{"id":276,"date":"2007-01-21T05:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging-projects\/2000-bloggers-launch\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T06:16:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T22:16:41","slug":"2000-bloggers-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging-projects\/2000-bloggers-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fame? Fortune? Get Listed in the 2000 Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tino Buntic, known for his <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"tino buntic\" href=\"http:\/\/tinobuntic.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/what-do-bloggers-look-like.html\">What Do Bloggers Look Like?<\/a> project, announced his new project, 2000 Bloggers.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"2000 bloggers\" title=\"2000 bloggers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0701\/2000bloggers1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top row: Spot the guy who traded the giant red paperclip for a house? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s me in the top row, 2nd from the right.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn Tino&#8217;s own words:<\/p>\n<p>There are dozens of social networks that bring the blogosphere together<!--more-->, with <a title=\"technorati\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a> and <a title=\"mybloglog\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mybloglog.com\/\">MyBlogLog<\/a> being two of the biggest. I wanted to bring a whole bunch of bloggers together on one page. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trade-pals.com\/2000-bloggers.asp\">2000 bloggers<\/a> to be exact!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of familiar faces among the 300 listed there.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"2000 bloggers\" title=\"2000 bloggers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0701\/2000bloggers2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top row: 4th from the left, Jeremy Schoemaker (Shoemoney) holding his $132,997.94 check from Google <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom row: 3rd from the left, Kris Jones (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"pepperjam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pepperjamblog.com\/\">Pepperjam<\/a>), Jim Kukral (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"blogkits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogkits.com\">Blogkits<\/a>) is right next to him <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also spotted in the mass of bloggers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"robert scoble\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/\">Robert Scoble<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"matt cutts\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/\">Matt Cutts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"problogger darren rowse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\">ProBlogger Darren Rowse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"todd malicoat\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stuntdubl.com\/\">Todd Malicoat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"john chow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnchow.com\/\">John Chow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"chris sandberg\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sandbergventures.com\/\">Chris Sandberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My buddy and forum specialist <a title=\"ryan chua\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanchua.com\/\">Ryan Chua<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japanese &#8220;Cash Quest&#8221; babe <a title=\"kumiko suzuki\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kumikosuzuki.blogspot.com\/\">Kumiko Suzuki<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and a host of others.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve noticed is that there&#8217;re quite a number of blogs hosted at WordPress.com and Blogspot.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a recreational blogger, I believe it&#8217;s ok to host it at a free site.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you see yourself as a serious blogger\/SEM\/SEO, and you are building a brand and PageRank and backlinks to your blog, <strong>would you really want to host it at a free blogging service<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>But if web hosting costs you $100 a year. Don&#8217;t you think your branding is worth at least 10 times that?<\/p>\n<p>You could potentially (and I know of cases) of bloggers losing their free domains because of a violation of the terms of service (whether deliberate or inadvertedly), a perceived &#8216;excessive&#8217; attempt at monetizing their blog, &#8216;excessive&#8217; traffic coming to their blog.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d suggest two steps to &#8220;professionalize&#8221; your blogging efforts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a domain name. <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"namecheap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.namecheap.com\">NameCheap.com<\/a> is my preferred domain registrar.<\/li>\n<li>Get low cost, reliable host. I especially like BlueHost.<\/li>\n<li>Go with a hosted WordPress blog. BlueHost provides a one-click idiot-proof install of WordPress through it&#8217;s comprehensive control panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;ll enhance your blog longevity.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Tino&#8217;s project, visit:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;> <a title=\"2000 bloggers\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tinobuntic.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/2000-bloggers.html\">2000 Bloggers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tino Buntic, known for his What Do Bloggers Look Like? project, announced his new project, 2000 Bloggers. Top row: Spot the guy who traded the giant red paperclip for a house? That&#8217;s me in the top row, 2nd from the right. In Tino&#8217;s own words: There are dozens of social networks that bring the blogosphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[498,499,501,503,500,359,502,436,360,227,223,1793,308,495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}