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For a rookie blogger, there’s nothing more disheartening than seeing "0 COMMENTS" at the end of a six-day-old post. Or checking your traffic stats on SiteMeter and finding you’ve gotten only three page views that day: two from your mother and one from someone who was looking for nude photos of Jennifer Lopez and Googled his way to your post about knitting booties for your infant niece.
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Getting started with AdSense is easy, but when reviewing the applications we get, we’ve noticed a few common pitfalls. To help make sure your application is approved the first time around, ask yourself the following questions below before submitting.
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A new release of Wordpress 2.3 was shipped last night. One of the features it sports is:

Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.

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Q:I’m thinking of starting a blog and am curious about selling advertising on it. Do bloggers make much money from ads? How would I go about selling ads on my site? I have a full-time job, so I don’t need to make a living off of this, but it would be great to bring in a few extra bucks.

A: From a business point of view, there are two reasons to start a blog. One is as a marketing tool to bring exposure, credibility and clientele to an existing business - for instance, using a blog about gardening to promote a local plant nursery.
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It is so easy to make money with a blog. Whether the purpose of your blog is to get traffic to your sales page or to sell affiliate products or to get Adsense clicks, getting your blog onto the first page of Google can be done quickly and easily. Using the following quick tips you could get listed on the first page of Google for some keywords within a month or two, depending on how competitive your niche is.
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Writing a great headline means crafting an enticing invitation to a prospective reader. It’s not the whole story, nor is it an attempt to convince anyone to do anything other than to keep reading. That being said, it seems you can’t move two pages on the web without tripping across a poorly-crafted headline. While many contain one or more necessary elements, other factors are often left out of the headline, diminishing the overall power and draw of this critical aspect of your copy.
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The biggest temptation for newbies to Internet Marketing is to find a program to earn instant money online. But if you want to build a sustainable, profitable business, you really need to focus on strategies that will grow your wealth slowly but surely. Earning instant money online is possible, but will depend on the knowledge, experience and skills of the person, and usually the results aren’t consistent in the long run.
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Every day bloggers and members of the media are looking for stories to talk about. If you are afraid to be associated with and talk about your own projects how can you expect others to talk about it? How can you get people to talk about you as much as they talk about competing channels if you are anonymous?
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You’ve probably heard of people turning their blogs into moneymaking machines. Maybe you want to copy their success. Well, you can make money with your blog. However, there are a few things you must know first. Some bloggers claim to earn thousands of dollars a month. For most, blogging simply provides supplemental income. It’s good to aim high, but have reasonable expectations. (more…)

Blogging is a web publishing format that lends itself well to sites with frequently updated content, and since it’s become so popular, there are a wide variety of software and services that make it an easy scene to get into. There are many different content management systems designed specifically to manage a blog, and they fall under two main classifications: blogging services hosted by various companies, and blogging software you install yourself.
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With the rush to create content, it’s easy to forget that all business communications directed to the public are subject to a variety of laws, regulations and other legal concerns. This article provides a high-level overview of the key points to keep in mind as you assess whether your company-related blog is legally compliant. (more…)

The idea of passive income is obviously one that many people strive for - and it’s a term that I’ve heard used many times to describe online income streams - including blogging. Unfortunately I wouldn’t use the term passive income to describe blogging for money.
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From Blog Ads to IntelliTXT to Google AdSense to ReviewMe, there’s a bountiful array of ad revenue streams for smalltime bloggers and site publishers. Enter yet another: AdVolcano. The online ad marketplace aims to complement the growing auto-ad options; in fact, it’s using some of those similar services to promote itself.
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We all know that the power of Google is omnipresent, right? That’s a given. Zillions of people search Google.com googillions of times a day, creating search engine-driven traffic to sites and blogs the world over. That many millions of dollars exchange hands due to these actions, via Google Adwords and Adsense and advertising on referral websites, is a mysterious thing and a fountain of wealth for those who get it right.
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Linkbaiting is one of the oldest tricks in the book, as SEOs would say. But the problem is getting big today because social bookmarkers and social news sites are being gamed for linklove’s sake. Take DIGG, for example. I’ve been noticing blogs that mostly publish made-for-DIGG headlines and articles.
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