100 Rules For Bloggers #5 – Don’t Be a Jerk To Your Readers

December 10, 2008

Rules For Bloggers #5: Seems like some bloggers make the mistake of berating or getting into childish name calling arguments with other bloggers or commenters.  Don’t poke fun at other people or their blogs, no matter how crappy they or their ideas might be.  Provide constructive comments and ways they could improve. If your blog [...]

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Why This Site Has Few Ads

December 9, 2008

Or Articles Hard Selling Affiliate Programs For That Matter… This is a fairly new site, and so far there aren’t a ton of articles.  But even then, maybe something about this blog caught your eye and made you look twice.  Something about it is odd and different from 95% of the blogs out there. There [...]

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100 Rules For Bloggers – #4 – Don’t Write About Making Money Online if You’re Not.

December 8, 2008

Rules For Bloggers #4: Don’t blog about how to make money online if you’re not actually making money online. I think lots of people were “squeezed” out of $47 on their credit card, downloaded an eBook and learned (erroneously, I might add) that Clickbank product review blogs would make you rich.  Tossing up a blog [...]

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100 Rules For Bloggers – #3 – Avoid Adsense Ads On New Blogs.

December 7, 2008

Rules For Bloggers #3: I run into this one all the time.  Someone has an obviously new blog, likely has less than three months worth of posts, high Alexa rank, low or no Google Page rank, yet their blog is covered with Adsense ads. People (at least real people) don’t click on Google Adsense ads [...]

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100 Rules For Bloggers – #2 – Don’t Post For Pay Unless it Fits Your Blog EXACTLY.

December 6, 2008

Rules For Bloggers #2: All too often I’ll go on a little web surfing journey through the blogosphere.  Maybe I’m trolling BlogCatalog, or tapping EntreCards, or Stumbling, and in the middle of someone’s parenting blog about their family life will be a post like this: “Are you plagued by PC Error Codes friend?  Maybe like [...]

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100 Rules For Bloggers #1 – Don’t Apologize For Not Posting in a While.

December 5, 2008

Rules For Bloggers #1: Don’t apologize for not posting in a while. Unless you have 500+ subscribers to your blog, very likely no one cares and nothing is more sad than someone saying they are sorry to the Internet.  And if you have more than 500 subscribers to your blog, you have far better things [...]

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Why It’s Hard To Make Decent Money Online.

December 4, 2008

Imagine you are a typical American worker.  Or don’t bother imagining, since if you’re reading this, you very likely are already a typical American worker. You make $615 per week, which works out to around $32,000 per year, generally accepted as the average annual salary for an average American worker.   Sure, there are huge variations [...]

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Beware the Free BS Affiliate.

December 3, 2008

“I make $5000 a month affiliate marketing, and here is how I do it!” In this case, BS stands for Bullsh*t.  And I’m calling all you people on it. You see a lot of this kind of crap on the most popular affiliate forums (like Digital Point) and blog promotion sites (BlogCatalog and the like), [...]

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Drupal, Clean URL and GoDaddy – An Actual Simple Solution

December 2, 2008

If you want to use Clean URL with Drupal on GoDaddy hosting when using any sort of virtual or shared hosting account (one where you can share multiple URL’s on one virtual or Deluxe hosting account using different domains mapped to different directories), do this: In the GoDaddy File Manager, go to the Directory for [...]

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Be Very Careful of Affiliate Arbitrage!

December 1, 2008

Folks, those of you that read my Affiliate Arbitrage post the other day about how to use PPC to reach a higher tier on an affiliate program, BE CAREFUL!  It’s very easy to lose hundreds of dollars if you aren’t careful and don’t put strict limits on your daily ad spends! I have a good [...]

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