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Posted on October 1.

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1. When did you start blogging?
September 2005
2. Average, how often do you blog?
2-3 times a week here, once or more a day across my 3 blogs
3. How do you host your blog?
I host it myself with the fine service at zanzaban
4. What blogging application/service do you use?
Like all cool people, I use WordPress
5. Do you use an application to blog directly from your desktop, rather than from your blogs administration?
Nope
6. Do you use a free theme for your blog?
Nope, I'm all about designing ugly blogs that are unique
7. What type of blogging do you do?
Personal and topic-based
8. What is your primary blogging motivation?
Money/Fame/I love it
9. Do you care much about the amount of visitors?
Yes
10. Does the total account of visitors on your blog count more to you, than the amount of visitors who comment on your blog posts?
No (please leave a comment, it makes my day!)
11. Do you use some sort of anti spam solution for your blog comments? (Such as Akismet)
Yes, Akismet is the bad dog on my lawn
12. If you run advertisements on your blog, do you sell the ads yourself?
No, Text Link Ads does my bidding
13. If you earn money on advertising on your blog, how much do you approximately earn per month?
Ooooh, that's one I hate to share, but I'll say among my 3 blogs I earn $100-$200.
14. If you are running a business blog - have it helped your business to start blogging?
N/A
15. Are you a member of a blogging network such as random shapes or 9rules?
Yes
16. If you are member of a blogging network - has it helped you noticeable in any way?
Yes, both in increased traffic and networking with other great bloggers.
17. How many daily unique visitors do your blog have?
400-500, but that fluctuates a lot
18. Do you keep statistics of feed subscribers?
Yes
19. Do you put work into search engine optimisation for your blog?
Yes; I work hard on the content, building relative links, etc.
20. Have you ever bought advertisement on other websites for your blog?
Yes.

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  1. Elliott Back on October 1, 2006

    No.

  2. RoQ on October 2, 2006

    Comment :)

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