Hi. I'm Lova. The following is the kind of real life case study I do on the blog I operate. I'd like to get feedbacks from you warrior members. Do you think I should continue this way. Does this benefit to anyone? """ The last 5 days were very busy days. Tons of things had to be done and they each took a lot of time. Those actions were not focused toward a precise result. They were necessary and constitute an incompressible part of the construction of blogadollar. It was impossible to keep blogadollar updated. But not anymore… http://www.BlogaDollar.com is a real-life case study about how to make a blog become very successful. That’s why I thought that it was accurate to give you the details of the actions here. If you plan to have a succesful blog yourself, be prepared to do all this work. You’ll make a lot of REAL money online blogging if you stay consistent and never give up working hard. Be sure that this hard work will pay you back 1000 times when done. Ok. Here are those actions, with a brief description, and without any special order: * Learned linkbaiting: linkbaiting is what makes your blog very popular, traffickable and linkable. It consists of creating and posting an article on your blog that is so good, or so controversial, or so original, or so funny, or so creative, or so news breaking, or so informative, or so helpful etc… that people all other the blogosphere start to discuss about it and send you their visitors and tons of backlinks (it took me a few days to learn it as I realised that it was a major blogging skill to be able to produce linkbait contents.) * Produced my first linkbait (I tried). You can read it now. In fact, it’s the previous post. I called it “Blogadollar’s Easy guide to Attract thousands of links and thousands of visitors to your Blog.†This is my first, please be tolerant ) . I’ve learned a lot while doing it: It takes a lot of time and research, and it consumes hours and hours from researching to grabbing the info to formatting the blog post to insert the images and finally distribute/promote/socialize the post. You must do it once to be able to improve your skills in all these areas. For example, after this first one, I know how to improve my effectiveness and reduce the time spent on the process, what to continue and what to change etc… Just do it and practice and improve on your skills each time. It’s so crucial if you really want to get noticed by the masses. * Prepared The mass distribution: It is not sufficient to produce your great quality content. That’s the 1st step. Then, you must tell the world about it. So, what I did is registering to all the relevant social bookmarking and social networking services. I registered to all of them: Sphinn + Marktd + PlugIm + Digg + Stumble Upon + Netscape + Del.icio.us + Reddit + Fark + Boing Boing + Slashdot + Onlywire * Also Registered in several Popular Forums: Did you know that one forum post can be viewed 40,000 times? The counter will say: “viewed 40,000 timesâ€. I saw it with my own eyes this week. And I found not one, but at least 10 forum posts viewed 40,000 times and even more. It’s sufficient to me to register in the forums where I found those posts. Just imagine: if only 10% of those 40,000 click your signature link and go to your blog, that would be 4,000 (4 thousands) people going to your blog for just 1 forum post. I’ll definitely copy those successful forum posts and take my share of the cake. So I already registered to the following very popular forums 1. The bloggerforum forum 2. The TheBlogExperiment forum 3. The affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com forum 4. The earnersforum forum 5. The ConquerYourNiche forum 6. The AuthorityBlogger forum 7. The DigitalPoint forum 8. The WarriorForum forum * Checked Miscellaneous Results: I must admit I’m a little guilty of instant gratification desires. For example, I check mybloglog everyday to see how many times my profile was viewed since the last time I checked (today it counted its 825th+ view), for example I regularly check the traffic stats with google anaytics to see the site referrers, where do visitors come from, which are the sources od traffic, wich keywords brought in the traffic, for example I check my paypal payments received several times a day, I check my alexa rankings several times (now Blogadollar is 543,200th most popular site of the world, I checked the blogadollar’s ratings at smartpagerank do com and so on… * Brainstormed a lot: Without brainstorming, great ideas will never come naturally. At least not in my case. So what you must do is allow 10 to 15 minutes thinking extensively of 1 aspect of your blog that you want to improve and take note of every brilliant ideas that come during your brainstorming session. I like to brainstorm about the sidebar, or about the header, or about the content posts, or about the design, about the socialization, about promotion etc… Anything you can think of, brainstorm it and take note of your brilliant ideas. You understand: brainstorm about 1 aspect of your blog each time. Don’t get confused trying to think about everything at the same time. And take note of your ideas! You’ll never remember them otherwise. I talk by experience. ) From my brainstorming sessions, I always come up with 2 or 3 brilliant ideas that I will then implement on Blogadollar. * Registered a paid account at Flickr: They offer you unlimited space/bandwidth to host and serve your images, either high resolution or big size files or repeat files viewing. It’s unlimited for an entire year. They’ve