Over the past few months this blog has grown in visitors and readers and the amount of money generated. Even though it’s not a niche blog, I have managed to benefit from some very sound advice offered by other bloggers. I would like to share these resources with you so that if you are also a blogger who want’s to expand the reach of your blog and attract more visitors you may also benefit from these writers good advice. Adsense Basics from BloggerUnleased The Make Money Online Niche from Make Money Online for Beginners Search Engine Optimization for Blogs from…

Like many people, when I first started blogging, I discovered WordPress and it’s many features that made it easy to set up and get going within a couple of hours. One thing I loved about WordPress was the thousands of templates that were available and I soon fell in love with some very good ones from WordPress template designer Brian Gardner, (this new one is one of his too). In between using some of Brian’s WordPress templates and because I’ve set up WordPress blogs for other people, I have used templates by other designers who whilst making great looking templates,…

Google webmaster tools contain a variety of reports and tools that can help you to understand where your traffic is coming from and why they come to your site. Check out this article for a simple description of the tools on offer to every web master or website/blog owner

I’ve know of Alexa.com as a good place to research traffic across the internet for about 5 years or so. The thing that makes it useful is that you can immediately locate the top ranked sites on the internet. I was able to see that by going to their Traffic Rankings page I could isolate the top ranked UK web sites and be given a list of 100 of the most visited. I visited Alexa today and the top three sites listed were Google UK Yahoo Ebay Now, before continuing I should say the rankings on Alexa.com are based on…