I must say that I'm really enjoying eBlogger now since it has Amazon with it. My only problem is figuring out how to go about getting traffic and comments for it. I would love to hear some success stories with eBlogger if there is any out there? Do any of you make money from eBlogger and if so is it with Adsense or Amazon? Kari
Correct! Here's the link to http://eblogger.com tho, they have been doing construction off and on, it appears.
What does that site have to do with eBlogger? Do you have another link to an official eBlogger page that comes from Google? Or is the name eBlogger just something that Blogspot users gave Blogger as a nickname?
Mmm good question, I've always called it eblogger because of it being the name of the website and heard a couple of my other friends call it that as well, so I just assumed that it was the name for it...
Being the name of what website? Not Blogger or Blogspot for sure. The guy that owns the eBlogger.com domain has nothing to do with either or Google. I have also seen the Google help forums have a number of posts calling it eBlogger too. So, I was just curious on how that all came about. Somebody, somewhere, started that up and it is just kind of strange to me.
the logo for blogger is a giant B that looks a bit like an e. On blogger help pages and on the dashboard it says: B Blogger maybe people get the wrong end of the stick? Anyway where are these eBlogging/bBlogging success stories???
Successful blogging has nothing to do with merely being on blogger. Most successful blogs are self hosted, not on free platforms. And, I can name far more successful Wordpress blogs than I can blogger blogs. If you are waiting to hear a bunch of people tell you that they started a blog on blogger, didn't spend one dime and now they are making truck loads of money from adsense, you might be waiting a long time.
Nothing wrong with dreaming big. I am sure there are a few exceptions to the rule, but if there are, those individuals put a lot of work into it. For the most part, people on Blogspot and WordPress.com are looking for anything and everything that is free. These people, as a rule, do not want to take blogging seriously enough to shell out less than $100 a year for domain and hosting fees. With that kind of mentality, it shows through and onto the pages of their blogs.
There are plenty of blogspot blogs that have lots of followers, thats my idea of blogging success. Here's someones stab at a blogger blog top 50 http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/05/top-50-blogger-powered-blogs.html You guys seem very anti blogspot. So long as you can post text, pictures and video.....what else is there to a blog?
Good point. Success means different things to different people. Personally, I'm not "anti blogspot", but I don't think that it's where you want to be if your intention is to make a living at it.
Amanda at BloggerBuster is one of those exceptions. She works very hard at what she does and is an accomplished writer, but not your typical Blogger blogger either. While your list represents her stab at a top Blogger list, right out of the gate she mentions Technorati's top 100. If you go through that list, it will affirm that you will not find that many from Blogspot. In fact, there are only 3 starting at #71. I wouldn't say that I am anti-Blogspot. I started with Blogspot and have two blogs with them. One blog, when you were allowed to FTP your posts, has been switched over to WordPress for technical reasons -- Blogspot did not fill my needs, namely, to Php script the hell out of it. Also with Blogspot, you cannot host any text files on their servers. You have to find external hosting to reference them. This includes (or used to) CSS stylesheets which made for a lot of interesting work-arounds back in the day. I remember having to post the entire stylesheet in the HEAD of the template. Most plugins and features of a self-hosted WordPress blog that we take for granted, and are built into WordPress platform, you need a third-party service to run on Blogspot. In essence, Blogspot is very limiting and control of the blog lies more with Blogger than it does to you. If you do make a go of it and wind up on a top list somewhere, the question now is who is holding onto the reins of your runaway horse? Not you.
