Blog To Profit

A staff from Blog To Profit recently contacted us saying that this blog was accepted into their program. Certainly I am very excited about the opportunities, it will certainly open the horizons for more money-making endeavors online via the way I love — blogging.

I have replied to their e-mail and they have yet to respond. Still waiting for their reply and I hope I will be given some assignments to blog about. I am very grateful to Blog To Profit for the opportunity and I look forward to future assignments from them.

PayPerPost townhall meeting transcript

PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy recently conducted a townhall meeting with 75 Posties who manage to go through to the system (due to system limitation). Unfortunately I was not present due to other pressing concerns. However you can read the transcript of that meeting here. I believe that some very important issues, particularly those playing in my mind, were asked and answered promptly by Ted.

The main issue Posties have with the new segmentation system is the banning issue. Oh, yes, I can understand that very well because the Opps currently available on PayPerPost is based on the number of tacks you have. The more tacks you earn, the more likely that you are going to get from the high-paying Opps. Most of the Opps now require at least three or four tacks at minimum, so a ban will severely affect the tacks rating.

For example, currently this blogger has four tacks, 44 votes and 7 bans. That is about 15% of the advertisers who decided that they do not like my write-ups and decided to ban me instead. Unfortunately advertisers are not required to make a vote for the Opps taken up, so this is not really a true reflection of what the quality of the posts for PayPerPost are.

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Wordpress 2.1.1 and 2.0.9 released

Two new versions of Wordpress for the 2.1 version and the 2.0 version has now been released, according to the Wordpress development blog. It includes several bug fixes, most of which are minor issues around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. The 2.0.9 release also contains security fixes for the 2.0 version line.

Although the team has pledged to continue solving security issues for the 2.0 line, major features and development will be put into the newer branch, which is currently the 2.1 version. If you have not upgraded your Wordpress version to 2.1, now would be a good time to do it.

Even UK farmers are blogging

According to The Guardian, around 70% of British farmers are now connected to the Internet, with a large percentage of those having broadband connections. This is leading to increased online activity, particularly at the Farmers Weekly Interactive web site, and fuelled by the recent outbreak of Avian Flu in Suffolk.

Julian Gairdner, online editor at Farmers Weekly, has seen traffic spike on www.fwi.co.uk in the past week as both the core audience and general public have gone to the site for advice.

“We took a view that we could not be anything but the best provider of information about the avian flu outbreak in Suffolk,” he says. “These are great opportunities for us to show what we can do on the site.”

The magazine has had a website for almost eight years but only in the last 18 months has the spread of broadband made new features viable. Some 70% of farmers are now on the internet and about half of those have broadband,” says Mr Gairdner. “About 18 months ago it was probably half that.”

More can be read here.

Cutting down on blog categories

Having too many blog categories for your post may be bad for SEO, according to this blog post from Take More Risks. According to the blogger:

So how many’s too many? I guess you have to take it on a blog by blog basis. Take More Risks is 5 months old and has just over 220 posts, I hardly think it’s deserving of over 30 categories. It seems as if I’m diluting my link authority by focusing on such a broad range of topics. It’d be beneficial to either remove all of my categories altogether or define broader types and move the posts to there. Topics like PHP, Javascript and Web Design might fall under “Technology” or something similar.

Well I have somehow managed to keep the categories of this blog to a minimum, even though the blog has been running for four months or so. He may have a point as having too many categories will duplicate the pages in a blog and the Google spider would detect it as duplicate site content and will not take it into consideration for their rankings, probably even to the extent of penalising the blog for duplicate content, as SEOBook documents. See how Shoemoney had managed to increase his Google search traffic by 1400% this past month by preventing some of his pages from being indexed. In short, cutting back on blog categories will be good for your blog in search engines in the long run. Trim up the fat and give more generalised categories for your blog posts.