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The blog is run by a 21 year old from the UK, named David Shaw. He started the blog in February 2008, to teach others what he has learned since he started blogging, years ago. So far, he has some good tips on the blog, including:

• 15 Ways To Increae Traffic To Your Blog
• SEO For WordPress
• Related Post WordPress Plugin Can Boost PageViews
• 25 Ways To Increase Your RSS Subscribers

In his own words:
“ProTycoon.com will provide you with blogging tips to help you build, promote and monetize your blog and is usually updated on a daily basis”.

For a limited time, David is also giving away some advertising spots on his blog. The ad spots are in the sidebar, and come in the 125×125 ad size. All you need to do to snag one, is write about David and his blog. (like i have)

If you’re looking for fresh blogging tips, from the perspective of a young blogger, this one belongs in your RSS feed. Head on over to ProTycoon, and leave a comment on his blog, letting him know Missy (from G34 Media) sent you.

Enjoy your July 4th! (see you on Monday)

I joined Pepperjam recently, and one of the things i like about this network, is the accessibility factor. You can easily reach the staff (heck even the CEO, Kris Jones) via multiple communication channels, including: IM, email, (and my personal fave) their company blog.

They have a slew of solid merchants, including: eBay, Webmaster Radio, Text Link Ads (boo! to that one), SEOMoz, PlayBoy Store, and others. eBay is a great money maker. If you’re a blogger and have yet to try and make money with the eBay affiliate program, now is a great time to join Pepperjam and do so. The (exciting news) i mentioned above is that for the month of July, Pepperjam is offering NEW! incentives.

NEW! Incentives from Pepperjam Network

1. )The lead payout has increased to a generous $7. So every blogger you refer to the program (*and gets approved) nets you a $7 referral commission

2.) Spread the word on your blog, (like i have), and earn an easy $10

3.) Join the network, receive a $10 sign on bonus

Pepperjam is an up and coming affiliate marketing network that is growing leaps and bounds. They were recently featured on a report by Marketing Sherpa, which highlights the leaps and the bounds.

Once you have reached $25 in commissions, PepperJam pays you promptly via Paypal. Ready to join? Click the banner below, and sign up today to make money via your site or blog!

ContestBlogger is a forum and a blog that features a slew of cool contests held by bloggers, from around the blog-o-sphere. I have won many good prizes in several contests, most recently a copy of the ProBlogger Book by Darren Rowse, which was held at the Wendy Piersall blog, SparkPlugging.

I have also won:

• $10 Gift Certificate for Amazon
• $30 Cash
• $100 Cash
• Copy of The ProBlogger Book
• Eco Lunch Bag
• and some other goodies….so point is, they do work and winners are plentiful.

Get in on the action, by visiting the ContestBlogger site, you too can be a sweet winner (of something). Do also check out the blog, the guy who runs it, is quite funny.

Remember you can’t win, if you don’t enter. So find one you like, and have at it. Good Luck!

There are numerous participants, including myself, with my Groovy Vegetarian blog. I have no idea how to compete, well correction, (i do have a few ideas) to boost my RSS count. Mainly a contest is planned.

Do follow the Blogging Idol Contest here. If you haven’t yet subscribed to my vegetarian blog, do so now.

Contests and/ or group projects are great motivators to get something done, so i’m hoping this contest helps move me to ramp it up.

I’m having trouble with my FTP client (net2ftp) already, its been acting up since yesterday, so the drama begins early. Arggh!

Much to do tomorrow, including: registering the domain name, setting up the blog on its platform, adding the feedburner account, setting it up on Google Analytics, and generally getting it started.

Stay tuned, and do follow the blog flipping contest.

If you know what this is about. Please tell me in the comments below.

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It is the newest craze in twitterland. You know i really have to come up with a devilishly clever term to describe something. Lets see what awefabulous niftyrella groovycheese whippercrack word i can conjure up. Anywho to get back on topic, lets say a thing or two on Twellow.

Twellow allows members of micro blogging site Twitter, to easily search for other members of common interest. Say you want to meet and mingle with other greenies or vegetarians?  Head on over to the green or vegetarian categories, or alternatively you can perform a search. As you will see (yours truly) is #6 in the veggie category. You can also add yourself to the list here.

Who comes up first, second, and so on, on the list is ordered up by number of followers. He who has the most ends up first on the list for said category.

I played around with Twellow, one pet peeve, is the inability to follow directly from their interface. Like when i search for like minded people, naturally the next step would be to follow them. But alas i still need to head on over to Twitter for this.  Arrggh!

All in all the new twitter app Twellow…..is groovycheese! (i know. i know. that isnt quite as cool a term as awesomesauce)

***more blogger talk about Twellow at Technorati and Google Blog Search. You can also follow awesomesauce.

This is a month long contest which begins July 1st and ends July 30th. The idea is to build a top notch site or blog, add content, build its rank and statistics, then flip it on Sitepoint. Along the way several steps net you points, the one who has the most points at the end of the month, will be announced the winner.

The winner gets several awesome prizes, including those mentioned below.

• 1 Year of free hosting (Value $120)
• 1 Free banner advertisement on Siteflipu for 30 days (Value $45)
• 1 Free blog review that will be posted on Siteflipu, and completed by me (Value $65)
• 1 Free copy of my Site Flipping Blueprint, (when completed) (Value – Priceless)
• 1 Lifetime membership into my Site Flipping Club, which will be a personal mentor program taught by me, and valued at $47 a month
• 2 Hour free SEO Conultation with a PROFESSIONAL SEO! ($200)
• 1 Free software package including some great tools for Site Flippers ($300)
• 1 Free copy of the WordPress Dream Theme, Designed by Ben Cope. Includes installation and customization. (Value $247)
• 2 Free 125×125 Banner Ad Creations (Value $60) – Thanks To Forest, from The Random Forest
• 1 Free banner ad on The Piss Biscuit
• 1 Free blog re-design (Vaule $900) from The Piss Biscuit

Bryan who runs a site flipping blog, is well versed in the craft of building up blogs, then turning around and selling them at profit. He is the mastermind behind the One Mans Goal blog sale, which he sold a few months ago, for an astounding $10,000. A great feat, by any estimation!

