I have finally reached the decision to sell this blog. I have loved every moment of doing it, but the passion is gone and I am now looking for someone who will take what I have started and turn it into something big!

I have listed this blog for sale at digitalpoint: LINK TO AUCTION HERE

If you are interested in purchasing, then please bid through the above link. Even if you are not looking to buy, but you are a member of digitalpoint I would appreciate if you would leave your thoughts as comments there for two reason.

1. It will show potential buys the amazing readers that are committed to seeing this blog succeed
2. IT will keep my listing on the first page - giving it maximum exposure and a higher sale price!

Here are the details I listed at digital point about the blog:

Website: www.standoutblogger.com

Page Rank: 2
Alexa Ranking: 116,916

RSS Subscribers: 190

Posts: 53 ( Averaging 10-30 comments each!)

TRAFFIC:
Currently averaging 200 uniques a day even though I have only made one post in the last month! During my active posting I was getting as much as 500 uniques a day (averaging about 350).

Traffic comes from a mixture of google searches, and stumble, but I seem to get a fair bit of type in traffic.

about:
Standoutblogger.com includes an amazing custom design that would cost a couple of hundred to get done, as well as an amazing custom logo. I focused a lot on brandability and being active in my nice and it paid off. Within my niche i was starting to gain a growing following which you will notice if you look at my post announcing I was selling: HERE

INCOME:

I havnt resold any of the ad spots this month so that the new owner can start making money straight away. But here is my earnings for last month(considering i didnt make a post!):

$30 - 3 125 adspots at $10 each
$50 - Affiliate income from host gator
$1.84 - Adsense

Total: $81.84

As I was still in the early stages of building the blog, I didnt want to over monetise the blog and scare my subscribers/visitors away. This figure could easily be doubled or tripled this month!

I was offered $35 for a review post, which I turned down as I was looking at selling.

Starting Bid: $1
Bid Increments: $20
BIN: announced shortly

I will give this auction a week so that everyone has a chance to get in, however I reserve the right to close it early if I receive a good enough offer.

I know you will probably all want more info that i missed…so feel free to ask questions below

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Thanks guys! I really appreciate your support and how fantastic you have been to me with this blog. I will keep you updated with the sales process along the way!

BlogBadly.com was lucky enough to be our review lab rat, that I get to test my reviewing skills on. What we will be looking at are the goals that Max has set for the blog, who he is targeting and what he is expecting, as well as discussing the things he likes and dislikes about his blog to see if we (including you - with your comments) can offer a few tips to make BlogBadly.com even better.

1. Why Did You Create The Blog?
I created a blog mainly to give me something productive to do rather than just chilling on the computer playing games and using StumbleUpon. I figured that establishing a web presence for myself (especially at a young age) could be something nice to put on a portfolio and I’d learn how to manage a business (that’s what a blog is, after all). Oh, and I also want to become filthy stinking rich. But that’s a side-goal.

I picked the niche of blogging about blogging/SEO/MMO because I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about the subject and it’s something I’m very passionate about.

2. What Are Your Goals For The Blog?
I’d like to have over 400 subscribers and get into the top 30 MMO blogs on 45n5 (currently #80). These two goals basically just involve expanding my readership and reactions to my blog - two things essential for success. Oh, and I also want to become filthy stinking rich ($400+/month by the end of ‘08 should do it).

3. Who Is Your Target Market?
My target market? Well, according to me, it’s tech-savvy webmasters who are passionate about increasing their influence on the web. Generally, it’s 18-35 year old males. According to Quantcast, though, it’s old poor white dudes without kids. You tell me which you think is more accurate.

4. What Do You Think Is Good About Your Blog?
The content is probably the best part. I don’t write crappy stuff like plenty of other MMO “gurus.” My advice is funny, practical, and effective, or so I’ve been told. Helping and entertaining my readers is what I’m all about. That and the filthy stinking rich part. I’m also fairly fond of my blog design and that little button that brings you to a random page when you click on it.

