Since some days ago, I have only a thought in my mind: What makes you a good blogger? What things determine how good or bad are you on blogging? So I started a discussion with some friends who are (or were) bloggers and we talked about some interesting points which I will share with you in this post.

Is it the money you earn?

When we talk about MMO blogs, may be the first thing you think is how much that blogger earn? If it shares tips about making money online is because it really makes money with online businesses! So, is the money that thing that makes you a good blogger? What about if you don’t make money with your blog, that makes you a bad blogger or not?.

Questions like that arise when we talk about bloggers who manage MMO blogs, but what if you don’t deal with this niche? Should you be judged under that parameter? Of course not! So definitively, this factor cannot tell us if you are good or bad on blogging.

Is it your writing frequency?

On internet there are many classes of bloggers… There are some of them who write a couple of articles per month and others who write several articles a day! So as you can see, there are many variety in this topic because everybody is different, so each blogger has a different style and availability to write many times a day. If you think about the frequency of posting, is very logical to think the more the number of posts the better, but have to say that I disagree with this idea. Easily, I could publish 10 articles per day saying hello, things of 100 words or less, without anything valuable for you… So that could make me a good blogger? Of course not, instead I will be frighten you and probably you will leave my blog.

So the lesson of this point is that you need to publish articles as fast as you can, but always try to provide good content to your readers. This way, you will maintain your level and you will get more loyalty…

Is it your popularity?

This seems to be better then the other ones. The popularity you have in the web is something very valuable when you want to run an online business. Having a good popularity, people will be looking for your next step, following you everywhere you go. Everything you do on internet will be seen by many people: regular readers, subscribers or just strangers.

This is good and bad at the same time. Why? Because many people will critique what you do, being this good or bad. And when I say critique I’m refering not to “constructive criquite”… But I think that once you are on the hill you won’t commit errors, at least not so bad like the first ones… Blogging is all about practicing, the more time you spend, the better.

Is it the number of subscribers?

The number of subscribers is an indicative of how popular are you, so this is related to the latest point. The bigger the number of subscribers, “the better” you are, and I suppose this because nobody will follow you if you suck at blogging! So I think that certainly, this cound be an indicative.

But take care, don’t take so serious this number. There are people who hack this counter, increasing their number of subscribers from less than one hundred to thousands. If the source is not trusty, you should not take this counter as a good indicative to know if the blogger is good or bad.

What Else?

With my friends, I talked about other things like the number of twitter followers, plurk friends, emails per day, comments per article and others… I think that there’s not just one thing that can define if you are good or not at blogging.

Just combining some elements you can determine this thing, but in my personal opinion I think that certainty and dedication are one of the main things that make a good blogger. Besides the money or the number of subscribers, in my opinion other factors related with the personality of the blogger is that can tell you if it is a good or bad blogger.

What do you think? I’m a good or bad blogger? Ask the same question to yourself and to your readers!

Hi guys, I hope you enjoyed this Halloween and had fun with your costumes… I don’t know you, but I have noticed that many companies are holding contests this month! I have received tons of emails from Pepperjam’s advertisers which in my opinion, they have really great offers. The most of them are giving away ipods, gif cards and other cool stuff for those who make 30 leads on November… All of them have different meetings, so you should read the rules of them separately. Honestly I don’t have time right now to attack those offers and I hope you do, so I invite you to join to Pepperjam Network and take advantage of these contests!

As usual, I collected the very best posts that I found this week, so let’s review them:

• The Blog Flipping Toolbox (Bookmark This!) by Bryan on Site Flip U.
• The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time by Jaime on Freelance Switch.
• The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Starting A Business by Evan on YoungEntrepreneur.
• Internet Marketing: How to Find Affordable Outlets to Advertise In/On by Yuwanda on BloggingTips.
• 50 Ways Your Web Site Is Discouraging Conversions — and How to Fix It by Inside CRM Editors on Inside CRM.
• The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Personal Branding by Neil on Quick Sprout.
• Why the Continuity Model Makes Sense For Your Internet Business by Gyutae on WinningTheWeb.

In other news, I want to let you know that my Entrecard Account was deleted the past thursday. Let’s check the email they sent me:

Your account 'Mr Javo dot Com' on entrecard.com has been deleted. The administrator gave the following reason:

rule 5, http://entrecard.com/docs/doku.php?id=blog_quality_standards

Please contact deleted@entrecard.com if you have any questions regarding this action.

