Blogging

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It's still amazing to me that people can make a good living doing what once would have been considered a glorified journal from Freshman psychology class.

While some are making tons of money blogging, the landscape for the beginner is highly competitive and hardly passive.

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Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crush It” Review

by Brian Lee on August 11, 2010 .

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Is Blogging Income Passive Income?

21 January 2008
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Blogging for income is quite the hot topic these days, with many bloggers (including this one) touting the rewards of harvesting the massive internet traffic one can create by writing digestible articles and posting them regularly on a blog.

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Blog Getting Started Checklist

10 October 2007
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If you don’t have a blog yet, read How to Blog :: The Manual to get started. It’s not that difficult and it’s the first step to building your own online brand. In the future, your earning potential might have a lot to do with how connected you are on the internet and a blog is the networking machine to get you there.

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It’s not Just a Blog, it’s Your Personal Brand

1 October 2007
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A year ago I was not a blogger. I thought blogs were for people who wanted to keep an online journal about how their day was going and how bad their ex-boyfriend sucked. I knew I needed an online presence, but I thought my needs were more advanced than a blog could provide.

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Should You Specialize or Generalize Your Blog?

30 April 2007
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Conventional wisdom in the blogosphere says to pick a theme for your blog and stick with it. For bloggers with more than one interest, this usually means operating multiple blogs. Proponents of this theory say that too many topics will confuse your readers. As usual, I hold the contrarian view on this topic. I think [...]

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Clean Up Links to Increase Page Rank

5 April 2007
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Broken links can be silently killing your page rank if you’re not careful. It’s easier than you think to “dirty-up” your site with broken links. Search engines see bad links as a sign of unreliability and penalize your page rank for it. If you are a blogger who constantly adds inter-site references within your posts [...]

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Find Your Blog’s Compound Growth Rate

4 April 2007
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This article is for any blogger, entrepreneur, or investor who is serious about analyzing their investment. One of the most important factors of any investment is its growth rate, but calculating it can be difficult. It’s not as easy as comparing one period of production to the next. It’s important to find a sustained pattern [...]

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Why I Blog

20 February 2007
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Gleb Reys of Personal Development Ideas tagged me today in the blog meme that is sweeping the world. Thanks Gleb! His article Why I Blog was a result of being tagged by Edward Mills from Evolving Times in his article Why I Blog. I commented on Gleb’s post that he really took the pressure off [...]

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How to Blog :: The Manual

3 November 2006
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When I stumbled upon the blogging technology that is now available, I was blown away at how advanced it was. I got excited because I realized that the internet was truly starting to deliver to the individual what it has promised us from the beginning: a level playing ground.

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