The time is moving so fast and another blogosphere summary is up again. Before you share with me how your blogging week has been, let me summarize the happenings in the blogosphere for the week here. I am sure you will be more than interested since I will be quoting more juicy blogging tips that will definitely help you to blog better.

Happenings On Wayne Liew Dot Com

Social media celebrations

The week has been mesmerizing for me as there are a few traffic spikes and I should really thank the users of social media, notably my friends on StumbleUpon and Sphinn. Why this deserved a celebration is because the first time in my blogging career? Well, I got featured on the front page of a social media site. Yes, Ask Your Blogging Questions At The Right Place went popular on Sphinn with 31 Sphinns. Thank you to all Sphinners.

One bad thing that happened to Wayne Liew Dot Com this week is the number of comments is going down! Where are you guys? Why aren’t you all commenting? Don’t make me ashamed of my own writings at 10 Reasons You Are Not Getting Comments.

About Page Edits

With some little recommendations by pablopabla (can I have your real name?) under the comment section of How To Sell Your Blog With A Good “About” Page, I made some changes to the About Wayne Liew Dot Com page. Apart from suiting the whole about page to suit the writing theme of this blog and correcting a few grammatical mistakes, an avatar of mine have been added.

Make Money Blogging via Affiliate Marketing

Yaro from Entrepreneur’s Journey wrote an insightful piece of article, Understanding Affiliate Marketing From The Perspective Of A Blogger,which I think is a must read for bloggers if you are looking into affiliate marketing as an option for blog monetization.

Affiliate income should be a major income source for a blogger, but as always diversification wins. You must aim to make money from your blog using as many different methods as you can. Your ultimate goal though, is improving the core values that make up a successful blog - traffic, subscribers and relationships. Your blog (and email list) should be the dependable asset, not affiliate marketing.

 
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Affiliate marketing is one thing that I looked forward to monetizing this blog. However, it is good that I own a large reader base before I start this plan as I still think I am not influential enough to make people pay for something.

If are confused and don’t know where to start your quest in affiliate marketing, Adnan from BlogTrepreneur wrote up a long list of resources for affiliate marketing at 81 Useful Affiliate Marketing Resources to help you get started.

What are your thoughts on affiliate marketing? Have you implemented in on your blog? How was the results?

Bloggies - Have You Voted?

Bloggies 2008, the eighth annual weblogs awards nomination list is out and the votes are required from you. Problogger by Darren and Skelliewag.org by Skellie are in the list and you should really give your votes to them under the Best Topical Weblog and Best Australian and New Zealand Weblog categories respectively.

Have you voted for the event and which blogging idol of yours that you think will win the crown in their categories?

Create a Blog - A Simple and Guided Way

To all my readers who are still unsure whether to start a self-hosted blog or not, you should seriously think of starting one if you think that you have the capabilities of doing what are the tasks listed on How The **** Do I Create A Half-Decent Blog? by Jason.

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You have all the resources to get a blog started in there, together with the links! Also, the list is incorporated with some useful tips which will let you know which direction to go when starting a blog. The best part, I like the simple writing style used by Jason.

Even if you are a intermediate blogger, you should give it a read as while. Skip the initial part, the contents, monetization and promoting might remind you of things that you might have left out all the while in blogging.

Blog Redesign - Think Carefully Before Proceeding

Ever thought of a blog redesign like me as it is part of my blogging resolutions for Year 2008? I was thinking about what to ask for from a designer and what would I need to be considering.

Thanks to Steven who came up with this article, 21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign. It is a long (21, do you want more?) list of things for you to find out if you are looking for a blog redesign any time soon.

3. What aspects of the current design are most effective?

4. What aspects of the current design are not effective?

The two questions that Steven pointed out in his article is what I need to seriously consider from now on before I continue my price quoting activities. if you have been reading my blog for quite some time, can you help me to answer the questions above?

Writing Fresh Contents by Changing Your Perspectives

Chris, over at his blog, wrote an inspiring article, How to Change Your Perspective, for bloggers that are spitting out contents the same old way.

Blogs that make an effort to stretch, to break out from norms and provide something unique are the ones people remember, talk about and return to.

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Breaking away from other blogs, namely your competitors, especially in a saturated niche is extremely difficult. I have written a couple of articles, Creating A Stunning and Memorable First Time Visit and My Love Story With StumbleUpon which is different from my usual all facts articles.

What article of yours that you think that you had written it from a different perspective? What has the article resulted in terms of readers’ response?

Secrets To Blog Reader Base Building Exposed

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There is always one question when we look at blogs with a high number of RSS subscribers, "The blogger definitely have some secrets that are made unknown so that they enjoy the benefits themselves". Well, "the secrets" that you are thinking about is already being revealed at The “Secrets” To Increasing Blog Readers.

I am proud to be placed together with some good bloggers. pablopabla gave 5 reasons why blogs have a big reader base:

• Personality
• Knowledge
• Work
• Consistency
• Social skills

All I can say is that, all of these will come down to one thing - HARD WORK! You can expect your personality to be there on Day 1 when you started blogging and social skills is not something that we work if you don’t socialize. Give your efforts and rewards will come by.

Your Blogging Week In Summary

How was your blogging week? Stumbled across any great blogging tips that you would like to share with me? What had you learned about blogging this week and in which aspect of blogging that you wish to improve yourself?

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