5. What Do You Think Needs Improvement?
Improvement? My blog is perfect already!

Well, uh… I guess I could get a custom blog theme and spice it up a bit. I think mine is a little too cluttered. Maybe you can tell me some other things I can put in this category?

Lets Have A Look At BlogBadly.com Shall We?
Now we know exactly what Max is trying to acheive with his blog lets take a look at a few of the key areas of a blog to see the areas he is doing well in - and maybe we will be able to give him a few suggestions of areas of improvement. So here we go…

Design & Aesthetics

The design seems nice and clean and looking at the footer it appears to be a free theme. Free themes are a great way to start a blog and make it look nice without spending to much money - so nothing wrong here. One thing I went through with the launch of my new theme was the fact that a lot of bloggers commented that the content was not the priority and there was too much other things taking up too much room. I see a bit of this happening here. Here is what I mean:

One thing I did to try and expand the area of my screen that the content took up was to convert from a 2-column side bar to a single sidebar. Personally I i think it just looks a lot cleaner. Otherwise I really like the theme!

The other main portion of the design is the logo. Everyone who has read my blog knows that branding is one of my favourite topics - and your logo is an essential element of branding.

Looking at your current logo:

I see a nice custom logo. It is unique and has the starting of something that could easily become brandable. The one thing I see that is lacking a bit in the logo is it just feels a little bit plain - it doesn’t stand out enough. Now I am not a graphics designer by any stretch of the imagination but I just played a bit with the colours of your logo to give you a bit of an idea of what I think would help your logo become a bit more brandable.

Notice how it stands out so much more - I’m not saying it has to be those colours, it just needs to be a bit more visible.

Other than those couple of small things, I would say you have done a great job with the design of BlogBadly!

Content

Content is king.

Or atleast that is what everyone is saying. And reading the content on blog badly, I think you have hit the nail on the head when it comes to content. The tagline of BlogBadly is ‘The funny Problogger’. Although the indepth posts like Problogger many not be there, the funny is. Check out some of these posts:

• Blackhat Money Making
• Online Work Habits Efficiency
• How To Talk Yourself Out Of Writing A Blog Post

But inbetween the funny ones there is still a lot of posts that contain quality information that will keep the readers coming back.

Great content!

Traffic

Im just gonna give you 2 quick tips that I used to maximise my blogging reach!

1. Drop your maximum entrecard drops each day!
I think you are allowed to make 300 drops, if you have the time do it! I found doing this along made my traffic jump a great deal, and there are lists of blogs that load quick if you do a quick search that will make your dropping easy!

2. Comment On The Blogs You Entrecard Drop
I think this is where a lot of entrecard droppers miss out on a golden opportunity. If you are already visiting the blog to drop your card, then spend an extra 5 second to see what their latest post is about. If it’s something you’re interested in then leave a comment - that way you are promoting your blog to all that blogs readers as well!

Income

Currently I can see two advertisements slots on the blog. One at the top, and one side banner. Neither of these are generating any money. The quickest way to get these sold is to let you readers know about them. Leave a quick post to tell them whats available and how much, and I bet they’d both be snapped up straight away!

Until then, why not stick affiliate ads in their to at least try and make a few extra dollars a month in commissions. I did this and made $50 from host gator - more then the rest of my income from this blog combined.

Conclusion

Blog Badly is a great blog, with a lot of potential. I think that if you look a little bit into your brandability, and make it a priority to constantly be active in your nicne, that this blog will definately not only be around in 12 months time, but it will be thriving!

ok guys..

so here it is, I have been inactive on this blog and the blogosphere for about 3 weeks now, partly because I was overseas but also because I honestly do not have the desire or passion anymore. I have been working 10 hours days building and the last thing I want to do is come home and spend a couple of hours blogging - I just want to sleep!

