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Carnival of the Dogs

For a change of pace from the ordinary, blog Carnival goers might want to drop by Mickey's Musings, for his hosting of Carnival of the Dogs.

I hear hear Mickey's bark is worse than his bite, but it's hard to tell from the growls!

In any case, you can stay out of Mickey's doghouse, if you stop by Carnival of the Dogs.

Hey, it's supposed to be a dog eat dog world out there.

So everyone tells me, anyway!

Directory and RSS submission list

Submitting your blog and your RSS and Atom feeds, to the various blog directories and news feed aggregators, is a great thing for you to do in your spare time.

Robin Good of Master New Media has created an extremely comprehensive list of directories for your blog and RSS submissions.

Robin has done all of the hard work compiling the list, so you won't have to!

There are some new directories on the list that are new to me.

Inclusion in the various blog directories will get you a few extra visitors. I get a few new directory sent visitors, every single day.

Be sure to bookmark the directory list page.

You will need to return over and over again, just to work your way through all of the submissions.

I have the page saved, so I can check which directories that I have missed.

So should you.

Happy submissions.

Carnival of the Capitalists and all that jazz

Talk about jazz!

Well, get ready for the coolest riffs in the blogosphere as the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists, has a jazz festival theme this week.

The music is sweet at the always well researched business and technology, and very jazzed up New Dog Old Trick.

This week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists features some of the best bloggers writing on the internet today.

Blogging topics presented include venture capital, management, legal issues, taxation, the Olympics, immigration policy, lots of politics in general, the national and global economies, and as you would expect from New Dog Old Trick, there are business and technological postings everywhere.

As an added bonus this week, there are many newer contributors to New Dog Old Trick jazz extravaganza, along with many of the regulars you have already met.

It's always great to read and discover the many high quality blogs out there in the blogosphere. We don't always get to them all, and this edition of Carnival of the Capitalists has introduced us to some brand new ones.

As I am always privileged to do, I have an entry in this week's Carnival of the Capitalists as well.

My entry post this week is entitled "Beware of bad SEO advice", where I remind you that not all available search engine advice is equally valid.

If you wish to submit an entry to next week's, or any Carnival of the Capitalists edition, e-mail your entries to:

capitalists -at- elhide.com

If you are searching for new and exciting ways to expand your blog's readership, you should seriously consider sending an entry to Carnival of the Capitalists.

Merely being included in the company, of the first rate regular Carnival of the Capitalists contributors, will enhance the reputation of your blog.The extra visitors can't sent to your blog won't hurt either!

The growth and staying power, of Carnival of the Capitalists, is beginning to catch the attention of people outside the blogging community. The readership is enlarging, and finding entirely new visitors, every single week.

The visitors aren't only bloggers anymore.

Readership is expanding to include the mainstream media, various government and private organizations, many businesses, and other interested people from beyond the blogging community.

Next week's Carnival of the Capitalists will be at the great political and technology blog, Joe Grossberg.

In the meantime, join the festival and listen to the jazz, at this week's New Dog Old Trick hosted Carnival of the Capitalists.

You won't want to miss reading any of this week's tremendous entries.

We can all gain a vast amount of knowledge from the many informative and interesting contributors.

Controversial money making ideas for your blog

There are many ways to make cash from blogging.

The problem is many blog money making ideas don't pay much.

If you want to go blogging for dollars, you will probably have to play in the big leagues.

Let's talk about controversial blg money makers. I am going to discuss some ideas here that some people might not approve. Let's just say they are for discussion purposes only...

Many bloggers aren't willing to "sell out", as the saying goes, to large business interests. That is their right and their perogative.

Not everyone wants to make money from blogging. Perhaps, not everyone even could, if they wanted to.

One technique for blog revenue is product endorsements. Write favourable comments about products in your blog; perhaps even including them merely in passing. A link to the company website would be part of the package.

Example: I washed my car today. I used Brand X Car Wax, as usual. The car looked great. Of course, it rained ten minutes after I completed the waxing, ruining the gorgeous effect. Oh well.

A more direct product endorsement would arise from using, reviewing, and recommending Brand X to your customers.

Movies use product placement, in many of their scenes, as a means of generating revenue. The camera pans around, and then stops briefly, over the placed product brand name and logo. In return for those brief moments, the movie company gets paid, by the product manufacturer. The appearance of Brand X in the movie, and used by the stars, forms a nice implied endorsement for the product.

Bloggers could do much the same thing.

As with the car wax example, the product would be mentioned favourably by the blogger. A link back to the manufacturer or distributor would complete the cycle.

Endorsements and product placements might not be right thing for everyone. All bloggers have different opinions as to business, advertising, and product promotions. That is natural.

On the other hand, many bloggers would be very happy and willing, to endorse fee paying companies and their products, on their blogs.

It's a form of making money, from your blog, that is worth at least receiving some consideration.

As with all ideas of blog revenue creation, product endorsement and placement on blogs are still in their infancy.

Of course, that could be said of every form of blogging income, when you think about it.

Monetize your blog.

It's on the cutting edge of blogging!

Blogging milestones and anniversaries

As blogs become more and more a part of the mainstream, blogging milestones will continue to make an appearance at an accelerating pace.

Blogiversaries are rapidly becoming the norm, and not the exception.

For example, Jennifer at the highly regarded cultural and political blog Drink This... just celebrated her first blogging anniversary...sorry... blogiversary.

Way to go, Jennifer!

As blogs mature, more and more blogs will pass their first, their second, their third, and even their fourth blogiversary.

This year!

Martin Lindeskog of the high quality political and economics blog, EGO, has just passed the 1000 post mark.

Martin has already got a flying start on his second 1000 posts.

I'm looking forward to reading them too.

Raise a glass to every blogging milestone and blogiversary.

You are on the cutting edge of personal communication and publishing.

I'll toast to that!