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The Importance of Periodic Link Reviews; Dead Link Removal

April 24, 2007 Blogging

I just wanted to remind everyone to periodically review all the links they keep on their site. Whether you are a blogger with a blogroll full of links or if you’re just another webmaster who shares resources with others like I do with BiggerPockets® Real Estate Investing Community, you should always do a periodic review [...]

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How to Use MyBlogLog to Succesfully Build Massive Blog or Website Traffic

April 23, 2007 Blogging

Update 2/24/11: Yahoo has announced that it will discontinue the MyBlogLog service on May 24, 2011. I wrote about using MyBlogLog a few weeks ago (networking with social media sites) for networking purposes. I now want to tell you exactly how to build massive traffic using the MyBlogLog community. MyBlogLog is an extremely important tool [...]

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A Few Helpful Things Stuck on My Firefox Tabs; Time to give my computer a break!

April 19, 2007 Blogging

I haven’t shut my computer down in 5 days now because I’ve got too many tabs open on Firefox. In an effort to give my iMac a break, I’m going to just post a few of the many interesting finds that made their way into the 27 tabs I had open across 5 browser windows. [...]

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The First Rule of Blogging

April 18, 2007 Blogging
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Don’t Just Teach Your Friends to Make Money Online. Partner with Them!

April 16, 2007 Blogging

I recently read a webmaster forum post from a guy whose friends keep asking him to teach them how to make money online. There are a few approaches to take in this situation: Three Approaches to Dealing With a Friend Who Wants Free Advice on Making Money Online Tell him to piss off and figure [...]

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A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

April 15, 2007 Blogging

Failing to Stop Comment Spam For the past week I’ve been getting a ton of comment SPAM, and it doesn’t want to stop. I’ve got the Akismet and Spam Karma 2 plug ins up and running, and SK2 is set on MEAN! Unfortunately, as you can see: I’m getting hit by MP3 Ringtone spammers. The [...]

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A Bloggers Rant on AutoBlog Losers

April 14, 2007 Blogging

I have a bit of a bone to pick here. Earlier today, I was looking around the DigitalPoint Forums and saw a post about autoblog plugins for WordPress. What on earth are these “autoblogs” good for, if not to let lazy, talentless people piggyback on the work of other people. NOTHING! Autoblogs are sites that [...]

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Blogging Frequency – Quality vs. Quantity

April 8, 2007 Blogging

The other day a friend and fellow blogger asked me how often he should post to his blog. Since I started blogging full time, I have usually tried to post at least once a day on each of my blogs. Sometimes I like to take the weekend off to generate some ideas for the next [...]

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Cool Tools & Articles About: Wikipedia, Link Love, Site Popularity, Social Search Engines

April 7, 2007 Blogging

Here are some useful and very cool tools and resources for any webbie: Maki, author of the extremly cool blog (which I just discovered today) Dosh Dosh writes an extremly thorough article aka The Ultimate Guide on How to Get Your Website Listed in Wikipedia which really is what it says. If you’ve ever wondered [...]

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Are Blogrolls Dead or Do I Need One?

December 13, 2006 Blogging

I haven’t heard much conversation in the blogosphere about the use of blogrolls. What I have seen is that the top blogs no longer use them. Is this a recent trend? I have my theories, but I think the blogroll is still important for newer blogs. Today, one of my favorite real estate bloggers, Teresa, [...]

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Need a Good Feed Reader or Aggregator for Mac

December 8, 2006 Blogging

I’ve been suffering a bit here with my new iMac. Everything is perfect, except I’m lacking an adequate feed reader / aggregator. I’m currently using an aggregator called Vienna, a RSS reader for Mac OS X, but it does not compare to FeedReader (the PC reader I’ve been using). Vienna lacks the ability to easily [...]

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Use Forums to Find Material for Your Blog

November 25, 2006 Blogging

Wondering how to find some new material for your blog? Create a companion forum site to go along with it. Last year, I decided to create a blog for our real estate investing site, BiggerPockets.com. After a few months, I realized that I had lost my motivation and had run out of material. Why? I [...]

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The First ReviewMe.com Review Request

November 20, 2006 Blogging

I’ve mentioned before that I like the concept of ReviewMe.com. It provides bloggers with another stream of income and it allows advertisers to get an unabashed review of their product. I was just informed by email in bold yellow font, “A review has been ordered to be placed on your blog Real Estate Investing for [...]

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Net News Linkfest

November 17, 2006 Blogging

Brian at SEOMoz tells us that meta-tags are making a comeback. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all agreed on a new xml sitemap protocol for their search engines. Visit Sitemaps.org for more info. Jaimie at SEO Egghead gives us 6 Questions To Weed Out Charlatan SEOs. I might add “What are social networks and how [...]

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The Four Phases of Web Success

November 15, 2006 Blogging

Internet people use measures of success that are somewhat different then those of common-folk. We’re not concerned about having the biggest house or the fanciest car in the neighborhood. We think about things like bandwidth, unique users, page views, reach, AdSense revenues, and other mundane things like number of servers we’ve got. I’ve broken down [...]

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