Category Archive for Blogging | Yakezie.com - Part 11

If you’ve been blogging for any amount of time at all, you realize blogging is a pretty unlucrative endeavor for the first couple of years. Most of us blog because we love to write and interact with others. When we start to think about monetary returns, that’s when I suspect many folks start throwing in […]

A good dialogue popped up in the Yakezie Public Forums asking, “What’s your blog’s primary income source?” With so much opportunity everywhere, I encourage every blogger to minimize direct advertising as a source of income and focus more on affiliate income in 2013 and beyond. Affiliate income is safer, more passive, and more sustainable over […]

My friend Cindy is a San Francisco middle school teacher. We got to talking about how to best get our thoughts across to our respective audiences. Middle school kids are notorious for misbehaving. Meanwhile, some blog readers frequently leave commentary that completely misses the point or argues the thesis with no background. Cindy mentioned a […]

When content started being given away for free on the internet, we knew journalism, specifically print journalism was in trouble. Over the past 10 years, more than half of journalism jobs were lost in the Bay Area. The same trend can be seen across much of the country due to the disappearance of subscription based […]

The Yakezie has always been about organic growth through meritocracy. Anybody can choose to join the Yakezie Challenge and write 2-5 times a week on their own sites and build relationships within the community. If you succeed over the next six months in breaching 200,000 in Alexa and have developed 30 or so relationships with […]