Well that was a really busy week. I made and sold almost 30 blogs this week, as well as keeping up with the launch of BlogFlipz.com I don’t think I have ever worked this hard before!

All blogs were auto blogs, loaded with 12 months of content and unique WordPress themes etc. If you ever thought that blog flipping was slowing down…think again!

Blogs To Look Our For

There has been a big influx of movie blogs on Flippa this week. All look similar but have different domain names. They are loaded with lots of movie data and have thousands of pages.

Here’s an example – http://supermoviezone.com/

The thing to notice is that they are selling really well, so it could be something to jump in on yourself.

If anyone knows where these blogs are getting their info from and also how the themes are displaying the movie images on the homepage – please let me know in a comment below

That’s all for today, I’ll try and not leave the next update so long.

Tony

I’ve been reading quite a few comments this week about how slow things are moving on Flippa, especially new sites. I’ve noticed it myself with none of my 4 auto blogs having any interest since I listed them several days ago.

Is it just a slow market or do people not want auto blogs any longer?

It would be impossible to know the answer but I suspect the market for auto blogs is moving away from Flippa. This is because there are more buyers interested in sites making money and ones that have traffic on Flippa.

Brand new auto blogs just aren’t getting the amount of views and interest unless you pay the $29 front homepage listing fee. This takes a big chunk of change out of your profits, especially with relatively low priced auto blogs.

So what do you do?

You find the market that still wants auto blogs and sell there instead. One place that is still widely underused is the Warrior Forum. For one $20 listing fee, you can put up 10, 20 even 50 sites in one listing if you want. Price your blogs lower than Flippa but still sell them for a good profit.

Auto blogs are still in demand because they make money without any real effort being done. That’s why they are still popular and will be for a long time.

If you want to sell on Flippa, then you either need a blog with traffic or one that’s making money. Otherwise you might just end up running auctions that don’t even get more than 25 views.

From what I’ve seen, it’s not Flippa that is slow it’s just new auto blogs aren’t having the WOW factor that they had 12 months ago.

But it’s always worth testing because some are still getting good amounts:

This auto blog just sold for $160 for instance.

Thanks for reading!

Tony

P.S. – Have you noticed a slow down in sales yourself?

OK, I’ve decided to change the direction of my blog.

Big move I know but I think it’s going to be best for me AND you.

So what’s changing?

Well, I’ve decided to stop my formal posts giving you blogging tips as often as I can.

Why am I doing this?

Well let’s be honest, you can get blogging tips from almost anywhere online. I want to make a difference with my blog and help as many people as they can earn a fulltime living online.

Heck, I’ve been doing it for 6 years so it can’t be that hard because I’m certainly nothing special I can assure you. Just a normal guy working from home.

So what’s going to be new?

Well, rather than try and teach you how to blog, I feel I should teach what has been making the majority of my money and that is site flipping, specifically blog flipping.

And I know what you’re probably thinking, “Tony, this is just because you have released a product about it right?”

Well the answer is both yes and no. BlogFlipz shows you exactly how to create blogs and flip them. What I’m going to concentrate on my blog is giving you lots more than just tips. I’ll be sharing real life examples of my own blog flips and ones I notice on Flippa.

We’ll be examining what is working and what isn’t working any longer.

I’ll also be sharing other ways of making money online by using WordPress because there is so much more than blog flipping and being “a blogger”.

I’m making this big change for one reason only…..To Help YOU Make Money From Blog Flipping and WordPress.

As mentioned in the title of this post, I’m also throwing formal out of the window. I’m going to be showing my true personality from now on, so there will be no formal posts with general tips.

It’s all going to be juicy meat and potatoes from now on!

So I hope you stick with me and enjoy what we are both about to embark on.

Thanks For Reading!

Tony

P.S. – If you want to know what REALLY inspired this change….I read David Walker’s Blog Not Slog Breakthrough guide.

Yesterday was a very exciting day in the life of Tony Newton (that’s me!).

I released a new product that shows exactly how to earn money by flipping blogs. But that wasn’t most exciting part……I got to work with Tony Shepherd on the project. Tony is a hugely successful internet marketer and someone I have followed for quite a while.

