I just started my latest blog, The Desktop Analyst, last week. This site has helped immensely in getting my site up & running and making it way cooler than it would be without your tips. Gotta say that I’m digging the DBT.

-TDA

I just started my Blog on Dec 31st, 2009. I am committed to posting daily and it has been a labor of love since I work fulltime. I blog as soon as I get home and start dinner.

I love your site for the encouragement and great tips. I blog because I wanted to write and it has been a awesome experience. I am in my 50’s and thought I would never be a blogger. Happy to be here among kindred spirits

Thank you
Lillian Ortiz
Wordprepmom

Just starting out on the blogging front, so it was very encourgaging to read your blog and the comments from fellow bloggers. I’m based in Brussels, I moved here in March and love it. I’m running a business from home with my partner and very glad to be my own boss! I look forward to receiving your daily blog tips – many thanks for sharing your knowledge – much appreciated.

Im Andrea, and Im enjoying your article in this blog

It seems that you have a big dedication to your blog, and I know it from your writing style.

Hey, Nice to Know you anyway..

^_^

since i am going to be your regular reader, here is a little about me.
i am a 30 year old Iranian-American living, who came to us, to not be put to prison and be tortured for simply having a different religion than what the government wants. i live in the heartland of america (saint louis,mo), and until 3 months ago i didn’t know anything about blogging or setting up a site for that matter, but with the help of good people like you i have learned a lot in this short amount of time. i make my living with my little flooring(hardwood,tile) company. but i am trying to learn and one day maybe be able to use blogging as my primary source of income.

@Farrhad on Twitter.

yes, one of the factors is benefit from local PPC’s.

I am 23 years old, i finished study law this year. But it’s not my job. Really I don’t like it at all. For almost 3 years i working in newspaper, i am photographer. It’s more interesting i think))))

Love blogging, love internet, love finding new friends.

Sorry for not very good english))

It’s Mark from Toronto, Canada. Love your blog, been subscribed for quite a while…

I submitted a question to you once that you published…you may remember…it was about my comments never appearing on other blogs because I figured they were going straight into the spam folders…

So I followed your advice, contacted the dudes at Akismet, and this is no longer a problem…very cool…

It’s Thanksgiving here in Canada, so Happy Thanksgiving!!

I’ve stumbled across you blog a few times before, but only subscribed to your RSS feed today when I downloaded your ebook and themes. Thanks for that! 😉

My name is Conrad Theart from Cape Town, South Africa. I work as a sales person in a cellphone shop and also run my own technology blog.

My goal is to become a full-time blogger, so keep those tips coming! 😀

Thanks.

I appreciate the invitation to share who I am, and to introduce myself to you this way. I am a retired (mainframe computer) IT professional, and I got into the PC world in 1982. When the Internet took off, I was there. (My name is NOT Al Gore, however. [smile])

I began theOnlineWriter in 1996, meant as a means for people to be able to express themselves Online. This web site was not marketed (still isn’t), and admittedly it provided me with a way to express my own thoughts and feelings, so although meant as a venue for others it developed as simply a mostly personal means of expression.

About 3 months ago, I took an interest in Blogging. I saw this as a means of self-motivation to write, to create something daily. I confess I have not been as regular as that – daily – but I have been able to both create and maintain the site.

Not knowing anybody else with the same interests, and not having an ear to share frustrations with, I sort of hunt and pecked my way into a b2evolution Blog site. I am enjoying the experience, and I have NO knowledge of what my limitations – or horizons – are. I do not know anything about available plug-ins, nor do I understand the marketing practices necessary to make my site known. Facebook? Twitter? I’m afraid I’m not a self-promoter, and have very little interest in chatter for the sake of chatter. Inanity bores me

I simply write because I enjoy it. I want to share what I have with others, hence the public nature of the site, but how to introduce its existence to anyone, without being guilty of spamming, is something I haven’t figured out.

Communication is a two-way street, and being able to listen to others share their views is integral to being ‘there’, to being in touch with one another. The blog provides the means for this sharing, with comments and feedback – but without visitors it is an exercise in futility.

Now, you are successful in getting me (and a host of others) to open up somewhat, so – how about you, Daniel? What can you share regarding your own aspirations, and your path to creating this successful series of Blogs? I receive and enjoy both the Daily Blogging Tips and the Daily Writing Tips; thank you for providing consistently thought provoking and timely material. I, for one, am pleased and very happy to be a subscriber to both lists.

Keep up the good work, Daniel, and thank you again!

My dream is to use our recently acquired 30ft bus/motorhome as home base for an Outback IT Service – “we come to you, wherever you are”, covering an area about the same size as Brazil.

Enjoy Blogging Forever

On the contrary I think a subject like Construction base can help you build a related website for which there is lesser competition. Just to think of it, not too many experts on construction are not as internet savvy and with knowledge on that domain as well as website, you can make it big…

But if I do so, I’ll be wasting time studying right now as the course that I’m taking is in construction base, so it’s nothing to do with online thingy. But, let’s see what happens in the future (3 years), perhaps I could change my mind and work full time online like you. 🙂

Greetings from the Philippines. I’ve just started blogging (again), and I’ve been following your very informative and helpful blog on and off whenever I have time. I work in the publishing field.

Thanks for setting up this site. ^^

Seriously, I got a big surprise when I found out you live here too. A brazilian version of DBT would do really well by the way, despite the fact we dont have that many monetization options.

On my side, I have around 2000 daily visitors and things are going ok (3 figures monthly income from Adsense, good feedback from readers etc.) Some areas can and must be improved, of course, but as long as I can come up with unique content, the numbers will go up.

Keep up the good work. You provide real value to us, our readers and should be an example to most brazilians. I dont comment here, but rest assured I read you via Google Reader.

