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3 Blogging Tips Written By YOU!
2007-08-31 08:34:00
Recently I did a post asking you to share your blogging tips. I decided that I would link to some of my favorites in a new post, and this is that post. Please do keep reading so you can gain mounds of knowledge! And after you’re finished with this post, I suggest to go back to the original one and read all the comments, including the ones that were still great but didn’t get added to this post. 1. Steven Snell’s tip is to focus on making your blog more valuable for your readers, instead of focusing on how much money they will make you. Put the readers first, and in turn they will be loyal and give back to you. I highly suggest reading Steven’s awesome post about putting your readers before yourself. 2. Link to other good articles in your niche. When you do speedlink posts or round-ups once a week and link out to fellow bloggers, it helps you and those you link to! The site Gather Little By Little shared this advice. It’s a Christian personal finance blo...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Google Reader
2007-08-30 11:56:00
I’m stupid. Very stupid. Do you know that I’ve never used a feed reader until a few days ago? It’s not that I didn’t know how to use one or didn’t even know what they were - I do. It’s just because I didn’t think it would be that helpful to me. I liked visiting sites, one by one, and checking out if they’ve got content for the day. Like I said, I’m stupid. But not anymore, because now I use Googl e Reader . And here’s why you should too: It’s organized. Google Reader is fantastic when it comes to organization. It’s simple, not flashy. All the blogs you’re subscribed to are in alphabetical order, of course. Basically, it’s just plain old organized. It’s anyone’s dream. You can “star” items. If you come across a post in your reader that you really like, you can click a little star beside the post. All posts that you star are saved in a section called ’starred posts’. ...
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Best of the Blogosphere Round-up #3
2007-08-29 12:48:00
I haven’t done one of these link posts in a while and lately I’ve been seeing a lot of great posts in my feed subscriptions. All these posts are pretty awesome, so check ‘em out! The Google Sandbox - Over at BloggingTips.com, Kelby Carr discusses the Google Sandbox. It’s something that has quite a few bloggers worried but it’s actually not that bad. If you haven’t heard of it or aren’t sure what it is, and especially if you’re a new blogger, this post is extremely helpful. WP Plugins you don’t want to miss - I always love posts that list Wordpress plugins because I usually find a new one that’ll help me out with my blog. All these plugins that Sandra listed are great ones, so I’d recommend you give this a look. How To Find Hidden Links In Your site - Court always has some new knowledge to share, and this post was a huge help, not only to me but many others as well. If you’re using a theme someone else has...
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4 Ways to Check Your Blog’s Health
2007-08-28 11:43:00
You work hard on writing new content for your blog, you reply to all your comments, you link out to other bloggers, you are always perfecting your design, and you try your hardest to get each post into the search engines. That’s fantastic and what makes a great blogger, so keep it up! But one other important thing is to know how healthy your blog is. This might sound silly, but it’s true! You need to check your SEO, meta tags, PageRank, social bookmarking stats, who you’re linking out to (not all sites are reputable), feed information, backlinks, website structure, and much more. All of this (and many other things) are important to maintain a healthy blog. If you want to improve your blog’s overall health, first you must learn where you stand. 1. Meta Tag Analysis - Having a good title, description, and keywords is extremely important for your SEO. Using this quick tool, you can make sure the sizes of all your meta information is right for the search engines....
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Write a Letter to Your Future Self
2007-08-27 11:11:00
Two days ago I came across a site called Future Me. You fill out a form with your email address, the subject of the message, the message body, and the date to send the email. You can also choose if it’s private or public (but anonymous). If it’s private, it won’t be added to the gallery of nameless emails that people have written to their future selfs (which you can go and read any time, they’re awfully interesting). If you don’t understand the point of the site, basically you go and write a message to yourself, and it will be delivered to your email on the date you set. For example, you can write a message today and have it sent to yourself in six months, a year, or even ten years from now. Future Me is fantastic and can be used for many things. You can write about awesome memories that you think you might forget, and have it sent to yourself. You can write your current expectations for how you hope to be in a certain amount of years, and after all tho...
