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The Persistent Blogger: Keep Blogging!

May 10, 2011

If you’re blogging your heart out, and aren’t setting the world on fire, it’s tempting to give up. Here’s a lovely success story. How My Blog Landed Me on Yahoo’s Homepage (Twice) in the First Year reports: “I even told my coach that I would email my subscribers to tell them I was going to [...]

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Blog Traffic: How to Get Your Blog Ready to Perform

December 7, 2010

Want blog traffic? Of course you do. However, before you spend thousands of dollars on getting traffic, do some preparation, to ensure that your money isn’t wasted. Your blog needs to be ready to perform, and few blogs are. I’ve been blogging for a decade, and over the years I’ve learned that my blogs are [...]

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Blog Thieves: Foil Them When They Steal Your Stuff

December 2, 2010

There’s not much you can do when people steal stuff from your blog. If you worried about each little incident you’d get nothing else done. Being relatively nonchalant about it however, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t annoy. It’s diverting to imagine these fools in Dante’s seventh circle of Hell (the one with violence). I’m always [...]

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Simplest is Best: Make the Most of WordPress TwentyTen

November 30, 2010

TwentyTen on my MoneyDiviner blog How much time do you spend fiddling with the theme on your WordPress blog? If you’re at all like my blogging students, you waste time on this every week. I did it too. Playing around with themes is more fun than knuckling down and creating content, or finding new opportunities [...]

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Ebook Secrets: Turn Your Blog’s Content Into an Ebook

November 8, 2010

If you’ve got a blog, you’re constantly looking for new ways which will help you to monetize your content. Here’s a thought: why not sell your content directly? Turn parts of your ebook into an ebook, or into a podcast or video. I’ve done this several times, and I’ll do it again, because you can [...]

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Blog Content Creation Is Easy when You Have a Process

November 5, 2010

If you have a blog, you know that content creation is hard. However, you can make it much easier when you have a process. That process starts with your exit strategy. I’ve been blogging for 10 years. Over that time I’ve created many sites, and have come to understand that the primary challenge people have [...]

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Blogging: How to Create a One-Page Blog Business Plan That Works

September 15, 2010

Want to build a profitable blog? The key to success is realizing that it’s a business, and like all businesses, it needs a plan. Without a plan, it will join the millions of failed blogs which litter the Web. Here’s how to create a simple one-page business plan. This plan is super-simple to create — [...]

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Writing content for your blog: easy SEO

April 8, 2010

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for your blog posts. Without it, chances are your posts just won’t be found. You need to research keywords before you start writing, and it’s a hassle. You just want to get on with it and write. Relax. SEO for your blog posts just got easier. You just need [...]

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Guard your blog’s most important asset

March 28, 2010

What’s your blog’s most important asset? Here’s a clue. Foursquare Goes Dark Too. Unintentionally. reports: “While the site is back up and running now, it appears that Foursquare forgot to renew their domain name, which expired on March 25. As a result, GoDaddy, the registrar, pulled the site and put up their own landing page. [...]

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Your Blogger blog: no more FTP to your own domain

January 25, 2010

If you’ve been FTPing your Blogger blog to your own domain, this feature will no longer be supported. Blogger Buzz: Important Note to FTP Users reports: “we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for [...]

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