Congratulations.

@Eric C., thanks for being a loyal reader, I sure remember many of your comments. I will try to do more rankings posts in the future.

@abby, thanks for the nice words.

@Malini, looking forward to seeing your blogs growing a lot.

@Leahsandra, self publishing is an interesting topic. And I am sure it will only grow in popularity in the coming years, as more and more people will follow that route instead of trying to work with old school press.

@Crankberry, thanks for stopping by.

Daniel has been a real inspiration and DBT is a great resource. Now I have my own domain where I write about life and am working on getting a couple of sites up on Indian music and dance.

Great site Daniel – keep it up!

Ciao!

I follow your blog since past 8 months. i am a business analyst by profession and a blogger by passion.. keep up the good work.. i really love reading your posts

Thanks

My name is Eric C and I’ve been a loyal reader and commentator since about March of this year. I think this site is one of the three best of its kind and I read most every non-technical post. I’m working on a guest post if it ever gets up to my standards.

I read in the above comments you used to live in Italy. I just moved back from there, so thats crazy.

About my blogging, my brother and I run a blog on military and foreign affairs, art and philosophy called On Violence. In the next year we hope to launch a blog on art.

Anyways, love the blog. My favorite post was when you ranked “blogs about blogging” It definitely winnowed down a crowded field for me when I first went out in search of tips.

peace, Eric

your posts make sense, aren’t terribly long, and get me to think. much more than i can say for some others out there. don’t people realize we all have A.D.D.? 😉

ps: If you were to ever ask me to play in a Blogger Face-Off, my answer would be yes. In case you were wondering…

@Zhu, I seem to remember coming across your comments in the past. Keep up the good work on your blog.

@Jeri, I had never heard about an organizer, but it makes sense. If you can’t get organized minimally you won’t be able to produce much, both professionally and personally.

@Craig, glad you find the content useful. If you make even $10 monthly with your sites, you are already ahead of 90% of the population. Just keep working on them and have fun along the way!

@Mike, bueno saber que tengo lectores en Espana tambien!

I am in New Zealand. I am not really a blogger or even a webmaster. I have 3 websites though that I have had for about 3 years. I make enough to pay for them and that is about it. I have had no training what so ever for the internet and just browse the web for things to do/add.(maybe that is how I found BlogTips)

I am here to one day get that email from you that will change my arcade/forums in to something it may never be.

I wouldn’t know the first thing aboout monetising or advertising or most webmaster stuff.
I save each email.
Cheers for all the info I have had over the last however long it has been.

Your blog is one I follow regularly, through RSS.

I’m Zhu and I’m French/ Canadian. 🙂

I started following your blog a long time ago because I found myself suddenly addicted to blogging, but with little skills other than writing and photography. I learned quite a lot thanks to your informative articles!

I enjoyed designing my blog and tweaking it but overall, I love writing and photography best and blogging is a great medium for me.

Happy bloganiversary and keep on the good work!

@Lisa, thanks for the comment. I will check your blogs out, and glad to know you like working online.

@Gaby, nice to meet you. I believe a comic series in a blog format could work well. If I ever decide to write a fiction book I am sure I will publish it online as I write it.

@sbunting, thanks for sharing your background.

My Photography Blog

My name is Gaby and I’m a 21-year-old Computer Science student in the UK.

I used to blog when I was younger, but they were always personal blogs. I decided near the beginning of this year that I have a lot of opinions and some knowledge that other people may be interested, and so I started working on Arteki, which I “launched” around May.

I came across DBT while researching blogging and found your tips incredibly useful. DBT influenced how I shaped my blog a lot and I’m incredibly grateful for all the knowledge you have imparted here.

At the moment I’m not making any money off my blog and I have no plans to monetise it in the near future.

I’m in the process of organising a 2nd “blog”. It’s going to be a comic series, although the individual comics probably won’t be linked in a plot. I suppose it will be more like XKCD is, or Chris Wilson’s works. I’ll be using wordpress for it though, because wordpress is awesome and is surprisingly flexible, especially if you get to know the API.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself like many others have. I’ve been reading DBT for nearly a year and so I also wanted to say happy 3rd birthday!

I’m a blogger at LisaMorosky.com, and the soon-to-be SpendLessOnLife.com. I’m also a virtual assistant to other bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs, via VAforBloggers.com. I’m kind of immersed in the whole blogging world. I love what I do. 🙂

I live in the Chicago area with my husband, who’s also a blogger (and a chiropractic school student).

I enjoy reading your blog and your many tips! Take care!

My bet is that I get less than 20 responses. Yes, I understand that some people are shy and some people just don’t care, but I suspect that an awful lot of RSS “subscribers” are ‘bots or just old, long ignored signups.

We’ll see…

I have several sites my first was in 2001 and as of today we manage 5 sites.

Thanks for all tips

🙂

My website is about Unixish/Linuxish/OS Xish things, self employment, blogging.. not very tightly focused, but neither am I.

I’m PMR (Pretty Much Retired) – that is, I still work, but not so much that it interferes with my life. Part of what lets me do that is advertising income from my website, so I write about that sometimes also.

You’ve been in my Google Reader for some time. I can’t say I’ve read every thing you’ve ever posted, but I read enough to recognize you and enough that I felt I ought to take a minute and respond.

It might be interesting to see how many of your readers DO respond. I recently wrote a post questioning how many of my supposed RSS readers are really reading – an experiment like this might give some more data.

@Sarah, thanks for your comment. I will check your website out, as I am always interested in copywriting.

@Steve, I am a sports fan as well. Depending on the niche you pick a sports blog could become a nice asset. For example, soccer and tennis seem to be very popular online.