A lot of people want to start a blog and make money. If you ask people, they will tell you that the blog market is saturated, and you can't make money. Lies. "If you have a blog about smurfs, smurf if up." - Gary...
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This May Be The Most Valuable Thing You Own In 5 Years
DAMMIT! I had done it again! I went on an epic vacation with my family and never posted about it on my blog. Years ago I used to diligently post everything that happened to me, and you know what’s awesome about that?...
23 Things That You Can Do To Get Your Blog Post Seen Everywhere
Traffic seems to be the one thing that people obsess over the most when it comes to blogging. In fact, it's probably one of the biggest reasons people give for why they don't start blogging. They're afraid no one will...
Choosing the Right Options and Settings for Your WordPress Blog
Do you want your blog to be indexed by search engines or you simply want to keep it as a private affair? Wanna add www to your site or rather prefer to use a non-www version? Well, the requirements and preferences of...
How to Leverage Your Assets to Build Your Blog Audience
There is a special name for folks who start a blog and expect it to flourish in a matter of days. They are called disappointed people. What's wrong? I posted my blog to Facebook and Twitter. I used a clever hashtag and...
Beginner’s Guide to Setting up a Self-hosted WordPress Blog
Over the last decade or so, blogging has emerged as a promising career option and many bloggers have adopted it as a full time profession making a decent living out of it. Business entities big and small alike are...
How to Find the Best Affiliate Products to Promote On Your Blog
Many bloggers hope to become millionaires from affiliate marketing. This is a realistic goal, but unfortunately few marketers ever reach that dream. A recent survey from last year’s Affiliate Summit found that nearly...
Stop Blogging in a Vacuum: How to Increase Engagement
You know those motivational posters your middle school teachers had plastered all over their classrooms? The ones that featured a set of whales leaping out of the ocean with the caption, “TEAMWORK” and included a...
How to Get Out of a Blogging Rut When You Are Feeling Stuck
Anyone who writes a blog for an extended period of time hits a point where they feel as though they’ve run out of words (or a blogging rut). We work so hard to create engaging content and build an audience. We gain...
Blog Security 101 – Part 1
There is no doubt that WordPress is the most popular web application for building a presence on the Internet. Currently, there are over 74 million web sites using WordPress and that number makes up a staggering 18.9...