I was like “Dude, Link me Now”. After reading a couple of posts on here I decided I would like to take my hand at teaching others to make money on line. It has taken time to build up my blogs but I am now at around 650 to 710 rss readers on a daily basi...

 Well first of all, thank you Ahson for interviewing me. My name is Javier but everybody call me Javo. Besides study Telecommunication’s Engineering, I blog at Mr. Javo dot Com, where I share online marketing information and blogging resources. I like to make money online and I help to other bloggers to explode their potential. How did you get started? The past year I was learning about blogging and internet marketing when I decided to create my own blog. I felt that I had many information to share about this topics and then I create a blog at Blogspot. In the next months, I decided to get my own self hosted blog because Blogspot became useless for me. That’s how Mr. Javo dot Com was born. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.net No How long have you been blogging? Well, I started my blogspot on September 2007, but I get my own domain on January 2008. So, I can say that I have been blogging since 11 months ago. Whats your st...

 Interviewing Scott Weaver from Affiliate Toolbox Brief Intro about yourself? Hey, I’m Scott Weaver, I’m 25 and I live in sunny southern California. I’ve been an affiliate marketer since late 2006, but using computers since I could walk. I run several websites, with the most popular most likely being the Affiliate Toolbox. How did you get started? My dad always had several computers around the house. When I was about six or seven, he gave me a TRS-80 and a big book of BASIC. I tinkered with it and got a few things running. It wasn’t until I was about eleven years old that my dad helped me buy my own computer with a shared internet connection and I took a big interest in mIRC and its scripting capabilities. I made all kinds of add-ons for it and some of them were pretty popular. When I was thirteen, I had an online buddy who was pretty decent with some funny language called “Perl”, and he told me I could do a lot more with Perl so I gave it a shot. Right off the bat, I was making so...

 I got rid of some sites in my monthly workbox, so, it was time for new ones, and here I am trying to make new projects that make me money…eventually. I realized I was emphasizing on blogging way too much so I’m broadening back to the most general way to make money & I ended up with a directory and a forum, yea I know its way too over used, but hear me out here.. Linkdex, community project. Now the first thing in your mind around now would be: “Ahhh crap, not another one” But it’s not like that Yea i know you’ve heard that alot too, the main reason I wanted a directory is to be better at SEO, it sounds odd but yea that’s it’s purpose, I took a look at dmoz, the most common thing found there is relevancy and quality sites, so, all I have to do is review every single site listed before approving it, now this helps me improve my skills of relevancy, building authority while giving everyone on that site good links. To take this a bit further I removed all options of payment or reci...

 Interviewing Jason Pereira from The University Kid Brief Intro about yourself? My name’s Jason Pereira, I’m a 17 year old university student in the second year of a four year business course. Currently stay in Dubai, United Arab Emirates but was born in India. Play around a lot as an online entrepreneur, and specialize in website flipping. How did you get started? Got started in the summer of 2007, was looking for a way to pass time online. Started writing articles for shitty rates ($2/article) but slowly grew to learn more and more about online business including Adsense, affiliate marketing, website and products sales. Started my blog a couple months later, but only started seriously developing it at the beginning of this year. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.net Nope. Been meaning to get something like that developed, just because it would be cool but I’ve heard it’s a lot of work so I just use my name at the moment...

 Interviewing Chad Ledford from 3tailer Brief Intro about yourself? 3tailer, LLC is a niche online retail company with numerous websites selling a variety of products. For example, we have one website that sells stopwatches at SportsCounters.com. 3tailer.com is the corporate site and blog for the company. How did you get started? 3tailer was founded in 2005 by two friends and recent Appalachian State University graduates, Jon West and Chad Ledford, after winning “Most Likely to Succeed Online” in the annual Entrepreneurship contest. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.net Nope. How long have you been blogging? 3+ years. Whats your strategy with your blog in general? We don’t have a particular strategy per say, we just write about topics we like and things that we think will help fellow entrepreneurs/Internet types out. Generally this appeals to small business folk, search marketers, our customers, and the general Internet a...