I really have no success story with any blog, but I am just starting and here is what I have learnt about promoting a blog or a site in theory. i) Have your own domain name. This is always preferable - for example, who knows whether there will be a blogger 5 years down the line? Also, with you domain, you control everything. With namecheap.com, I have heard you can get a .com domain name for $5. You can get some country names for $2, and co.cc names for zero price. Hosting can be had for close to zero dollars with all the special offers in the webhosting forum. Some of them actually work. ii) With amazon stores, you are on the right track. You should also promote related affiliate products from clickbank, and chikita(?) and earn commision. iii) Promoting your blog: Search for commentLuv blogs, and post comment in them - these get you a backlink; as do the blogs that have dofollow comments; enter your blog/site in site directories; iv) Guest blog, and get your name and blog mentioned in the author's blurb-field. v) Link exchanges These are what I can think of right now. I do not have personal experience with any of these, so as I already acknowledged, I am not the right guy to answer your question. If I am wrong, of if any of these are ineffective, I hope someone will correct me.
Here's what I would like to achieve from a blog http://chainsawart.blogspot.com/ that to me seems like a very succesfull blog and it's content driven, I think that blog could be done on any platform. I've ended up using blogger because it's what my friends use. http://andycouncil.blogspot.com/ getting that many followers would be a big deal to me. I made my website using dreamweaver and I find it eats my time, I always feel it needs revamping and have been putting off sorting the gallery out for months. At the moment I like using something thats fairly idiot proof like Blogger. It gives me more time to concentrate on my work. As they say horses for courses maybe at some point I will want a paid wordpress blog. I can understand the pluses people are pointing out here.
It's great to network with people an discuss different options, but this is an otherwise horrible reason to choose how to run your business. Successful websites take time to make them so. No thing can replace that, no matter what platform you use. Wordpress isn't a "paid" website. The software is free. You just have to pay for hosting (just like anything else that you own online) and what ever else you want to enhance and build it the way you want. Just like building any other website. Either do it yourself, or pay for it or to have it done. That's just business. Any business. You are only going to get the success that you put into it. If you take the easy road, you will get minimal results. If you work hard and continue to learn and improve, you will see success. The same with anything else.
Having a large following on Twitter is a goal too. But it doesn't mean anything in reality. Followers can be gamed, feed subscribers are the real test of popularity. There are two business rules that apply here when thinking about what blogging platform to invest your time and money into, and they are, "You get what you pay for" and "It takes money to make money".
Twitter followers mean nothing. Conversions are everything. You can't gauge your success on how many Twitter followers you have unless you are getting paid per Tweet. Other than that it's still throwing a bunch of darts at a board to see which ones stick, I don't care how "targeted' you think your followers are.
Wow - I've personally been waiting for a thread like this, simply because me and my partner Hakim have recently masterminded something of excellence. We have figured out, then tried and tested, a theory of how to bring "making money from FREE blogs (namely Blogger)" back to life. The method is very unique and since we set the original theory to the test, we achieved results. Since then we have been tweaking different accounts and testing the results, most scientifically and we have finally come up with something that dominates! We now have 5 "main" blogs on blogger, all free, and each bringing in over $200 per day. Two of them are running Clickbank products which have a $70-$90 commission on them and 3 are running clickbank products which offer $20-$50 per sale. Our secret is the fact that the Niche's are small and targeted - and the big secret is exactly how we are setting up the blogs - the presentation, layout, the unique "style" we have come up with, and the sales copy techniques we are using. We are using no AdSense on our free blogs as well - many people believe adSense is good to bring in some extra income, and its so easy to set up when you have a free blogger account, but in all honesty - we found it pointless, and we only use our own Designed adverts. Believe me, when we release this, its going to be huge - and seems as we only recently formed our company by the merging of our minds and experiences - it will be the first digital product True Solution launches officially. When it comes to anything in life - mind over matter, always! This achievement is to me, a serious success, because while I personally trial and test other peoples marketing efforts - nobody has thought of this, yet by discovering it, I personally discovered so much more about life, about thinking outside the box, about being original and about how the "total" effect is what is important. Would you believe that many Internet Marketers through ideas like competitions and day-events, tactics which professionals have used with success many times over, completely out of the equation - where really bold, bright moves like this work wonders - if only you get creative and put some hard work into it and most importantly: have belief in yourself, your ideas and your ability - you can achieve a great deal of success. Steven, True Solution unLTD.