Do you like me, want 2009 to be a great year financially? A few days ago, I posted about a fantastic “ground floor” opportunity that the likes of you and I typically wouldn’t get to hear about. Check out the original post here.
The thing is, time’s running out for you! The doors will close on the equity sharing opportunity on 31st December 2008.
Look, even if you decide to do nothing with it, you owe it to yourself to register with them now! You can always change your mind in the future. On the other hand, imagine what an additional 6 figure income could do in your life?
In this post, I want to tell you about a new way to make a significant income from your blogs and podcasts!
Before I do, let me tell you how I came across this….
I’ve been working for quite some time on monetizing my blog (which was part of the reason for the recent re-design). I’m constantly looking for new ways of doing this, and new opportunities to get involved with. Because of this, I have WAY MORE podcast content on my iPod that I could ever hope to listen to!!!
Last week, I was in Poland on Business and on Friday evening, was flying back home. I’d had a tough week, so on the plane, I wanted to do nothing more than rest, and not be bothered by anyone!
Imagine the scene: I’m sitting there with my iPod on, pretending to be asleep (hey, you’ve done that too, haven’t you??) listening to some recent podcasts. What I normally do is to start at the bottom of the list of podcasts (the earliest) and work my way up the list – but doing that would have made it obvious that I was awake!
So what could I do? Read more…
There I was, minding my own business, trying to expand my blog readership when the unthinkable happened!
“What happened?”, you might ask!
Well, before I tell you, let me take you back a few weeks to where the story really starts….
I write this blog for you – my loyal readers! To this end, I’ve been doing quite a bit of research into what people want, and it seems that there are a few things that keep cropping up that I need to address.
Before I get onto that though, did you catch my earlier post on how to get a free ad on John’s Tech Blog? Time’s running out on this, so I’d urge you to read the post right now before it’s too late!
Anyway, back to what my readers want! 
It turns out that there are a couple of things which I do here that can really annoy people (sorry!). They are:
- Having links that open in a new Window
- Publishing an RSS feed which only contains a summary of every post
Let’s look at each one in more detail.
Links Open in New Window
My thinking behind this was that links to external sites should always be in an new window so that I wouldn’t lose visitors. Guess what though, you know how a ‘back’ button works! On top of this, if I’m doing my job and delivering good quality content on a consistent basis, you’ll keep coming back just because of the value that I get out of my site!
My goal now is to stop creating links which open in new Windows, and over time I’ll also remove any other links that I find around the site that still do (like the ad’s on the right, for example). Please bear with me whilst I make this change, and in the meantime, I’m sorry!!!
RSS Feed Only Contains Summary
This one wasn’t so obvious to track down! I noticed that I seemed to be losing subscribers to my feed almost as quickly as I was gaining new ones, so I started digging. It struck me as odd that whilst every other feed that I subscribe to myself ave me a full feed, my own was always truncated. I figured that was due to me being too tight to pay for some form of RSS feed publishing service, but then I spotted the option. The ‘Reading’ option. The default ‘For every article in a feed, show summary‘ option!
Doh!
So this option has now been corretly set to ‘Full text‘ and subscribers should start seeing what they were expecting. If this has been affecting you, again, I’m sorry!!!!
If there’s anything else that’s annoying you about John’s Tech Blog, please comment below. If not, why not subscribe via one of the RSS links on the top right of the page, or ‘Fave This Blog’ on Technorati using the green button in the top right-hand corner!
I had to share this with you! I was reading a post on one of my favourite blogs at SEOBook.com which featured a YouTube video that I’ve noticed making the rounds where an average looking model is given a makeover to make her a poster girl. Here’s the video, in case you’ve missed it:
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