As the title says, BloggersWalk posts and comments have all been transferred over to ahnternet under the category, Blogging. Hence, whenever I’m writing about a topic regarding blogging, it will all be in the above category.
Since summer is now here, I hope to produce at least one article that is about blogging, whether it is related to monetizing the blog or producing content-rich posts.
So I think I have made up my decision to move contents from BloggersWalk over to ahnternet. BloggersWalk always could have been and should have been a sub division of ahnternet in my opinion. Sure, this is a personal blog, but I still wanted to incorporate my interests into this blog, and that includes blogging. Hopefully I’ll get the move going through at random times through this month.
I’m right now looking up information to see how I can move the content over without Google penalizing me for duplicate content… If anyone has any knowledge on how to do this, I’d appreciate it if you could hit me up with the tips. 
I feel that ahnternet has really lost focus over the last few months to the point where I think I can officially state that this is no more an intermet marketing or a blogger’s blog. Does that mean that the blog will close? Heck no!
Summer’s quickly coming and I hope to really kickstart the blog once again when I get the time to do so. However, until then, I guess Twitter is the way to go. :S
I really should start talking more about the niches that are pertinent to this blog, but baseball is a big thing in my life, so I’ll blog about it today if you don’t mind.
Anyways, so last night, Japan beat my country, South Korea, 5-3 in the 2nd World Baseball Classic finals. It was a really entertaining match with Korea levelling the score in the 9th inning with 2 outs. However, Ichiro helped Japan pull off the win with a double RBI single off of Chang Yong Lim.
As a Korean, I feel a bit bad (or more like terrible) considering that we lost to our archrivals, Japan, in a Classic finals, although we did have our second unit playing the tournament this time. I guess if you’re a Red Sox fan or a Yankees fan and your team lost to the other in the World Series, you might feel me a bit. Anyways, with the game done over 6 hours ago, I still feel somewhat upset about the result, which I felt definitely was leaning our way, until the terrible umpire calls and questionable sportsmanship plays killed us ultimately.
This is one of the plays occured. The Korean player here is the second baseman making a double play. However, the Japanese player, Nakajmia, instead of sliding into the base, stretches his arm to disrupt the double play. I was appalled to see this level of sportsmanship as beyond the result of the game, things like this can seriously injure the player. Also, from the first inning, the umpire was calling extremely odd calls which even the ESPN commentator seemed to be surprised at. Anyways, the result is a loss for us, and that’s that. However, things like this really makes me not want to watch the WBC anymore as we suffered from the WBC’s refereeing and tournmanet system in the first one too. The best record in both WBCs, yet it’s going unrewarded.
While overall, the tournament was entertaining, I still feel like the structure of the tournament is a complete mess. Korea and Japan both played 9 games durring the Classic, but they met each other on 5 different occassions. This is striking and while the baseball force has definitely taken a huge step towards East Asia, the entire tournament seemed almost too much of a Korea-Japan series with a few countries here and there to entertain the guests.
Anyways, fellow baseball fans, let’s hope for a better Classic in 2013.
Wow the last month or so was just a big mess and a lot of work. I really didn’t want to put this blog to this point, but I guess a hiatus was pretty much inevitable with four classes in university.
Anyways, I’m going to keep this useless post short and hopefully try to pick this blog back up starting next month and maybe share what went on in my life during the hiatus.
So the interview you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Who is the person? Well, the title sort of gives it away if you’ve been reading around my niche for a while. It is no other than the blogger that came back just a couple weeks ago: Benjamin Patton.
Ben was, and still is, one of my favorite bloggers as his blog always stands out as one that is personal, yet informative. As a subscriber since the mid-2008, I think I can testify that. However, sometime back in October 2008, my email stopped receiving his blog’s updates and he simply couldn’t be found. Thankfully though, he is back and I thought, “Why not interview this guy?” So here it is.
Static: Hey Ben thanks for giving me an opportunity to interview you. First, can you tell ahnternet readers a little bit about yourself?
Ben: Well I am going to be 27 this 13th, I am in the process of a mutually uncontested divorce. I am a type 1 diabetic. Those are the basic facts. I enjoy working for my business economy level chain hotel as a operations manager. I hope to someday in the near future have my own hotel as a general manager but I am in no real rush as I am still learning. As far as non Internet marketing and non hotel Ben goes I like quick cars of the Supra descent. I own an mk2 MR2 at the moment, will soon be getting a passat turbo wagon though I originally started into the whole Internet Marketing scene via list marketing within the blog niche itself. I saw a serious need for a website that was not problogger.com but was not to simple in its own right. I wanted to attack the niche from my perspective and actually share all my results even if it ment giving away a million dollar secret. I am really motivated to help others through my own experience.
Static: So I was an email subscriber to your blog, and I received an email just a couple weeks ago regarding a comeback. Where have you been the last few months?
