Well I have had quite a busy week since my last post. As well as working full-time I have been working hard on FranchiseBuzz (My blog flip challenge blog) and got a few other things going on. I haven’t even had time to think about StandOutBlogger (sorry), so instead I decided to just give you a quick update on what I have been up too.

1. My Franchise Website Is Growing Quickly
   The blog flip challenge started a week ago, and my Australian franchise website is quickly gaining momentum. I am now already averaging 100 visits a day, with the last two days getting over 200.  I have made 8 posts in the last week. A little less that I wanted too, but still a good start. The @FranchiseBuzz Twitter account has over 550 followers and has been my major source of traffic (along with search engine traffic).

   I am currently working on a unqiue theme for the blog that will give it more of a ‘news’ feel -instead of looking like a blog. As well as optimizing adspace (for increase revenue). Speaking of revenue, I added adsense to the blog today (which I will have until I impliment the new design), and have already had 2 clicks and made $.50.

2. Selling A Blog And Domain
   My wife has made me promise that I will not buy a new domain until I sell some that I already own. This is why I have put one of my blogs up for sale at DigitalPoint.

   The blog is in the Christian Music niche and is making $10+ a month from adsense, and getting quite a bit of search engine traffic. It is currently at $70, and if you are interested or would just be kind enough to give it a nice little nudge back to the top of the thread you can view the listing here: IHeartWorship.com Sale Thread.

   As well as that I ahve the domain www.TwitterProfitCode.com for sale and it is currently at $5. Domain Sale Thread Here.

3. Doing Niche Research For A New Project
   I am also in the market for a new domain, which will definately be an Australian niche (as I have had much better success with localized blogs. I am still in the early stages of keyword research, but I think I have got a broad niche and will keep you updated when I decide to purchase a domain. This new project will focus on affiliate and adsense income, while Franchise Buzz will focus on private ad sales.

Well that is what has been happening for me over the last week. It is hard trying to juggle a 40hr/wk job plus freelance work and blogging, but I am sorry that I haven’t been more active on SOB. I think for the next couple of weeks I will be using SOB to keep you updated on my other blogging projects.

If you didn’t already know, I have organised a little challenge with a few of my fellow bloggers. Our goal is to spend the next six months focused on one of our blogs (either new or abandoned) and develop it into a salable asset. Now this doesn’t mean that we have to sell it at the end of the six months, but we should each have a valuable internet asset.

I am very excited because we have close to 20 bloggers who have expressed interest in the challenge, and I have set up a Google group for the team to communicate in (if you have expressed interest and not received an invitation, send me an email), but I will definitely be keeping everyone here updated on how the challenge is going.

The main thing I want to get across is that this is not a competition.

There are bloggers with all different levels of experience and the goal of this group is to work together to each create our own blog, but there will be no prizes for first place (except maybe e a nice chunk of change when they sell it). The reason that people have entered this challenge is because they want the support and networking that will help them stay focused, motivated and ready to take there blog to a new level. read this entry »

If you’ve been a blogger for any reasonable amount of time, one of the things you’ve probably picked up on is the massive surge of new blogs that seem to be appearing. If, as a blogger, you’re serious about making a successful blog with good, sustainable traffic, you now have to compete with all these extra blogs.

So, how do you do that? Easy! You give yourself an EDGE! read this entry »