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How It Came About

It was actually a huge coincidence. Tony contacted me one day regarding doing a custom blog for him. We got talking about what he wanted and I mentioned the fact that I had sold more than 200 blogs in the last 12 months.

Personally I didn’t think anything of it because I’ve been doing it for many years but Tony was really interested in the whole process.

So I showed him exactly what I was doing and he really loved the simple concept.

That is how BlogFlipz came about.

Here are just a few things inside the training system:

- The ‘QuickFlipz’ Method – How to create and flip a blog the same day for up to $100

- The Blogflipz automation technique – Put content building for your blogs on TOTAL AUTOPILOT and let them sit for a few days or weeks while you watch their flippable value increase!

- The step – by – step, fast track research methods that will put you head and shoulders above any competition

- Where exactly to sell your blogs for the best price

So if you want to learn exactly what I do to earn money by flipping blogs, check it out and you could be selling your own blogs today!

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Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony

Thought I would make a small list of some lists today!

So here goes:

SEO Blog Directories To Submit To

http://www.blog-collector.com/
http://www.bloggapedia.com/
http://bloggerhq.net/
http://www.bloglisting.net/
http://www.industry-blogs.com/
http://www.lsblogs.com/
http://www.photarium.com/
http://www.totalblogdirectory.com/

Sites To Add To Your Ping List

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We would all like a blog that was worth in excess of $1 million right? Well it’s actually quite a lot easier than you think

To give you just a few examples of what I am talking about here and what is easily possible, let’s take a look at some examples:

Bankaholic.com – You may have heard of this one already but the results are worth mentioning again. A two year old blog, updated just a few times a week and operated by ONE MAN was sold in 2009 for $15 Million.

Digital-Photography-School.com – This blog is owned by Darren Rowse from Problogger.net and recently he has revealed he has turned down 3 offers of almost $1 Million each for his photography blog. Again, the blog is just 2 years old and he revealed that the potential buyers weren’t even interested in how much it was making or even how much traffic it was getting!

CarAdvice.com.au – Alborz Fallah started up this blog in his part time. It has since grown into one of the most popular blogs in Australia. Just this one simple blog brings in thousands of dollars each year, has been valued by capital investors at $5 Million and he has already turned down $1 Million offers to buy the blog.

LifeHacker.com – Lifehacker was started in 2005 by Gina Trapani. Since then it has grown to having over 7 Million page views a month and estimated to be making between $400,000 – $1 Million per year in revenue. Which means it has been given a selling value of $3 Million – $6 Million. Not bad for a blog that is only 3 years old!

TechCrunch.com – Again, started just 3 years ago was TechCrunch. It has grown to almost 1 Million RSS subscribers and is estimated to be earning $200,000 PER MONTH in revenue.

Now, of course it’s going to take some work but the results in just a few years can be well worth the effort.

Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony

Sometimes even small changes can make a big difference. This can be said about improving your blog too. Just the smallest of things can be changed to increase your blogs readership and the quality of it.

So let’s look at 5 blog tips that can improve your blog starting today:

#1 – Forget Being Generic

When you write your blog posts, try and let your own personality shine through. Don’t try and please everyone and you are allowed to have your own opinion, so make sure you use it.

#2 – Add Some Eye Candy

Let’s face it, reading through pages of text isn’t enough to keep most people happy. So try and add some images or videos to your posts. This makes your blog more engaging to your readers. They will enjoy the extra content you are giving them.

#3 – Spell Check

When writing your posts, be sure to do them in Microsoft Word and automatically spell check them. It just makes your blog look a lot more professional if the grammar is good and not filled with lots of spelling mistakes.

#4 – Keep Things Related

Your blog no doubt has a general topic. Try and keep all your posts related to this topic. It can be easy to wonder off topic but your readers probably won’t relate to it. So keep all your posts on theme and on topic.

#5 – Reply To Your Comments

If your readers are taking the time to add comments on your blog, then you should take the time to reply to them. Express your opion on their comment and thank them for leaving it. This not only impresses them but also people will see your posts are getting comments and might be more likely to add one themselves.

