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 have no idea how I did it, but somehow despite lots and lots of checking, I screwed up the feed links on this site and AMJ when I set up AMJ. You may not be subscribed to the blog you mean to be subscribed to.
Now they’re working. If you want this feed, make sure [...]

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A lot of successful blogs don’t offer anything of real value. They’ll take a problem everyone’s trying to solve, say they have a solution, and:

Write a post that just rehashes all the solutions we’ve already tried that didn’t work.
Write a post that sounds like it has the solution, if only you could figure out what [...]

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I was listening to Affiliate Fortune Cookies on blog advertising and sponsorships when I had a duh moment.  See, normally I think advertisers are looking for sales when they run ads. But sometimes they can be thinking about branding or good publicity.
Oh. Yeah, right.
And then it hit me: Project B-2 Bomber, the somewhat socially conscious [...]

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Why am I once again advertising LinkWorth, you may be wondering?
Finally! LinkWorth has added the option to sell or buy no-follow text link ads. If you’re a publisher, you can set this up by going into each site to edit it, and choosing “I will use ‘rel=nofollow’ in all my links” under “Additional Website Settings.”
I’ve [...]

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Blue Mushrooms is now accepting posts from guest writers. For more info, click here.
For you, this is a chance to get your name and a link to your site out there in front of people. For me, it’s a chance to provide more great content for my visitors than I’m capable of writing alone.
I’m really [...]

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One tip I rarely see mentioned (or maybe I’m just reading at the wrong places) when people talk about making Wordpress SEO-friendly is: make sure your theme loads content near the top so your bots get to the content quickly. In the source code, you do not want tons of header, sidebar or javascript code [...]

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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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