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August 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

September 1, 2010
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A new month has arrived and that means it’s time to look back and see how August went for TechPatio.com in terms of traffic and money. I was on a two week vacation in August so I didn’t really have much time to write content and do the usual marketing, but thanks to a bunch [...]

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CommentLuv – A Link Builders Dream Or The Latest Waste of Time?

August 27, 2010
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First off I’d like to say I have never used comment spam, and I never plan to, I will admit that I have partaken in some forum spamming in my early days, before I seen the light. Matt Cutts and Google decided that they wanted to put a stop to this spam and the nofollow [...]

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See How Easily Video Cash Is Made [YouTube]

August 7, 2010
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If there’s one thing I hear all the time about making an income with video, it’s that it’s too HARD. Too time-consuming, difficult, expensive… Listen up friend: THAT IS SO 2005! Take Gideon Shalwick for instance. He cranks out cool videos pretty much as fast as he can think. These clips often get thousands of [...]

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YouTube Can Make You Money? Who Knew!

August 6, 2010
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How many videos have you watched today? How about YouTube videos? If you do ANYTHING online, you cannot help but watch at least a few YouTube videos daily. But did you know there’s a way to make money off of YouTube? And NO – you don’t need a channel with millions of views every month, [...]

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July 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

August 1, 2010
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I don’t know what happened in July, but the numbers are pretty amazing! Since it’s Summer and with a few major sporting events going on (one ended July 11th, the World Cup in football), I figured that people would either watch TV or be away on vacation – not read blogs. But for some reason, [...]

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Top 3 Search Engine Optimization Tips for Beginners

July 26, 2010
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If you’re a newborn webmaster/blogger or you don’t have much clue about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) yet, this is for you. However, if you’re already experienced in that field, this article will not learn you anything new. But since so many new website owners enters the Internet each day, it’s important to continue to educate [...]

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70,000 Blogs Mysteriously Disappears From The Internet

July 21, 2010
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70,000 blogs suddenly disappeared from the Internet on July 9th when hosting company BurstNet, without warning, decided to pull the plug on the popular blogging platform Blogetery.com. For some reason, BurstNet didn’t provide an official statement until now and apparently FBI contacted BurstNet saying that they found Al-Qaeda related material on Blogetery.com, such as how [...]

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June 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

July 1, 2010
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12 months. One year. That’s how old TechPatio.com is right about now. It doesn’t feel like one full year just went by, but nevertheless, that’s what the calendar says. I will write more about that in another blog post, in the near future. But now it’s about last month, June, and how TechPatio did when [...]

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10 Essential WordPress Plugins for Affiliate Marketers

June 7, 2010
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WordPress has garnered much love from the blog community for its ease of installation, ease of configuration, and ease of modification. Many sites are even starting to use it as a content-management system (CMS) to drive the entire site, not just the blog or news portions. The power of WordPress really shines when you begin [...]

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May 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

June 4, 2010
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Welcome to yet another edition of my monthly income & traffic reports. In these reports I try to show you what can be achieved by one person running a blog, in terms of visitors, pageviews and income from certain programs such as the widely popular Google AdSense but also MyLikes for Twitter, especially if you’ve [...]

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April 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

May 1, 2010
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This is going to be a short income report, as I don’t have much time to “evaluate” on the previous month, at this time. So I’m just going to give you the numbers and a little comment below the table. I hope all of you had a great April and if you’re blogger/webmaster, that you [...]

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Teraffics Review – A Possible Scam?

April 30, 2010
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I suppose the “scam” title caught your interest, didn’t it? I also suppose you’re here because you’ve heard about Teraffics, maybe even considering them, and was wondering whether it’s a scam or not. Well, I can’t say conclusive if they are a scam – I don’t think they are. But, I can tell you that [...]

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Money March 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

April 2, 2010
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Another month has passed and that means it’s time to do another round-up post with my income report for TechPatio.com. You may have noticed how I wrote “Money March” in the title to this post. Well, there’s a good reason for that: I focused a lot of my energy on making money this past month. [...]

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Social Media For Content. Bloggers, Meet SmallRivers. [Sponsored Post]

March 8, 2010
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This is a sponsored post, paid for by Ebuzzing. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this. I bet you have an account on at least one social media network, such as Facebook or Twitter, am I right? What if [...]

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Comment Spam, She’s Back: Dr. Ann Voisin From Linda Christas College

March 6, 2010
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A few days ago I wrote about the first comment spam that I received from this Dr. Ann Voisin person, a message that is most likely automated and simply abusing the name of the real Dr. Ann Voisin from Linda Christas College. Click here to read that post: Akismet Blocking Your Blog? No Way, Just a SPAM Trick!

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February 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

March 2, 2010
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February. Such a short month. Only 28 days. Never the less, these past 28 days were very interesting for TechPatio, as the table below will show you. Maybe it’s because of the winter or maybe TechPatio.com is just growing?  Well, have a look at the table and then I’ll discuss a few of the numbers [...]

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Akismet Blocking Your Blog? No Way, Just a SPAM Trick!

March 1, 2010
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I already did one post on SPAM today (read it here: Bloody Sexual Twitter DM’s. Go Away!), so I might as well continue in that track with another SPAM related post for WordPress. As a blogger, getting SPAM comments is to be expected and it happens every day for most blogs, several times a day [...]

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“EgoTweeting” Review: An eBook On Ego- And Business Marketing Using Twitter

February 24, 2010
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This is a brand new eBook, just released. Written by my good friend over at BlogInTheBag.com – and because I’m lucky enough to know him, I was allowed to read and review it, before it was released, which is why I’m very excited to finally be able to tell you about it, now that it’s [...]

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Google May Earn $500,000,000 On Typosquatting – Yearly!

February 18, 2010
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A new report done by two Harvard scientists reveals that Google may earn up to 500 million dollars a year because of typosquatting. Typosquatting is what they call it when somebody on purpose registers a domain that looks a lot like something else, like Googel.com (notice the misspelling). So if you go to googel.com because [...]

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Host Your Own Blog Or Google Might Close It

February 16, 2010
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You can get a free blog hosted at one of Google’s services such as Blogspot or Blogger, but be careful if you decide to do so. Not only are you not in complete control of your own blog, you also run the risk of your blog being closed by Google. According to Guardian, Google has [...]

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