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Get Your Blog Hosted for Free

10. March 2010

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I always encourage bloggers that want to take themselves seriously to get their own hosting, and manage their own site. The most common pushback I get is the price of hosting. You can get your blog hosted for free. It is pretty easy.

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Don’t Tell Me About Your Business

9. March 2010

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That's right. Don't. Bear with me on the following journey. I promise, there is an important lesson to be learned that will make you money.

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Cache Your Wordpress Blog to Make it Faster

8. March 2010

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What's the most common problem that growing blogs always run into? Their Wordpress site needs to be cached in order to handle the growing influx of traffic.

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5 Ways to Get More Comments on Your Blog

3. March 2010

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For most blogs, comments are the lifeblood of pageviews.  What do pageviews turn into?  Ad impressions. That’s the business gold behind comments, but there are a lot more benefits including community building, site loyalty, and more.  There are many ways to get more comments on your blog, and they are all very easy. 1) Just ask for [...]

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Adding Social Networking Buttons to Your Blog or Website

2. March 2010

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If you are sick of hearing about social networking, join the club.  However, there is real value in the traffic that it can generate for your site.  Does that mean you need to add social networking buttons to your blog or website? Probably. But don’t go crazy. You should care about the traffic that can be generated by [...]

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Got Speed? The Problem with Slow Loading Blogs

5. January 2010

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If you are not the tech savvy type, I'd be willing to bet your site loads slower than it should. Most amateur bloggers (and some professional ones) are not very good developers. Here's where I would normally make the case for hiring a firm like BlogCraving to handle these things for you, but this time I will spare you. Let's just jump right to the point and find out if your site is a load hog.

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New Year’s Resolution: Consistency

1. January 2010

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I hate New Year’s resolutions. The whole ideas is just silly to me. However, the first of the year for whatever reason feels like a blank slate. There is a new sense of possibility that only seems to come around this time of year.

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Top 5 Tips for Hiring Help

31. December 2009

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When building your online business (or any business really), you'll quickly realize that you can't do it all yourself. You are simply going to have to hire some help. It does not mean you have to go out and start hiring full time employees. However, you'll probably need a few contract or project guru's to help you along the way.

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