A great way to increase overall visitors to your website is to form an alliance with like-minded bloggers. Though you may view people with your same blogging “niche” as competition, it is better to view them as friends and share some link love with them. I currently follow many websites and comment on all of them to let them know if I found their article helpful and to let them know that I enjoy reading what they publish on their blogs.

Websites that I’ve been currently following include:

• John Cow - This is a great, fun site to follow. I recently began reading some of the articles and really enjoy them. I now am a chronic visitor. The layout is awesome! The niche is “making mooney online.”
  

• 365 To Freedom - This guy has a great motto and great goal: To be able to “quit his dayjob” in just 1 year; hence the title: 365 to freedom.
  

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After reading other blogs, I came to the conclusion that I haven’t been on the grind enough. There’s been a severe lack of promotion and writing blog posts. Yes, I have been very busy, but you know what they say about excuses…(or maybe you don’t)… Either way, I certainly feel like a man on a mission. Not only do I feel like a man on a mission, I know I’m a man on a mission. As a blogger, I need a way to constantly stay motivated and constantly keep myself productive. My strategy to stay motivated and productive with my blogging career is simple: Blog Or Die! Re-read that, think about it, let it sync in… BLOG OR DIE! For everybody out there that wants to make money online, you need to find ways to consistently stay motivated or the money-making will not happen, period! Initially, getting everything set up through Wordpress with the installing of plugins and Ad-Sense will get a new blogger pumped up and “motivated” about his new blogging expedition.

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After observing many successful blogs and websites, I noticed that they all have key traits to make them successful. Here, I will share with you their money making secrets and ability to drive traffic to their site. The fact is, money making sites not only look better than other websites, they are better. Below I will share with you the key traits of successful websites and how the website owners are able to keep them successful.

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Well, lately I’ve been so busy that I haven’t really had time to concentrate on the development of the site. But I have made some quality progress.

What I’ve Done:

1) Gained StumbleUpon Friends - I get a lot of page hits from StumbleUpon, though they don’t generate much profit or get many subscribers, the extra traffic can’t hurt. Getting my site and name out on the web is definitely a plus. If you are currently using StumbleUpon, I’d appreciate any extra “thumbs ups!”

2) E-Mailed Alex King (regarding ShareThis) - ShareThis, a great plugin doesn’t seem to be working out with this layout. When I activate it, my articles & text shift around on the screen making everything completely unreadable! There is also an ugly black coding segment above the header. I received an e-mail back from Alex and he escalated this problem to the ShareThis support team. Hopefully they can figure something out!

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Now that I have my blog off to a nice start, I need to properly define how I am going to complete my $10 million dollar goal. What can be done to get more readers to my website? Well, I am considering learning how to edit the template’s code to make it more visitor friendly.

Currently, I have a few desires:

1. To get more readers to my site
2. To fix the layout so that only 3 entries appear on the home page (for some reason it doesn’t work in WP options when I change the number of posts displayed)
3. To get a block of six 125 X 125 ads on the right side of my website.
4. To install Kontera in-text links
5. To install Blogrush

My Plans Of Action:

1. Use StumbleUpon, Digg, get “ShareThis” to work properly without it showing an error, become a top commenter on other quality blogs, utilize Entrecard, and post in forums

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Ever notice that little website logo in the upper left corner of your browser customized to fit the page you are on? That little logo is the site’s “icon image.” If you look in the upper left hand corner on the firefox page tab OR Internet explorer page tab, there is a customized red & black “AP” logo to represent www.AndrewPavelski.com. Website logos, or “icon images” are very valuable to let site visitors know that you are serious about your company. If you don’t already have one, I highly recommend that you create one and upload it onto your website! It is very easy!

Why create a website icon?

• To give your site a unique flash of brilliance

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I don’t know if my blog has yet been banned by Wordpress, but MaxBlogPress’s “Ping Optimizer” should help to prevent any future possibility of getting my blog banned! According to MBP, there are some “major flaws” in the Wordpress pinging-system that can get your blog banned AND make it lose valuable traffic. I don’t want to take any chances of getting my precious blog banned by Wordpress, so I did some research…

What happens when a blog pings?

When a blog pings, it sends out updated information from your blog to search engines and across the rest of the web. Each time you update your blog, you should use a pinging service to let the web know that your blog is updated! By using the pinging service, you send a “ping” to them and they send your blog’s information across the web. Basically, your blog “ping” contains your name and URL and is usually in XML format. The pinging services (i.e. Ping-O-Matic) have servers that are able to accept “pings” and process the XML formats.

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After reading about the Gyutae Park VS. Tyler Cruz web contest via JohnChow.Com, I decided to go against John & Tyler’s grain and actually try to win some money! Gyutae Park’s website: Winning The Web dot Com earned my vote….btw Gyutae, I won’t tell anyone about the grand-scale bribal (cough…$$$) technique you used on Andrew Pavelski to get his vote.

Instead of taking a stand for Tyler Cruz “just because” he’s on Chow’s blog (which is usually a good idea), I decided to do some research. I enjoy both blogs, and the blog in the competition lead is Gyutae’s! One day away from the contest finale, I decided that I’d like a chance to win! Hopefully Tyler Cruz has $100 dollars, because I’m ready to gladly accept the sweet scent of his defeat via my pal PayPal.

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Staying on the grind, looking for another way to monetize my website, I stumbled upon the MaxBlogPress website. The MaxBlogPress website features and explains custom designed plugins to help bloggers and website owners via Wordpress. At the MaxBlogPress website, I found a plugin that generates a “Deal Dot Com” widget on my homepage sidebar. Since “Deal Dot Com” is one of John Chow’s recommended money makers, I decided to check out this plugin.

What is Deal Dot Com?

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I have some prime-time news for all my readers out there! An interesting new way to make some serious cash has recently been brought to my attention! Beginning February 1, 2008, the release of “Pay-Per-Play Advertisements” are set to take the internet by storm. I personally believe that they have the ability to revolutionize internet advertising. Unlike the traditional AdSense ads where money is made only when an ad is clicked, the Pay-Per-Play audio ads will make you money each time your website is visited! This is a great opportunity to earn money off of total site traffic alone. Pay-Per-Play Ads are compatible with AdSense and site owners are paid each play, which involves no clicking or opening of a new page.

What exactly are Pay-Per-Play ads?

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