(What You Need to Know) Before Building a Blog

…Using an Analogy of Building a House Many people tend to avoid starting a blog because of fear. There is this thing called the “fear of the unknown.” Even those of us who are experienced bloggers can still suffer from the fear of the unknown. It may not be about a blog, but it can hit us in any area and hit us when we least expect it. Fortunately, we can face that fear of … Read more

Initial Review of SwitchAds for Monetizing Ad Space

So I have been testing SwitchAds since mid December 2014 on DragonBlogger.com, I replaced one of my 300×250 Google AdSense banners with the SwitchAds network banner and let it soak for 4 full months before I was willing to come to a conclusion and my conclusion is strictly comparing it to how well that 300×250 ad performed in that same spot with AdSense alone.  This is important because if you are already used to earning … Read more

5 Ways to Monetize Your Blog By Repackaging Your Content

Sitting on reams and reams of old content with absolutely no idea you could do something smart with it in order to turn it into a new monetisation stream you’d perhaps never considered before? Surprisingly, a lot of bloggers, especially those that have been going for a while, might find themselves in this exact position. With a little foresight they could seize on that information, repackage it and start making money in new ways. Here’s … Read more

6 Essential Ingredients for Successful Content for your Campaign

Let’s not sugar coat it, Content Marketing IS THE main part of digital business’s marketing campaigns, with more and more companies steering away from traditional forms of marketing to bring their customers useful and insightful content that they actually want. Studies have shown that interesting content is in the top 3 reasons of why people follow brands on social media. Therefore successful content is so important. Here are 6 essential ingredients it should contain. Knowledge of … Read more

10 Super Quick Blog Marketing Tips

Gaining success with your blog is all about working smartly on it. Granted, time spent online is  best spent implementing and executing your strategy to do exactly that, that’s why we’ll keep this one short. Looking for super quick blog marketing tips? Check out the following. Internal Linking Always think about how you can provide the best value to your readers at all times. When you craft new content think about old content that you … Read more

IZEA MarketPlace offers Influences More Opportunities

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of IZEA for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Many people who have followed my site for years know that I have been using the various IZEA platforms since 2008 when I first started blogging.  IZEA themselves started back in 2006 and is the largest sponsorship ecosystem in the world partnering with bloggers to find brands to work with and help showcase while giving brands … Read more

Evergreen Content: Your Blog’s Secret Weapon

Evergreen content delivers ongoing value for your readers. Instead of delivering a bang of traffic at first and then rapidly fading away, it slowly builds readership over time. Most evergreen content starts slow but actually increases in page-view volume over time as you tweak it and adapt it. Instead of looking like a quick spike and a sharp downward slope, a page view graph for an evergreen post looks like a steadily rising curve. Let’s … Read more

Customer Loyalty In Digital Age

In the information technology age, there is an array of digital services that are offered for consumer and enterprise use. Online subscriptions to software and other applications can be purchased by individuals, businesses, organizations and other entities. Digital services are available in trial versions that allow customers to decide if they want to upgrade to a full version. Trial Software and Services Trials for software programs usually last between seven to thirty days. Such editions … Read more

Extra Life Video Game Marathon Comes to Indianapolis

For those of you that remember last year Dragon Blogger took part in the Extra Life campaign to help raise money for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals all across the country. Well I’m at it again this year however I will be supporting my local Indianapolis Extra Life Guild to help raise money for Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. How did I find out about Indianapolis having it’s very own Extra Life Guild you ask? … Read more

Dragon Blogger Back Up and Stable?

The past two weeks have been tough for DragonBlogger.com as the site had been dealing with  intermittent 502 errors and problems that cut visitors by 40% and left many unable to join giveaways and admins unable to login to write any new articles or do any editing.  I hadn’t had a single problem in 10 months of being on Synthesis web hosting and all of a sudden I had these 502 error issues rampant over … Read more