If you want to integrate CJ or Linkshare HTML links into your blog posts, you’ve probably noticed that “hidden” pixel doesn’t stay so hidden - it turns into a white space. Or, even more annoying, if you have pretty CSS borders and spacing to make your post images look nice, suddenly you have this stupid [...]

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I recently tested using excerpt feeds on this site (and a couple of others) for a few weeks - where you just see part of the article in your feedreader and have to click over here to read the rest - to see if it got more people to come over to the site and [...]

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Most of us have experienced that moment at one time or another, in which we look around and it seems like everyone but you is making thousands a month online and you’re the only idiot making $300. (Hey, I’m still there.) But consider this from Yaro Starak’s Sometimes You Have To Reinvent The Wheel:
We can [...]

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Wendy Piersall recently discovered that the people who read EMomsAtHome are not all moms. Or even parents. I can understand why she felt overwhelmed at first, but what a golden opportunity to learn how audiences really think. (Yes, I’m one of her readers who is not a mom, but didn’t let the brand stop me [...]

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From the start of my self-education in search engine optimization, I was told your ads need to be relevant to your content. It never made sense to me, and I’m starting to wonder if it wasn’t all part of the myth building process that made AdSense so huge. Consider this from Affiliate Marketing and Appealing [...]

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There’s only one thing I don’t like about StumbleUpon: when someone Stumbles your site and you start getting lots of traffic, there is no way in hell you can see who Stumbled you. Because the page that winds up in your referrer stats just takes you to a landing page urging you to launch an [...]

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I’ve been reading Matt Jones’ ebook recently (and no, merely linking to it does not qualify me for his contest - I’m linking because I like it), in which he talks about how to monetize different types of blogs. I’m not giving away enough to keep you from downloading the book yourself, but here’s the [...]

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I want to start updating this site more, but lately I’ve been so hard at work on my others. Mostly, I’m writing a lot of articles.
I’m also experimenting with pushing a specific product through a blog. I picked the product based on some search terms the site ranks for and - I believe - wrote [...]

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I second everything Stu recently said about why he doesn’t like video blogging. It’s not quotable. It’s not skimmable. For a lot of us, it uses up more time than reading does.
But there’s one more thing that bugs me: it comes across as vain. There’s a certain sense that the blogger spends evenings at home [...]

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I’ve been observing different people’s work styles lately in the hopes of improving my own. One thing I’ve noticed is that when problems happen, some people tend to want to revamp the system in which they happened, and others just want to fix that item and go on. For example, your team has trouble finding [...]

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