I made a new post on my Calculus and Physics blog: 2000 Calculus AB Free-Response: Question 1 Part B.
I have been getting a lot of organic hits, especially from Google, to this blog. These hits are great because I am not doing any work for them! Now I have to figure out a way to monetize this traffic.
In other good news, RevenueQuest, Calculus and Physics, and Student-Athletes have all been page ranked on Google. So it took about a month for them to be indexed.
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Recently, I have been thinking about other blogs I could start. The idea is that more blogs (with regularly updated, quality content) = more money. The catch, of course, is that you cannot possibly keep up good, quality posts on a blog that you are not interested in. After a couple of posts, you will lose momentum and the blog will become stagnant.
So what should you blog about? Here are three broad ideas that may help:
- Hobbies. Hobbies are great things to blog about because you already have an interest in the topic and you probably have some knowledge on the hobby that the average person does not.
- Academics. Are you taking a course right now? If you are, and you have a good understanding of the subject, you likely have a lot to blog about. Because you are going to the class on a specific schedule, you will be getting new information on the subject on a regular basis. Remember that you cannot just copy an instructor’s lectures/notes – those are his works and he has copyrights to them.
- Work. If you are employed, you probably know a thing or two about your profession and chances are you go to work up to five days a week. Now don’t tell me you never learn anything while at work. Tell the world what is going on in the stock market, how to change a Mercedes Benz’s oil, or why this winter is going to be bad for your lemon trees.
These ideas are pretty broad, but hopefully they give you an idea or two for a new blog on a topic you are interested in so you can keep posts regular and informative.
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New post on my Student-Athletes blog: Back to school in 2007.
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Tony Hung, a guest writer over at Problogger.net, has written a great article with “41 ways to kickstart your marketing efforts.”
It’s a long read, but full of great information. Thanks Tony!
How To Market Your Blog in 2007
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I’m happy to say that I am now getting organic hits from Google on my Calculus and Physics blog. They are all because of the series of posts I have started writing on the 2000 AP Calculus test.
Organic hits are hits that come from a search engine. So if someone does a search on a search engine, like Google or Yahoo!, your site comes up in the results, and the user clicks your site, that is an organic hit. Organic hits are great because they are highly targeted — they are from users that are looking for something specific on your site.
To get organic hits, your site must first be indexed by a search engine. One way to promote indexing of your site is to manually add your site to a search engine’s database. You can add your site to Google’s search engine using this add url tool. If other indexed sites already have links to your site, your site will automatically be indexed the next time the search engine crawls the page with your site’s link.
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