January 23, 2008 – 8:40 am | Written by KiwiPulse
For the past week, I have been focusing on promoting my blog through Entrecard. So far, I have spent over 3,000 credits on my advertising campaign with the expectation of receiving more visitors to my blog. But looking at my statistics it showed that I haven’t generated that much visitors by the advertising campaign (as you can see on the Advert Clicks chart below). The maximum clicks I received in one day this month is 66, which is not enough to buy me a beer. I wanted to cry after realizing that my 3k credits investment didn’t result in a successful advertising campaign! 
So I decided to analyze the stats in further detail and discovered that the advertising campaign is not the most effective way to increase visitors. Don’t waist your credits on advertising campaign!
Car Drops - This chart shows the number of cards that were dropped on your blog each day. A good number of drops improves your advertising price, and your position in the Campaign listings.
Advert Clicks -This chart shows the number of clicks through to your site from the adverts you have bought. More clicks indicate a more successful advertising campaign, and more visitors to your site.
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January 21, 2008 – 7:04 pm | Written by KiwiPulse
For many of you, my fellow readers, who have followed my blog since the beginning, I would like to share with you that I earned my first $100 with Google Adsense with in the first two months of blogging. At that moment, my two main sources of traffic came from StumbleUpon and Google Search Engine. This generated over hundreds of thousands of visitors from StumbleUpon. You would think that I will eventually became rich with all the increase in traffic? That’s not so true, thus far I have earned nothing else from StumbleUpon other than traffic which increases my Alexa Rank. Other than the increase in traffic the users from StumbleUpon have the reputation of not clicking on ads.
How will we earn money from Google Adsense then? Well for me, it was applying tips given by other bloggers. With as little as 2% of traffic from Google, I managed to earn $100 with in two months! Before I started blogging, I have read from many other blogs as to how they made money with Google Adsense. They gave me enough good tips that helped me to generate some income. Today I will past these tips on to you so you can make money, as well as teach others the same in the future. Does this sound like a good deal?
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January 18, 2008 – 7:23 am | Written by KiwiPulse
I have recently added the famous CommentLuv plugin. Do you remember my post about using your Creativity To Promote Your Blog. Well, this plugin will help you to promote your latest post if you made comments on other blogs that are using this plugin.
By installing this plugin, you will encourage your readers to join the discussion and you will give them something back right away. The plugin will look at your default location of your RSS feed to find the latest post. You will generate more backlinks from other blogs and increase your Google PR Rank on the next Google dance!
I hope that by implementing this plugin that it will help you generate more comments on your articles. If you have installed this plugin on your blog, I would be glad to be to first to comment!
Here is the link for the download: CommentLuv’s author page. Try it out now by posting a Comment using the link or form below. 
January 16, 2008 – 1:00 am | Written by KiwiPulse
We all know that wine is made from fermentation of grape juice. The difference from a regular to a rare and super-premium wine is the period of maturity. The record of quality and consensus is what makes the wine unique. A blog can be compared to wine because it takes time to reach maturity, resulting in success. In other words, it requires a lot of time and dedication before it will become a popular blog. Time, effort, research, patience, sense of humor is the key to writing great articles. We also need some marketing skills in order to create a popular blog that stands out from the crowd and stimulate some buzz around the blogsphere.
One of the worst problems that bloggers can have is lack of patience. I have seen bloggers come and go, and eventually we never heard about them anymore. Blogging is about patience because you need to be able to sit in front of your computer for more than 30 minutes in order to get all your ideas together to write a quality article. You also need to research about the topic and find useful and interesting information to share with your readers.
Like many wines, you need to find the flavors to get the primary impression on the drinker’s palate and what makes the wine 100% original. As wine makers develop their business strategic with ‘Niche’ so does bloggers. As blogger, you need to find a niche that you are truly passionate about in order to write about it hours and hours without loosing interest. For example, if your niche is about celebrity you can spend hours writing about their new scandal, movie, love relationship, paparazzi photos and videos and not feeling bored or running out of ideas.
You have probably heard about Bordeaux, cult wines and Port. They are the most expensive wine and it can be sold for thousands of dollars per bottle. There are many different choices over thousands of wine products, why does people keep buying those wine? Simply because the tasters will be able to enjoy the wine at its best; well developed in maturity. People need to taste your writing, give them time to discover the flavors and reach you!
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January 13, 2008 – 4:16 pm | Written by KiwiPulse
As bloggers, we all know that having an RSS feed icon is a must on our blog. RSS help our readers retrieve the latest content from our blog faster and easier, saving them lots of time. It also ensures privacy for the readers, by not having to register.
If you are looking for a new design for your RRS feed icon, well I have some FREE RSS feed icons for you. Here are my top 5 picks:
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