Michael Murphy asks:

I recently had an incoming link from another blog, so of course went to check it out to see who had linked me. No one had, really, but they did find an image I had on my site and post it on their blog - which shows as a linkback (clicking the image takes the user to the image location on my site).

I don’t care about the obvious negative effects of hotlinking at this time. I’ve noticed this happening a few times with images and don’t mind when there is no real additional strain on bandwidth.

My question is…are there any positive benefits for allowing people to hotlink images from your blog? Is there any simple way to drive people viewing the image to the blog homepage?

I just came across a very insightful article from Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of the Wired magazine, titled Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business. If you have not read it yet, please do. Perhaps even print it out.

Basically he is arguing that as the marginal cost of supplying processing power, storage and bandwidth gets closer to zero, a whole new economic environment will emerge. Blogs, Wikipedia, Google and other things that you probably use daily are right in the middle of this revolution. Here is a quote:

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As a graphic designer, I could tell you if your website design is C.R.A.P. Not crap as in crap crap, but I mean C.R.A.P as in the underlying principles of good design.

C.R.A.P stands for contrast, repeitition, alignment and proximity and these are the four principles of design that a blog design should adhere to.

This is a question that has been on my mind for some time already. When I started getting a good response from readers on my first blogs, I thought to myself: “Cool, they like the content. Now it is just a matter of getting mentioned on a blog with thousands of subscribers and these people will want to grab my RSS feed as well.”

Interestingly enough, even a couple of years of blogging experience didn’t manage to dispel completely this belief I had. When I launched DailyBits, I thought that if I was able to get a guest post featured on a big tech blog I would automatically gain thousands of new RSS subscribers.

It is a numbers game, after all. Imagine you score a guest article on a blog with 150,000 RSS subscribers. The article features a prominent link to your blog right on top of it. One would think that at least 10% of these readers would be interested in checking where that guest article is coming from. So we have 15,000 readers checking your blog. If your content is good and has value to that audience, similarly, one would assume that at least 10% of those visitors would grab your RSS feed. So at the end of the day you would have some 1,500 new RSS subscribers.

Sounds about right in theory, eh? Unfortunately this model does not hold true in practice.

Taking a look at the number of downloads, StudioPress is by far the most popular theme we have released so far. While people really liked it, there were also many who were asking for different colors.

We worked on it and now we are glad to release three more versions: Orange, Red and Green. Below you will find screenshots of each as well as the demo and download links.

There are growing numbers of bloggers making money by writing for other blogs. With the popularity and success of multi-authored blogs and news-related blogs, this appears to be a trend that will continue as there is a considerable need for valuable, well-written content that draws attention. As a paid writer, if the work that you produce consistently draws traffic, comments, and links, blog owners will want you to write for them. You’ll have more repeat opportunities as well as more new opportunities that find you.

Social media provides an excellent opportunity for freelance bloggers to promote their writing and draw traffic and exposure. Many paid writers assume their job is over as soon as the post is submitted. However, a little bit of extra effort to promote that post with social media could make a world of difference in the success of the post and in the amount or work that you get. Blog owners are paying for results. If you can outperform other freelance bloggers by delivering some extra traffic with social media, your services will be more complete and more effective.

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