Traffic Tricks - My Blog Log

Perhaps you’ve noticed the cool little quilts of faces on various blogs titled “Recent Readers”? Well one of the services that provides the avatar quilts is “My Blog Log“. This is a type of social bookmarking site that allows you to place a widget on your blog and helps connect you to various […]

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How I Added a Sparklet to my Lists

Inspired by Matt Blancarte’s bulleted icons in his lists and overall rockin’ website design, I made a short list of easy mods to my default CutLine Theme. Most of them took only a few minute each, and while subtle, the look is gradually looking less cluttery to me.
This post will show you how I […]

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From Apprehension to Assurance - Case Study Update

Last week I began a case study series about my Accountant, Padgett Business Services of Pittsburgh. You can read part I here, but here are the highlights:

Jim creates a WordPress website, with a blog about concerns that Small Business Owners have, and of course, how he can help them. Here’s a great example […]

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Wrap Your Brain around Viral Marketing

OK, I admit it.
I did download a few “Money Making” e-books online to see what they were like and if I really thought I could make any money with the information in them. Two of them I actually kept and am using tips & techniques that they contained for AdWords Marketing as well […]

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The Sunday Seven - First Edition

Welcome to my new tradition of the Sunday Seven. Just enough posts to keep you company through your lazy Sunday Morning Coffee. Weekends are typically a slow time for bloggers as I see from my stats pages. So I thought I’d bring you the Sunday Seven - Seven of the past week’s […]

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AdSense Tip: Section Targeting for Best Performance

AdSense allows you to implement a great trick for helping to target your ads even further for your website. While it generally does a great job of scanning the content of your blog, you can tell the site crawlers to look to look at only specific sections of your site in order to […]

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Competitive Ad Filtering with Adsense

I installed AdSense on another blog of mine and was thrilled to see $2.00 in income on the first day. It is an established blog with about 50 hits daily on days with no new content. When a new article is posted, I see about 100 hits per day.
It is a niche medical […]

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Decide on your Permalink Structure from Day 1

Are you a fledgling WordPress blogger?
Does the title of this post mystify you? If so, this post is written for you! I just started using WordPress less than two weeks ago and wanted to offer this tip to save you some time and headaches. And if it’s too late for […]

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Starting your Own Blog: Finding a Good Host.

Are you thinking of starting a WordPress Blog? Congratulations on the choice. I have tried many platforms of content management systems including Joomla, Blogger, Plone and finally WordPress. I feel WordPress not only the most user friendly in terms of minimal aggrevation and interface, but also very powerful in terms of […]

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Privacy Policies and Google AdWords Quality Scores

At least two posters commented on my recent Privacy Policy post regarding Google’s consideration of a privacy policy on your website. I originally read the information in a downloadable e-book on Adwords called Google Money Pro, by Steven Holdaway, certified AdWords Professional.
After the questions about the source of my information, I decided to […]

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