These days I guess everyone has a blog or maybe more, the same apply to me too. I first started my blogging with Blogger.com. Then after, I got my own domain, hosting, etc. and stopped writing in my Blogger.com’s blog. Before I knew it, one whole year went by, recently I checked back on my blog and found that it gotten a Google Page Rank 4 just like most of my others blogs too. Not bad for something I stopped working on for so long.

I was browsing through the Marketplace section at DigitalPoint forum, and I found quite a number of listing selling text links ads on blogs or website with good PR. So I figured I could do that with my ‘unused’ blog too.

So I posted an ads on DigitalPoint forum selling ‘Permanent $2 text link ads on my PR4 blog‘. Not too long after, I got my first PM from a potential buyer, I verified the link just to make sure it’s not porn or affiliates. Within 3 emails sent between us, we completed the transaction and with payment sent to me using PayPal. And this is how, I made my first $2 dollar of my ‘unused’ blog!

Soon additional orders started coming too and this is just coming in from just one forum alone, I figured I could post this ads on other Classified sections and forums too. So I did just that too.

Here’s a few some-what limited experience on posting selling text links ads.

1. Be sure to check if you are targeting the right audience. - This is the basic rule! Always make sure you are posting at the right place with the right audience. E.g. No matter how well I write, I am not likely to get any response if I’m posting my ads in a Cooking forum!
2. Be detailed and informative in your posting. - Tell any potential buyer what to expect, and how they can complete the transaction with you. E.g Details such as website, email, rules or guidelines if any, should be included in your posting.
3. Do not post in Google Groups, Yahoo Groups. - Most of these Groups are SPAMs, the number of readers digging into these posts are very limited. And those Groups who are active, are most likely to have a strong subject focus, E.g. Google Gmail, etc. so there’s really reason for you to post there too. Remember rule 1.
4. Do not abuse Craigslist. - The Craiglist community is very active in spotting SPAMs posts, before you knew it, your listing will be removed by the community. So it’s good to play nice.

I hope you will find this some-what-limited experience useful to you too. In all, I made a total of $32 of my ‘unused’ blog, not bad considering all it took is just a few decent post at the right places.

Do you have an ‘unused’ blog? Maybe you want to give it a shot too! Or maybe you want to transfer it to me? Let me do it for you, and we will split the earnings.

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Since I am on the topic of SEO, here’s a couple of useful videos.

Here’s a list of SEO videos I keep for reference.

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Sometime back after I wrote about ‘Getting the first sale is the hardest‘, Jana Eggers - the CEO of Spreadshirt generously dropped a couple of comments in the post on some of the things I can work on for my SpreadShirt store.

Take to her advice - To give the store a custom look. Here’s what I did.

1. Install a banner/logo for my store. - This will be my link to the homepage for my visitors.
2. Pick and choose a nice color scheme for my store. - Hopefully I did not do too badly here.
3. Look around for inspiration for my store design. - As I’m not the designer type of guy, I definitely need to look for inspiration. Here’s where I google ‘CSS Gallery’, there’s loads of beautifully done websites done by real designers.

After a couple of hours of fine-tunning here and there, my SpreadShirt store has a brand new look! What do you think it?

Alright, back to work on the rest of her comments.

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I have not been posting frequently the past few days, nevertheless I’m getting more visitors to my blog and my page views are also higher than ever before! And I can understand why too.

• I am starting to create value in my blog. These days I posts only when I have something important, or useful I want to keep reference, then I write a post about it. And sometimes these materials which I keep records of are useful to others too. So as more people starts to search, my blog get indexed which is good for me. Or simply as Wisdump put it ‘Eating my Own Dog Food‘.
• More does not mean good. More is not necessary good in blogging. More often when we blogged more, the quality of the posts deteriorated. And I end up losing more visitors instead. Not to mention, it does take quite a bit of time to build up quality posts.

To sum it up, Eric Kintz of VP Global Marketing Strategy & Excellence for Hewlett-Packard put it together nicely in his article ‘Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore‘ and how the pressure around posting frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging.

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I just completed compiling a list of Ping services available. This list are compiled from 56 RPC and RPC2 Services to Ping by Elliott Back, Ensight - Jeremy Wright’s Personal Blog » Services to Ping, together with a couple of new additionals.

Last count.. In all 60 Ping services to ping after you post to your blog.

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2 euro.weblogs.com
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

Here I go by the rule more is good. However, if you are looking to get those quality ping services, head over to SEO’s list of RSS Ping services.

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Ever since I posted my list of forums I visit often, I have been daydreaming in these forums quite a bit, e.g. reading posts and book marketing interest materials, etc. It’s really kinda of addictive really. Before you know, the whole day had gone by and I accomplished nothing and wasted a day of my life.

And this cannot go on!

Here’s what I come up with.

1. Stick to your purpose. Usually I often visit a forum for a purpose, whether it’s to seek advice or post a reply. Stick to it closely and leave after that.
2. Limit the time spend at each forum. Set a time spend on each forum, 15 minute is a good guide to start with.
3. Get a life! This is my favorite tips, if you have enough real friends you won’t even want to spend time in forums.

So how did you prevent yourself from procrastinating?

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