I wrote this article as an experiment. I'm looking for a particular type of traffic (not you, believe it or not). If you read the whole thing (and I feel your pain), you'll know exactly what kind of traffic I'm talking about.

I want to you to zoom it, stumble it, plugg it and sphinn it. Damn, that sounds familiar, like a song or someth

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Vic really nails it on the head for many/most of us with this article on what what Blogging Zoom is and mostly what Blogging Zoom is not!rnrnI'm guilty as charged! And so are you! We all need to quit the whining about trying to get traffic and "zooms" etc and get to following Vic's well-put suggestions. Vic really knows how to get the

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Another straight to the point article from Vic. this ones about adsense, adwords and newbies.

from the article:

I received an email pointing me to a post on a noob website where the title is Adsense Isn’t Enough To Make Money Online and he asked me about his new niche blog should he use adsense. Firs of noobs should not be writing shi

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It’s awkward finding yourself less-than-properly-attired. Such is my life, occasionally.

Those that know me from my former orange-boxed existence know that I loath trousers and everything trouser-related. Yes, I hate pants. More to the point, I hate wearing pants. Societal and cultural norms are the only things that keep my lower 40 covere

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Finding your own voice in blogging is an important part of blogging.


So many people blog by standing up and screaming at the big guys saying hay please look at me. If you will only link to me then I'll be great too. The issues is this does not help to build a bl

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Alright guys the time has come for you to be able to look at a case study of keyword sniping. Since many of you have asked, I decided to create a site from scratch for you.

I went through the entire process: choosing keywords, buying a domain, setting up hosting, seo, content development, and more. There's an open door policy on the pos

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To close out the year, and hopefully put an end to the endless series of ‘question’ posts that I’ve had between Christmas and now, I thought I’d ask about what resolutions you have for the new year, that are specifically related to blogging.

I resolve to...

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Full Metal Jacket gives you two movies in one! That’s right, this film artfully fuses two movies together to create one great flick, which has writer/director Stanley Kubrick’s fingerprints all over it.

The first half of the film focuses on newly recruited (or drafted) Marines as they endure basic training with an intense drill sergeant, G

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It was a special day at the temple. I never learned which one, which deity from the pantheon I know little about was being feted for supernatural feats. People from across the city of 12 million had gathered at the largest temple in the region. Fridays are not usually busy days for religious observance in boomtown. I love old things. Maybe th

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The images and story behind a trip to a temple in China. Guangxiao is was build in the 4th century in Guangzhou, China. It was seen the world change for almost 1000 years. The people at the temple still pray as their ancestors did. The photographs show people at worship among centuries old buildings. Shooting photographs at a temple is tricky

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What a hilarious idea! Pimping Thanksgiving dinner with an unusual twist: This is from a site called tampon crafts - no seriously, they make all sorts of awesome, weird and funny stuff with tampons. I cannot believe that there’s a whole website dedicated to the art of, well, tampon crafting. But don’t worry, they seem to be fresh tampons and

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Humorous commentary and news regarding Celine Dion. The little diva canceled a show planned for Halifax, Canada. The park was unsuitable, said her handlers. Funny, both The Pope, and The Stones have used the same park. Is Celine bigger than The Stones? More popular than The Pope? Or, is she deluded? Most likely, the latter. I wish she was on

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We blog because we enjoy doing it. While some of us are hobbyists, we share a common goal with professional bloggers: we want our blogs to be successful. We bring our blogging activities to the next level: blog-hopping, commenting, social networking, and the like. Question is: was there a point that it affects your main job? Do you have a sch

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I have been exploring if there are any blogging advantages in joining Traffic Exchange sites in an attempt to get more visitors to my blog.

This has had some mixed results. The first few days were going quite well. I had increased my visitor count and heck, some of you were even sticking around to read this crap.

The last few days thoug

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Courtney Tuttle recently wrote an article discussing Google's attack on blogs that used or even mentioned PayPerPost. Of course, the conversation turned to Google’s practices and if they’re potentially illegal under US and EU anti-monopoly laws. Court and Vic see it as them simply protecting their interest in maintaining an accurate measure

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