After almost 4 full months, I recently took the blog rush widget off Home with Heather.  The widget had been displayed on my blog faithfully from mid September.  I was even following the "rules", and kept the widget about the fold.  The most prime spot on any blog.

It still brought me hardly

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This is the conclusion I have come to concerning BlogRush. If you are already getting tons of hits, like JohnChow or Shoemoney, both of whom have recently posted topics about BlogRush, then the BlogRush widget works for you. John Chow is getting something around a .35% CTR with BlogRush. That's not great, but it's not horrible either. I thi

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Scratch back is a Google safe method for monetizing your blog! If you are using Review Me, Pay Per Post, or other paid linking method, Google is going to find you and send your page rank into the abyss.
The great news is there is now a new way to monetize your blog, while creating some great outbound links, that is completely "Google Safe

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In this post, I am going to share with you how to install the popular posts widget for blogs. This widget will display a list of your popular articles, ranked by the number of views.

List of popular posts is, by far, the most difficult widget to implement and I had seen very little work on this area. Earlier, I have used a version from Aff

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After reading Doug Karr’s story on firing the widgets from his blog, including the Technorati badge that he wrote himself, I finally decided to remove the BlogRush widgets from my sidebar. I don’t have FuelMyBlog widget, so I don’t need to worry about that one. I didn’t install Doug’s Technorati badge here, since my server is still using an o

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If you want to remove the nofollow tag from a blog based on Wordpress, it’s pretty simple - you can use a plugin or just modify comments.php file from your template. But when it comes to Blogger, that’s another story.

First of all, it’s impossible to remove nofollow tag from Classic Blogger templates, because they use the variable {$Commen

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Google AdSense has raised an army of online advisers who throw money at publishers to put their ads on their website. But a new theme of advertising is gaining momentum. These are Widget Ads. Widget based ads entice the user to play with the ad block and hopefully click on it.

Read the rest of this post on TeqEdge Blog at http://blog.Teq

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If you want to make money blogging, it's not just blogging you have to focus on. A little bit of onsite SEO work will go a long way. And it's not magic, even though it may seem that way. It just takes a little effort that will pay off in the long run. The tone of the post is a little different though and I hope everyone enjoy

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Learn how to use WordPress as a Content Management System in this latest article in the series with a real world example plus screenshots of plugins used with tips on how to work with them. WordPress has evolved beyond a blogging platform to a complete CMS solution, and WebFadds.com used it for the Fifth Avenue Advisors websit

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Rss feeds otherwise known as really simple syndication is now an extremely popular feature on any website or blog. Infact you will be hard pushed to find a blog that does`nt use it, but just wht can you do with an RSS feed here are my 10 suggestions.

1. Get One.

First of all you need to make an RSS feed here si a step-by

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For those new blogger’s out there, you might have been notice that most of the blog you have visited, there is this widget consisting of the list of blog post that the blog author was previously posted.

These widgets consist of the “Recent Posts”,usually located on the blog side bar.

How to add Recent posts widget on yo

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Most people know about WordPress as excellent blogging software -- but how do you use it as a full CMS -- Content Management System? Learn how in this series that covers websites using this popular open source software as a CMS solution.

This article in the series covers NEXTbusNews.com and explains how the marketing team

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I found this great widget from MSNBC that shows the primary election results. It is a leaderboard with each candidate and their current standings as well as the number of delegates needed. The top three for each party is readily visible, but if your readers click on the link they can see all of the candidates and their standing

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