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When You’re Blogging For $$$

July 6, 2011
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Can you see blogging as a full time revenue earner for you? Do you see yourself blogging full time, eschewing day jobs? Are you interested in blogging for dollars, with the intent of joining the legion of blogging millionaires? How much can you realistically make out of your blog? Here are 6 lessons to learn [...]

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May 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

June 19, 2011
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The blog summary & income report for May has been “slightly” delayed mostly due to me forgetting about it – so sorry about that, but here it is… In the next blog summary & income report, for June, I have an announcement to make also. Since we’re currently in the middle of June, that report will [...]

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April 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

May 21, 2011
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Good day, everybody. We’re in the middle of May, so I’m quite late with blog summary & income report for April, I must admit. Sorry about that, but better late than never, right? So, here you go…

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“Become A Blogger” course closes this Friday – the end of an era – last chance to join!

May 4, 2011
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I just got word from famous blogger Yaro Starak that he and video expert Gideon Shalwick are closing their very popular blogging video course. It’s called Become A Blogger Premium and teaches absolute beginners how to make money with blogs by following a proven formula. The course contains over 50 step-by-step training videos, instructional audios, [...]

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Content and Color Rich: How color can attract more followers

May 2, 2011
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Colors and the effects they have on everything they are placed on or displayed around are my absolute favorite things in the world. It makes me so sad to see that in this age of blogging with the freedom of expression that the World Wide Web gives us, so many people disregard the educated use [...]

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March 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

April 11, 2011
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Good day, everybody. It’s 11th of April 2011 and it’s time for another blog summary & income report, covering the month of March, last month. Usually I post these reports a few days into the month  but this time I’ve been busy recently, busier than ever before, so it wasn’t until now I was able [...]

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Yahoo Kindness shows how much exposure $100 can get you

March 21, 2011
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It’s amazing how much marketing $100 can buy you, when you pick the right people to do the job for you. Take for example this $100 spent by Yahoo!. They gave $100 to Justine Ezarik (iJustine) for her to conduct a simple act of kindness. The video got around 150,000 views on YouTube in about [...]

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February 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

March 11, 2011
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Yeah yeah I know, I’m a bit late with the February report. I’ve been busy with real life stuff the past few weeks so I gave this report update low priority until I would have time to do it – which is now, so here you go…

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What Does Google Analytics Tell You About Your Site

March 4, 2011
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Google Analytics is a wonderful tool for any webmaster, but what many of us may be ignoring might just be the most important part of Analytics. Tracking site search can hold valuable information about your site and the searchers that use your site. Many of us overlook this data in favour of the easier to [...]

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Make Money With Blogging

February 26, 2011
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Blogging is the answer if you’re trying to find ways on how you could reach a larger market.  This can be an excellent marketing tool to promote a business.  However, this is not as easy as it seems since you have to learn the different strategies on how you can achieve your objective.  If you [...]

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Can’t find a good web host? Here are some tips!

February 15, 2011
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Do you already have a website or are you searching for a good place for web hosting your site? Then you probably already know that finding a good web host is not as easy as scratching your back. Finding a web host, is as easy as anything – they are everywhere these days and you [...]

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January 2011: Blog Summary & Income Report

February 8, 2011
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2011 is the number of the year which means bye bye to 2010 and also bye bye to December. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year as well. There’s no way around it, you’re probably here to read the December [...]

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Using Visual Similarity In Image Searching on Your Mac

February 2, 2011
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Some amazing developments in Mac software continue to come from both research centers and private developers. We are well aware of applications like Spring Cleaning from Smith Micro Software. This software will perform a large variety of functions, such as finding archives, disk images, empty folders, font files, superfluous help files, music, podcast and even [...]

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Off Page Search Engine Optimization

February 1, 2011
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You can make use of other’s websites to promote and attract traffic towards yours. The category of SEO in which you tries to drive traffic from external websites is known as Off Page Search Engine Optimization. Here are a few commonly used Off Page SEO techniques. Social Networking Sites Social networking sites are a great [...]

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5 Tips To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly

January 28, 2011
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With the increasing trend in mobile platform, there are limitations of the website being displayed in the actual HTML format as designed for your web browsing over a PC or a laptop. These HTML formats could be made more amicable to make your website supportive and adapt efficiently to work well on the mobile platform. [...]

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Follow-up: Intro to Web hosting – so, how’s TechPatio hosted?

January 10, 2011
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Last week I wrote a quick introduction to the different kinds of web hosting you might come across as a webmaster or blog owner. Today I thought I would share a quick note about what kind of web hosting TechPatio has been going through. When TechPatio.com was first launched in the Summer of 2009, it [...]

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Quick introduction to the different kinds of web hosting

January 5, 2011
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If you’re new to being a webmaster or a blogger, it might be confusing to figure out what kind of web hosting you should purchase for your website. Here’s a quick introduction to the most used types of web hosting you are likely to encounter in your search for the perfect web host. Linux Hosting [...]

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December 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

January 4, 2011
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2011 is the number of the year which means bye bye to 2010 and also bye bye to December. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year as well. There’s no way around it, you’re probably here to read the December [...]

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Considerations before hiring a SEO consultant to optimize your website

December 23, 2010
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Not everybody is aware of the importance of ranking well in the search engines, Google, Bing etc., but the more online experience you get the more you’ll start to become aware that the reason you’re not getting much traffic to your website is because people are not finding it due to low search engine rankings. [...]

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A Brief Introduction to Domain Names and How To Find & Register One

December 9, 2010
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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you will know that we occasionally publish articles on blog-related stuff, such as picking a web host, which blogging platform to choose and so on. Now it’s time to look into domain names, as they also have quite an important role in your online blogging business – [...]

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Web Hosting Hub – Get your website online in minutes!

December 7, 2010
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I’ve said it several times before and I’ll say it again – if you’re just a tiny bit serious about your website, blog or whatever it is that you’re having online, you’ll want to have it hosted somewhere where you have control over your website and you’re not putting all your eggs in a basket [...]

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November 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

December 5, 2010
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We’re almost a week into December so I hope you’re all close to getting in the Christmas spirit now that the holidays are closing in on us. So, November has ended and it’s time to wrap-up and see what November brought to TechPatio.com in terms of visitors and income. Here are the numbers… November ’10 [...]

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G.A.S.P.: WordPress anti-spam plugin. Good idea, but does it deliver?

December 2, 2010
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G.A.S.P. , GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin, is a WordPress plugin that takes a different approach to spam filtering than Akismet does, which is the anti-spam plugin used by most WordPress bloggers. Instead of analyzing the content of each comment as well as having a giant database with information about which URL’s, IP’s etc. to mark as [...]

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ebuzzing – one of the best ways for bloggers to monetize!

November 25, 2010
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I’ve been a member of the ebuzzing community for over half a year now and when they approached me yesterday asking me to write a little about ebuzzing and a brand I’d like to see on the ebuzzing platform, well, how could I refuse?So, ebuzzing.co.uk is part of the Wikio group which is probably most [...]

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