There Are No Shortcuts to Success

Whenever I log in to Facebook nowadays, I get a distinct sense of déjà vu. It’s the same old stuff every day. This is particularly true with the images and videos that are shared. It usually goes like this: an image is shared, a few days later it is shared …

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The Robots.txt File

The Robots.txt file controls what search engines and archivers can and can’t access on your website when they visit. It’s formally known as ‘The Robots Exclusion Protocol’ however most webmasters simply refer to it by its file name. Rogue archivers don’t adhere to the rules you set however all reliable …

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Recommended Webmaster Resources

This section lists recommended webmaster resources that I actively use, or have used in the past, in order to make money through the web. For a more complete list of resources, please check out the main Webmaster Resources page. WordPress WordPress The best content management system in the world. WordPress …

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The first few hundred subscribers are the hardest

The First Few Hundred Subscribers are the Hardest

Whenever I gave advice to new bloggers about promoting their blog I always told them that ‘The first few hundred subscribers are the hardest’. This is something I have believed for years and something which I believe still holds true today. It can be very infuriating at the beginning of …

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A Quick Update

It’s been about six weeks since I’ve last gave an update on my online work. During that time I’ve primarily been working on my new site WP Mods. I did a guest post at JohnChow.com about making money at Flippa and one at SiteSketch101 about developing a business model for …

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Bloggers Needed For Blogging Advice Blog

I am looking for some good writers for my blogging advice website BloggingTips.com, a 2 year old blogging blog which currently has around 4,000 daily subscribers. The bloggers will be expected to write a blog post on a specific day and time every week. Authors are allowed to post a …

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Twit vs Twat

A week ago , popular blogger and online market Jim Kukral launching a marketing experiment called TwitterMeThis. Basically, TwitterMeThis is an experiment by Jim to see how the Twitter media can be used. He has asked people to follow the TwitterMeThis account at Twitter and periodically he asks his followers …

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Should you stumble yourself?

A few days ago Susan Gunelius from Women On Business wrote a post on BloggingTips called ‘Paying for Diggs and Stumbles‘ The post talked about a new site called Subvert & Profit, a site where you can pay for diggs and stumbles, and spoke about whether this kind of thing …

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Script hunting for food and water

In the last two weeks I have spent a lot of time emailing companies to arrange partnerships for games and affililiation with my poker forums. I quickly realised how time consuming emailing can be – you take the time to write the email, they reply not answering some of the …

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