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Unless You Created that Video, Stop Acting Like it's "Yours"
Posted 2/6/09 An interesting trend, which has been touched on before, has sort of taken an interesting turn over the last couple of weeks. You see, there is this culture of bloggers that basically run an entire blog made up of other people’...
Sports Dollar's 2008 Year in Review
Posted 1/5/09 Most people like to write this post with just a few days remaining in the year, but we didn't want to just blend in with all the others during such an important period that we thought we'd wait until people were actually back to work c...
The Power of Linkbait?
Posted 11/24/08 Here is a SnagIt grab from my Google Analytics the other day on my new site Blaze of Love. Ever seen a 20,000% increase? I just laughed... (Obviously you'll have to click on this to actually see it.) Growth baby! ...
Our Alexa Ranking just keeps Climbing!
Posted 11/10/08 Watching your ranking climb on anything gives you a pretty damn good feeling, but when it is one of the major website stat tracking machines, it feels even better. Our Alexa rank is due to break the 100,000 mark any day now an...
How can you Measure the Success of your Blog?
Posted 11/10/08 Six Revisions posted their favorite 15 tools to monitoring the popularity of your website. It's a great list and one you should all check out. A few of these I was definitely unaware of and ran my site almost all of the...
How To Start a New Sports Blog - 20 Tip Checklist
Posted 11/3/08 With our new venture, Blaze of Love just getting underway, this seemed like a great time to walk through a simple checklist for anyone starting out with a new blog. This checklist should also give some of you new bloggers a look...
Emedded Comment Form in Blogger
Posted 10/27/08 I know that this is way old news, but for some reason I just never got around to doing it. Of course, the new draft.blogger.com is all the rave with Blogger users and one of their biggest new options is the setting for an embed...
Blogger to a Custom Domain - Simple Set-up
Posted 10/19/08 I know that many of you are WordPress pros, but I also know that many of you continue to choose the free route for blogging by going with Blogger. If that is the case, and you haven't taken my advice to purchase your own domain...
NoFollow Backlinks on Link Lists? Don't be a D*ck
Posted 10/8/08 The other day someone pointed out to me that a few newer sports blogs were using "nofollow" links when they were running their daily link lists. To tell you the truth, it irritated the hell out of me. What's the point of t...
Quick Posting Tip - If it's Hot Post it Now
Posted 9/30/08 One of the ideas we acknowledge on a regular basis, is the thought that if you write about hot topics early on or immediately, then Google will reward you and your search rankings will be high enough to bring you some significant traf...
Please Understand, Not Everything you Write is Stumble/Digg/Hype-worthy.
Posted 9/23/08 Tuesday mornings tend to call for a little venting! Sorry to start off everyone's day with this type of a post, but the earlier the better for me. Unfortunately, this is one of those subjects that needs to be explained to ...
What Makes a Sports Blog Great?
Posted 9/22/08 The best sports blogs are always easy to pick out from the crowd, and for the most part, deservedly so. What is it that makes them stand out? What makes you return and continue to read it? What makes a sports blog gr...
Stumble Upon Profile Growing Trick
Posted 9/17/08 We talk a lot about Stumble Upon and for good reason. After taking a quick look at our stats, Stumble Upon seems to provide about a third of our traffic each month due to a pretty solid profile and some decent content. We ...
5 Things I'm Glad Sports Bloggers have Not Adopted
Posted 9/9/08 There are days that I become even more excited and proud to be a sports blogger. Those days usually include a couple of stumbles through some marketing or entrepreneurial blogs that are filled with complete crap or spam followed ...
Keeping it all Organized
Posted 9/4/08 - Joshua In my profession, sports blogger, I come across a dizzily amount of information each and every day. Much like the guy from Memento I have to come up with a system to help me remember it all. What I have is more like a hybrid...
7 Deadly Sins of a Sports Blogger
Posted 9/4/08 Oh the 7 deadly sins, how much fun are these? Sports bloggers fall into almost all of these categories with regularity, and that my friends, is not always a bad thing. In fact, I would argue that in order to be successful ...
Who says Content Isn't King? August Recap at the SD
Posted 9/2/08 There has been a surge of blogs spreading new opinion on how they feel content has "never been king" or is "not king" and I completely disagree. Why? Because over the last month, since the sale of my NBA blog, I've re...
Sports Dollar Does Contests: Pt. 3
Posted 8/22/08 Part 3 – Decide the “Style” The type or style of contest you run should be somewhat based on your “Why” or our Part 1 of this series. For example, if your goal is to increase RSS subscribers, then you should pr...
Sports Dollar Does Contests: Pt. 2
Posted 8/20/08 Part 2 – Decide the “Zing” You can’t have a contest without some sort of prize right? I would suggest that before you actually announce your contest, that you have something to give away. (Don’t laugh.) The ne...
Sports Dollar Does Contests: Pt. 1
Posted 8/19/08 Since we are heavily engulfed in our current contest (Contest of Sports Sexi-ness) we thought a great idea would be to run a quick 6 part series on how to run your own! Part 1 – Decide the “Why” This may seem obvious, but the...
Where does a Sports Blogger Find his Sources?
Posted 8/13/08 - Joshua For the most part, sports bloggers do not have access to teams and players. That is starting to change a little bit, but the sad reality is that we are forced to the TV, the radio, and the internet to find sources, to find i...
Sports Dollar: A Blogger's Schedule
Posted 8/7/08 Writing about your daily blog schedule seems to be a topic that almost every blogger has done. Some do this full time while others do it in their spare time, but they both seem to follow certain paths during their time dedicat...
Programmer or Writer?
Posted 8/6/08For sports bloggers, it is often necessary to be both. They must both maintain and grow the website aspect of their blog and write all of its content. This is not the most ideal situation since there are many of us who are not suited to ...
WordPress...Strike One!
Posted 8/4/08 Yesterday marked the day I finally decided to switch over to WordPress! And as you can see from today, it didn't go so well... I spent most of Saturday night looking for a decent free theme to use, started reading up on w...
Time Management
Posted 7/30/08 - JoshuaSo some of you may have noticed it has been awhile since I posted here. The simple fact here is I let outside forces mess up my daily work schedule. Basically I let stuff make the schedule instead of me making my schedule.Blogg...
Blogging Idol and Building Huge RSS Subscriber Numbers
Posted 7/30/08 - Kellex Daniel over at one of our favorite blogs, Daily Blog Tips, has been running "Blogging Idol" which is his take on a blogging competition with the goal to see which participant can increase their RSS subscribers the most during...
SOLD!
Posted 7/24/08 - Kellex Perfect timing for the latest series from Mitchell! Last night and this morning we completed the transaction of Le Basketbawl out of our hands and into a new owner's. The deal has gone absolutely flawless so far a...
