Archive for November, 2006

It’s here! It’s here! The blog network that Blogging on Empty is part of is finally here and we’re allowing you to win a Coconut straight from Hawaii, where Blogtown Press is headquartered!

That’s right we’re launching the network with the first ever Link to a Coconut Contest.

You can visit that link to read about it but the basic idea is that you choose 1-3 Blogtown Blog Network posts per post on your blog to link to and if you link to the right on you win a coconut!

Seeing as how this is a blog all about Blogging easier I’m going to be following the contest progress here and let you know if launching a Site or network of sites, with a contest is a good idea.

Hope you enjoy and hope you join the contest.

Aloha,

Erik

technorati tags:Blog, Network, Contest, Launch

I was just “pre-approved” for several of my sites to become a reviewme reviewer.

ReviewMe.com is a service that is like a lot of the PayPerPost services that are popping up here and there online and offer advertisers a direct link to readers through the millions of blogs out there. Bloggers in turn get payed to post about a product or service. Include a link, done.

The biggest part of ReviewMe that bloggers will like, no love, is that the advertisers can’t require the review to be positive. That means you can give your honest to goodness review of the product. You have to say that it’s a paid advertisement and the review has to be at least 200 words long. Tech Crunch which has been critical of previous payperpost companies, seems to like the new format.

Oh and right now if you write a review about the service you can have a chance to win $25,000. Being pre-approved, you may see me joining this contest and trying to win a few dollars, $25,000 of them.

technorati tags:ReviewMe, Text-Link-Ads, Blog, Blogging, Make, Money, Advertising

Do you spend too much of your time checking stats?

I’ve slowed my roll down in this aspect of blogging but when I first started out I was always checking my stats. Several times a day I would head over to statcounter, or adsense, or chitika, or namedrive, just to see if people were stopping by, or if people were “converting.”

I still check once or twice a day now, but not every hour, as I practically was previously. If you still do this maybe you can use a new tool mentioned by Darren over at problogger. It’s an add on for firefox that allows you to view your adsense stats in a browser bar “24/7.”

I’d just like to mention that there’s also one for flock that you can download, and Darren points toward an older adsense status bar for your Google Desktop Sidebar, if you use that.

It’s good to keep track of your stats, and anything you can do to minimize the time spent doing so will help you become a more efficient blogger, especially if your blogging on precious little time. I still check my stats to see where people are coming from and to, but having some of my stats in a status bar while I’m typing this post helps reduce that time considerably.

technorati tags:Blog, Blogging, Adsense, Firefox, Tools, Stats, Statistics, Tips