>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>How To Know Whether Some Ones Blog Is Cash Cow or Just a Stupid Junk

Yeah many bloggers are already there making money from nothing, just by working for 2 to 3 hours daily on their goldmine blog. As I always mention on this blog the best thing to do to get there is to watch. Don't start any project, don't hurry, force, be tempted, rushed, ... to start if you feel you don't yet know whats going on. This is very important because in the world of blogging traffic = money, yes, and if you are new to blogging you don't know where the traffic comes from. And by studding any blog I was able to figure out whether or not it was a good business or not. This depends on some important things you have to notice about blog.

Traffic: Traffic can be measured by many ways, first you can check for blog search engine ranking like Technorati, and see how many members it has in communities like MyBlogLog and BlogCatelog, these numbers can give you important insight about the traffic of a blog. Also Alexa is my favorite it can tell u whether the website has traffic Alexa 2000000 or lower, and also is the traffic rising or declining.

Although Alexa ranking can be manipulated by some webmasters its still a good measure of website traffic.

Google PR: Google PR is essential to any successful website, its the current that make google index pages, and without this current the blog will be seprate from the internet world. So having some PR is important to decide whether its a good blog or not.

Another thing you can look at is the number of indexed pages, this also can be an important mesure of PR and how good internal structure is.

Starting Date: When the blog was started and how consistant the blogger was is also important as it will show he had been motivated to go on posting.

No of Posts: No successful blog has less than 100 to 150 posts, after this number of posts and good content and promoting , you can have a constant residual traffic. Off course if you haven't made a mistake.

Quality Of Content: Blogs must be human friendly more than Search Engine friendly, this way they can make loyal visitors and interest. It might not look important to blogger to post quality content, Its one of the lessons you can learn from watching the the bigs.

Some Widgets: Some widgets like traffic meters and Feedburner subscribers and aweber readers widgets can be importnt to measure importance of a blog, and number of readers subscribed to the feed, also there are some widgets.

The summary of these factors can tell you a lot about the blog and how much traffic it has, then you can decide whether it will be good to check the techniques followed by this blogger or not.

Most Successful Bloggers are very Nice Guys!

This is one of the things I noticed from bloggers I have communicated with through forums and emails, they are very nice and like to help. Actually its one of the pillars of blogging to help your readers and subscribers.

I will more likely visit a blog who's owner is willing to help rather than one who will not help and ignore emails and inquiries.

I will more likely visit a blog when after I leave a comment on a specific post (not spam a relevant comment that adds value to the discussion) will send me a thank you email, yes many blogs do that, I feel strong motive to go back to those blogs again and again.

I will more likely go visit a blog if I feel its a transparent blog regarding information, and will give all information regarding a subject in a way that will be of benefit to the reader, Not half the truth, or hype to push visitor to buy or avoiding competition.

on the other hand

I will not visit a blog with posts that are all text with no pictures or just copied ezines.

I will not click on a post called "Make Money Online made easy" but rather something like "A little blog I started 3 months ago made me .... last month!"

I will not go to a blog with poor design and a lot of ads, I think there is some measures that if the blog look is below the reader will lose trust in the author's work.

That is all.
thanks.
Eugene

Tips to Save Your Search Engine Powered Traffic in 2009

Search Engines are the most attractive and reliable source of traffic among many webmasters. The main reason for this is that the traffic from Search Engine is effortless or at least doesn’t need daily work like other types like RSS and PPC. However traffic from the search engine has some problems that can ruin your entire online business. I have stated below some of the major problems and their solution.

1. The problem of De-Indexing: this is a growing problem in the web today. Due to Search Engines fighting spam and trying to filter old / duplicate content many good pages might get de-indexed in the way to solve this problem:

• Always get at least one High PR link to your home page and this will be enough to save your site from this problem
• Make sure each page has a clear and not lengthy linking structure from home page.
• Create Sitemap and submit it to Google.
• Link to home page and any page that has subpages (joint pages).
• Make sure not link from no follow/un-indexed sites.

2. The problem of Duplicate Content: and here I don’t mean complete duplication recently even content similarity is considered a type of duplication, and sooner or later it will all get filtered out. To solve this problem:

• Write or outsource unique and relevant content.
• Never use PLR articles as they will be used by others and the duplication will grow.
• Use services like CopyScape to protect your unique content.

3. The problem of Competition: this is major problem in the niches that make money and the best solution to it is to spy on your competition using some SEO tool like SEO Elite or Web CEO. Such software will disclose to you all the links that your competitor has and you can do the same thing.