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Reader Question: How Can I Better Monetize my Established Blog?

Posted by Jonathan
March 26, 2009

This is the first post in an ongoing series of reader questions. I’m more than happy to answer reader questions (well, attempt to as least). So feel free to contact me and I’ll be happy to try and help!
This week’s question comes from Clive who runs an established blog called Fan Cinema Today.
Clive’s Question:
I’ve run [...]

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Wordpress Wednesday: Savings Goal Tracker Widget for Wordpress

Posted by Jonathan
February 25, 2009

This is one thing that I can’t believe there isn’t a working Wordpress plugin for, a simple savings goal monitor.
Many people like to show off their savings goal on their blogs. It helps motivate them to achieve their goals and gives a personal insight into your goals.
There’s a very cool tool from Dollar Times which [...]

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Checking For a Domain Name Safely

Posted by Jonathan
February 24, 2009

When it comes time to brainstorm what domain you’d like to choose for your niche blog, it’s a good idea to use a safe domain checker. Why?
Though it’s frowned upon, some domain registrars monitor when people check for available domains and if they think it might be valuable enough, they’ll snatch if before you have [...]

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Please Don’t Write Blog Posts in Word

Posted by Jonathan
February 5, 2009

It’s second nature to write with MS Word. We’ve been trained to use it our whole lives. And that’s fine. But blogging is a different medium and it does not play well with Word.
Many of my guest bloggers and pretty much everyone else, automatically write everything in Word. This is fine and all. But the [...]