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Sometimes it’s best to let the readers of your blog recommend affiliate products instead of doing it yourself. As much as I often talk about blogs being a great way to build credibility and trust with your readers and how that credibility and trust can lead to nice returns when ...more

Matthew Haughey from Fortuitous has posted some good tips for building online communities. He does this out of his experience with mega-community site – MetaFilter. The main points were as follows (bold is their points – the rest is some of my reflections as it applies to blogging – some ...more

Nate has posted an article titled The Pressures of Blogging Consistently which outlines four pressures that bloggers face: Pressure #1: Regularly posting articles Pressure #2. Ever-increasing expectations Pressure #3. Catering to a larger audience Pressure #4. Lacking confidence All very true points and some worthwhile things to ponder before getting ...more

One of the income streams that I’ve been using lately that’s really starting to prove to be a worthwhile one is the Amazon Associates Program. I’ve noticed an upswing in the earnings from the program over the last few months and have been a little confused as to why there’s ...more

TypePad has added the ability to make pages and Blogger has added Auto Saving to it’s feature list – via Blogging Pro. Lorelle VanFossen has released her book on blogging – Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You about Blogging – looks like a good read. Steve Woodruff presents a ...more

One principle of SEO that is fairly widely accepted and taught by SEOs is the benefits of having frequently updated content. The idea that Google and other search engines feed on fresh content is one that I’ve heard talked about on many occasions. However it doesn’t always seem to be ...more

Today I was digging through Joseph Sugarman’s ‘Advertising Secrets of the Written Word‘ and came across a section describing how he teaches students to work out the sequence of ad copy. Without rehashing the whole chapter his style is very much about identifying a reader need and then leading them ...more

Modern Life has put together an interesting analysis of the length of posts that the Technorati Top 100 blogs have done in their most recent 10 posts – ‘The vast majority of posts were over 100 words and under 500.’ I wonder what ProBlogger’s average was! Jeremy builds on the ...more

A couple of days back I linked in a speedlinking post to a WP plugin called WP Text Ads – a plugin that allows bloggers to sell their own text links. In that post I asked if anyone had used it and offered to publish a review of one if ...more