photo credit: Jef Poskanzer Gauge Check Running a blog can be quite an intimidating task for someone that has never done it before. It is easy to become wrapped up in the details and trying to pay attention to every little thing. It’s kind of like the cockpit of an airplane, you have literally hundreds of gauges that you could pay attention to, in fact you have so many gauges you could be so busy looking at the gauges that you...

Entrecard Marketplace Oy Vay…I know exactly what you’re thinking….”if I read one more *@#%&! Entrecard post then I think I might puke.” Ok maybe you didn’t say that but I know I do every time I see one. It seems as though every blogger who can’t think of anything else to write does an Entrecard post. I swore I would never write one but that shows what I know. I think you’ll find mine...

A quick update on my blog stats for you today. I am like a broken record when it comes to talking about my stats….I think I might be OCD and if I check Alexa one more time they said they were going to throw me off the site altogether. I think this stems, in fact I know it stems from my competitive nature. We rank and rate EVERYTHING in my full time career and the slightest little matrix can turn into quite the competition amongst...

As I sit here watching my beloved Patriots fumble and bumble away the Superbowl, I decided to check up on my stats to see how I was progressing. As you know my goal is to monetize my blog with private ad sales so my “stats” are important to me. My last post about my Alexa was slightly more than a week ago, so let’s see how we fared. At the time of the last update my stats were as below: Alexa - ...

Regular readers of my blog know that I have written a lot of articles about my traffic ranks lately. I have been doing this for a couple of reasons, building traffic measures your success as a blog and it also brings you the opportunity to monetize your traffic if you so choose. It depends on what your personal goals are with your site. I told you that I would be sharing some of the methods I have been using to drive traffic to my site...

Time for another traffic update….why you might ask?  Traffic is the absolute king when it comes to selling advertsing slots on your blog.  My intended monetization is going to be affiliate marketing and private ad sales.  The affiliate marketing side is going ok but advertisers won’t start seeking you out until you have earned your stripes.  They can advertise on a billion different blogs, what will make yours stick out...