Guest blogging what a great concept it is. You have someone who will write a post on your blog, and it will save you some work and you still make money that day. All for just giving one link to the author. The idea of guest blogging is not what i am criticizing, but i am only arguing about the fact how some of the bloggers are implying it on their blog.

I know there are many bloggers who would not mind getting a link from ProBlogger, John Chow, or Shoemoney’s blog by writing a guest post, and i am sure all these blogging professionals wouldn’t mind a guest post because they can do other things rather than writing a post. While Jeremy of Shoemoney doesn’t do that which is why i am a big fan of him, but i am recently noticing John Chow of Johnchow.com allowing alot of guest posts. Now the blog should be renamed to Guestblog.com rather than john chow. That was just a joke. Alot of the guest posts are quality content, but i saw few of them have minor glitches, and as John Chow is posting it on his blog with a john chow name he should atleast proof-read the post and make editions as he goes along.

Not just John, anyone who allows guest blogging on their blog should atleast read the post and make corrections, and just show the corrections in a different colors. Because then it builds credibility to your blog and makes the reader stay on your blog longer and possibly subscribe because they know that you care about your site, and actually have some interest in your readers as well. If there are not corrections just the bloggers thoughts or opinions at the end of the post perhaps a thank you note for the guest blgoger. It just takes your blog a step higher in my eyes if you do that.

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I was looking at my subscribers that i gaines in one month and i was quiet happy with the number. I have 87 Subscribers on Balkhis which is quiet an accomplishment for one month the blog has been launched. Or atleast i think so. I believe if i go at the rate i have been going for the past couple days it won’t be far away that i reach 1000. Now i analyzed strategies of other bloggers as well as used common sense and advices that i recieved from online friends to achieve this. Here are some of the things i notice that helped me increasing the subscribers.

You need to have the RSS Button embedded into your design and have it stand out. As you see many top bloggers such as Shoemoney, John Chow, and many others have the RSS Button on their site stand out. You will notice top quality blog designers will make sure that you have the rss button visible to your user without having to scroll the page. When i designed Balkhis, i read alot about rss and embedded it in the design at the top of the page.

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Now if you are wondering which car i bought, I bought a 2008 Honda Civic EX in a Gold Color (Full Features). This car runs and looks smooth, and the best part is i dont have to pay monthly payments. Now I am posting the pictures below, and i will tell you how i did it.

First important thing i had to do was manage my finances, and stop carrying cash. Let me tell you that Cash is not something you want to carry in your pocket because it encourages frivilous spending. Even if you don’t need something you will end up buying it at the spot because you have cash in your pocket. I put my online income in my savings account, and transfer some into checking as i go. Next thing i did was managed my finances through Excel (A custom program i created) in which i can enter my daily income and spending, and at the end of the day i had my net Income. I analyzed what i was doing. I made smart investments as in promoting my website. (I did make alot of stupid ones as well, but you have to understand that i have been in this business for almost 5 years now) therefore i have some what of an idea what is good and what is not. Each month, i took out a good portion of my savings, and transferred it to another separate savings account. (I opened just a savings account, not connected it with Checkings, so NO CARD). That means i can only slide the card for my other account which doesn’t have that much money. Now if you have read my about page, i am only 17 so i don’t have a credit card, but i do have a Debit card which can be used as a credit.

Now those were my finance strategy. What exactly did i do last year? I started the year of 2007 by launching my last website (IDK.in) which was promoted heavily. It was a webdirectory, and i know many webmasters are not a fan of webdirectories, but a good webdirectory can be helpful. It was my ONLY project as i worked part time because i was in the senior year of my high school. One project means i can concentrate on it more. If you have multiple projects and you are working part time it gets really hard to do a good job on each. I set up a paid directory and added a blog in it. I am a free lance designer as well, so i did alot of custom work. Now in all together i was close to hitting 5 figures last year, but with directory alone i made enough money to buy a car before i sold the website. In Late September, Early October I sold my directory as i started college and couldn’t manage to stay updated with the directory world as so much was going on from the google side.

Now i bought a decent car which gives me very good Miles Per Gallon, and runs smoothly. Yeah i have a massager in the front both seats That feels good when i drive especially in the winter as it have a Heat Pack. Soon i will be getting Balkhis logo on the car with much more customization then i will post more photos

I hope you liked my success story and i hopefully inspired a few if not more. Main thing you have to do is keep track of your finances, and give your project your 100% so basically only have one project if you are the only person working (Part Time).

I will share some techniques i used to make mybloglog works best for me at balkhis. First when i joined my sole purpose was to get that widget, but as i looked more into it, I realize how useful this was. I actually went ahead and started trying some of the things that i think might work. First, I knew that the readers that i am getting is through the search feature of theirs because how else will they find a relatively new site?

I added some decent keywords that relates to Balkhis, such as earn money. Once that was done i let it stay for a day and checked the result in traffic, and infcat the traffic increased as i add some decent keywords. My next goal was how to get people to visit my community (Balkhis).

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/balkhis/

I started joining other communities that were related to my niche. Now you can’t abuse the service because they only let you join 15 new communities a day, so i joined 15 the first day, and continued the process for 5 straight days. I kept adding other people’s communities the ones that i found kool. Just to build a better network, and when you join someone else’s community your picture shows up in the community member list, and thats how people can find you. As well as it shows other people who join the same community as you in your user page.

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/syedbalkhi/

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I will relate that to Google’s recent behavior toward directories because i believe Google is in its ovulation period at this time.

All of this started in late 2007 when google entered its Premenstral Syndrome (PMS) when the first mood swing toward directories happened because before directories were loved by google and was used by most SEO Companies for their clients. This first mood swing caused google to penaltised all the highly advertised directories such as Alive, Aviva, Big Web Links, Directory Dump, and many more. This penalty caused these sites to loose their rankings in SERPs to an extent that they would not even rank for their own name. Followed by this mood swing, there was a temperature change and made google more angry toward these directories, and then Google lowered their Pagerank (PR). Most of these websites i listed were PR 6 or above, and they were lowered to pr 3 and lower.

With the penaltisation of these directories some of the new directories got high pagerank and much love from google (Sudden Mood Swing). One of this love was shown toward Directory Journal which was awarded a PR 7 in a very short time, and followed on the next update it was as well lowered to PR 6. Google’s sense of smell was becoming more sensitive as it was taking more steps into the PMS. They started sneaking in and peeking at what was going in the directory world. Many more directories were penaltised and were degraded in Pagerank. Google was smelling Paid Links which were there since the start, but Google’s sense of smell got more and more sensitive.

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