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Adsense Isn’t Enough To Make Money Online
2007-08-26 11:51:00
When I first started my blog, I envisioned using Google Adsense , and only that, to make a very decent profit. But early on I learned that Adsense isn’t enough to make money online - in fact, it will probably be one of your lowest earners. Adsense was big in its day, but now it is slowly fading out of the picture as paid reviews and selling banners and text links come in and take its place. The majority of people avoid ads like the flu and don’t want anything to do with them, and most Adsense blocks stand out like a sore thumb. Only the very famous bloggers made a good income with Adsense, and even then, it’s not as much as you might hope for. With Adsense, you don’t earn that much per click and the ad block is taking up a huge amount of valuable space that you could be using for something else and making more money with. For example, if you have an Adsense banner in your sidebar, you could remove it and replace it with text link sales, which will benefit othe...
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Share Your Blogging Tips and Get a Free Link
2007-08-25 12:16:00
It’s a Saturday, and I’ve recently decided to make Saturdays days in which I can experiment, ask or provide open knowledge, and give back to readers. Today I have sort of combined all three. I am going to ask you to share one of your favorite blogging tips. It can be one of your own tips, or one you learned somewhere else and highly believe in. Before you comment and leave your one tip, I highly suggest you read all the tips others have left. This way you can learn plenty of new knowledge and also make sure you’re not posting a tip someone else has already mentioned. So what do you get back? First off, you’re teaching and helping others with what you know. Second, you automatically get a link to your own site attached to your name in your comment because this blog is DoFollow. THIRD, I will select some of my favorite tips from the bunch and collect them all together in a new post, and I will link once more to the people who submitted those tips. So what are y...
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Get A Free Banner on JohnChow.com!
2007-08-25 10:58:00
Do you know how much traffic and exposure you can get if your banner is shown on JohnChow.com? A LOT! Tim Schroeder of eMonetized is being extremely generous and giving four people the chance to have their own 125 x 125 banner ad shown on John Chow for free. Your can read more about his John Chow Banner Ad Contest Here. I think it’s definitely worth checking out - you have nothing to lose and in the end, you could come winning BIG TIME!
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The Importance of Having Your Site Reviewed
2007-08-24 12:02:00
A couple of days ago I was over at CourtneyTuttle.com and saw that he was having a very generous contest where you tell him a little about your site and then he will choose a winner and give them a free review. I thought I’d give it a shot, and I was very surprised when I went back to Court’s blog the next day and saw that I’d won! Click to read the review. I had noticed (and am still noticing) a great increase in traffic. The RSS subscribers count is already going up, but in the next few days I’m sure it’ll be even better. But not only am I getting traffic and subscribers from the review, I’m getting exposure. Having people know who you are and have a positive impression of you is very important if you hope to get anywhere. The point of this post is to tell you that it is important to have your site reviewed. Most of the time you’re going to have to pay for it, and I just got very lucky with Court’s extreme kindness. But even when you...
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John Chow Makes More Money With A New Theme
2007-08-23 14:11:00
It’s pretty big news about right now; John Chow ’s got a new design (created by Nate Whitehill). If you haven’t seen it yet, take a peek at the preview below: I really like the new theme. To be honest, the old one was bland and I often wondered how someone with so much money couldn’t come up with something better. But now the blog has a more professional feel. It is sharp, bright, and still very well organized - and all of that without being too flashy. Nate definitely did a good job, and he was smart to offer the design for free. Not only does he get a lot of exposure for it, but a link at the bottom of the site that appears on every single page! Oh yes, I believe I’m supposed to mention how John is making money with his new theme. Well, if you haven’t noticed, it does contain a lot more advertising. The eight sponsor buttons on the sidebar are all new and came with the new design. Each one of them cost $500 per month, according to Mr. Chow - now...