been bought by Yahoo. You know, Yahoo. Those big big players. Their service is $24.95 for an entire year. I plan to host a lot of images, use and benefit from their unlimited bandwidth extensively. * Added Rss button in prominent places: I re-installed wordpress on Blogadollar the other day. Before, I had the french version, so this time, I installed the US version. And miracle! My RSS Feed now displays several items(blog posts). Previously, it only displayed 1 item(the most recent blog post each time). Very happy, I re-registered to feedburner and burned my all-new feed. Now it’s perfect at feedburner, with search engine friendly URLs. If you followed this blogadollar’s progress since the beginning thus the time I submitted and submitted and submitted in RSS directories, you remember that my concern with feedburner was it did not return search engine friendly URL pointing to Blogadollar. Now the problem is fixed. Hourra!! My head spinned on this one! Really. RSS is very important, that’s why. Now you can see the feedburner subscription buttons on Blogadollar. In the header, at the end of each blog post, and I’ll add it to the sidebar soon too. By the way, subscribe to Blogadollar’s RSS feed today, you don’t want to miss any major update. As you can see, the blog is very busy and once in high gear, you really won’t want to miss the daily posts. Subscribe to Blogadollar’s RSS feed Now. * I made flashbacks to the daily progressions: What I call flashback to the daily progressions consists of going through the notes I take everyday about what was done that day, from hour to hour, and doing that for all the days until today, and I’ve noticed that although the days where passing one after the other, I made a lot of things, I really mean a lot of things each and everyday, and it reinforced my faith in the hard work and in the fact that it will pay 1000 times in a very near future. I also think that it will only take one major buzz (I don’t know what it will be yet) but I’m convinced that only 1 great exposition will make Blogadollar take off like a rocket , given the work that’s being currently done and already done on it. * Written / Published / and Promoted Blogadollar’s first linkbait: I talked to you about my first linkbait above. It was fairly acceptable, I think I did not revolutionize the blogging world with it. Anyway, You could find nice tips in it to improve your skills at gaining backlinks and thousands of visitors, I’m sure. The production took several days. It was created during a few days. I was still learning while creating it. And then came the time to actually retranscript it on blogadollar and finally publish it. Then came the promotion/ socialization part. It took 37 minutes to submit it to be distributed in all the major social services I told you before:- I had to open each service one by one in firefox’s tabs - Once opened in their individual tab, I had to login in each of them with the help of ROBOFORM - Submitting to digg took 4 minutes - Submitting to MarkTD took 3 minutes - Mister wong took 4 minutes - Netscape took about 10 minutes as I had to re-register (I’ve been banned before) - Submitting the blog post to dozens of blog carnivals - PlugIM took 5 minutes - Reddit took 5 minutes too - Slashdot took 4 minutes - Sphinn took 2 minutes * A lot more: The above are just the most remarkable actions I took these last days and kept me from updating the blog enough. I just saved you the multiple little actions that were done too that would be 20pages more if told to you here right now, such as:- uploading my existing images to flickr - Surfing and reading big blogs of the blogosphere in various topics to get inspired - commenting on other blogs - Reading JohnChow sometimes (oh! have you seen his new design? )) - uploading / re-uploading / modifying / re-uploading sidebar.php or index.php or others - Taking some screenshots while in action for future posts - Clicking on registration confirmation e-mails (after social book/networking registered or forums or other services) - A lot of brainstorming about many topics - Tons of copy & paste - Tons of organisation - Tons of notebook writing - and much much more… * And finally writing this post: Today I wanted to let you in on what I’ve been up to the last few days. I think you’ve been wondering why Blogadollar was not updated these days. Hint: if this happens again, don’t think I’m away except if I actually told it, just keep in mind that a lot of work is performed foreground or background and that you’ll finally always get the full report like today. So it’s always even good news for you when this occurs. And more because I showed you a general list only today, I will get deeper in details where it is necessary for you to get the full picture of those actions I told you about today. http://www.BlogaDollar.com is a real-life case study: I began writing this blog post at 11:00 pm precisely. Finished this blog post at 01:02 am. It’s a total of 2 hours and 2 minutes. Now time to tag the post (you see? I did not forget this time). It’s now 01:29 am. I’ve just finished tagging this post. So the real total is now 2 hours and 27 minutes to write this post. However, I will not submit this post to the social networking/bookmarking service as it’s not intended to be a linkbait. But if you liked this post and think I should have submitted, fell free to do it for me. If you liked it, chances are that others will like it. I can’t judge my own work, you’re the judge.Hope this helped. """ Greetings from France. Lova of BlogaDollar.