Posted March 14th, 2010 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
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You're presumably reading this blog because you want to make money as a blogger.
Whether you want to make a lot or a little is irrelevant. In the world of blogging it is very possible for the average Joe blow blogger to make at least $1400 a month. The only major secret is constant effort.
To be successful and make fat
Posted March 12th, 2010 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
I have an idea for a new business network revolving around social media, application development, and blogging.
My idea is to get some application developers, wordpress theme developers, bloggers. Start a site dedicated to coming up with new ideas for applications. Visitors will be able to submit their ideas for applications. Each idea will be
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I know it seems like yesterday since 2.8 was released and according to Blog Herald they are already releasing their first upgrade. Go ahead and upgrade now while the getting is good. I'm sure the wordpress 2.8.1 update is just some security fixes here and there, but better to be safe than sorry.
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A Blog without Comments is Social Media without the Social
I've been a long time subscriber of GarryConn.com who blogs about making money online, blogging, and affiliate marketing and other similar topics. Today he announced that he is going to stop accepting comments on his blog.
Sure it's his blog, he can do
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Is icecream fattening? Is the iphone a hot ticket item? Does the sun set in the west?
If you answer no to any of these questions then, you're obviously from another world, and social media does not even apply to you.
On the other hand if you're from Earth, and call yourself human then social media or new media is
Posted June 30th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Life Hacks
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I'm certain that I'm not the first person to complain that there's just not enough time in the day to get things done. In fact I know of at least one other blogger who tipped me off on the polyphasic sleep cycle which he got from another blog on How to Hack Your Brain. This advanced sleep re-patterning is called:
This is the simplest tip I'll ever write about - it's also the hardest.
How can you guarantee more traffic?
WRITE MORE POSTS!
Did I say it loud enough for you? Fact: There are a million different things you can do to try and optimize your blog, but if you don't have the traffic it doesn't matter. Each blog post I write will bring in at least
Posted April 21st, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
SEO, SEM, SMM
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Link building is an essential necessity for all bloggers, unless you don't want to be indexed by google and drive a ton of traffic to your blog, then by all means - skip right past this blog post.
Here is a definitive - simple list of things you can do to get incoming links.
Give away Freebies
Contribute to
Posted April 15th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
Social Media
What do you Blog About When...
Since I myself am having a brain fart, and am wanting to get one post out before I take off for the day. (Going to see Monsters vs Aliens - 3D.) I thought I'd ask everyone the question - what do you blog about when you can't think of a topic?
I think I'm going to make it a habit of posting Questions to the
This is my input on day two of Problogger's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. Day 2 Darren wrote about the benefits of writing list posts.
I have often stated how lists are a great format for pulling content together in a neat, and precise method that will grab the attention of your visitors.
Darren of course being the master