Blogging

A Blogger’s Checklist for Guest Posting On Other Blogs

Writing guest posts on other blogs is just plain smart. It exposes you to other audiences and does help grow your blog’s traffic. But, how should you approach doing it?

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Should Bloggers Feel Guilty For Making Money?

Obviously, I like to make money as a blogger (and I do). I also love to show others how to do it. But, one theme I have been seeing several bloggers make is that they feel a bit bad about selling anything on their blog. As if it cheapens the site. But, is there legitimacy [...]

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Ninja Plug-in for Affiliate Marketing on Your Blog

One of the popular ways to generate revenue with your blog is through affiliate marketing. By linking to relevant products in your blog content, you can potentially made very good money if people buy those products via your link. But, affiliate links can be long and ugly. How can you best deal with this on [...]

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11 Awesome WordPress Plug-In’s You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

One of the best things about WordPress is the multitude of plug-ins available for it. The library is so vast and spread out, though, that often there are some really great plug-ins that might not cross your radar. I’ve run across a few and thought I would mention them. I use each of these on [...]

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Pro Bloggers: Beware!

Yesterday, I saw a really interesting post over on Web Fugitive which contained a warning to bloggers about the bankruptcy of the Chicago Tribune. Here’s the premise: Traditional media are losing their shorts due to the paradigm shift brought on by the Internet plus the economic recession. More and more career reporters will be losing [...]

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Busy Blogger on The Go – Blogging From Anywhere

The picture above was taken while enjoying a cup of coffee up on top of the Space Needle in Seattle. While I was up there, I was able to send some tweets, check my email and record a video. And yes, the coffee was a key ingredient to the equation. One of my absolute favorite [...]

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My Favorite Bullcrap User Comment Of The Week

As a blogger, I deal with user comments all the time. All bloggers want comments, of course. Once your blog is getting any traffic, it will usually become the target of comment spam. I moderate comments on my sites just to make sure spam doesn’t get through. I also use the Akismet spam filter which [...]

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50 Rapid Fire Tips For Power Blogging

I have been blogging for a living for many years now. I’ve learned a lot and, today, I wanted to throw out a bunch of quick tips in rapid succession. The goals here are (1) get lots of traffic to your blog and (2) earn money with it. OK, here we go (in no particular [...]

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How Much Work is Being a Professional Blogger?

As another part of my wife’s interview of me this week had to do with how much I work. She said in her post: I guess one of the downsides of having a spouse as an entrepreneur is that he works a lot.  Forget 9 to 5, it’s more like 8 to 10 with food [...]

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Bloggers: It’s Important To Be Yourself

I had an interesting conversation with my wife a few days ago. She is starting up a new blog, but she wanted to maintain her anonymity. She wasn’t going to hide her name, but she didn’t want to be herself. She wanted to put forth an image that wasn’t really her. It got me thinking [...]

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