 Lately, I’ve been trying out this new strategy where I schedule posts for a certain time in the future right now, and since I had alot of posts (the interviews) I could try this out quite easily, I started out with a 10 hr rule, where I post once every 10 hours and see it’s effect on my RSS reader count, it had a really low impact on the reader count at first but then it bursted into 860 readers one day, since then the post frequency has been the same, so, yea I guess the post frequency schedule does have alot to offer, maybe even more then just rss readers. I realized that scheduling posts in wordpress is not only good for rss readers but for everything (in general) as well, I drew up some points here. More content More reasons for your visitors to come back again and again. Better practice for you as a blogger to meet deadlines without any consequences. After you have scheduled one post you have 10 hours to come up with another one, not too much pressure, ay? Try out scheduling,...

 Interviewing Steven Snell from Traffikd The image “http://traffikd.com/images/header4.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. Brief Intro about yourself? I’m a web designer and freelance blogger in the U.S. I currently maintain 3 blogs of my own and I write for a handful of others including Smashing Magazine and Freelance Switch. How did you get started? I got started with blogging in attempt to get some content on my site that would pull in some search engine visitors who were looking for web design services. The blog kind of unexpectedly took off, I learned a lot through the process, and now I spend way more time writing than I ever thought I would. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.net No. I keep everything at my own domains (except for my freelance work). How long have you been blogging? It’s been a little over a year now, probably about 15 months. Whats your strategy with your blog in general? To sum i...

 Interviewing Adnan from Blogtrepreneur Brief Intro about yourself? My name is Adnan and I’m 18 and from the UK. I’m a student hoping to start University very soon and love to find ways to make money - very much an entrepreneur in my own opinion! My biggest website to date, and one which is still growing is my entrepreneur blog www.blogtrepreneur.com. The site has over 1500 RSS subscribers and there are articles on entrepreneurship, business online, marketing and much much more! How did you get started? I got started blogging in February 2006 when I was looking at ways to make money online. As I was only 16 at the time, I wanted to find a way of making money from home and without me having to get a run of the mill job working in a supermarket. Blogging seemed like a great way to make money through advertising, and to show my entrepreneurial flair and to connect with like-minded people. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.ne...

The following is a paid ’sponsored’ review and is completely of my own opinion and is not influenced by being paid. If you’re interested in having me review your site, product or service, please view the details on the sponsored reviews page. The image “http://www.hugedrive.com/images/hugedrivelogo.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.Are you looking for an adequate amount of space where you can store all your files and data? Is your data storage gadgets not enough to satisfy your need? Are you also in search of a more functional storage space where you can easily access your files anywhere, and be able to send your data easily? Then you should be using the features of Huge Drive from this day forward. What is Huge Drive? Huge Drive is a storage space site where you can actually store all your data and media files for safekeeping and easy access. It serves not just as an online storage device, but as well as a social site where you can share your items to other people i...

Every “service” related business online, within the mix somewhere someone is definitely getting screwed over, I realized that after getting into adwords and running my own service of designing wordpress themes. Adwords was really easy to notice, people click and never even care to click one more page to get to know a site better and sooner or later they are gone. I know this is called click fraud and there are alot of things being done to stop this..blah blah blah. I’m a publisher all I care about is results, I didn’t get much out of Adwords on my newer campaigns so I thought, screw it. I got screwed over for nearly 60$, it’s not much but still.. Now getting to the services area, I started making wordpress themes at an introductory price of $250, for the first year or so, so that I can have some themes to show off in my portfolio for when I increase the price and yea I got screwed over, I try my best to give my clients the professional service that people usually get for 1000$ or more,...

 I will come off as an asshole somewhere in this article (maybe the title did it already), truth is struggling for anything is the hardest thing anyone ever goes through in life with. It’s hard to keep on trying for something with so many other things happening in life. In this post I’ll talk about how struggling to grow a website is hard and how you can get out of it easily. Let’s say, you have a blog and although you’re keeping up the content frequency constant and all, things are still hard to manage since the market is getting more and more saturated by the day, to be honest this is nothing, the competition will definitely grow to a new and much larger level, and on the current level it’s really hard to get a blog off the ground (It was really hard getting blueverse going at first), through the launching phase (which may last for months) at some point the blogger gives up, at that point there seems no hope for the blog or the blogger itself, these can be caused by either frustr...

