One of the network morning shows (can’t remember which one) recently did a segment about making money online in which they presented a sure fire way to succeed:

Sign up for a free blog
Create good interesting content
Sign up for Google Adsense
Sit back and watch the money come rolling in

If it were only that simple.
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Weblog Tools Collection posted an article warning people to avoid blog themes from Blogstheme.com. Apparently the site takes themes developed by other designers, modifies the footer to suit their own promotional and advertising needs, and makes them available for free download. The moral of the story — if you haven’t learned to build your [...]

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Back on October 1st I wrote about DoFollow (the counter option to the default nofollow setting for blog comments) attracting a new breed of spam I called “fringe spam” (seemingly legitimate very general comment that points to an obvious spam URL). I’ve received more comments on that post than I normally do, and, surprisingly enough, [...]

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DoFollow is the counter movement to the nofollow default setting for blog comments. Gaining significant popularity since its inception DoFollow sounded great on the surface but not everyone was convinced it was worth the risk. An escalation in comment spam was the primary fear, but anti-spam plug-ins such as Akismet have managed to keep [...]

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List blogging is a popular and effective form of writing a post. Come up with an idea and then invent a list of three, five, or seven things that relate to the topic and create a post. Keeping with this idea you can find countless articles offering a list of ways to become a [...]

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As I continue to think about a site redesign for TechTraction I have started thinking about the most important parts of a blog beyond the main content. One such critical component is the RSS feed link. This link is critical to building a readership for any blog but all too often it’s difficult to [...]

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Overall the voting on last week’s poll was less than I had hoped. Even with a second post asking for participation, I still didn’t see an overwhelming increase. Nevertheless, the results are in.
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Sorry everyone but I had hoped more people would participate in my reader poll from last week (8/27/07). I’m still planning on doing a recap of the comments along with links back to a comment author’s web site, but so far the comments and votes have been extremely low. Not sure if the low [...]

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Last week I wrote about a simple tweak you could insert into the main “while post loop” of your theme’s index.php file. The tweak outlined simple steps for adding a counter to the primary display loop in order to insert a conditional “if statement” which helped determine whether to display the full post or [...]

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There is a bit of a debate about whether to display full text or excerpts on the main page of your blog. I sit in the middle of this debate: I like displaying full text for the most recent post, but prefer excerpts for everything else. I get this balance by manually inserting [...]

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