Bake Radio
Bake Radio is a small community provider of weblogs hosted on the popular Wordpress platform to any member of the community it serves who wants to blog about just about whatever they like from a wide range of topics.
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Information Stations
Posted on August 1, 2009
Category: mini sites | Leave a Comment
Here at Bake Radio I’ve decided that its a site that can bring a lot of information to people not just from the blogs that are attached to it but also from its own main domain. For that reason, I have created a spin-off call Bake Radio Stations.
If you’re wondering what on earth are Bake Radio Stations, then think Hub Pages/Squidoo meets simple html and you have a recipe for very simple, one page mini-sites. They contain medium to large articles (500+words) without all the encumbrances of databases, php scripts, complex tagging systems, modules and all the other paraphernalia that other mini site hosts generate.
This is very nice for the server that hosts them and also very nice for surfers because it means the page loads up very fast. The only thing that will slow these down are images, so I’m being careful to use them sparingly and only relatively low resolution images, meaning small files which also load up quite quickly.
They are aimed at the huge proportion of Internet users that still use dial-up connections. They simply can’t load up the more complex mini-site pages fast with 56k max connection speeds, so they leave those surfers waiting around for ages. If you didn’t know, these are still the vast majority of Internet users around the world!
Its not open to multiple users at present as there is no front end editor. I’m just tinkering with the very basics at the moment and writing my own articles to add pages to the subfolder on a variety of different subjects. So the content is going to be along similar lines to other mini-site hosts, but with the difference being that there is currently only one author and there are absolutely no bells or whistles!
Admin
Bake Radio
Moderating Blogs
Posted on July 3, 2009
Category: blogs | Leave a Comment
A worrying piece of information has come to our attention here at Bake Radio and I want to assure everyone that steps are being taken to stamp it out. We’ve been fairly relaxed about allowing you to blog whatever you want to blog about as long as it doesn’t overstep the mark into territories of unsavoury topics.
However, we weren’t exactly prepared for a selection of our hosted blogs being used to link out to sites that are members of what we believe might be a paid link farm. This is an incredibly stupid thing to do as it puts the whole domain at risk. To counter this risk, admin has had to take drastic action and moderate blogs severely.
We have deactivated all blogs that we have found linking out to sites that we are unsure of.
If the blog owners want their blogs back, they are going to have to come and show us they are legitimate.
As of right now, we will not tolerate any blogs linking out to bad neighbourhood sites and that includes any sites that may be or are suspected of being used as a paid link farm. This flies in the face of trying to run a host of decent, legitimate and useful blogs. So the practice stops here and it stops now.
Admin
Bake Radio
How to Promote Your Blog
Posted on June 23, 2009
Category: blogs | Leave a Comment
The last post looked at the basic principles of making money with your blog, so this post will carry that theme on in some way by looking at how to promote your blog in order to get that traffic turning up on your doorstep that will make you the money you want.
One of the most important ways of getting your blog noticed by the blogging community is to make use of social networking sites such as blogcatalog, mybloglog etc. This is fine of you genuinely want people top come and read your blog and you can make a lot of friends in these places. Social blogging is perfect for social bloggers to get themselves and their blogs out there in the blogosphere and get noticed. It won’t make you any money however!
But if your goal is only to get yourself notices, then using the social scene online is the perfect way to do this.
If you want money, you’re going to need to use different tactics to attract the organic search traffic that you’ll need to your blog for you to make money. There are several ways of doing this, and most Internet marketers already know them. They all consist of generating links back to your blog and the main ones are:
- Article Marketing
- Commenting on other blogs
- Posting in forums
- Guest posting on other blogs
There are some other methods of obtaining backlinks to your blog that will help to get it ranked in the search engines, although these methods are frowned upon. They are sometimes called black hat methods of SEO and are underhand and cheating ways of getting to the top. They consist of buying links outright from site owners who have authority sites and using link farms. If you get caught using either of these methods, you will probably get your site into all sorts of trouble, although that doesn’t seem to stop the big fish in this pond.
If you look at the top sites in Google’s index for terms such as credit cards, finance, loans, make money, weight loss etc, they all have one thing in common. They bought their way to the top. The top credit card sites have very little in the way of relevant content, so you can safely assume that Google does not place the amount of relevance on that medium as all the so-called content gurus would have you believe. So if the top sites in that niche have hardly any content, how did they get to the top?
They bought a ton of links and continue to buy them in order to stay there.
The true Internet entrepreneurs that make the most money do not slave away writing in blogs or doing article marketing. They sit on a beach someplace buying links. So do you feel deflated? Well you should because they are not playing by the rules yet they are making all the money and no one, not Google, not other site owners, no one is stopping them.
So read into that what you will. The lesson in this post I guess is don’t bother going after the really big niches like those I just listed above. Instead, there are thousands of easier niches to target where you do not have to take such drastic action in order to dominate them. You can write good content, do article marketing and get links naturally and using methods that do not upset the search engines’ quality guidelines, but instead work with them and get your site ranked legitimately.
Admin
Bake Radio
