Why pay for a Blog Makeover!
Hi Bloggers the topic of today’s post is this ’Why pay for a Blog Makeover’. Having though about paying for one myself I have noticed quite a few of the more well known Blogger’s are getting there Blog’s madeover for nothing. Tyler Cruz and Caroline Middlebrook to name just a few.
The first thing I did when I started the Blog in October was to spend a couple of hours looking for a good FREE Wordpress Template. I’m on my second one now and fairly happy with the crisp clean design, and have decided I’m going to stick with this one, well until some hotshot designer offers me a Freebie.
To be honest I know this is not going to happen for a very very long time, your Blog needs to be at a certain standard and have well over 500 Rss readers, and I’m crying saying this PartTimeBlogger.com isn’t that. At first I did contemplate buying a Blog makeover hoping that it will increase my readers, a nice blog design is all well and good. But you need the content to go with it and I’m the first to admit it I’m not there yet. If you look around the Blogosphere most of the top Bloggers have what you call Blog designs that are not easy on the eye. To be brute their plain darn ugly, but this didn’t stop these guys getting to the top. The only Blog design I can think of that made the blog what it is today is Johncow.com the content is good but it screamed out come back for more, I’m pretty. I really like the design and when the template came on sale a couple of weeks ago I nearly made the purchase. But decided against it because I didn’t think it would make any difference to my blog.Yeah it may of looked prettier but traffic wise I don’t think I would of seen an increase.
Why get a Blog Makeover?
My advice to all Newbie Blogger’s out there DO NOT PAY FOR A BLOG MAKEOVER. You may be asking why not, well if your prepared to pay for a blog makeover you must rate yourself as a blogger, and see it as an investment which will pay you back 100 times once you hit the big time. Don’t be a fool if your good and your content is good you will get to the big time without an expensive Blog Makeover, and once at the top Blog designer’s will be knocking at your inbox door desperate to makeover your Blog to get that footer link that will make them much more than if you payed them $500 for the Blog Design.
Another reason a Newbie Blogger should never pay for a Blog Makeover is this, Blogging is a Part Time game to most of us and eats into quite abit of our time. This is why most Blogger’s give in after 3 months of blogging they either have writer’s block or find out the time there using can be used on more worthwhile projects or down in the pub. I have even thought to myself, is this worth it. You only get get one shot at life, don’t waste it Blogging earning no money or at best very little money. But my biggest mistake is not the time spent blogging it was the time wasting. I’ve eliminated most of that and I’m starting to make progress with my Niche Sites and Affilaite Marketing.
So my advice to all you Newbie and Part Time Blogger’s is to keep your hand in your pocket and concentrate on writing good content. There are hundreds of fantastic FREE designs out there just find one that suits you and stick with it till your offered a FREEBIE or you Quit. Sorry if the word Quit is harsh but I’m afraid most of us will.
Happy Blogging and Good luck to all of you!
Part Time Blogger!
Sorting out my mess of a Computer!
Hi Bloggers, I have spent most of the week sorting out my mess of a computer. I have now arranged all my domains which I intend to get online, and the one’s I need to sell on.
I have arranged all the files into there correct folders instead of having them eat up my desktop. All the cables are now neatly clipped together as they were getting to be an health hazard.
I have also over the months purchased many money making ebooks which I still haven’t had the chance to read. Why do I buy these ebooks and not even read them boggles me, because they are not cheap. All the ebooks are now arranged in one file. I intend to read most of them this before the years out, and maybe turn some of whats written into cash.
I got through three Ebooks today
1) Day Job Killer not a bad ebook for a newbie Affiliate marketer like myself, I will try some of the methods out in the new year.
2) SEO Elite Success Blueprint excellent ebook to accommodate SEO Elite learnt quite afew tips to increase my Search Engine Rankings.
3) Keyword Elite Success Blueprint another excellent ebook to accommodate Keyword Elite, this ebook will help my PPC campaigns next year.
Very impressed with the ebooks, I know a lot of people slate ebooks. 99% of the ebooks on the market don’t bring you what they say, and you can probably get the same info for FREE if you look hard enough.
The biggest value of an ebook is the time they save you, and time is a precious commodity. That being said I’m done with buying them for now, I’m finally learning from my mistakes.
Right got to go now the girlfriend is forcing me into watching The X Factor final.
Happy Blogging!
More FREE TRAFFIC with Zimbio!
Hi Bloggers, I stumbled upon a great website today. Zimbio.com is a community dedicated to helping its readers find topics that they want to learn and research from.
They provide opinions, recommendations and the chance to meet like minded individuals. The aim of the site is to help people become participants in how stories are created, shaped and shared.
What Zimbio can do for Bloggers!
Bloggers can submit there Blog for free, then they are free to share there opinions and interact with other like minded Bloggers.
By joining Zimbio you can generate inbound links to your Blog to help generate more free traffic. You can even get featured on the Homepage if your good enough.
Here’s how it works!
Once you have joined, Zimbio analyzes each of your new blog entries then try’s to match them with a related wikizine. If they find a match, they automatically import your blog post and generate an inbound link to your blog.
You will then be send a notification so you know when your posts have been auto-imported. So if you keep writing good content Zimbio will take care of the rest.
Members get there own profile and Dashboard, everything you need to promote your Blog. You can create your own Wikizine. A Wikizine is an Interactive Magazine which you can edit and add features to. For example group blogging, video play-lists and many more.
Leaving Kudos
If you like an Article on the site you can Kudos it, this is excellent because it helps the readers discover the popular Zimbio contributors. Abit like Digg I suppose.
Check out the site to find out more, and to join if you haven’t done so already. Its free so what have you got to lose.
Merry Xmas
What i’ve learnt so far.
Hi readers, another day another dollar. I been surfing the net looking and learning. This is what i’ve done so far. I have Joined several Webmaster forum’s to spread the word about the Part Time Blogger. I have signed up with Blogrush,BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers get more readers to their Blogs. I have joined mybloglog, and I have installed several Plugin’s to the website. Having afew problems with the widgets but nevermind I love a challenge. Just in the middle of getting my head around rss. Any tips on getting readers to join your feed will be very much appreciated. Will be Blogging everything I learn and do. So hopefully I will create a step by step journey on hopefully becoming a Pro Blogger one day. We can all dream lol.
Catch you all later
Part Time Blogger.
