Last week I lost my blog; in fact, I lost two. Seems a bit careless, doesn’t it? But it wasn’t my fault. Here’s what happened. On Friday I posted to Get Paid To Write Online and everything was fine. On Saturday, my host had an unexpected maintenance timeout; on Sunday my sites were suspended. Not […]
Most bloggers like to change their blog theme from time-to-time to maintain a fresh look for visitors. Ideally, you’ll probably want to make major changes to your theme every 1 or 2 years and not constantly, but that is a topic for another discussion. If you use the most popular blogging platform, WordPress, you have
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The past two weeks I posted about SEO topics of Google Page Rank and using some older Best Practices when marketing your web site. I also want to give you a reminder of Rule #1 for blogging: Don’t forget your readers! One way for a blog to move up the search listing is to focus on a few keyword
About a week ago I opened my mailbox to discover a booklet of coupons from Ralph’s, the grocery chain that operates here in Southern California. About 24 pages long, the booklet was filled with coupons for “green” products like organic nuts and soy milk (and — ahem — bottled water). It was printed on hard-to-recycle
One of the biggest trends in technology today is increased seamlessness between all of the different tech tools that you use. VoIP technology is a main player in creating wireless seamlessness because it connects phone calls through your computer to let people reach you at home or on your cell phone via one number. And
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As a blogger, I’ve found a lot of inspiration for things I have written by reading the comments in the blogs that I read. I have learned a lot of new information from the commenters who keep up with the latest developments, and I have quickly learned who to listen to, and who typically gives
A big part of blogging is figuring out what to blog about, and blogging about what’s hot in your niche could increase your traffic and win you some Diggs and Stumbles. Would you like more readers? Then keep reading as I reveal four ways to discover popular content for your blog. 1. Browse Message Boards,
Over the past few years blogs have increased in popularity and there seems to be more and more multi-authored blogs popping up all over the place. These blogs that are run as a profit-making venture for the owners have drastically increased the demand for freelance bloggers. Although the opportunities are increasing, there is still a
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One of the issues that bloggers struggle with is getting traffic. There are two aspects to traffic we need to be concerned about: Quantity Quality Which do you think is more important of the two? If you were in a large, crowded room, and you shouted your message to everyone, how many people would be
If you’d prefer to keep on blogging, then this post is for you. There are several reasons why I maintain the blogs that I still have. Here are a few to be going on with. 1. Love Of The Topic I could talk and write about writing all day. That’s the main reason why I
