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Should You Copyright Your Content?

We should all copyright our content….shouldn’t we? For most content producers, this isn’t something that is ever even considered. Of course we copyright our content, we wrote it and we don’t want anyone to steal it. Right? Not everyone thinks this way. Zen Habits founder Leo Babauta has an interesting …

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You Need to Write About Topics That Interest You

In the past I have spoke a lot about being passionate about the subject you write about. I was thinking about this the other day as a lot of you had mentioned in comments that you would love to see me write more travel related posts. I’ve been reluctant to …

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Searching for Jesus in Rio de Janeiro

Rio is a city I had wanted to visit for a long time. It didn’t disappoint. Me and my girlfriend touched down at 7am on 1st January. We then got the bus to the world famous Copacabana. It wasn’t what I expected. It looked like a bomb had been detonated. …

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How to Redirect Your 404 Errors to Your Home Page

Last month I showed you how you can redirect your old WordPress permalink structure to /%postname%/. Today I’d like to show you a much simpler snippet of code that helps redirect all 404 not found error messages to your home page. This can be useful if you have a small …

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Never Purchase the Twitter Upgrade from Flippa

A week or so ago I wrote an article which explained all the Flippa upgrades that are available to sellers. In the article I expressed my concerns that they had artificially inflated their follower count by following thousands of people themselves. I’ve purchased the Twitter upgrade in the past but …

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HostGator Shuts Down Safe Swaps

A few weeks ago I spoke about the service Safe Swaps in my article Building Your Email List with Solo Ads. Safe Swaps is paid service that allows marketers to buy, sell and swap advertisements for their email lists. In total I had paid for 4 solo ads to go …

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Why I’m Publishing My Upcoming Book Through Amazon

The development of my forthcoming book ‘The Art of Freelance Blogging’ has been stalled for close to a month now. I had been thinking of writing a book on freelancing blogging for a long time but I didn’t start working on it until late November 2012. After writing about 13,000 …

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A Great Related Posts Plugin for WordPress

A related posts section is a great way of keeping visitors on your website. I’ve added a related posts section to every one of my blogs in the past but I hadn’t got round to adding one here therefore over the last few days I’ve been looking for a good …

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An Interview with Chris Guthrie

Those of you who are involved in the internet marketing niche may have heard of Chris Guthrie. Chris is widely known for his experience with the Amazon affiliate program. He’s made a huge amount of money with Amazon over the last few years and has a successful book on the …

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Create Columns in Your Posts & Pages with Column Shortcodes

I came across a fantastic little plugin recently for WordPress entitled Column Shortcodes. Developed by CodePress, the plugin allows you to easily organise your content into columns on your page. Content can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths or sixths. You can also use two-thirds, three-quarters, three fifths etc. …

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