 The following is a paid ’sponsored’ review and is completely of my own opinion and is not influenced by being paid. If you’re interested in having me review your site, product or service, please view the details on the sponsored reviews page. Earn Money through Efficient Affiliate Marketing: A Review of the Triple Affiliate Program TRIPLE.COMThe world of affiliate marketing has greatly evolved since its inception back in 1998, and a lot of affiliate marketers have made themselves a fortune in this part of the business. Indeed affiliate marketing has helped a lot in creating a more competitive economy in the internet business, but how did this scheme become successful both to website owners as well as individuals who are looking for ways to earn money. But how did affiliate marketing actually become successful in generating profits? Let’s check one of the affiliate programs that’s fast growing in the industry today, the Triple affiliate program. Triple is a site that offers quality...

 Finally! A plugin and a theme included that can make you web review sites in minutes maybe even seconds! WP Review SiteThe WPRS Plugin gives you the power to make review sites on almost anything out there, the system is easy to use, specially the ratings area, the screenshot below shows fields of ratings, you can add any kind of rating criteria as you wish there and the ratings aren’t based on the author’s review but on the people who comment on the reviews, everytime someone leaves a comment on a review, he/she is allowed to rate the company/product being reviewed anyway he or she pleases, based on that the over all ratings are made, theres more, the posts are then, categorized by their ratings and not the time they were posted at! And yes theres still more and this is my favorite part! The affiliate keyword settings, is what makes this plugin worth it! You can set affilliate urls for given keywords , then every keyword thats pre-defined will have the proper affiliate url as you ...

 Interviewing Yaro Stark from Entrepreneurs-Journey.com The image “http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/wp-content/themes/ej2/images/ej_logo.png” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. Brief Intro about yourself? I’m a 29 year old Australian who sounds like a Canadian currently traveling around the world and blogging at the same time. I’ve made money on the Internet since I graduated university - about 8 years now. Today my six figure business is based on blogging. How did you get started? My first blog was created for a small business I used to own. It was a proofreading service were I connected Phd students and professors who edited the papers of international students who had trouble with English. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.net No, I’ve always “owned” my own blog first on MovableType then WordPress and always on my own domain names. How long have you been blogging? Since November 2004. Whats your strat...

 gWell, I’m gonna go ahead and finally start off Gurilla with a frickin bang. 50 skateboard deck designs - in one month. After I tackle this first challenge I’ll move on to clothing..etc but the reason I started with skateboards is because I’ve been going out of my mind try to skate when I was finally tired enough to stay at home, I thought, why not start designing already, it’s been put off for so long already. The site + decks were made within the last 3 days, alot of pages are still non-functional and it needs alot of work but the skateboarding area is working perfectly :). Here are the current designs.

 Okay usually I don’t care much about money but this was about Gurilla, I realized that the domain was due to be expired next month, so..I renewed it for 4 years it gave me an error and brought me back to the payment page so I tried again…I checked my email and guess what 2 payments of 24$ sent to Moniker… That just pissed me off so I opened a support ticket and complained, and they renewed the domain for one frickin year instead of 4 and refunded 9$ not 24$ (which they don’t deserve since they didn’t give me that much anyway) then the support staff told me it was resolved…I replied…and I’m still waiting around 2 days later… To be honest, when I registered Gurilla , their service/authority was so amazing, I was pretty much blown away by it..now..wow..yea that rhymes…I don’t even need the money back, just add the damn years on the frickin’ domain already!

 After I lost a good earning site to something as stupid as domain expiration I thought I would make a list of things to do every 20 days, yea I know this could be done monthly but for me doing this every 20 days gives enough margin and heads up too.. Here are the top things on my list to check every 20 days. Sever Payment Date Domains and their expiration Incoming links at top sites in portfolio Sell Ads Buy resources Advertise (viral campaigns - small ones) Check subscriptions to services..such as billing..mailing list..etc Overdue payments (incoming/outgoing)Plan next marketing strategy for sites Get more articles for my blog Make sure you have enough money to get by for the month Buy links (maybe) Sell sites Start new projects (maybe) That’s pretty much the only things webmasters would usually have on their table.

 I thought this would make a somewhat interesting post, some of you might already know this but I want to go over the three main kinds of SEO anyway, you just might learn something you didn’t know before. Now, SEO is really good and profitable and all that, but if you don’t know what you’re doing is right or wrong, you would definitely get burned in google, I’ve been messing around with SEO since 2006, and after almost 3 years of trial & error, I know what to do and not to do. So here we go.. Black Hat SEO This is really really bad, unless you know what you’re doing, don’t do it. Copying content. Cloaking Faking pr by using redirections Abusing APIs for more content or traffic. Auto blogs with a few hacks, kinda like dup-content Link spamming Irrelevant outgoing links. Mass link spamming, some over the top stuff. Changing author links on wordpress themes and spreading them. Grey Hat SEO Well, theres a 50/50 chance..this isn’t good or bad, its up to your ethics..Still there’s a ...

