http://www.zoopta.com.au Updated daily from the all the best money making blogs Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:18:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With all the information that is available on the net today regarding the setting up of a blog you would think that it is a simple matter of registering a name and watching the visitors pour into our new found platform, as we all know this is not so. ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/15/how-to-create-the-ultimate-blog-%e2%80%93-how-why-when-and-where-wanted-10-individuals/ AdSense have sent publishers using the AdSense referral program who live outside of the US, Canada and Japan an email confirming that the program will be retired as of 31 January (published below). The email came from a ‘noreply’ email address - so publishers have no way of feeding back ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/15/dear-adsense-you-broke-my-heart-an-open-letter-to-adsense/ Yesterday I shared some of the costs and benefits of running a competition . I ended that post by asking: “So how does one run a competition on their blog that brings more benefits than it costs?” In this post I want to walk you through everything I know (and I ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/15/how-to-run-a-successful-competition-on-your-blog/ A sudden decline in traffic stats is a bloggers nightmare, what is happening is the first thought that enters your mind, all my hard work over the previous months and instead of increasing stats im seeing the dreaded unique count drop. What is happening... Track back through your stats to ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/15/what-every-blogger-hates-to-see/ How to install wordpress – Step by Step This article will step you thru the process of setting up wordpress on your site, following up from yesterdays article - Step by Step tutorial on setting up your first blog Step 1 ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/14/how-to-install-wordpress-step-by-step-tutorial-for-beginners/ Everybody and their mother knows that Google frowns on paid text links as a way for webmasters to buy link juice for their sites. So it turned out that 2007 was the year that most of what’s known as text link advertising died. Most bloggers are so scared now that ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/14/text-link-advertising-is-dead-maybe-not%e2%80%a6/ I use Entrecard and MyBloglog from time to time to see who is visiting my blog and to check out new blogs. I’ve seen a whole lot of new blogs trying to break into the “make money blogging” or “I want to be a problogger” scene. The growth of these ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/14/5-horrible-mistakes-that-new-bloggers-make/ Step by Step tutorial on setting up your own blog – Part 1   One of the first  things I noticed in setting up a blog was the vast information available on this  topic. There was quantity but not necessarily quality, alot of the topics and instructions were from years ago and ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/13/step-by-step-tutorial-on-setting-up-a-blog/ If my inbox is anything to go by there’s an update going on at Google at the moment that seems to be going beyond just a shift in Page Rank. I’ve had ALOT of readers reporting shifts in both PR and back link numbers. Lots of discussion, speculation and ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/13/are-you-noticing-changes-in-page-rank-and-backlinks-numbers-from-google/ This post on Creative Blogging was written by Mark Sneall from Talk Climate Change. Creative lapses are one of the biggest blog killers out there. Every blogger spends time staring at a blank screen searching for inspiration at some point, and few niches provide a steady stream of juicy news ... http://www.zoopta.com.au/2008/01/13/six-tips-for-more-creative-blogging/