Now, let’s check the main rules of Entrecard:

1. No nudity: Entrecard, and its members blogs, are generally family friendly. Blogs with images containing nudity are not permitted. This includes nudity in advertisements.
2. English only: Until we develop the infrastructure necessary to facilitate non-English language blogs, English is the only language allowed in Entrecard.
3. Minimum 5 posts: Blogs with no posts, or less than 5 quality posts written within the last 3 months, will be removed.
4. Content must be original: Reproduced content does not provide the specific qualities we are looking for in the Entrecard network. This includes both sites that use legitimate reprintable content such as “free articles”, abstracts and public domain content as well as illegitimate, illegal content such as stolen content or scraped feeds. Duplicate content, such as posts that appear on two or more blogs belonging to the same person is also unacceptable.
5. No full-screen ads or popups: Blogs that include full-screen ads or popups will be removed. This includes any popup window that appears when the site has finished loading or when clicking to view an article. It is OK for links to display a popup window if the user clicks a link, e.g. FeedBurner email subscription, but popup ads or forceful messages asking people to subscribe without clicking anything are intrusive and therefore not allowed.
6. No illegal file downloads: Blogs that link to illegally shared files, such as music, movies or software, will be removed. By “illegal” we mean content that you do not have the right to distribute. Linking to free, legal music and software is permitted.
7. Entrecard widget must be present: Including the widget on your site is a requirement if you wish to participate in Entrecard.
8. No redirects: Sites that use a redirect (such as tinyurl links) as the URL on their account will be deleted.
9. No duplicate accounts: If you have more than one account for the same blog, the duplicate account will be deleted.
10. URLs must be valid: Sites with URLs that do not work or are wrongly typed will be deleted.
11. No autoplaying audio: This includes music that plays automatically when you visit the page, or short audio ads that come up unannounced.
12. Content must be recent: Sites that have not been updated in 3 months will be removed.

This week I added a popup referred to my newsletter on Mr Javo dot Com. This popup will show up just ONCE per visitor,  so you don’t have to worry about. However that’s an experiment, so may be I will remove it in the next weeks.

Rewarding my Top Commentator

Once again, this month my top commentator was Dennis Edell. Man, I know you love my blog and I want to thank you so much for leaving these great comments here, but let the others win!! So as I said in the newsletter, you cannot be rewarded again until after 2 months since your last award. So let’s check who the winner is…

It seems like there are 2 winners this month! To be fair, I will give to both kouji and Ben Pei, a text link for a month on my blog! So guys, use the contact form to send me the details of your submission: title, url and alt text for your link.

Thanks for reading me and see you the next week!

Hello readers, first of all I want to talk a little about the effects of my big Give Away. I launched the new version of my blog the past wednesday, and I launched the contest on Thursday 16th. Until now, I want to tell you that I have received over 100 signups on my newsletter, in addition of all those new RSS subscribers which increased my feed counter from an average of 240 to almost 400 ( yesterday it was on 498 ). So I want to thank you so much for give to my blog that awesome boost, and all that in less than a week!.

Now let’s see what was hot this week:

• How to Crack into Google’s Servers and Find Search Keyword Gold by John Cow on JohnCow.com.
• Website Flipping: Dig Deeper Into SitePoint To Improve Your Sales by Jay on Suite J.
• A – Z Blogging Guide by Yan on thou shall blog.
• Want To Start a Blog About Making Money Online? Think Again by Sly on SlyVisions.
• Why You Should Stay Away from the Make Money Online & Internet Marketing Niches by Gyutae on WinningTheWeb.
• The Future of Web 3.0 According to Yahoo! by Lidjia on ReadWriteWeb.

I hope you like this round of Spreading Love, I really enjoyed these posts… By the way, in the next weeks I will be launching a page with some new services which I will provide, so stay tuned to know what is coming on Mr Javo dot Com!

PS: Probably I will send you a special offers/discounts of this new services through my newsletter, so I recommend you to sign up to receive them! Don’t forget to vote on my polls!

What a week! With all the changes of the new theme I have had a very shaken week. Some minors bugs were reported by many of you and I want to thank you for every comment you sent me through the new contact form.

This week I found excellent post everywhere, I have added like 20 posts to my spreading love series of this week but we know that is hard to read 20 posts at once. So, I reduced that list, and now I will give you the most useful:

• The Visual Design of 2.7 by Jane on WordPress Blog.
• Who Will Control Your Data in the Web 3.0 World? by Lidija on ReadWriteWeb.
• Too Much Effort and No Progress? Something Is Wrong There by Daniel on DailyBlogTips.
• How To Get Sponsors: Leveraging Current Sponsors To Get Even More Sponsors by Mattaw on MoneyBites.
• The 3 Strategies of Link Building – Why & How You Build Links by Gyutae on WinningTheWeb.
• Do You Have the Balls to Make Money Doing What You Love? by Paul on InspiredMoneyMaker.com.
• Introduction To Offline Affiliate Marketing by Josh on Affiliate Famous.

Other Interesting things:

• Reader Challenge #1 by Dot Com Dud on DotComDud.
• Flip A Site Contest – Part 1 by Bryan on Site Flip U.
• My Firefox Addons by Stephan on StephanMiller.com.

As you may know, WordPress 2.7 is almost ready for public beta, so in the first article you could see how it will look. And talking about wordpress and blogging, I recommend you to check the post of Stephan, who talks about his interest firefox addons which help him in his blogging work… I hope you liked this round of posts!

