Not content with slapping down blogs for selling links and writing paid reviews, Google have turned their chilling radar-eye on self-hosted Wordpress blogs that dare to use the "DoFollow" plugin. They obviously see this as simply another form of gaming the system by website owners to boost their own page rank with backlinks. True to form, h

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I wrote Don't Let the Host Go Down On Me (which is not a song, but merely a blog post), because I had just suffered the loss of several of my sites when one of my hosting companies decided to pull the plug for no apparent reason. Had I busted the bank with a spike in traffic? No. had I hosted MFA or other unsavoury sites? No.

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Blogger Unleashed has been, since it burst onto the blogging scene a few months ago, a real magnet for people who truly want to make money online from their blogging efforts. Vic Franqui has hit his readers with barrage after barrage of priceless information on how to do just that. Now he's gone one step further with a sort of

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Here's a neat post that started life about site building and the whys and wherefores of doing so. Freedom writers is just a keyword I target on this site, and it has little relevance to anything much. Apart from the fact that I'm a writer and its a cool term to rank for. Freedom writers are as good at writing rambling nonsens

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Here's a great informative and attention grabbing introductory post for the Blogging Zoom site. It also mentions its convenient and easy to use widget. The shiny button is useful for visitors to vote for the site. Great stuff, thanks a lot for this

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This post deals with how the experiment to promote a top affiliate program (Get Google Ads Free) and force some sales fast has stalled thanks to underestimating the strict code of acceptance for articles at Ezine Articles! We soldier on regardless with different tactics, learned over the weekend from Vic's new blog (Blogger Unleashed) of all

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Imagine exactly how it would feel to have all the wealth and security that you could ever possibly need in life, right here and right now. Do you believe it is possible? Or do you believe that you are what you are and that nothing you could possibly do will ever change that. What would you think if I told you that you could change what you ar

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That's right, I just won Monika Mundell's "Shake It Up Competition!" She was running it over on her blog, The Writers Manifesto for the month of November.

The funny thing is, I had no idea that I'd won it until I happened to look in on her blog today and saw her video of the

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Well this is in spite of the recent scaremongering about blogs that display paid links, paid reviews and such like all getting a nasty slapping from Google. I thought it would be nice to fly in the face of danger and give out some link love to sites that I feel deserve it. I don't think it will cause me problems. I'm sure its ok to link to

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Working for too long can have a detrimental effect on your writing quality. Well, there's nothing new in that particular statement. We are all guilty of overworking on more than one occasion and burning that candle at both emds. So if you're inter

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Yesterday I blogged about the power of positive thought and how you can use it to get practically whatever you can imagine. Upon reading it through, I realized I wasn't portraying the whole picture. It's more than just the power of positive thinking. It's the total belief in your own ability to succeed that will get you off your backside a

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Here is a really superb article explaining the pros and cons of the two kinds of blog hosting - free and self hosted. There is plenty of exceptionally useful information for anyone who is still undecided on which way to go. Of course there are more valid reasons to self host your blog. But never discount the usefulness of free hosted blogs as

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So you work from home online in comfort and have left the daily commute far behind you. However, do you believe that you are the boss or are you still working for someone else?

Is your time your own or are you still having to stick to a time management system in order to meet someone else's d

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Sometimes we come across a really great article that gives us a lot of useful information that will help us on our way to make money with our blogs. But how many of us will actually use that information? Not many if the appalling statistic that some ninety five percent of all internet marketers fail is to be believed. Of the remaining five pe

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Google have been upsetting a lot of bloggers of late. Quite rightly so, those lkoggers have responded with a barrage of posts bemoaning their loss of page rank, or simply airing their anger at Google's insensitivity to individual circumstances. What's missing is some good old fashioned competition to Google's rapidly growing position of po

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Have Google started targeting Squidoo lenses once again? This lensmaster has noticed nearly all of his lenses that had recently gained page rank in the last round of changes, have now lost all rank.

Why would Google give, then take away again? Nothing has been added to those lenses apart from more content - no additional links or anything

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