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A New Twist on Wordpress Contact Forms
2007-08-23 11:31:00
The form I’m using on my contact page is more unusual than you might think! It’s a contact form with a twist (and when I say twist, I mean new advantage). Today I’m going to tell you all about it, so if you’re on the lookout for a new contact form then you’re in luck. It’s called the Simple Wordpress Contact Form, and the plugin page can be found here. Like the name says, it’s very simple. Commentators can leave their name, email, link, and message. Then their message heads straight for your email inbox - but that’s not the only place it goes! The Simple Wordpress Contact Form doesn’t only deliver the message to your email, but it uses the Wordpress comments routine. A section is added to the comments part of your admin panel titled “Contact Messages”. If you can’t currently access your email or just don’t want to, then you can retrieve their message and read it within Wordpress! But if you want to reply...
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Get Exposure and Higher Rankings UNBELIEVABLY CHEAP!
2007-08-21 12:08:00
I always find those high prices of advertising on other blogs ridiculous. A hundred dollars for a review? Twenty bucks for a link in their sidebar that only lasts a week? It’s basically like they’re stealing your money. It can be downright hard to get visitors to your blog, especially if you’re new to the whole concept. And it’s even harder if everyone is charging insane prices to “help” - but really, they’re only thinking of making money for themselves. Super Blogging is now offering advertising for an unbelievably cheap price of only five dollars. It’s far from easy to get the amounts of traffic that you want, or even that high PageRank you dream of. Advertising on Super Blogging can help you with that, and the price is cheaper than any other out there. For only five dollars, your site will be listed in the “Recommended Sites” section of the sidebar with your choice of anchor text. Your link will remain there until Septem...
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Plan When You Post Before You Publish
2007-08-20 11:35:00
It’s not only important to plan what day of the week you post what on, but to plan what time you post as well. And both of these decisions aren’t the same for everyone; they depend on what niche your blog focuses on. I’ve been studying my blog’s traffic trends, and I noticed my highest traffic day is a Tuesday, the second highest is Thursday, and the day where the least amount of people come to this blog is Saturday. Knowing this information is very important, because with it I can plan when to post about certain topics to get the most out of them. For example, if I write a pillar post that I’ve worked really hard on, I would want to avoid posting it on the weekends when people are off the computers. Instead, it would be wise to publish the post on a Tuesday or Thursday, to get the highest benefit and exposure from it. To figure out your busiest and slowest days of the week, Stat Counter can be extremely handy, along with Google Analytics. Besides knowi...
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5 Handy Sites You Need To Know About
2007-08-19 12:05:00
I’ve composed my next list of five sites that you shouldn’t miss out on. For some more helpful sites you should be aware of, including a form-creator, keyword suggestion tool, and free icons, click here. With my lists of handy sites, I’m trying to bring attention to you tools that could make your life easier and better. Here we go… 1. StatCounter - If you have your own site, then this is perfect for you. You should be signed up for other statistic trackers such as Google Analytics (especially because all the information it provides), but this one is easy with no strings attached. Configure and put in an invisible (or even visible, if you want) tracker on your site, and you can login anytime and see how you’re doing. StatCounter is, like I said, simple. They offer graphs but don’t go into too much else detail. However, you want a variety of stats keepers to get a good idea, so if you’re using Google Analytics and nothing else, I recommend ...
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Will Guest Blogging Ruin Your Site?
2007-08-17 12:02:00
I recently saw a post on Kumiko’s blog titled All Guest Bloggers Must Die. As soon as I read the title I was instantly lured in. But although I do agree with some points Kumiko makes, I have to say that overall, I do disagree with her. Will guest blogging ruin your site? Kumiko thinks so, but I don’t. Many people agree that they only go to a blog for what its author has to say - and when you bring in the guest bloggers, that totally defies the purpose and takes away all pleasure of reading your blog. But is this really true? Not for me. Kevin has just gotten a team of authors together for his blog, and so far I love reading what each and every one of them has to say. Not only do all of his readers seem happy with the decision, but the authors get a chance for exposure on another blog and Kevin gets some well-deserved time off. The sole important thing is making sure that you get a decent guest blogger - not one that couldn’t care less. It’s true that people w...