Ben: The last few months are a little bit complicated, but I will go ahead and give you the lowdown scoop on what happened. I have not even published this on my own blog yet. Since last March when I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic which for those that are not aware means I can not live without injecting insulin after most every meal. Which is a serious adjustment. I have been a little more serious about life, getting stuff sorted out and taken care of and not being overwhelmed. Well the change was so great that I am not the same person and as such put undue stress on my soon to be former marriage. This on top of the worst economy for the hospitality industry since probably the great depression of the 30’s means I have had quite a bit on my mind like keeping my staff at the hotel working enough hours to support themselves and families and to keep my hotel open and in business. Now we get to the blog and Ben’s Internet marketing which took the greatest toll of it all first. I was out of commission, but wanting to write daily as I always had. Eventually it became apparent that something was going to have to give so in the hopes of not letting the hard work I had poured into this brand I had created I sold it to a fellow blogger who I will not reveal. They purchased the blog for nearly $1k. It was an undervalued sale and was on short notice but I had to get rid of it to surplus my savings and not let the project die. This along with the previous remarks finally coming to a head and being dealt with we arrive cozily to the end of January when the person in question I had sold the blog to had not paid the hosting and not done anything with the site. I pulled a back up and put it up on my new hosting account and got it back on par. I notified the now former owner that their was a 60 day clause and that he had failed to fulfill it. He did not mind and let me take back over the site without incident. Now I am back and writing and quite happier and better for it
Static: What motivated you to get back into blogging? What’s in it for you?
Ben: I honestly have to say that helping people achieve their goals makes me feel good no matter how insignificant the help is it really gets me revved up. I guess this is why I am in sales/marketing at my own job as well working with people. For me their is a small payoff I think the highest earned income I had from the blog before it went for sale was the $400 I made in the last month. I used it for projects and learning new stuff such as my site flip project that I had never done before or read any material on how to do it. I also once again have to say my supreme motivation and fulfillment comes from helping others though.
Static: Considering that you now have to rebuild the blog’s popularity, what are some methods you are planning on doing to get those readers and traffic back?
Ben: I am going to use the exact same methods I used to build the blog up to its former glory except now I am going to be much harder at it to get it done. Basically comment campaigns, emailing other bloggers, making it worth everyone’s while to read at least one post of mine to consider subscribing and becoming an active participant here at my site. Really nothing legal is off limits and as most know I have a pretty decent network to be able to start to reach people who may not have ever heard of me. My biggest goal to work on is more serps traffic though which has been a challenge in a niche dominated by well established blogs. Thats ok before to long I promise I will dethrone problogger.com.
Static: Good luck there Ben. It looks like you’re in it even more seriously this time around. By the way, are these methods that would work for new bloggers too?
Ben: The methods I use are the methods I write about every day and anyone from a day one wordpress newbie to a grizzled veteran of 10k+ subs can leverage and take advantage of.
Static: Speaking of tips, just out of curiosity, do you have any specific methods that you would recommend, but you aren’t implementing on your blog as after all, Big Ben Patton’s Place isn’t exactly a completely new blog?
Ben: I leave no specific method unused anything that can draw one subscriber I will do. This is a game of inches ladies and gentlemen and success is based off whether your giving inches or taking them. I choose to take them.
Static: So far the interview has been great. I won’t bug you so much more, so just before we close out, where do you see Big Ben Patton’s place going now that you are back? What are some new things you are looking to offer on the blog?
Ben: I see the blog becoming more refined really I want to tenderize my content a bit more so that when I get into mini series worth of pretty hardcore content it is easy to digest for those that may not have ever considered doing anything like what I am actively trying to teach by example. Blogging and Internet Marketing is a very broad genre but they all play off each other and all the subcatagories as well to make you better at everything to earn online, or write online and if you can do those two your doing very well and surely on your way to whatever goal your heart desires.
Static: Thanks for your time Ben. It interesting to get to know you a bit more and your secret tips to a successful blogging journey too. 
G’luck in the future please do keep in touch!
How did you guys like the interview? The interview was somewhat rushed, and thus, I wasn’t able to ever ask you guys for some questions you may have for Ben. However, he frequently has his own Q&A sessions too, so I’m sure if you have a question that you are dieing to have answered, you can get it.
Also, Ben mentioned that he sees “the blog becoming more refined” and actually, that is exactly what he is doing right now. BenjaminPatton.com will be officially making a move to RealBloggingTips.com, so if you used to be a subscriber of Ben, or are now thinking of becoming one, make sure you subscribe and participate over at RBT.
So, how did you guys like the interview? Informative? A waste of loading time on the blog? I’m thinking of periodically doing interviews, so if you guys like what you are seeing, I’m up for it. Tell me through the comments.
So I got back from Boston very late last night. Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and a few other schools blew me away. Loved the college town, and starting tomorrow, I’m starting my “trek” on making a transfer to MIT. I wish Harvard, but unfortunately, they don’t accept transfers right now.
Anyways, in regards to the blog, I just noticed that the interview was not posted. I’m not sure what was up with it, but I guess it was a mistake on my side for making a mistake with the timestamp. Regardless of the problem though, the interview will go up tomorrow. It’s a pretty good one, so you guys should all look forward to it.
