Archive for September, 2009

Who’s afraid of outbound links?

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We all know the importance of inbound links (aka backlinks) but what about outbound links? First, let’s start with what an outbound link is. All we’re talking about here is a link that goes from your blog to another site. Yes, an external link. Oooooh…scary stuff. Let’s run through some of the common reasons why [...]

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Do you know what makes a good domain name?

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After spending weeks thinking about it, you think you have the perfect domain name for your blog. You finally get the nerve to spend the $10 or so to buy it but it’s not available. You knew there was a chance of that happening so you reach for your backup domain name and that’s gone [...]

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Get a stream of traffic to your blog using TrafficSwarm

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Alright, you have a blog or website but you need to generate traffic. Other than telling all your family and friends, which some of you are probably hesitant to tell in the early stages anyway, how can you generate traffic to your blog? Unless you’ve already created a name for yourself in the blogsphere, moving [...]

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eHow: Earnings and traffic results after one month

When I started this project, I posted this freelance earning opportunity as an experiment. Then I followed up with my eHow earnings after one week and my eHow earnings after two weeks. After that last post, which I made on September 10, I stated that I would wait a bit longer to post updates since [...]

Google PageRank: What does it tell you?

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Remember the 80′s movie Can’t Buy Me Love? Patrick Dempsey plays Ronald Miller, a geeky unpopular kid who ends up paying a popular girl, Amanda Peterson, to act as his girlfriend so others will think that he, too, is cool. Guess what, it worked! Now hold that thought. Yesterday, I made a post about Alexa [...]

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Alexa rank: What you need to know as a new blogger

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So you finally created your blog and spent hours setting it up and adding content. How can you tell how well you’re doing compared to the rest of the web? There are a handful of ways that are industry accepted, one of them being Alexa. If you haven’t met her yet, oh you will; what [...]

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Fight blog spam with Akismet

In my last post, Blog spam: yuck!, I described the annoyance that spam brings bloggers every day. In fact, right before I started writing this post, I just deleted four more spam comments (BTW, it’s a good habit to check your comments the same time every day — I check mine every morning). Guess how [...]

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