Posted on November 20, 2009 by Ajith | 14 Comments
This is a little survey post! Since majority of my readers are those who are already making money online (or those who want to do so) from blogging or otherwise I thought of asking you this question. In fact this helps me to assess myself as to where I stand as an MMO blogger and helps all my wonderful readers out here as well.
There are two parts to this survey and I request you to participate in both polls listed below. The first part is about how much you make and the second part is about the methods or instruments that you use to make that kind of online income.
Continue reading » How much money do you make online?
Posted on November 16, 2009 by Ajith | 11 Comments
Turning off comments on your blog is not something that you do very often. However, there are situations where comments are taken out completely or disabled per post or even turned off after a certain period. This post describes the situations when you take out comments and how to turn it off.
In a blog, the comments are turned off or avoided in the following scenarios.
#1 Autopilot affiliate sales blogs
Blogs that are meant to create autopilot income will typically have a handful of posts that are a bunch of landing pages themselves whose duty is to help convert the traffic. In such blogs are comments are either totally disabled or never approved.
Continue reading » When to Turn off comments on your WordPress Blog and How?
Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ajith | 27 Comments
It has been exactly one year 
since I started using twitter. I must say that I did sign up with twitter purely on an experimental basis to see if it can result in any significant traffic or conversion. However, the following twitter related numbers during the past one year somehow prompted me to rethink about my decision.
- No. of tweets: 1159 or roughly 3 tweets per day
- No. of followers: 339 (Thank you all, but it’s still a mystery for me as I see 5-10 followers getting added everyday. Where are they all going?)
- No. of people that I follow:
172 90 (Reduced by 50% today, congratulations to you all whom I still follow)
- No. of referral visits from twitter to this blog: 762 (Far behind the traffic from Google, Yahoo, StumbleUpon, Forums and even Yahoo Answers)
Continue reading » Bye bye Twitter!
Posted on November 10, 2009 by Ajith | 11 Comments
For the layman, Google is only a Search Engine who also have a Web browser and a free email service (and of course it’s the Youtube and Picasa company). For bloggers and online entrepreneurs, it is an organization to help earn money online and market their products via tools such as AdSense and AdWords. And for the geeks it’s all about Android, Google code, Gears etc.
However, Google is much more than that and it’s getting bigger and bigger day by day. Check out the following free applications and tools which is only a small subset of what Google Labs has today (Sorry for the illogical grouping of desktop apps and web tools)
Continue reading » Amazing Google Tools that you probably didn’t use yet
Posted on November 6, 2009 by Ajith | 4 Comments
This might sound like grandma topic because you have heard it time and again from various sources. However, I am going compile the ingredients to your blogging success once more here – this time as a bullet list because that’s what I do whenever 
I am ill (been on leave for the whole week and hence not much online activities)
I am grouping the key success factors under four categories – viz blogger, blog and reader related parameters plus external entities. I request you to add other factors as one or two word comments (for a change) here:
Continue reading » Factors that determine your Blogging Success
Posted on November 3, 2009 by Ajith | 24 Comments
In the past two years or so, I have been accumulating a list of dofollow blogs mainly with the link building interest in mind. However, due to pressure from my regular job and also from blogging, I wasn’t getting enough time to update this document on a regular basis nor use it effectively for commenting. Hence I thought of moving this list to a database based web application and the result is my new little project – The DoFollow Blogs List.
In a nutshell this Do Follow list is a directory of blogs that follow. However, in the long term, I want to make it slightly different and more appealing.
Continue reading » DoFollow Blogs List – (soft) launch