 And here’s the grand finally of the whole blogger interviews era! Matt Mullenweg, creator/founder of wordpress. Matt, first of all how does it feel to be the creator of wordpress, the blogging platform that has the majority of the bloggers online? Darn good. ;) It’s an honor to be at the service of so many fine folks. How did you get started on wordpress? or blogging, in general? I had gotten a Sony digital camera and on a trip to Washington D.C. and wanted to share the photos I was taking with my friends and family back home. I was reading blogs at the time and had even started my own using Movable Type, but that trip was the catalyst for me to move to my own domain (photomatt.net) and find a better blogging system, which at the time was b2/cafelog. There are tons and tons of plugins and addons out there for wordpress that turn it into a powerful cms rather then just a blogging platform, do you think automattic would ever release those kind of plugins/mods? Sure, we watch the plu...

 Well, it’s about time techcrunch got a few modifications to their theme which makes it look like a whole new theme which is so much better then what they had before, along this new theme they added a new header ad which (for the first time I’ve ever seen) shows irrelevant ads (screenshot below, look in the header area), this type of ad is seen often in adsense, it’s possible they are using one of those new ad companies that combine alot of ad networks and give you just one code to paste into your themes, so that you can have the full blown effect of every network you chose on their site, therefore showing the most relevant ad on your site, in my opinion that so called targeting is just a rotating banner, I tried a company like this called Pubmatic, I was not impressed, or moderately satisfied. If you are going to get into an ad network, make sure that they do not show irrelevant ads at all, after you reach a certain level of fame, you’ll have emails coming from every direction, tr...

 I read this post earlier on youmoz, to be honest I hate free blog hosts with a passion when it comes to making money, this is from a blogger’s perspective, to make big money online you need to be unique and stand out from others, isn’t that the whole point?  Uniqueness Think about it, would you click through from a site called awesomebaseballstuff.blogspot.com ? No. Anyone that’s been online for 2 years at most, would know to stay way from those kind of sites, it’s mostly spam with overcrowding ads, the potential affiliate commissions (users) are very  aware of this. Spam/Dup-content Now, let’s say you’re hosting a blog on blogspot, which I consider the biggest spam network, first of all 70% of the traffic you get would probably be from within the blogspot and I can assure you that the whole lot of that traffic would not get you a single affiliate sale and potential customers already know not to go to free hosted sites for unique information/products. Monetization This i...

 Google Chrome was truely a blessing for me, I mean it, it’s much better then firefox can ever be. I think I get it, why google added the whole “Firefox with google toolbar” era, In my opinion all that was for research, to know how the public would respond to it and what they like/hate about it, after all that trial/error that they say firefox go through, google ended up making the better choices, google chrome, to me looks like a webmaster’s web browser, except for one thing, there are no webmaster tools, such as serp checkers, alexa ranks, pr tools..etc (I’m kinda sorta sure that will come out soon as well. After working with firefox for over 2 years, It’s been like a bad marriage, I’m at a point where it’s just annoying, ff2 works barely and overloads the shit out of my pc and ff3 is so useless that I can’t even begin to explain it. Here are just a few issues I had to deal with firefox. Smaller working area with all the plugins I use Overloads if there are more then 8 tabs open ...

 Interviewing Daniel Socco from Daily Blog Tips Daily Blog Tips Brief Intro about yourself? 24 years old, trying to make a living online. How did you get started? I started some blogs as a hobby, and once they started growing I realized the potential of the web. Do you run your blog under any “Media” type site? Like I run mine under the control of Gurilla.net No. How long have you been blogging? I started late in 2005. Whats your strategy with your blog in general? Focus on the content, make it useful and unique. How do you get rss readers? Focusing on the content and making sure visitors notice my RSS icons. Could you tell me, in as many words as you can, what made you stand out in blogging? Not that I consider myself to be a popular blogger (folks like Darren Rowse or John Chow are), but I guess it was the original content that I always tried to put out. Do you give out freebies? Occasionally, when other people offer them to my readers. Whats your opinion about the importance of ...