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Textbroker…nevermind

I haven’t been over to textbroker for a while.  There are a few reasons.

#1- I’ve faxed in my w9  and  apparently they didn’t get it. Even though the fax machine said the transmission succeeded and all the other documents I sent that day,to several other companies were received just fine.  I don’t have [...]

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 [...]

SEO browser plugins for Chrome

I use a mini laptop,so I don’t have a lot of screen space. In exchange,I get to take my computer everywhere my busy lifestyle needs me.  I have six kids who are always wanting to go to a friend’s house,to tap dancing classes,jazz,singing,drama,the library,girl scouts,science club,[...]

Free Download- "Things to do Online"Printable

What are you doing for your niche-blog work today? Do you know? One thing I do on my most successful days is to make a list. Sometimes it’s a pre-meditated list of things to do and other times it’s a list of things I’m doing as I do them.

I don’t think it matters much [...]

The secret behind those "Win a free laptop"ads.

My teenage daughters like to click on ads that say “Get a Free MacBook Pro for Answering a Survey.”Actually,so does my husband. He also enjoys talking on the phone with telemarketers,but that’s another story.

Have you ever done one of those surveys in order to win a laptop or something? By the [...]

Another site for bookmarking

Free blogging platforms are great for creating incoming links. I just found another,Salon.com has a blog network that you can use to create incoming links and direct traffic from your other sites. You get 100% of all three google ads on the page,which is nice. You also get a sidebar of links that [...]

Q- How much time should you spend promoting your articles?

A- none.

I know there are advocates out there for massive article-promotion campaigns,but I’m not one of them and I’ll tell you why.

#1- your article is REALLY only interesting to a few people- people who SEARCH google,yahoo,bing,etc for that information. If your SEO is on target,they will find it. [...]

Putting Ads on a Blog

A long time ago,I signed up for the chitika ad network. I think it was Felicia that referred me,she reported that they were bringing her more income than her adsense ads. I liked them because they were keyword-based,but not because of the content on the page,because of the words someone searched [...]