One of Tiago’s posts from Gadgetizer ended up published in the Houston Chronicle’s Sience/Tech section today. Thanks Blogburst.
Oh, and earlier this morning, one of his posts was featured on Gizmodo and a slew of other sites as a result.
Woot!
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Earlier, Jonathan from http://www.gazotto.com emailed me about having his blog added to the Gadget Blogs List over at Gadgetizer.com. No problem, it’s a decent blog with a lot of potential so I’ll add it tomorrow, but he also asked about how Gadgetizer seems to be getting so popular in the highly competitive gadget blogs arena.
I’m posting my reply to him below, but first I’d like to say that Gadgetizer could be a lot more popular than it is right now if I had done things differently with the site. Anyway, here goes:
Here are a few tips:
1. Post multiple times per day. If you look at Engadget, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Treehugger, Slashdot, or any of the top gadget/tech blogs you’ll see they post relentlessly. There’s always something new popping up in their rss feeds and on their sites. It’s a ‘dynamic’ thing.
2. Post about what’s hot like the other gadget blogs but also find stuff that they’re not posting about. Those things set your blog apart from the crowd and others will link up to those posts.
3. Send tips to the editors of the bigger sites, or any gadget/tech site for that matter. Even if they don’t post or link to you, they will be aware of you and subscribe to your feed and watch it for new and interesting stuff.
4. Link out to and trackback/pingback a lot of the smaller blogs as well. Not only will this get you some long term inbound links, it’ll build awareness of your blog with their readers.
5. Post and comment on other forums or blogs, etc. and follow up. Also, watch who’s linking in to your site and email them or comment on their site thanking them for the link. Relationship buliding, building awareness and visibility is huge when marketing any blog.
Darren over at http://www.problogger.net does some great posting on professional blogging and I’d highly recommend reading his blog daily for traffic tips and strategies.
I’ll add a few other points here:
1. Unique, quality content is huge.
2. Linking out and crediting sources is huge.
3. And one other major thing I’ve noticed since Tiago started out as the editor at Gadgetizer: Hiring someone who can read, write and speak multiple languages to write for your blog is a major bonus.
Since Tiago started writing over there, Gadgetizer has been the first to post several stories that originated on European foriegn language sites and forums. This has gotten us links from a lot of major blogs and news sites whose editors simply don’t read or can’t read and report on because of the language barriers.
I’ll stop here for now, but this is the type of post that has spawned ideas for a few others. Look for more in the days to come 
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Ok, I’ve just seen a type of blog spam that I’ve never seen before - someone is comment spamming using full length articles, like 700-1000+ word articles, as comments?
How dumb can these spammers get? Did the people who sold the autosubmitter software to this person tell them that this is an effective way to get backlinks? Did this pseudo-Einstein come up with this all by himself?
Oh, and get this, they’re advertising for a referral traffic service that helps people get traffic and inbound links to their site.
L. O. L.
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…they wanted $5000 for it. $5000? It’s not getting any type-in traffic or misspelling traffic, that’s for sure. The combination of words just doesn’t jive with that. Also, it’s never been registered before so it’s not like it’s getting expired traffic. WTF makes them think they’ll get $5000 for it? I guess it’ll be worth something some day.
Guess what? It was originally registered in October of 2005 and has never had an actual site on it according to the wayback machine, AND, it is showing one of those domain parking pages with all the PPC ads. Hmmph.
Anyway, the .com version is taken, the .org version is taken but there’s a site on there that has absolutely nothing to do with the words in the domain itself.
So I registered the .net version. It’s a cool name too, energy****.net.
Maybe I just answered my own question above. If I make the .net version worth something…
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Well, it’s taken me 3 whole days to do the template you see here and quite frankly, I’m tired of fiddling with code.
First of all, my goals for this new look were to highlight the other blogs in the network and keep the current blog you’re reading now in a sort of portal’esque site - a hybrid site. Functionally it works, but I’m still worried that it looks too ‘busy.’
Secondly, I’ve been rolling out templates for a number of other blogs and I’m quite happy with those. They’re super-clean and lightweight both on the front and back end and the content is front and center, just the way blogs should be.
Lastly (but not leastly), there’s a significant cash injection coming up for Bloglogic. It’s badly needed, it ain’t much, but it’ll be enough to make this network (and myself) feel a little more ‘grown up’ in this big bold blog network’osphere. More on this later…
All in all though, my troubled little network is getting back on it’s feet, slowly but surely.
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Update: The major upgrades are complete.
We’re doing some major software and design upgrades so you may experience intermittent quirkiness for a few hours.
Please stand by…
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I’ve been testing out a few of the Wordpress plugins from WP-Plugins.net and found some really cool ones. Some are kind of frivilous but some are quite functional. For instance, in the right sidebar you can see the Recent Posts plugin in action.
One I found today and tried out on a test blog is called MF-Collapse . What it does is modifies the standard “more” link using AJAX so instead of going to the individual post page when clicked, your post expands instantly right on the main page.
One disadvantage I see with using this plugin is if you run CPM ads on your site where you get paid per ad impression. Since the post expands within the same page, you don’t get the extra pageviews when people click on the Read More link. However, if you want to add a little umph to your blog and be the cool kid, or if you make longer posts and want to provide snippits on the main page, give it a try.
Pretty cool little plugin.
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A few people have been asking me lately if I have something up my sleeve for Bloglogic. The simple answer is… Yes.
Yeah yeah, you’ve heard it all before…
I won’t tell anything right now, anything at all. Instead, I’d like to ask for your feedback on something. I’ve installed and am testing a new template over at Gadgetizer. Before I deploy it across about 40 sites (oops!) I’d like some reader feedback and suggestions on it. If you have a minute or 2, please take a look and let me know what you think. (Opens in a new window)
Then come back and leave your comments below. Any feedback is much appreciated.
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Dear readers (I know there’s more than 2 of you, I see you in my stats),
What do you consider the perfect blog in terms of…
1. Content
2. Design
3. Functionality
Please leave the answers in the comments below. Whether you’re a blog owner or publisher, or an avid reader (or both) reply from whatever perspective suits you the best.
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Steve Pavlina, a near daily read of mine and a blog I’d seriously recommend to anyone, has a great (big) post up about how to make money with your blog. He goes into quite a bit of detail on how he went from $4 a day 12 months ago to over $200 a day at present.
I especially like this quote:
Thriving on change
I would say that your greatest risk isn’t so much that you’ll make mistakes that will cost you. Your greatest risk is that you’ll miss opportunities. You need an entrepreneurial mindset, not an employee mindset. Don’t be too concerned with the risk of loss — be more concerned with the risk of missed gains. It’s what you don’t know and what you don’t do that will hurt you the worst.
Find a half hour or so and seriously dig into Steve’s article here - How to Make Money From Your Blog
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