I’m taking this site in a new direction.
As you can see, I’ve dumped the title “Affiliate Marketing Journal” and gone back to the domain name, “Blue Mushrooms.” It’s a meaningless name I picked one day after hours of desperate searches for an available domain name, but it’s my meaningless name, and it’s a lot catchier [...]

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I’d love to buy some unique articles instead of having to write them all myself, but my first attempt to do so ended with me down $10 and up zero articles.
I found an individual’s website and bought an article from her. Looking back, maybe I should’ve emailed her to make sure she was for real, [...]

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This post from Darren Rowse about how many hours and years he put in before becoming a successful pro-blogger got me thinking about how most of the big names try to make it look so easy, and how that’s really a disservice to their readers.
There are three ways to become really successful online: hard work, [...]

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This plugin lets you show your old theme to your visitors while you see the new one you’re tinkering with. That way when you launch the new theme, it’s all 100% finished and no visitors have had to sit through any little glitches. This really makes theming so much easier!
(To tinker with your current theme, [...]

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One of my Wordpress plugins stopped working when I upgraded. I figured out it was because the database tables had the version number for the plugin in them, so the new version was looking for the new version number. I could’ve done a fresh install and lost all my info… or I could just change [...]

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I was reading this piece by Holly Buchanan on creating personas when I realized this is a huge stumbling block for me.
First, if you’re not familiar with the concept of personas: marketers try to imagine the sort of person who would buy their products. Then they write copy and come up with campaigns that will [...]

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I installed a new theme on another site a few days ago. Today I noticed that one of the most visited pages was:
http://[mydomain].com/wp-content/themes/bobv2/dax.swf
which is some sort of x-shockwave-flash object that creates a big white page in the browser that says only “Please pass in your text.” (See the screenshot.)
What is this? I can’t see any [...]

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Did you see the 8,005,421 posts about Pepperjam today? Gee, I wonder why everyone blogged about that at the same time. *yawn*

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Take a look at this post from 10e20. I’m just curious about something: do you find it easy to read the article?
I didn’t. I got very frustrated trying to find the text between the graphics, particularly when the graphics included screenshots full of text. The headers also distracted me because they were so close together [...]

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No-follow text ads on this site are half-off through February ($7.50 for a 30 day homepage link; other pricing options available). Figured I’d make like a retail store and have a “50% off After the Holidays Sale.”  They appear in the sidebar, just under the 125×125 ads.
Speaking of which, the 125×125 ads are still $10/4 [...]

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