Just these 5 quick blog tips can make a huge difference to your blog and you can start today.

Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony

It’s always useful to find as much information about your chosen topic as you can. So finding several blogs that share this information is very useful indeed.

So, below I’ll list the top ten blogs about blogging and why I like them so much. Of course I’m not including my own blog in this list

Problogger – You’ll notice I mention Problogger quite a lot. That’s because it is the #1 place to learn about how to make money by blogging. Darren shares a lot of awesome information and it should be visited often if you want to make money with your own blog.

Blogging Tips – Lots of very useful information about blogging. They have many guest posters from other blogs, so there’s a wide variety of different types of tips.

Daily Blog Tips – Again, lots of very useful tips on various things to do with blogging.

The Blog Herald – Has a huge amount of blog topics to browse through. The writing style on this blog is awesome and you can probably learn a lot from it. It’s no wonder it’s such a popular blog!

Lorelle On WordPress – If you want tips on WordPress, then this site is the one for you. It’s not posted to very often these days but there’s a huge amount of info in the archives.

Blogsessive – Lots of very useful blogging tips and I really like the theme it uses.

SEO Blogging Tips – SEO is something we all should take seriously. Increasing your search engine positions means lots of extra free traffic after all! This blog shares quite a lot of good information on the topic.

Smart Blog Tips – Not being updated too often but has a lot of good info on various aspects of blogging.

Real Blogging Tips – Just changing hands but has some good info and one to keep an eye on to check out the new owner.

Blogger Tips And Tricks – If you need to know any tweaks or tips to customize your blog, then this site is for you.

Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony

Once you have been blogging for a while, you’ll start to build up dozens, possibly hundreds, of blog posts.

These posts can be pushed away to one side and only get traffic from the search engines. But this doesn’t mean they aren’t still useful, so interlinking to them from your new posts is a great idea.

Create Sneeze Pages

Darren Rowse from Problogger calls them sneeze pages.

What are they?

They are basically new blog posts that you create specifically to link to your previous posts. This gives your readers lots of value but also gives the search engines a greater opportunity to find them and rank them.

Do It Automatically

A WordPress plugin I like to use is SEO Smart Links. Just upload it to your blog and activate it.

What does it do?

It will automatically create links within your blog posts to previous posts that match certain keywords. It can be customized to work exactly how you want it but actually works very well out of the box.

This means you will see links appearing in your new blog posts that automatically link to your older content.

Do It Manually

You can of course add links to previous posts manually when you are creating new posts. Just have a look through your archives and see if there are any posts you can link to that matches the topic of your new post.

So decide which method suits you best and you should start to see a difference in your traffic levels and also how long people are staying on your blog.

Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony

One of the best things about working online is you have access some of the best tools, resources and information right at your finger tips.

A lot of it is available completely free too. So here is my list of favourite free resources.

Free Blogging Resource #1 – WooThemes

I must admit, I love using the WordPress themes from WooThemes. They have some excellent paid and free themes. One of my favourite free themes is called Mainstream. It’s the one that is currently being used on my blog (that you are looking at right now!).

They have quite a few free themes but the quality of them is just like a paid premium theme. So check them out as they can make a huge difference to how your own blog looks.

Free Blogging Resource #2 – Google Alerts

Don’t go searching everyday for something to blog about…..get it sent directly to your inbox!

Google Alerts will send you free daily updates of all the latest news and blog posts within your niche. This means you will not only be able to keep up to date with what is happening, it will also give you ideas of what blog posts to write.

Keeping up with the latest news and trends can be a great way to ride the current buzz about a particular topic.

Free Blogging Resource #3 – WordPress

You can really learn a lot from spending some time browsing the main WordPress site. There are hundreds of free themes and plugins and also lots of tweaks and tips you can use to improve your own blogs.

I like to view the showcase section and see which blogs are popular and why. It also gives me ideas of any new blogs or popular topics that I might want to build upon.

Those are my most favourite free blogging resources that I use myself to improve my own blogs and blogging success.

Enjoy Your Blogging!

Tony