About mid way through July, I started a new blog about oil change coupons to see if you could still make decent money from AdSense. Let’s just say that three weeks in, my new oil change coupons site is doing much better than I thought it would… So much better that I am tossing the idea of adding it to the blog network.
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Our goal when we redesigned Simple Mobile Review back at the beginning of the year was to be able break 3000 pages views (3198) in a single day during the month of March. I am happy to report that, with one day to spare, we’ve finally achieved our goal. SMR also jumped into the Technorati Top 100 Gadget blogs, albeit, for just one day.
Next goal… Average 3500 page views per day for the month of April and see if we can’t find a permanent home in the Technorati Top 100 Gadget Blogs…
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We are currently in the process on starting up a new blog network. The name that we are going with is SimpleRIM Media. We will see if the name grows on me over time.
Sites that we know right now will be part of SimpleRIM when we officially launch will be:
We know that we will add more sites over time, but, this is probably a good group to get started with.
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It looks like a new blog network is about to hit the scene. The folks behind RIMarkable.com and Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings are launching making plans to launch a full blown blog network.
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The gang over at b5media is doing everything possible to increase the number of page views on their blog network and have recently released the b5media Toolbar.
The b5media Toolbar is a browser add-on that allows you to:
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b5media launched 3 new blogs in their Home and Dining channel yesterday, Baking Delights, Chocolate Bytes, and Mother Earth’s Garden.
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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has shut down TechCrunch UK and terminated editor Sam Sethi after, what Arrington calls, an inappropriate conflict of interest and unethical behaviour on the part of Sethi.
The story behind the suspension of TechCrunch UK and the termination of Sethi is long, somewhat complicated, and an absolute shame that it aired out publicly, however, I will try to sum it up for you as best I can.
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No… not this one. The other one owned by BlogMedia Inc Problogging Inc.
Actually, there has been a lot going on over at Problogging Inc. They’ve recently changed names and sold off most of their sites, the latest being The Blog Herald, BloggerJobs, and BlogNetworkWatch.com.
According to Matt Craven, Problogging Inc, is refocusing on consulting work…
Its with a whole bag of mixed feelings that I find myself writing this post. Many of you have noticed over the last few months that we’ve been working on refocusing our company. Our core business has always been the consulting work that we’ve been doing since 1994 in one form or another. We also found ourselves not enjoying the blog network business as much as we used to do.. and with a hot market right now for existing blogs – it looked like a good time to divest ourselves of some of our sites.
We wish Problogging Inc, well.
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In our last post we told you that we want to join a blog network and I was just reminded that 9rules is about to have their 5th round of submissions on October 25th. I have followed 9rules off and on since the beginning and one thing that I like about them is that they leave control of your blog with you.
9rules is definitely one of the big boys on the block when it comes to blog networks and they don’t just let anyone join. That is why I have decided with one week to go to launch a campaign to get accepted into the 9rules network.
I figure that my best chance to get accepted would be with my BlackBerry news and opinion blog RIMarkable. I have been posting to it regularly for about 2 years and it is fairly popular as far as blogs about BlackBerrys and wireless email devices go. I think that RIMarkable would fit nicely in the 9rules Technology Community.
October 25th is just a week away and I will definitely be submitting RIMarkable in the 24 hour window just like everyone else that wants to join, however, I have wondered what else could I do besides write great content that might just push me over the top. I heard a campaign commercial for the upcoming elections on the radio this morning and the idea of starting a campaign for acceptance into 9rules kind of hit me all of a sudden.
Like with any other campaign, my campaign to get accepted into 9rules needs campaign contributions and your help. I am not looking for any financial contributions, however, I could use all the links, trackbacks, pingbacks, comments, etc. that I can get. I really want to join 9rules and if enough people link to this post with vote of confidence for my BlackBerry blog, news of the grass roots movement to make RIMarkable a member of 9rules is bound to get back to Scrivs, Tyme, or any of the other folks running 9rules.
So, with all that said, I leave you with a request for you vote of confidence in the comments and campaign to get accepted into 9rules contributions in the form of a link.
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So, after 9 months with nary a post, why did we decided to bring Blog Network Watch back to life? Well, because there is no “we”. There is just “me” and “I” would like to join a blog network. I’ve been a lone blogger for the last two years and even though I have done quite well with several of my blogs, I am getting lonely.
The big business side of blogging seems to be very interesting right now so we, and when I say we I really mean me, so, I guess I should say I, want to know more about how these blog networks and the companies that are being created to support them will operate. What better way to find out how a blog network runs than to join one? Maybe creating one, but, that is for another post…
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