The Friday Most Excellent – Niche Sites Edition

May 17, 2013
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I’ve talked a few times about how important I think diversity is in both your blog and online business.  Diversity means: serving a broad audience, insuring that your revenue comes from many different sources, striving to get traffic from various sources, and making sure your articles are on different topics and not the same thing everyone [...]

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How to delete a WordPress page or post and not lose your traffic

May 13, 2013
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Heraclitus once said: “The only thing that is constant is change.”  This applies to your blog as well.  I find myself making constant little tweaks, adjustments and changes to my various blogs and websites.  In some cases you can just delete things and change things with little to no risk.  However, there are a few [...]

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The Friday Most Excellent – Mother’s Day Edition

May 10, 2013
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Having six kids, Mother’s Day is a pretty special day in our house, or at least I do my best to make it a special day.  My wife is an amazing women, and somehow manages to keep everyone fed, clothed, shuttled back and forth to school and other activities each and every day.  Then manages [...]

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The Power of Facebook and Social Media

May 6, 2013
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In the summer of 2011 my wife and I were doing pretty well with our store. We had rented the building and opened the store in December 2009. We rented out space much like a Vendors Mall, only it was much smaller and had a more personal touch that people really seemed to like.
Our store [...]

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The Friday Most Excellent – Less is More Edition

May 3, 2013
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I’m all about less is more.  I practice this at work, in my personal life, in my blog designs and now with my social media and blog publishing schedule.  I’ll be changing both my blog posting schedule and my social media posting frequency.  I detail the changes and why I’m making them below.

Less is More – [...]

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How to Build a Successful Niche Website that Actually Makes Money

April 29, 2013
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Whether you have had little or no success building niche websites or have never tried, without the following information you will most assuredly fail! Get comfortable, grab a pen and notepad, and pay attention.

A Successful Niche Website Starts with Research
Once you have a basic idea of what type of website you plan to build, you then need [...]

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The Friday Most Excellent – Google Comments Edition

April 26, 2013
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If you haven’t heard about Google+ comments by now, I might suspect you live in a hole.  Google+ and many different blogs this week were full of articles about the pros and cons of of the new Google plus comment integration with Blogger.

Google announced on April 18th that it would allow Blogger based blogs to [...]

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How to design your blog

April 23, 2013
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One of the most frequent requests I get on Side Income Blogging is from visitors asking me to review their sites and offer feedback.  I actually don’t mind doing this for a couple of reasons:

I enjoy looking at other blogs and often add these blogs to my Feedly reader list.
Spending time reviewing other people’s blogs [...]

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The Friday Most Excellent – Crazy World Edition

April 19, 2013
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Here in the US this week, many of us have had our TVs locked on news stations throughout the day.  I don’t watch much TV at all, and probably have watched more TV this week than I have in a very long time.  Our attention was riveted by the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week, then the [...]

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3 incredibly irritating things you will have to deal with as a blogger

April 17, 2013
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I’ve been blogging since 2006 and while 99% of the time I love it, I have learned that there a few things I find incredibly irritating and painful to deal with.  Unfortunately, these are things that you as a blogger will also have to deal with.  These things will interrupt your plans, try to ruin [...]

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