Yesterday I had updated my twitter profile! I have upgraded the background image to give it a touch of coolness . Also, I added a poll on the sidebar of the blog, asking if you like the new theme or not… I invite you to give me your vote!.

Now I want to take advantage of this post to remind you to participate in my 2.0 give away! Now it has almost $2500 in prizes and daily I continue receiving emails from more and more sponsors!

PS: Did you noticed that all these posts have long titles? What a weird thing…

Hey everyone! Finally, after a month of hard work I have finished and set up the new version of Mr Javo dot Com. Many interesting changes have been made and I would like to talk about it in order to let you know what I have improved for you.

First of all, let’s review the original version of my blog, Mr Javo 1.0:

The header was a total waste of space. The logo occupied all the header and the navigation was not the best, having in mind that if I created many pages the menu would be over the logo, something which could be seen as anti-aesthetic.

About the body, the articles showed a banner 300×250, which didn’t let me to put any imagine in the top of any post.

The footer had nothing, it just displayed a copyright and nothing else.

In general, that theme was a little slow, everything was made with big images and few CSS. The next theme is much faster, I have optimized it with less images and more CSS codes.

What’s New on Mr Javo 2.0

Basically, I made up a new theme . I have changed several things, starting with the CSS styles with which I five to this new theme a cooler look.

New logo! When I was redesigning the old theme, I wanted to improve the logo because it didn’t look like me (not at all). The thing was when I wanted to do it, I couldn’t find the .psd (photoshop file) of my logo! So I had to create a new one, which in my opinion looks more like me and as I said, it is more fresh!

No more waste of space in the header! I have reordered the header, and now you could see a 468x60px banner besides the logo, which will have the better exposure on my blog because of its position.

Better navigation! I moved the navigation menu below the header, this way it won’t be difficult for you to find it and surf through my blog.

Subheader added! I have created 3 sections below the menu. At the left, you can find the form of sign up for my newsletter, which you could receive exclusive promotions, special reports, secret tips and more! Sign up now and receive a free copy of my eBook The Affiliate’s Start Guide, with which you can learn the basics about how to create a website and start making money online!

At the center, you will find a section with the most popular posts! This way you will always have something interesting for reading.

And finally at the right, you will find the RSS subscription area, which you can subscribe to this blog through a rss reader or by email. If you want to know what should you subscribe to this blog, I invite you to take a look on the page Why Subscribe?.

The sidebar is quite similar than the old one, with some little differences on the widgets.

New sections on the footer! Now you will see 4 sections in the footer. I don’t have decided yet what will I put there, probably the categories, a little info about me, the recommended money makers or something like…

New look on comments! I updated the comments form and now you can reply to other people’s comments, something very useful which help to avoid using @user… in the comments. Also, I have changed the mybloglog avatar plugin for the Gravatar one. This avatars are widely recognized by many services, so I prefered to implement them here. If you don’t have a Gravatar, create one now!

Final Thoughts

I feel very well looking the new theme working well, but probably I missed something. If you find any error, bug or anything else don’t hesitate to contact me and notify me about the issue. By the way, I have changed my contact form too .

SPECIAL NEWS: I am preparing a contest which I will be launching tomorrow! There are more than $1800 in prizes and counting! So stay tuned and don’t forget to participate, there will be many great sponsored prizes here…

Hello everyone, how was your week? Mine was very excited, it was full of changes… I restarted the university the first week of October and this week I was getting used to my new schedule.

Also, I start learning Flash because I’m going to develop a website in the next weeks which will require flash to do almost everything, so I was reading manuals and practicing with the interface.

In order to promote the new theme and ebook of mine (which I hope to launch the next week) I planned a contest. This week I was looking for sponsors, sending emails and contacting them by phone. At the end of this week, I collected $1500 in prizes and counting! And it doesn’t stop there, I will continue looking for sponsors the next weeks… So if you want to sponsor something to my contest, use my contact form to tell me about your offer.

Now, let’s review what was HOT this week:

• Mixx Turns One – Sees Rapid Growth by Frederic On ReadWriteWeb.
• 25 Ways to Build Your Community by Chris On ChrisBrogan.
• The Future of Content in the Age of Information Overload by Maki On DoshDosh.
• 8 Tips for Affiliate Marketers on Using Twitter by Darren On Problogger.
• 8 Strategies For Successful Relations With Clients by Jeff On Smashing Magazine.
• What’s Next After Web 2.0 by Richard On ReadWriteWeb.

This week was the first anniversary of Mixx, regular users as me have noticed the hard work of its developers. They have improve many things and 1 year after, they show their traffic statistics which seems very encouraging.

If you want to know more details about this news, visit The Mixx Blog and check it out. Remember to stay tuned this week, because Mr Javo dot Com 2.0 is coming very soon!