Worldwide Success

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking and blogging, each day people are becoming more and more comfortable about sharing things online that just a few years ago would be considered taboo.  The subject of how much money you make or how much money you have used to be considered something […]

Back in August we reported in the post Problems with Yahoo Web Hosting that the Worldwide Success site was experiencing significant technical difficulties resulting is extremely slow performance and unavailability.  At that time we started working on transferring the site to a different host, but ran into some technical challenges exporting the MySQL database which […]

The Worldwide Success site has been experiencing technical difficulties in the last few days resulting is extremely slow performance and unavailability.  I have tried to address this problem with the site’s host, Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting, but the response has been less than satisfactory.
I am currently working on transferring the site to another host.  […]

In the article Millionaire Bloggers we talked about a few superstar bloggers that have been able to achieve millionaire status with their blogs.  Very few bloggers are able to achieve the level of income that these pro bloggers have achieved.  There are over 50 million blogs out there and probably less than 500 have achieved […]

Worldwide Success was voted to the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007.  The vote comes from Salaplana.com who wrote the article as an entry to the writing project promoted by Digital Filipino.  Sustines of Salaplana.com is still looking for additional blogs to add to his list.  Here is what he is looking for:
“I am […]

Blogging has become a mainstream activity in the last five years and the blogosphere today has more than 50 million blogs.  Although most people do not blog for money, many of these blogs have been monetized.  The great majority of bloggers make less than $100 per month from their blogs, but a few bloggers are […]

Success breeds success.  In the online business world this seems to ring even more true than in other business areas.  The more popular your web site or blog is, the better it is ranked by search engines, which helps you garner more traffic, which makes you even more popular.  The longer you have been around […]

Blogging can be a lot of work as many bloggers will attest.  And yet, there are hundreds of thousands of people out there blogging every day.  So why do people blog?  Some do it for the money.  In fact, a few people are making a lot of money blogging.  Here are some examples:

In the post […]

One of the key decisions every blogger needs to make is whether to keep the comments functionality open or disabled.  I can see pros and cons in either approach.  It is nice to build a sense of community in your blog and allow people to make comments.  Well thought out comments add real value to […]

Since the launch of the Worldwide Success site a month ago I have done quite a bit of research about what it takes to be a successful blogger.  I am still a novice, and not yet quite qualified to give advice on the subject.  But during my research I have run into many successful blogs […]