You now know that using images on your blog is a good thing. You’ve probably heard about it before or even tried out using images from Google, but this isn’t a very good method to practice - images you find via Google and other search engines are most likely copyrighted, which means that they belong to someone else and you don’t have the righ

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There comes a time in the life of every bl(d)og owner when the unthinkable has to be considered. It isn't easy, and it isn't fair. What will you do when your faithful companion no longer fetches readers and can barely load it's pages in the morning? How will you react when you have to make that fateful decision? And what the heck am I talk

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It's a good thing that I had the good sense to set up Google Alerts, informing me any time my blog posts or site name are linked to from anywhere in the Blogosphere. While it has the benefit of letting me know of someone who felt my content was worth linking to, it also provides me notice of anyone who might have the nerve and utter audacity

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I visited several blogs at random searching for paid post keywords like “sponsored”, “PayPerPost”, “Smorty” and found out that there are a few blogs that still survived the Google Nuke. I won’t list them down here for obvious reasons. They are not that many. It seems roughly out of ever 10 blogs I found, 2 had survived. I wonder what made thi

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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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Google has been hunting down and nearly extermination the PageRank on sites that sell text links. eMom managed to avoid the first round of penalties but got hit during the last slap-fest.rnrnGoogle dropped her to PR3 this time, and this post gives what eMom is currently thinking about the situation. Like everyone else that got hit you can

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I recently had the highest traffic day ever on my blog.
Nearly all the traffic came from StumbleUpon and Blogging Zoom.
I have heard some say that traffic from StumbleUpon is not quality traffic. I am finding the opposite to be true. The traffic I got from StumbleUpon and Blogging Zoom is far superior to what I have been getting from Google

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As an Ex-Fireman it really pisses me off to constantly hear news reporters emphasize the loss of "MULTI-MILLION Dollar" homes. As if the loss of a cheaper home is any less of a loss to a family that has nothing left to come home to. I understand that the loss of precious art, historical items, and great architecture; however most of the "M

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Have you’ve ever seen a trackback to your blog that has a "Here’s a quick excerpt" line in it? When you look at the blog that sent this you will see an excerpt of your article that’s around 350 characters long surrounded by meaningless text. It looks like a normal blog except that it is obviously generated by a scraping program. Many people

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