I was reading Michael Gray’s article on blogging today, and he mentioned the question of how many blogs one should have:

If you have I’d say three is my recommendation and if you go beyond five you’re crazy unless you really know what you are doing or are paying high quality writers.

I have this one, ChillyCool, [...]

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Something exciting happened this weekend. One of my authors on Project B-2 Bomber attended a convention about the topic of that site. While there, she wore a CafePress shirt advertising the site.
People came up to her and said they were readers of the site and talked about how much they enjoyed it.
I don’t think any [...]

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I’ve lately been working toward giving Azoogle a serious chance. I’ve installed ad rotating plugins on a couple of sites and started running various banners. I tell you one thing: there’s no quicker way to see what products your visitors are interested in. Even if they’re not buying, you can see from the clicks at [...]

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While Google goes gaga over no-follow and paid links, Yahoo is implementing a tool that sounds much more simple and effective to me. It’s the "robots-nocontent" class tag, which I’m currently trying out on two of my sites. I plugged it into my sidebars.
Does anyone have any ideas what I should make a note of, [...]

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Project B-2 Bomber is likely to hit 15,000 uniques this month. Because it’s a community-based site, this means a lot of work for yours truly. Comment moderation - not just deleting bad comments, but telling bad commenters what they’re doing wrong so your good commenters understand what’s acceptable and what’s not… there’s a lot of [...]

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I had an epiphany over the weekend: I’ve not been coming at online earning from a position of power.
I’ve been trying stuff. I’ve been seeing what I can do. I’ve been cautious. These are all approaches that assume a degree of failure. Now I want to start thinking of myself as someone who builds and [...]

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I know a lot of you think you have serious grievances with Google. I have to warn you: the following story details a wrong so heinous, so uncaring, so inhumane… your brain may cower at the prospect of holding this information. Read at your own risk.
This morning I went out to breakfast at a local [...]

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This is the second time TLA has jacked up my ad prices (which they set) without informing me or being asked by me. Unfortunately, instead of doing it on the site that’s maintained 8/8 links for over a month, they’ve done it to two of the sites that only had two links. Both of those [...]

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It’s been talked about for a while, but this morning on my local business news they made it sound like Microsoft buying Yahoo is a sure thing - and in response, Yahoo’s stocks have shot up 18%.
I realize this is a simplistic view, but I hope it happens because this could possibly give Google some [...]

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This month I made about $350. Not quite a record month, but for the first three months this year I hovered around $275. My income sources were, in order of muchliness:

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ShareASale (nice couple of commissions there - and this is the year I want to start earning regular affiliate commissions instead of sporadic ones)
AdBrite [...]

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