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WordPress JetPack on new Installs

I just completed a brand new WordPress installation on a new niche site. Actually- I’ve been writing about homeschooling for a very long time and I have hundreds of articles about homeschooling on OTHER websites,but for some reason I didn’t have a homeschool niche site of my own.  Lame,I know.  Apparently 18,000 people [...]

Review:Izea Social Spark

SocialSpark

SocialSpark is a company that pays you to blog on your own website. It’s best for niche bloggers who want to eek a little extra cash from their site,bloggers who are having trouble making money with keyword-based advertising models like adsense and all writers who enjoy the challenge of writing impromptu posts on [...]

Lazy Blogger’s Guide to Creating Backlinks

When I was actively writing for Suite101,I felt that creating backlinks was a waste of time. Like Felicia,I felt that SEO was enough,and my higher-than-average earnings and traffic was a testament. I wrote about the philosophy in the post How Much Time Should You Spend Promoting Your Articles

Since then,Google [...]

Great Opportunity for Parenting Niche (and the free ebook rocks)

It’s called the Happier Kids Now 2010 Online Expo and it’s designed specifically for Parents,Teachers and Homeschoolers. And it’s a way for you to not only make a difference,but earn profitable commission.

Rhonda Ryder and Patrick McMillan,two Parenting authors have lined up incredible speakers like Marianne Williamson,Bruce Lipton,Marci Shimoff,Robin [...]

Somebody hid the wonder wheel

My story has been repeated a hundred times this week,by other niche bloggers- but if you’re not reading them,you might not have known. It starts like this-

I’m building a niche site (first new one in 2010)

I need to choose my categories. I want them related. I want google to see me [...]

How to Write a Roundup Article

Roundup articles are a little like “freebies”for web content writers.  Presumably you’ve been writing in the same niche for a while and have several articles about a few very precise topics.

Mini Touchscreen Laptop –irrelevant but awesome

A roundup article is basically a compilation of all those articles,with links to several [...]

note to self:never publish this

I keep a page with this title on each one of my sites,saved as a draft or password protected. I use it as a general “things to do next”and a place to document the invisible work I’ve done on the site. It’s amazing that I can remember what each of my six kids [...]

10 signs that the Internet hates you

What- did I really just say that? The entire internet itself can’t hate someone,and why would it pick on little old me? Please,say it ain’t so.

It might be…If you’re not ‘feeling the love”from the energy you put into your niche blogs,there might be a reason.

Over the past 3 [...]

Awesome free widget from Facebook

I absolutely love Facebook’s Activity Feed for web developers.  it creates a sidebar widget that you can use to see which of your blog posts are being “shared”most often on Facebook.

I created one for a client’s website and it was so easy,I decided to do a few for some of my own [...]

Dirty Tricks are Not Cool

OK- I have a lot of mom writer friends on my Facebook friends list. I’m here today to talk some well-deserved SMACK about one of them. I don’t have professional contact with this woman,she writes for a few revenue sharing sites. As far as I can tell,it’s a hobby.

She posted a [...]