Over on NorthxEast there is a great post talking about what you can do to successfully sell your blog. There are six points on what the seller should do, and four on what the buyer should consider.

A great post all around, and very relevant, especially with Splashpress purchasing some well known blogs from Bloggy Network.

From the post:

Here are some pieces of advice on changing blog ownership:

Ask the old blog owner to stick around for a while
Change is always easier if the lines are blurred, so asking the old blog owner to stick around for a few posts is a good way to make a steady transition between writers. This is probably harder for cheaper blog sales, but I know that in this instance when Cameron asked if I would post once or twice more, I was quite happy to given that the sale price was so much higher than I’d expected!

Introduce changes incrementally
Change is inevitable, but it’s best done incrementally. If you try to add a new posting schedule, new writers, new design, new topics and so on all at once, you are going to alienate some of the existing reader base. You might attract new readers, but why alienate old readers unless you have to. It’s much better to incrementally change your new asset and keep the old readers and attract new ones.

A great post with some valuable lessons.

Found via Crenk.com.

Originally posted on November 1, 2007 @ 5:26 pm

Finding sites to make money online can be fairly difficult. It seems most people stick to Google’s Adsense, and a few other select services, but there are so many out there that it deserved a list. Thankfully, I stumbled across one at TechMagazine.

While I don’t recommend some of these services, there are still a large number of great companies on the list, as well as some businesses that might suit your needs, better than they did mine. Either way, it is fairly comprehensive, and very helpful.

Check out TechMagazine’s 70+ Resources to Make Money Online.

Originally posted on October 26, 2007 @ 4:22 pm

Recently, I read a post on Sarah in Tampa, and I can’t even explain my joy as I found out that Technorati had made some changes, thus bringing back some features I constantly used.

Here are three of the six from her post:

Filtering tools are back. Filtering search results by the source blog’s authority is a tool that bloggers wanted & were very upset over when it was removed.

Tag search results and keyword search results have been separated once again. As Richard says, “We also know now that we alienated bloggers who tagged their blog posts, say, as being about Facebook (a really nice little company, I might add) by burying them with all blog posts that mention Facebook.”

Charts are back – you can see the popularity of a word over time.

Thank goodness for that because I was slowly moving away from Technorati due to the lack of features, and blog oriented tools. Why can’t companies just focus on doing one thing the best?

Originally posted on October 22, 2007 @ 6:49 pm