8. February 2010

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My Take On Blog Posting Frequency and Making Money

A new blogger asked me the other day the age old question new bloggers always have: “How often should I publish a blog post?”
This topic has been discussed many times over, like here and here. Those are two great articles to go read if this is your burning question, but let me add my two [...]

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1. February 2010

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So You Think Your Website is Secure? Am I Scaring You Yet? I Hope So…

When I was in college, one of my business instructors told us students that one of the biggest hurdles to making money in business is procrastination.
Procrastination is the killer of all that is good, if you ask me. Let’s take blog security.
I don’t think there’s a person out there that after learning just how much [...]

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18. January 2010

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John’s Top 5 Crash and Burn Blogger Mistakes Which Keep You Poor

I’ve been blogging for a number of years now and I have:

made money
lost money
broke even
posted articles regularly / not-so-regularly
changed my blog design
changed my blog’s web address
… you get the idea (been there done that).

Aside from being obnoxious and rude to people, here are my top 5 blogging mistakes new bloggers might make which can slow [...]

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10. January 2010

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2 Little Things to Consider When Starting a Website with a Blog

If you’re new to blogging or are contemplating changing the design of your site, this information might pertain to you…
I was visiting the Problogger forum the other day and came across a new blogger who had a question about how they should set up their website.
The scenario: Bill is starting a website which will [...]

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27. December 2009

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Aside From A Blogger, What Are You Really?

Judging from my analytics, I bet many, if not most, people who visit my blog are bloggers.
What is a blogger?
Well I could visit Wikipedia and look it up, but there’s no need for that; we all know what a blogger is, right?
But what are you, really?
Yeah yeah, I know – you’re a human being… ha [...]

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24. December 2009

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My 3-Year Old Son’s First Video Blog Article!

Here’s a cute little Christmas video for all my blogging friends.
The other day I was busy recording a couple WordPress video tutorials while my 3-year old son, Joshua, sat quietly next to me watching me work.
When I was done he really wanted to sit up to the microphone and do a recording, so I figured, [...]

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7. December 2009

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Gift Ideas For Bloggers

I’m a blogger… and trust me, my wife knows that.
It’s also almost Christmas and she’s almost finished shopping for me. The other day she asked me if there was anything I wanted which pertained to blogging.
I thought, “Hmm . . . that’s a good question. What kinds of gifts can someone get for bloggers?”
I headed [...]

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29. November 2009

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FTC Blogging Regulations, A Webinar You Need To See

Jim Edwards, the author if the 7dayebook and many other informational products, recently interviewed Rich Cleland, Assistant Deputy at The Federal Trade Commission, and asked him to clarify some of the “new” regulations bloggers should be concerned about when it comes to affiliate commissions and reviews.
Noticed I put the word new in quotes; that’s because [...]

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26. November 2009

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How To Create A Maintenance Page Redirect When WordPress Is Down

This is one of those blog articles you probably don’t need today but may need one day down the road. For that reason, I suggest you bookmark it in case you ever need to know how to do this.
Sometimes as bloggers and website owners there comes a need to temporarily redirect all our site visitors [...]

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23. November 2009

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The Top 7 Mistakes eBook Authors Make!

I’ve been a subscriber of the Jim Edwards I Gotta Tell You Newsletter for some time now and I gotta tell you, it’s an awesome newsletter.
His newsletters are always packed with valuable information detailing ways to get more traffic to your site, list building techniques, how to write and profit from ebooks, and a ton [...]

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17. November 2009

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23 Kick-Ass Links From My StumbleUpon Account

It’s been awhile since I visited my StumbleUpon account; I had forgotten how much great content can be found using the popular social bookmarking site.
You know, there are so many great resources out there we bloggers can use to help increase our knowledge and generate ideas that it almost sucks! There’s so much I want [...]

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2. November 2009

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Increase Your WordPress Blog’s Security By Running It Through SSL

SSL Certificate

I know, it sucks.
There are a ton of people out there with nothing better to do with their time than snoop around on the Internet watching for people who send login information, such as Usernames and Passwords, unsecured through the webs of the Internet.
Then when they capture someone’s login credentials, they take it [...]

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25. October 2009

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Google Keyword Tool + Top 50 Google Tools Bloggers Can Use

If you’re a blogger, I’m sure at some point some of these topics will interest you:

Keywords for search engine optimization
Running ads on your site to generate some income
Analyzing your blog’s statistics
Submitting your blog to the Google Search Engine
Getting a snapshot of how Google is sees and crawls your blog
If your site gets hacked and removed [...]

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18. October 2009

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2 Killer WordPress Security Plugins You Probably Don’t Know About

If you’ve been following my blog for awhile I’m sure it’s clear to you that I like toying with WordPress; unfortunately, there are those out there who like toying with other people’s WordPress as well.
People’s blogs get hacked on a daily basis. A simple Google search for my blog was hacked returns 2,620,000 results.
I tend [...]

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11. October 2009

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Hammering Down 2 More Ways To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

In a recent post I talked about how you can speed up WordPress through compressing data using gzip by way of PHP.
Since I posted that article I’ve had more than a few people ask me what other ways I know that can help speed up a WordPress blog. To be honest, most of what I [...]

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