I’ll keep this post short today, as there really is no substance to this post.
So tomorrow, I fly to Boston because of the Harvard National Model United Nations. I’ve been an avid fan of the whole MUN stuff since I was in junior high, so obviously I’m still participating in the whole thing in university too. Anyways, since I’ll be flying there tomorrow and although I do believe that I will have some connection, I should expect the worst, so I’m expecting none for now.
However, that doesn’t mean that I’m going to just let Friday pass by without a good post. Well, this upcoming post will be a bit special as although it is not a guest post, the majority of it was not written by me. Yes, it is an interview.
One of favorite bloggers last year made a sudden comeback a few days ago, so I decided to get in touch with him to see where he was up to. He’s been pretty successful online, so it should be a great interview. I have it here timestamped and just waiting to be published.
On a side note, it seems like WordPress 2.7.1 was released a few hours ago. I just clicked auto-update in my admin dashboard and it seems like that click was all that was needed. I love WordPress guys when it comes to installations and upgrades. Makes it too quick and easy to the point that it feels like you skipped a few steps.
Anyways, enough with my rambling.
So this week, the blog surpassed the entire traffic for January 2009. 
I guess that shows how inactive my blog was for the first month of 2009. Anyways, let’s get to some posts.
I guess my posts weren’t of a quality that I had expected and I really didn’t post this week. Anyways, here are the two that I’d appreciate, if you gave some attention to.
Here’s the first week’s link love. There were actually a lot of great posts this week (as if there aren’t any other week?!) so it was a little bit harder to choose the three that I would recommend without potentially embarrassing myself and this blog for recommending it. Maybe a solution could be more link love at the end of every month… Anyways…
I guess this blog is starting to pickup from where it left off as I’m starting to see an increase in traffic. Now, I just need to get these traffic converted into subscribers. A few things I’m looking at doing the next week is maintaining the posting frequency, commenting more on other blogs within my niche, and an interview (hopefully) with a blogger that has recently come back to the scene.
So I’ve been going pretty good with Entrecard and in my opinion, especially for new bloggers, it is an easy way to increase exposure to your site without a lot of work. I mean if you just new which blogs to go to that had the Entrecard widget that you can drop your card in, wouldn’t racking up the credits be a lot faster and wouldn’t you be able to, on a daily basis, have “funds” to promote your blog?
Well, TysBlog actually did this already and made their own Entrecard list. However, the big downside of the list was that it quickly got outdated. Way too many sites on the list have the Entrecard widget hidden somewhere near the bottom of the page, some of them don’t even have the widget anymore, and worst of all, some sites don’t even exist. As originally, a big fan of the list, now, I have my own list that I accumulated. Plus, these are sites that are related to my niche, which makes it a lot better for me too. Anyways, let me get to the point.
I’m going to make a new list. Now, why am I telling you this? I’m telling you this because I want to give my readers an opportunity to be on this 300 Entrecard widget supporting blog. I will heavily promote this list, so for every download and user, assuming that they add the bookmark into their browser’s favorite list, you can assume a unique visit from them once per day. Pretty sweet deal, huh?
Obviously, as it is Entrecard, you’re not really submitting here in hopes of getting more subscribers or more comments, although that is a possibility. The primary reason I use Entrecard is to gain credits to promote on other related sites, which is a pretty good deal in my opinion.
However, as I have some great plans on promoting this list, I need to ask you to do a favor for me. No, I’m not asking for your money, all I’m asking for is the following:
Simply submit it using the form below. Please submit one form for every website you wish to have submitted.
As much as I love my readers, I love my subscribers even more. It would be kind of you to subscribe to this blog in appreciation of my efforts in this mini project. Subscribers (by RSS and email) can notify me through the form above and they will be moved up the 300 list, which ensures them a greater possibility of their blogs being looked at as opposed to #300, as most people start off from #1.
Also, by subscribing, you will get the latest updates on the 300 Entrecard enabled websites, which allows you to pretty much not have to do the bad job of picking out the bad and replacing it with the new, good ones.
To subscribe, just enter your email and away!
I’m looking at receiving about 100 submissions looking at popularity of this blog right now. However, the more I receive through the form, the better for me and for you as you will get more sites in a list that would be viewed by thousands while I don’t have to do the somewhat tedious job of going through the Entrecard directory looking for fast loading and above the fold Entrecard widgeted sites.
Anyways, so just feel free to submit the sites through the form above and if you would so kind to do so, subscribe to this blog so you can get the latest updates on the list of 300 that really works while also getting your site a good position within the list.
Static is a teen blogger who runs the blog, ahnternet, dedicated to random ramblings in the MMO and the online world. He also administers various websites and online projects, while making decent money. Also, he is currently attending a top U.S. college, majoring in Engineering. Nonetheless, his true passion lies in business, and thus, one of his dreams is attending the prestigious Wharton School for his MBA.