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Converting Visitors Into Subscribers
2007-08-16 12:01:00
One of the biggest keys to creating a successful blog is gaining new subscribers (and of course retaining the ones you already have). Even a small increase in your conversion rate can really make a big difference. Here are 10 ways you can start increasing the number of readers that become subscribers. 1 – Write quality content The best way to convert readers to subscribers is simply by providing content that they know they will want to read on a regular basis. Give them information that can’t find anywhere else and you’ll have no problem gaining new subscribers. 2 – Ask for the subscription You may be surprised at how much you can increase your subscriber numbers by simply asking for the subscription. 3 – Make your subscription link prominent on every page Visitors should easily see your subscription link as soon as they enter any of your pages. Many bloggers use the top of the sidebar for the placement of this link. Wherever it will attract your readers attention is where...
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Unclutter Your Sidebar
2007-08-15 11:55:00
A cluttered sidebar is a big turnoff to your readers. If there is too much in your sidebar, irrelevant items, and especially if the visitor cannot locate what they’re looking for, then you’re in trouble. Today I’m challenging you to just one simple thing: clean out your sidebar (or at least add it to your to-do list). Step one: Clean out your blogroll. Narrow it down to only a few sites that you think are fantastic and definitely shouldn’t be removed. If you’ve link exchanged with anyone, let them know if you’re removing their link. Not everyone does this but I think it’s polite. Your blog should be less of a mess already, and you’re also saving some of your Google juice by removing all those outgoing links! Step two: Remove other irrelevant links, banners, and affiliate images. If you have a big image showing off your PageRank, it’s only in the way. Not that many people are interested in how your page is ranked except for future...
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Create Some Controversy and Voice Your Own Opinion
2007-08-14 11:59:00
You want everyone to like your blog. Therefore, you’re afraid to disagree. You don’t want to voice your own opinion when it could possibly go against what another (maybe even more popular) blogger thinks. You want to become an a-lister, but yet you’re afraid to stand out. If this sounds like you, keep reading. Nowadays it seems there are more “rules” that bloggers have to conform to, more molds to shape their blogs. But in reality, there are no rules. Your blog can be whatever you want it to be. And nowadays it seems even more bloggers, especially the new ones, are being intimidated by the more successful bloggers. Many bloggers fall behind in the shadows and are never noticed because they’re too afraid. DON’T be afraid to do something with your blog that is out of the norm! When Kumiko removed comments from her blog, she got a lot of crap from people telling her that a blog isn’t a blog without comments. I used to think like that, but...
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3 Reasons Why People Like List Posts More
2007-08-13 15:09:00
Before I talked about why you should write a pillar post. The content of pillar posts is often put into list format, but pillar posts are also a whole lot longer and their content should usually be timeless. Pillar posts in the form of lists are a lot more popular and successful. In fact, any kind of list post, long or short, is more popular overall. People like lists more! You might be wondering why, and if you are, I have some answers. People are lazy. You know it’s true. I’m very lazy, and I can safely bet that you are to at least some extent. Everyone is. And since people are lazy, they often scan posts. Who wants to read a post full of huge, chunky paragraphs? People much more prefer to be able to read a list, which they can skim through easily while still taking in all of what you’ve written. List s are more organized. With a list post, your blog looks clean, organized, and professional. And again, I can make a safe bet: Most people will like reading a blog ...
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Advertising: Cut Out the Middle Man and Make More Money
2007-08-13 12:11:00
When you use other programs like Smorty, PayPerPost, and ReviewMe, you’re either following someone else’s strict rules, having a huge percentage of your earnings taken from you, or hardly making anything at all in the first place. Why let some company control your advertising, reviews sales, AND how much you’re paid for it? My advice: cut out the middle man. Basically, that means that you shouldn’t use these other programs (or at least, they shouldn’t be all you use). What you SHOULD do is set up your own advertising system. Set up a contact or payment form and offer links for sale at the top of your sidebar. Do a review system where you offer to review a person’s site and create a buzz and get traffic for them, for a set price. When you use ReviewMe, they take half of the money you make and put it in their own pockets. Think about it: with your reviews and advertising, you could be making twice as much! So instead of relying on those money-hungry...
