Cool Blog I Found

Here is a blog I found recently that allows users to make their own posts. Very good idea. It's called Silii, which stands for SAY IT LIKE IT IS.

Users register, login and post their comments on any subject under the sun. There are some cool tutorials for beginners, showing how to register, login, and post.

What I find strange is that Silli is using a Wordpress blogging platform and the back end is customized. They also allow users to use up to 2 outbound links per article. They have administrators moderating at all times apparently.

Pretty smart idea.

-Kenny

My Top 10 “Things I would do differently if I had to start my blog again”

Here is the latest Zulit monster post all about blogging for money. Great for new-comers who want to build a power blog for lasting income.

Basically Terry outlines the 10 things he wishes he had done (and not done) on his first blogs. Invaluable stuff here.

-Kenny

Money Traffic Update

Well....Money Traffic has been up and running for around 2 months. Google did their update and it's presently showing a Google PR of 5. If you don't undertsand Google PR, click here.

Notice how when you include the address www in our domain you see a PR of 5, but when you remove the www you see a PR of 3. This is because other blogs are linking to us using the www in our address.

I'm not much on the PR thing. Don't really care. What I care about is traffic, and our traffic is beginning to climb on it's own now -- without posting on forums and posting at Digg, etc.

If you presently don't have the Google Toolbar, you can download it here -- OR you can use Google's Firefox browser which includes the Google Toolbar.

Blogspot To Be Blocked In India

Well..there goes all our traffic from India to Money Traffic. Read this article. India's government will be blocking all blogspot web addresses; India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites.

www.blogspot.com, www.typepad.com and www.geocities.com are know to be on the list to get whacked. It's a real shame becuase Money Traffic gets alot of hits from our friends in India.

Since private sites will not be blocked, I suggest our visitors living in India bookmark the money traffic blogroll.

-Kenny

Backing Up Your Content

Here is a good comment submitted awhile back. After seeing people lose their blogger accounts, it's timely.

Hi,

I thought of a small addition to your tutorial. When I build a new blogger
blog, I always include an BlogSend Address (located in the Email settings tab).
I do this so that in case my blog is ever deleted or banned for whatever reason,
I at least have all my postings and can quickly rebuild them.

Just something a little extra I do.

-Marcy

Another Good Zulit Post

Just doing my morning jog through the blogoshpere, and read Terry's post for the day. I like this one. It's called Day In The Life Of - Yet Another Internet Enrepreneur (and of course Bob Marley)

As usual from Terry some humour, insight, and weird tangents.

-Kenny

Jackhammer Loses Blogs

One of our contributors recently lost over 50 of his blogger blogs. When he contacted Blogger they gave him this response:

Hi (NAME),

We have removed your blogs and/or disabled your Blogger account due to thefact that you have been misusing our service. Based on our records, thereare a number of blogs that are not compliant with our Terms of Service(http://www.blogger.com/terms.g). This behavior is not looked uponfavorably.

Sincerely,The Blogger Team

I have no idea why his blogs were whacked, but his account is still live he tells me. I suggest reading the Blogger Terms Of Service closely if you intend to grow these Blogger niche blogs.

At this point I am no longer building blogger niche blogs. The ones I have I will maintain but I will be focusing on my Typepad, Movable Type, and Wordpress blogs in the future.

For further information on how to create and use the above mentioned blog platforms, please use my blogroll in the right sidebar. In the LONG run, your content will be safe on a domain you own and control.

-Kenny