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Blogging

Moms, Beware Guest Posts

January 18, 2011

Let me say before I make everyone angry, I am generally an advocate of guest posts. I see value in them for the following things: Sending link juice to my friends’ sites Exchanging posts with colleagues Posting valuable information from experts Directing my traffic to sites they would genuinely find valuable What I do NOT [...]

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When Will Bloggers Embrace Affiliate Marketing?

November 16, 2010

Each month I read hundreds of different blogs, some monetized and some not. It’s always interesting to me to look closely to see how different bloggers monetize their blogs and which ones are using affiliate marketing. I’ve attended blogging conferences (like Blog Indiana) and followed closely others through posts and tweets (like Blog World). Aside [...]

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Wayback Machine More Than Trip Down Memory Lane

August 20, 2010

While I was checking out all of the SEO functions of some new Firefox extensions I installed, I happened upon Archive.org and the Wayback Machine. Out of curiosity, I went back and looked at the first week of the first site that I ever launched. It was 2004 and my site Helping Moms Connect was [...]

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Unintended Thesis Benefit: Education

February 17, 2010

I’ve stated before that I am a huge Thesis WordPress Theme fan. In fact, I only use Thesis on all of the new blogs that I start. Everyone talks about the obvious benefits of using Thesis like how customizable it is and the search engine optimization built into it. But I have found another huge [...]

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5 Ways Twitter Helps My Business

February 11, 2010

I’ve read many posts about whether social media can really help your business. The obvious advantage is networking. However, I’ve seen 5 ways that Twitter has specifically helped my business when it comes to “Right Place, Right Time” beyond just the general socializing most people do on it. 1. Getting instant help. A great example [...]

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