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Become a Bookmark and an Authority in One Post
2007-08-12 15:17:00
By no means am I new to blogging, I’m certainly new to writing about blogging so don’t feel like I have to write about the same things over and over again (not sure how long that’ll last). One thing I did notice recently in that 1 Post I received 12 comments when I normally didn’t have any, most of those saying they bookmarked the post and because the subject of the post was very general to my niche I’m now seen as more of an authority. So, what did I write about? Well the answer is simple…I wrote a list. The list I wrote was regarding the best blog posts ever written in my niche, and you can do exactly the same for your niche. Don’t cringe at the thought of giving away all that ‘link love’. Your site is for your readers first and search engines second. If you know that you are going to raise your own status and provide tremendous value for your website visitors then who cares about search engines? They will probably still rank ...
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Become A Super Blogging Contributor INSTANTLY!
2007-08-12 12:12:00
All right, I’m going to get to the point… Earlier I spoke about the opportunity of guest blogging for Super Blogging readers. Now I’d like to do it the easier way, and let you sign up to be a contributor of this blog yourself. Are you up to the challenge? Heh, sorry, it’s just a little more exciting to word it that way. So here’s the details: If you have the guts, you can register on this blog. Then you can go write an article, assign its proper category (or categories), give it its keywords, etc. After you’re completely finished with your article, you can save it. I will be going through these saved posts and when there is one that has been well proofread and isn’t a topic I already discuss too regularly, it will be posted. The article has to be about, of course, one of Super Blogging’s topics (blogging tips, making money online, search engine optimization, exposure, internet marketing, traffic generation, and lots more). Don’t...
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ProBlogger Has A New Design (And I Do, Too!)
2007-08-11 19:11:00
Darren Rowse said that ProBlogger would be getting a new design, and now the theme is here. I have to say, I love it! The new layout is cleaner, more organized, easier to read, and all around fantastic. Click here to read the post about the theme’s official launch, and do check out the layout for yourself… I think it’s excellent. Anyway, this is something I connect to. As you might have noticed, in the sidebar I’ve been polling whether my readers think this blog needs a new theme or not. This one isn’t that old (a couple months), but I’m a person that gets tired of things awfully fast. And most of you agree, because many are voting that yes, Super Blogging needs a new layout. So I’ve done it. There’s currently a new design on this blog and I like it a lot. It comes with three colors - you can select between red, green, and blue. It also has three sidebars, which might turn out to be very useful. I’m not sure if this theme is go...
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More People Use StumbleUpon Than I Thought
2007-08-07 12:44:00
Previously I wrote about my success with StumbleUpon. I realized how powerful StumbleUpon is as a source for generating traffic, and how they’re ten times as great when you write a StumbleUpon perfect article (which in my case was a short list containing five items about helpful sites. When your article is rated a thumbs up, dozens, hundreds, and even in some cases thousands of people can stumble upon it. The more people rate your article a thumbs up, the more people it is exposed to. This makes StumbleUpon a very helpful resource for all bloggers. Not only can you use it for increasing your income of traffic, but if you ever get bored or need some inspiration, you can check out some other random sites of your interests. But recently I conducted a poll on this blog asking if people used StumbleUpon or not. A whopping 38 people said yes, and just 5 said no. And then again, 3 people didn’t know what StumbleUpon is. Of course, my blog is more aimed to the types of people wh...
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Your Blog Can Be Whatever You Want It To Be
2007-08-05 11:55:00
I used to have rules set in my head about what a blog was, and so many people are misled by what others claim a blog is, and how one should be run. But I now have branched out a little more and realized that I can do what I want and not be afraid that others won’t approve or that my blog will suffer for what I’ve done. Because a blog is personal, a blog is whatever you want it to be. After Kumiko from Cash Quests removed comments from her blog, she posted about how many people said ‘a blog isn’t a blog without comments’ or some variation of that. Kumiko says that that is chaining yourself to a level of thinking that will never get you to success. I used to be like that - a blog isn’t a blog without comments - but now I realize that if you want to stand out and if you want to make your blog truly yours, you can’t be afraid of what other people think and say. You can’t chain yourself down to a small set of rules. You don’t always h...
