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11 Affordable Blog Web Hosting Providers For Beginners

September 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Web Hosting Providers For Beginners

It seems more and more people are starting their own blogs. Or at least I’m getting more and more emails asking if I can refer an affordable blog web hosting provider. Over the years, I’ve used many web hosting providers. Some good, many were not. In the early years I’m sure it was because I went with the cheapest web hosting provider or used the free web host. You know the kind, the ones that put a gazillion banner ads on your site because they were letting you use their service for free!

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Tags: Blogs

What Do You Want To Know About Affiliate Marketing?

August 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments

I’m currently working on several huge affiliate marketing articles that will take a while to write so I’m thinking of doing some smaller blog post for now.

I’d like to take this time between writing the big articles and ask my readers what they would like to know more about concerning affiliate marketing or Internet Marketing.

So if there’s been a question you need the answer to or you need some help to get over a hump, let me know, I’ll write a blog post or reply in the comments if I can help. Chances are if you’re having a problem or have a question, someone else is having it also.

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Tags: Commentary

Local Blogs Are The Ultimate Niche

June 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Learn How To Build Niche Sites

I’ve said it before, as have others, that local search will be the hot niche of the future. So far only a few bloggers have capitalized on this in their area. They’ll be sitting pretty by the time other bloggers figure this one out.

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Tags: Blogging

How Long Should A Blog Post Be

May 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

How long should a blog post be? Ever since I started blogging a few years ago, that is one of the questions new bloggers have asked. The blog Guru’s will tell you that blog post need to be short. The theory is that if you make longer post, the reader will get bored and leave your site.

It has always been said that Internet users have short attention spans. That’s still true for the most part.

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Tags: Blogging

Is Adsense Still A Good Choice To Monetize Blogs?

May 12th, 2008 · 11 Comments

For many new bloggers, they invision having a custom made blog theme all decked out with the latest colors and graphics with the coolest plugins and a RSS subscriber base numbering in the 5 digits. Many also imagine raking in thousands of dollars per month by monetizing a blog with Adsense.

These illusions are quickly shattered when they see their Adsense accounts with .05 and .20 cents per click and a CTR of 1%. It doesn’t take the newbie blogger long to realize that their dream of living of off Adsense income isn’t a reality.

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Tags: Adsense

Are Do-Follow Bloggers Dishonest?

February 5th, 2008 · 56 Comments

Do-Follow List

do follow listThis post has been a long time in coming. I guess you could say that I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it no more.

I spent about an hour and a half this morning browsing the do-follow list and leaving comments on several blogs. So what’s the problem? Many of the comments sections on those blogs using the do-follow list still have the “nofollow” attribute.

What’s The Do-Follow List?

The do-follow list is a list of bloggers who have removed the “nofollow” attribute from their comments so that the links left by Commenters are “nofollow” and will be followed by Google.

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Tags: Blogging