If you have been wanting to learn how to do the same, join the contest. It is going to be educational, interesting, and heck, maybe even profitable. Head on over to SiteFlipU, read up all the contest details, and join the fun.

Peace, Missy.

The book is about what i have learned since i first started blogging in April 2007, and it is aimed at newbie bloggers. It will feature 101 Random Blogging Tips For Newbie Bloggers, coincidentally that is also the name of the book. The book will be self published by me, and will be distributed in both a physical format and ebook format. (pdf download)

NEW! Book by G34 Media – 101 Random Blogging Tips For Newbie Bloggers by Missy Diaz

I like to think i have learned loads since i first started blogging and there really is alot to learn as a new blogger, creating a new first blog. So i thought i would put pen to paper and share my secrets, tips, tricks, and tools of the trade. Also the real motivation for the book came about 2 months ago when my 14 year old niece sent me an email letting me know, she had of all things, “started up a blog”. I was thrilled and as i replied i proceeded to write down a few blogging tips. Before i knew it, i had quite a very long list of tips, and essentially a book in my hands. So that is where the idea came from, and how the book concept came about. Thanxs, Cori.

sidenote: Mind you my niece’s blog is not for profit (atleast not as of this post), she only started it to talk to her friends and have an online presence to discuss what is the latest and greatest in her teen life. A simple and free blogger blog she writes on and adds photos to, about once or twice a week.

I will provide more details on the book as it nears completion, i do hope i have your support, and help me to tell the world about it. I need you (my blogger friends) big time, to aid me in spreadin the word. I plan on having a kick a$$ contest to promote and launch the book. So stay tuned for that!

Network Update – Blog Theft, Digital Point Forum Ban, and Money Lost

I have good and bad news to report in this update. First lets cover the bad news. One of my network blogs, Groovy Entrepreneur, was stolen from me 2 weeks ago. How? Well i had it up for sale at Digital Point Forum, someone (username: Huzur N Darem) made an offer, sent me money via Paypal, and i then proceeded to transfer the domain name and the blog itself. Well, an hour and a half later, the money was on hold “pending a Paypal investigation“.

Groovy Entrepreneur Blog Was Stolen From Me

Needless to say 2 weeks later, im out the blog, the money, and to add insult to injury i got banned ( 30 days ) from Digital Point Forum for leaving a 2nd feedback on the user above. Essentially right after i had received the money from Paypal, i proceeded to leave a positive iTrader feedback for said buyer, he did same to me. But after i learned of the money being on hold, i wanted to change or delete my feedback, but DP does not allow this. I wanted to warn others about what was happening, as he was still live on the forums (while all this was going down) trying to buy, or should i say, SCAM others.

DP doesnt care about scams or getting involved in Payal buyer/seller transactions, it is against their policy to leave 2 iTraders on same thread, so if you do it, they just ban you, and there is not much you can do about it. Below is reply from a DP staff member on my problem.

It’s VERY clear here. You do business at your own risk. This
is a platform – we are not mediators. You chose to send your
site before payment cleared – that’s no one’s fault but your own.
Take it as a lesson learned, and try contacting people who can
actually do something about it (like the domain registrar, host,
etc.) instead of us when you’ve already been given our policy
repeatedly.

Despite the very cold response (i have to grab a sweater when i read that reply), I hope my account access at Digital Point Forum is restored on July 10th. It is a good forum, im quite active on it, and it is THE MARKETPLACE of all online marketplaces, as far as domain name sales, website/blog sales, and more. Better than eBay, and cheaper than Sitepoint.

The only good news that came out of this whole thing, is that i was able to get my domain name (Groovy Entrepreneur) back from Namecheap, my fave registrar. I sent them an email explaining the whole mess, and they were able to push the name back to me. Thank You, Namecheap. I use them for all my domain name purchases, as they have an easy interface, excellent customer support, and good prices.

The only other good thing to come out of this blog sale scam, it i have learned to be more cautious with my Paypal transactions. I have excluded non US based Paypal payments, and i have learned about Escrow.com. They seem to be safer than Paypal when it comes to digital goods sales. See, the thing about Paypal in reference to any and all digital goods, is that these items are NOT COVERED BY THE SELLER PROTECTION POLICY. Why? Because according to Paypal there is no way to verify receipt of such items, they are not trackable, and therefore are not covered items.

What does this mean to you and me? It means you can get screwed big time (like i did) by people who know this and will scam the living daylights out of you. In my case it seems the person who sent me money used someone else’s account or some other type of fraud, but the bottom line is that because the item in question was a blog (a digital good) i was not covered by the Paypal seller protection policy, and therefore had no recourse. The money was initially placed on hold, then just this past Monday, was reversed, and sent back to the senders account. That’s it, its a done deal, nothing i can do about it. Except use Escrow.com next time.

So to wrap up this network update, i have a cool book about blogging in the works, i lost a dear blog of mine (which would have celebrated its one year anniversay this month), regained an almost lost domain name, and learned HOW NOT to sell a blog on Digital Point Forum.

Stay with me as i navigate the cold waters of internet marketing, blogging, and online commerce. With your help and support, the water might warm up abit. Peace, Missy.