Archive for March, 2010

Bloggers, I Hear You

A week or so ago, I ran a simple, 2-question survey to my email subscribers. The purpose of that survey was simple – To find out what the biggest issues are out there facing bloggers. One thing is VERY clear: The problem isn’t lack of tactics. The problem is square between your ears. In other [...]

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How To Keep Your WordPress Blog From Being Hacked

Has your blog ever been hacked? Have you ever had that horrible, sinking feeling when you go to check out your blog, only to find that it isn’t even there anymore? If you haven’t had it happen yet, there’s a decent chance you will. I have. More than once. And it sucks. One moment your [...]

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How I Lost My Life Savings And What It Taught Me About Blogging

This is a guest post from Roman, from How This Website Makes Money. Ten years ago was the height of the stock market boom. Stocks prices went only up. All you had to do was throw money towards Wall Street and a few months later you’re a millionaire. People were getting rich overnight. 14 year [...]

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Why Bloggers Shouldn’t Read Other Blogs

Bear with me a bit. What I’m about to say might seem a bit counter-intuitive, however it will all come together in a moment. I was talking with another blogger recently. He was finding that he was paying so much attention to conversations happening on other blogs that he wasn’t getting enough work done. He’d [...]

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7 Keys to an Extraordinary Blog

This is a guest post by Maren Kate, of Escapingthe9to5.com. There are millions upon millions of websites and blogs in the world, so in the beginning it can seem like there is an overwhelming chasm between your blog and true success. I struggled with the overwhelming nature of the blogosphere for awhile when I began [...]

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How A Blogger Made $10,449 Per Hour

As a reader of my site, you know that I am quite open about this fact: Blogs don’t make money. Businesses make money. And businesses sell things. Seems pretty simple, but most bloggers just fail to comprehend this one. They’ll chase the Adsense fairy for any loose change. To illustrate the alternative, and the truth [...]

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My New Theme Song? :-)

A couple months ago, I signed up for this little jingle. And today it was published. Here it is: What do you think? If you want one, you can sign up over at LoveJingles.com.

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You Can’t Build Relationships in 20 Minutes

This guest post is written by ZK. He blogs at WebTrafficROI . You can also follow him on Twitter. The other day I was talking to someone who found me via Twitter, he wanted to add me to Skype – and I said, why not? So I gave him my username to Skype. So we [...]

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Turning Strangers Into Twitter Followers

This is a guest post by Rezdwan Hamid. There are many ways to get followers on Twitter and there is one I find particularly effective. Nope, I don’t do that follow as many people as you can and hope they follow you back in return. I hate it when people do that.

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Why I Use Multiple Landing Pages [Reader Question]

When I relaunched The Twitter Manual on it’s own landing page, I was asked on Twitter why I used a separate landing page. The question posed by Brent (@function_ality) was: Why do you setup different url’s instead of putting these on DavidRisley.com site? I never understood this. He went on to say it dilutes my [...]

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