FAQ

Business Plus FAQ

I get a lot of emails asking questions so I thought I’d begin to develop an FAQ that I can point people to. I’ll add to this page as questions arise.

About Business Plus

What blog platform do you use? – I use Blogger to run Business Plus. To learn about Blogger and how to use it check out my How to Start a Blog article.

Can I leave a link to my own blog in my Comments? – 

While I’m not a big fan of signatures in comments I will allow them IF the comment is relevant to the post or the discussion. If your comment is only a link or says something like ‘nice post – here is my blog’ etc. It will be treated as comment spam. I’m the judge of what is and isn’t spam. The best thing you can do is keep your comments helpful, engaging, and on topic and you won’t have a problem. I use ‘no follow’ tags in the comments anyway.

Can Business Plus link to my blog? – 

I’d love to link to every Business Plus reader’s blog but due to the large numbers, it’s impossible. You’re welcome to shoot me an email to tell me about individual posts you’ve written if they relate to the topic of ProBlogger – but I can’t guarantee to link to all such submissions simply because I get a lot of these emails. Here are a few tips on getting links from other bloggers that you might find helpful.

How do I keep track of Business Plus, you write so much! – 

A number of Business Plus readers make it their home page – but if you’re not quite that addicted and you don’t want to manually surf by each day you can follow every post of the site via our RSS Feed. You can also subscribe to my Business Plus in which I summarize the week’s most popular posts,

Can you take a look at my blog and review it? –

I’ll answer this one by simply saying it’s a question I get asked 10 or more times a day. If I responded with a yes, I could spend quite a bit of time doing it and not do much else. Please don’t be offended when I say no, even ‘quick looks’ at blogs. Sorry, but at this point, it’s beyond what I can offer.

Are you going to write a book on this topic? – 

You can read more about it at Business Plus.

Why do you use ‘no follow’ tags? – 

In an ideal world, I wouldn’t – in fact, I don’t like them. But after three years of dealing with comment spam and becoming increasingly frustrated by it, I decided to use them. Unfortunately, the actions of a small group of manipulative people have caused this inconvenience for the majority. Sorry.

May I republish posts from Business Plus on my own blog? – 

You may not republish full posts from Business Plus without my direct permission. Feel free to quote anything from this blog with a link to it as a source, but keep in mind that this is copyrighted material. I regularly find people who do republish my articles without acknowledgment of the source and/or without permission and pursue them to remove it.

My Blogging Activities

What are your blogs and how much do they earn? – While I’m happy to talk about my overall income occasionally I do not get into talking about which of my blogs earn how much money. I don’t feel comfortable getting into specifics of how much I make because I see a lot of hype in this space and don’t want to set up expectations that bloggers should/do make a certain amount.

My blogging income is full time- 

In fact, it’s beyond what I imagined it would ever be as I started as a hobby – but not all bloggers reach a full-time income.

For more on this topic, check out my post on how making money blogging.

How much time do you spend blogging? – 

Over the years blogging has progressed from a hobby to a part-time job for pocket money to a small business. The time I put into blogging reflects this. These days I’m a full-time blogger and as a result of most weekdays, you can find me in front of my computer for at least 8 hours. Like most small business operators I fall into the temptation of doing more than a full-time load from time to time.

How much traffic do you get to your blogs? – 

The total numbers of visitors to my blogs vary incredibly from day to day. 

Personal

Where do you live? – I live in Lakhnadon, India.

How long have you been blogging? – 

I started my first blog in July of 2007-09.

How did you start Blogging? – 

A friend shot me an email telling me about a site (a blog) that I might be interested in. At the time I was part of a team starting a new emerging school.

The recommended blog was on the same topic and as I surfed it, I not only connected with the author and his content.

Why don’t you talk about your family much? – 

I don’t refer to my personal life too much here at Business Plus for a number of reasons. Firstly, it doesn’t really fit with the focus of this blog. This is a site about making money from blogging and while my family does benefit from this it’s not a personal blog where I talk too much about what I do from day to day.