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Why You Should Write a Pillar Post
2007-08-03 10:47:00
What is a pillar post? A pillar post is a post that is very long, instructional, and is usually a list (or at least that’s what I like to call it). A pillar post can take many, many hours and up to days to write, but they are definitely worth it. On July 18 I published a post called 75 Ways to Increase Your Site’s Traffic. I like to refer to it as a pillar post. It is a list of 75 items and is instructional, telling you how to get more traffic to your site or blog. You should write one because people love posts like that. They can get so much from it and they can tell you are very serious about what you’re doing. I’ve gotten more comments on that post than any other, and also more people have linked to it. Pillar posts are not hard to write. No matter what your niche, a pillar post cannot be very hard to write, or even to come up with an idea for one. True, they might take awhile, but they aren’t hard. For my pillar post, I chose a very general topic in...
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So You Want to Guest Blog?
2007-07-30 12:04:00
I think it’s about time I find a few people who are willing to guest blog for Super Blog ging. I have been leaving gaps in my blog because I haven’t been able to post everyday, and I need someone to fill them. I think guest blogging would be the perfect opportunity for you and for me. It’s something I’ve never offered before and something I’ve never even done myself. If you’re wondering what you’d get out of it, then there are good benefits. Your writing and name will be up on another blog for more exposure to you, and I will give you a link back for writing for me. And if I like your writing style enough and I think you’d be a great addition to this blog every once and a while, I could make you a regular author if you wanted. I don’t ask much - only what should be expected. That you write in English is, of course, a must. I also ask that you proofread and have proper grammar, and that your post is not published anywhere else. It ...
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Don’t Waste Your Life Blogging
2007-07-28 13:08:00
I have realized something, and what I have realized is that I spend too much time online. I am constantly checking on my stats, looking at my blog, and dreaming up ways to make more money online. I get so wrapped up in blogging and what I’m doing that I hardly do other things offline. I don’t spend enough time with my family. I don’t work on other, more important things that I should be doing, or even other things that I enjoy doing. And the thing is, even when I am online, I’m usually just wasting my time by browsing or staring in my stats when they haven’t changed since five minutes ago. If I do decide to spend all my life on the internet, I should at least spend it writing good quality content. But I’ve decided not to waste my life. I don’t know about you, but I think spending time with my family and focusing on other things can be much more important. If I’m going to give you one piece of advice, I’ll tell you not let it cont...
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Get Ready for the Upcoming PageRank Update
2007-07-26 12:06:00
If you haven’t already started thinking about the upcoming PageRank update, you’d better start. The higher your PageRank, the more authority your site has and the more money you can make. Today I will go over PageRank, what it is, how to improve yours, and how to make money from it. What is PageRank? PageRank is basically calculated using links, and there are three major parts to how it is measured. Those include the number of pages linking to the site and the PageRank of those pages. The number of outgoing links in your site also plays a role in your PageRank. The more sites you link to, the more of your PageRank “juice” you are giving away. The more sites that link to you, the better your PageRank will be. If those sites that link to you have high PageRanks, then your rankings will be even better. Take a look at the diagram below to help you understand. Improving your PageRank Improving your PageRank is not hard at all, especially if you’re dedicated...
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Dealing with Writer’s Block
2007-07-23 12:03:00
I’ve recently been dealing with writer’s block along with being busy with a lot of other things, and I confess, it’s gotten to me. Writer’s block (and maybe a fraction of laziness) has caused me to miss some days posting. I’ve had absolutely no ideas, and even the list of a few ideas I had written down seemed like they wouldn’t make good posts to me. Hopefully I’m getting over my short burst of writer’s block, but if this ever happens to you, here are a few tips to avoid the block. Keep a list of your post ideas. Your list can be kept in a Word document on the computer, or the old-fashioned way on paper. I keep my list of post ideas in a binder. I have bad habit of coming up with a good idea for a post and then forgetting it later on, so the list I’m keeping is usually such a huge help to me. Whenever you get an idea for a post, write its description or a potential post title if you think of one. And then later, when you need to...
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