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Blog ownership seems interesting at first glance. We dream about what we are doing that adds value to our society. Working online means freedom from the office and we are not bound by the rules of the company we work for. But then, almost as an afterthought, the reality of how much work a blog [...]

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As a new blogger, you may be wondering to yourself about just how much traffic you blog gets and why. It’s important for any blogger who wants to be commercially successful to take a look at their web stats and measure their performance once in a while. If you’ve never even [...]

How do you know if a website is a micro niche? The basic elements of a micro niche website are made up of a few factors as follows:
Search Traffic: A micro-niche doesn’t have millions of search traffic per month due to the fact that it is a small niche. A good bench mark for keeping [...]

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More and more people are turning to the Internet in their quest to earn extra money from home. Why? Because the promise of Internet success is possible for those who work hard and with the instability often seen with job security in today’s economy, many people who have ventured into [...]

Lots of bloggers have difficulty in driving traffic to their new blogs. The myth is that all you have to do is write the posts, and the traffic will just magically come. Sometimes a blogger gets lucky and gets turned into a celebrity in the blogging world and they have very little work to do [...]

A question all new bloggers have at one time or another is, how often should I post? There’s no firm rule about this, but here are some guidelines:
Some posting schedules are too frequent and a waste of good quality posts, while others are more efficient at getting your articles out there in force. [...]

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Most new bloggers fail to spend enough time in their organizational skills. It’s just not enough to have most of your best ideas on post-it notes all over your computer desk and no idea how you’re going to manage your blog. It’s also extremely important that you have a clear and [...]

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Anyone new to blogging eventually ponders whether or not to monetize their blog with products and services closely related to their chosen topic. While I can’t tell you whether or not you should or shouldn’t make some money from your blogging, I will say that there is no shortage of products [...]

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As a new blogger you’ve probably gotten Wordpress all loaded up to your server by now and even though you might not be too familiar with the Wordpress Admin dashboard you can’t wait to get your blog on and write your first post. While you could by all means get straight to blogging [...]

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In the Wordpress Admin there is a Settings tab and within that tab is the Permalinks tab. Setting up this area of your blog administration is crucial to having your blog post urls (or links) be the way you want them. The default setting for your posts is p=”whatever the post id number [...]