I know this blog has a heap of potential and I would hate to see that go to waste, I mean I am sitting on about 180 subscribers, the blog is making about $80-100 a month, and in its peak was averaging 400-500 unique views a day.

I would love to see someone take this blog and really make something of it, I just know at the moment that it isn’t me who will do it.

I don’t know how I am going to sell it - whether it be just private offers from readers, or a DP or sitepoint auction, but I would love your opinions!

In regards to price I have put a heap of effort into this blog and I would like to get some compensation for the work that I have done so am hoping for high $xxx and would love about $1000 - but I guess the market will judge the price.

If anyone is interested in buying StandOutBlogger.com, or have any suggestions for me to gain the highest price for it please contact me through the contact link up the top!

thanks guys!

Tom

***Note To Max from BlogBadly*** - I am sorry your review has taken so long, I am about halfway there so thanks for your patience and I promise you will get your review.

just a quick note to mention 4 great posts that I absolutely loved from some of my top commenters.

• Blogger Venue gets a new logo! Based of my recommendation Hugo got an amazing new logo that you should definately check out.
• Revenue Reservoir give 10 fantastic tips on gaining blog traffic. These tips are fantastic and if you are serious about boosting your traffic then I would recommend reading this post.
• Melvin talks about the polluted make money online niche and looks at whether this is a problem or not.
• What does it take to be successful? This is the question Rajaie asks and successfully answers with this great post.

Thanks again to another great week guys, all you who read and comment are the ones that make this blog successful and make me want to continue researching great posts!

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I know a lot of you have more than one blog. I have 3 - ok 4 (I am just launching a new one).

Why Do I Have More Than One Blog?

I have read on a fair few blogs now that say the successful bloggers, the ones that are making the big dollars from blogging, are the ones that have multiple blogs.

This got me thinking about what I want from blogging, and you know what? I want to be successful. I want to be able to make a full time income from my blogging and I know that even when this blog gets to a certain level of success, I will still need more to be happy with my blogging income.

Which is why I am looking at really focusing on working on a few of my blogs that are currently very neglected, and also going to start a completely new blog as well.

Now before you get all worried that I will stop posting here, and stop being so active in our great blogging community - I won’t. I have been looking at ways to grow these blogs with as little effort as possible, because I don’t want it affecting this blog at all.

So Here Are A Few Tips On How To Successfully Run Multiple Blogs - Without Neglecting Them

1. Learn Time Management
   I think that if we all for one day decided to stop and write down where every minute of our day was being spent, we would be shocked at how much of our day was being wasted. Whether it be playing games, checking our emails to many times a day, obsessively checking traffic and affiliate stats, or msn.

   What if we could use this time better and start spending it on building our blogs - I wonder how much more successful our blogs would be then!

2. Put A Focus On SEO Traffic
   This is something I have never done, but something I will be doing from now on. SEO traffic makes sense, because it means you do not have to constantly be looking for new traffic - you already have a steady flow coming from quality keywords/phrases.

   With my blogs I will be finding quality keywords and phrases that are search a lot - yet have little competition. If I can write targeted posts to the keywords and phrases, my chances of listing well in the search engines and receiving search engine traffic daily is great. This will especially benefit my other blogs as it means that I will not have to spend much time commenting and marketing the blogs - my main traffic source will be search engine traffic.
   
   

3. Take Scheduled Breaks From Your Blogs And Your Computer
   When you are writing and promoting multiple blogs, writing a couple of posts daily - you are risking the chance of burning out quickly. Something that I am planning on doing starting next week is blogging a 5 day week. Weekends will be personal time, where I do not even turn my computer on. You might think this would be detrimental to my blogs, but I think it will have the opposite affect.I think that with the time away from my blogs and computer on a weekly basis, I will be:
   • More inspired
   • Less prone to burnout
   • More time for friends and family

So do you run multiple blogs?

If you do how do you manage it? And have you found it a lot harder than running just one?

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