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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I find myself treading water lately as I try to pick up traffic and more affiliate revenue. I have seen for years now that if I take solid action towards increasing my income that it takes a month or [...]
Moving from Movable type to Wordpress
I just read an article on Problogger about a fellows bad experience moving from Movable Type to Wordpress. The problem was not the data move but the names of the posts.
Last fall I moved nearly all of my blogs from Movable Type to Wordpress and it did go fairly smoothly although I did have a [...]
Optimizing Blog Posts
I use Google Analytics and so today I am looking at some of my worst performing pages, you know some of your pages will get 100 or more visits a day but other pages get 0 or maybe 1 pageview a week.
I set up my Google Analytics view so that I could see the number [...]
Writing blog posts
I have no problem writing blog posts. I kind of look at a blog post as a bit of conversation that I m having but just in my own head. Many other people I find though seem to have a lot of trouble getting started. There are all sorts of reasons that people can not [...]
Wordpress 2.5
I am not sure how I missed this yesterday but Wordpress has been updated to version 2.5. The new version of wordpress adds lots of new features but is a real departure from what you are used to.
As an internet marketer you may want to wait until next weekend or a slow night this week [...]
Zemanta adds content to your blog posts
Do you write dry content? I know that i have been accused of just that in the past. I just found a free Firefox plugin called Zemanta that adds a bit of a sidebar applet to your Wordpress Write window that gives you one click access to adding pictures and links to articles. On a [...]
What are you giving to your readers
I often think that I educate in my posts but not always. I just read a post by Liz at Successful Blog that really brings me back to adding value for blog readers.
Liz says rightly that (and I really paraphrase here) that you need to give more of yourself to your readers and give them [...]
Adding Do Follow to all comments
I have just today added a do follow plugin so that all comments that I approve will be adding quality to the sites of the comment posters. I get shit for traffic anyway and I think that anyone that adds content to this blog deserves to get something for it.
Dave Naylor was just commenting today [...]
Building traffic by posting blog comments
The best way to build your traffic cheap and fast is buy posting in forums and making blog comments on blogs. There are two problems with blog comments for most people and these problems are actually an opportunity for you to be a commenting machine while at the same time getting ideas for new blog [...]
Why you don’t want to blog about celebrities
One of the worst tendencies that I have is to jump into projects that are not very well thought out and very difficult to win at. I have tried some Amazon stores some Clickbank malls and even some crazy RSSG schemes to create huge sites that are not very original and quite spammy while I [...]
