The best part about writing is you can do it anywhere. Sitting on the bus jotting down notes, at school, in the office,at lunch time and when you really make time to write something special. The hardest part is deciding what you need to write about and what needs to be told. Always carry a notebook with you because its hard t

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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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When it comes to using your skills as a writer to make money writing, one of the best sources out there is Constant Content. The idea is similar to Associated Content, where you can submit original articles and get paid for them. The difference is that you get paid a lot more by Constant Content, but you have to be patient whil

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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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When it comes to writing, a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous. Even the nicest among us can turn into grammar snobs. I know, because I used to be one. But I realized I shouldn't bother thinking I know everything about writing, because that would be nearly impossible. So, I developed a simple three-step writing process that helps work

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With all the subjects that a person can write about, I’m really surprised to find that so many prolific bloggers out there never seem to write about the very same thing twice. This isn’t to say that we don’t write about the same subject, though. What I find really interesting is the apparent lack of people writing a “Version 2.

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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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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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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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I've heard plenty of marketing gurus tout the amazing benefits of public speaking. They speak of how it will grow speaking business by leaps and bounds as you fill theaters with people waiting to buy what you're selling.

The only problem is not everyone is a good speaker. Just because you can stand and speak in front of crowd without get

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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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Summer is just around the corner, and the staggering heat of the Japanese sun will soon bake us into exhaustion with its ceaseless presence. Last year the mercury reached 43.2 Celcius in some parts of Gifu prefecture, and this past April we were treated to termeratures in the low 30’s. Aside from a few weeks in February, both t

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So many bloggers on the internet spend hours looking for ways to make money on the internet. We all probably know that the best apparent way to make money online via a blog is to drive traffic to your site and get people click on your adsense or other pay per click ads. But what are the ods of that actually happening, given t

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I think I have a new addiction. Well ... it's not new ... but it's certainly an unexpected one. I love blogging, and I'm willing to drop good amounts of cash to make sure I can keep blogging. Does this make me an addict?

Perhaps. But when we pick up a hobby, we can either do the bare minimum and get some passive enjoy

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Earthling, blogging is a highly enjoyable way to pass the time until we figure out how to fix our saucy saucer for intergalactic travel. We are highly intelligent, super-smart beings and we are one million years more advanced than you... but we do not hold that against you. We love Earthlings! We are happy to help you by offeri

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