Conventional blogging wisdom provides all kinds of ways we can make our blogs better. Content is king! Write epic shit! Engage your audience! It seems many of us are just waiting for the right moment to quit our jobs and make money online, and we all love reading articles that might help us reach those goals.

  Do you remember the moment when you first realized you could make money on the internet? I remember vividly because it wasn’t very long ago. I had just returned to blogging after an absence of more than a decade (“blogging” wasn’t even a word when I left), and everything was different. There were alternatives.

  With just a few days left in 2012, there’s no better time to think about next year’s goals for your blog or website. Even if your site is just a hobby, there are steps you can take to make sure it’s the best it can be, and this is the perfect time to do.

  One of my first posts here was an introduction to search engine optimization, or SEO. If you haven’t read that post and are new to SEO, I highly suggest that you start there to get an idea of the concepts that will be discussed in this post. I recently received an email from a.

What does blogging success look like to you? Is it the number of visitors, subscribers, or followers you have? The amount of money you make? Being able to quit your job and earn a full-time income from your blog(s)? No matter how you define it, I think most bloggers do what we do - at.

This is a guest post from my good friend Carrie at Careful Cents. Visit Carrie’s site to read about her adventures as the most driven and motivated freelancer I’ve ever met!   Once you’ve been bitten by the online entrepreneur bug (like I have), it’s hard to resist the urge to start multiple online endeavors.

  Yesterday I came across a new blog and wanted to contact the owner. Imagine my surprise when, after about ten minutes of searching, I realized that there was no possible way to get in touch with him other than leaving a public comment on one of his posts. I tweeted about it, only to find.

I’ve had several emails asking for explanations of RSS feeds and Feedburner. While the concept of RSS is pretty easy, there really isn’t a great way for a new blogger to learn about it. Hopefully this will help. RSS stands for RDF Site Summary, but it’s better known as Really Simple Syndication. Basically it’s a.

  When you have a blog, it’s a good idea to post on a fairly regular schedule. If you go too long without new content, people might assume that you’ve fallen off the earth. Also, if people know when your posts are coming, they’ll be able to time their visits accordingly. Despite our best intentions,.

Every now and then, Feedburner acts crazy when you set up a new RSS/email feed. I’ve gone through the setup process dozens of times, yet earlier today I encountered the dreaded double title and could NOT get it fixed for the life of me. Basically, when someone clicked the blog’s RSS subscription button, they got.