Why We Should Not Write Guest Posts for Free

Everyone knows that guest posts are a great source of traffic. Many top bloggers, such as Bamidele Onibalusi, have established themselves solely through successful guest post campaigns. It’s a tried and tested way of getting traffic to your blog or website. I’m sure you are already aware of the benefits …

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Single Opt-In vs Double Opt-in

All email marketers will to have at least once decide whether to use a single opt-in or double opt-in for their email lists. A single opt-in means that once a visitor enters their email address into your subscription form and clicks the sign up button they are automatically on your …

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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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Blogging With John Chow

If you’ve ever searched for the term ‘Making Money Online’, you’ll know who John Chow is. John was one of the first people to make a personal blog profitable and within two years of launching it he was making $40,000 a month. What a lot of people don’t realise is …

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Buying sites at Flippa

I traded websites for years at the SitePoint Marketplace and have continued to use their new site Flippa once they moved most of their services there. It remains the best place available to buy and sell websites. I’ve found it really difficult to sell domains there though you can sell …

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iMac 27″ Joy

Yesterday I mentioned my intention of getting a new computer. I really wanted to get the Apple iMac 27″ with i7 processor but was put off by reports of flickering and my the 3-4 weeks to ship the machine. I looked at lots of different setups in the meantime including …

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I sold BloggingTips

The other day I sold BloggingTips.com, one of my main sites and one which I have founded close to 3 years ago. I listed the site for just before Christmas though the auction only ended at the start of this week. I was happy with the sale. Not only did …

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Companies are sneaky with their terms and conditions

It’s no surprise to many of you that companies are incredibly sneaky with what they put in their terms and conditions. They commonly advertise something for free and then put a small asterisk (*) at the end. The asterisk refers to a note at the bottom of the page which …

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The story of Anand Ramnath Mani

Me and a friend have been on the lookout for a good domain name recently to start an online shop. The topic of trademarking came up because we found so many domains for sale which were using copyrighted names (this was particuarly bad with gambling related names). I recalled the …

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