My Surprising Lesson About Making Money Blogging

This site covers how to start a blog, build traffic and make money blogging. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! On the surface it makes sense that blogging more frequently brings more traffic, and more traffic means making more money blogging, right? That is, […]

Three More Great WordPress Plug-Ins

In addition to the 10 Must-Have WordPress plug-ins I mentioned earlier, I’ve found three more to add to the list:

Advanced Permalinks: If you’ve ever tried converting from an ugly or date-based permalink structure to something more SEO-friendly like /category/postname/ permalinks, then you know the frustration of discovering that none of your old permalinks work. With […]

Back Up Your Data Painlessly

Having spent the majority of last weekend trying to reconstruct one of my sites after a data loss, I’m determined to never go through that kind of stress again. I’m now performing weekly automated backups and have tasked myself with a reminder to perform monthly manual backup, too.
If the thought performing your own backup leaves […]

Thank You!

I’ve been meaning to extend a hearty “Thank You!” to Amanda at Brandon’s Puppy for her kind donation earlier this month.
It’s always gratifying to know that some of my advice has been helpful, and cold hard cash always makes me smile!

Writing Paid Entries With Value

In the time that it took you to brush your teeth this morning, roughly 120 new blogs were launched. By this time tomorrow, another 86,400 will have joined the fold. There’s a new blog born every second, and you can bet the overwhelming majority of new bloggers would jump at the chance to earn money […]

Coming Up Next Week

Here are a few of the entry topics I’ll be covering over the next 7 days for those of you who like to plan ahead:
• Writing paid entries with value;
• The latest WordPress plug-ins I’ve fallen in love with;
• Outbound links and your link value;*
• The one surprising lesson I learned last week about […]

6 Simple Steps To Changing Blog Hosts

In response to my invitation for you to request topics for future entries, Pam asked for information about moving her WordPress blog to a new host. Assuming that you’re keeping the same domain name and moving from one self-hosted site to another, it’s a surprisingly simple task that can be accomplished in 6 […]

Manage Affiliate Links With WordPress Affiliate Pro

There are, ultimately, two ways to make money with your blog:
1. By writing your little heart out; and/or
2. Through advertising.
The key to making #2 work is, ironically enough, doing #1 since writing your little heart out will bring traffic, and traffic’s essential to making money through advertising.
I’ve been writing my little heart out for a […]

Rassin’ Frassin’ Brain Fart

I decided to take advantage of the long 3-day weekend to clean my office. It was long overdue. My collection of books on marketing, copywriting, advertising and computers had grown from one stack to four, all of which were gathering dust because I’ve been too busy with online projects to actually crack open an old-fashioned […]

WordPress 2.5 Preview

The folks at WordPress are preparing to release version 2.5 next month. The new version features a major overhaul to the administrative back-end of the system with an all-new Dashboard, media uploader, write dialog screen and other nice little bells and whistles.
But you don’t have to wait for a full month to find out what […]

Why PPC Banner Ads Don’t Make Bloggers Money

I confess I’ve never been much of a fan of banner ads at the top of blogs. I consider them an impediment to readers — visual clutter, if you will, between a reader and what they came looking for.
Interestingly, you won’t find them at the top of the truly big money-making sites like ProBlogger or […]

What Do You Think You’re Worth?

If you’re happy making $5 here and $7 there, you probably won’t even read this. If you think it’s too risky to pass by that guaranteed money today in favor of investing time and effort in the hope of making far more a few weeks from now, well, you probably won’t read this, either. […]

Are You A PageWanker?

They say the first step in recovery is admitting that you have a problem. So, let me begin by saying:
Hello, my name is Kate and I am a PageWanker. It’s been 2 weeks, 4 days and 13 hours since I last checked my future page rank predictions.
Fortunately, I’m now taking part in a 12-step program […]

How To Send A TrackBack From Blogger

Yesterday I covered how and why to use trackbacks with a WordPress blog.
If you’re using a blogging program that doesn’t include the ability to automatically send trackbacks you can — and should — still use them for all of the same reasons. You’ll just have to do it manually.
Here’s how, in six simple […]

How And Why To Use Trackbacks

Recently, Donna B. asked:
I was wondering it you could write on the value or non-value of trackbacks and how to do them in Wordpress.
You bet I can. In fact, I consider trackbacks one of the most underused forms of publicity available to bloggers, second only to leaving insightful comments at other blogs within their own […]

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