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1. What was the main point of this post? have I made it clearly? 2. What do I want readers of this post to do? have I led them to this action? 3. Have I written something useful? 4. Have I written something unique? 5. Has what I’ve written taken ...more

Last week’s article in the Wall Street Journal revealed that my blog earnings are in excess of $250,000 per year (a very ballpark figure). The problem with these type of articles is that they report in a few words just one element of a story – in this case my ...more

In this post I give a first impression review of Aweber. Building a newsletter list has been a central part of my blogging business over the last few years. While my blogs are the primary tool that I use to communicate with readers – I find that having a newsletter ...more

AdSense have sent publishers using the AdSense referral program who live outside of the US, Canada and Japan an email confirming that the program will be retired as of 31 January (published below). The email came from a ‘noreply’ email address – so publishers have no way of feeding back ...more

Yesterday I shared some of the costs and beefits of running a competition on your blog. I ended that post by asking: “So how does one run a competition on their blog that brings more benefits than it costs?” In this post I want to walk you through everything I ...more

‘How do I run a successful competition on my blog?’ Competitions on blogs have become increasingly common in 2007 with an increased number of high profile blogs running them. As a result many smaller to medium sized blogs are considering them also. The problem is that a competition can actually ...more

Last week I was chatting to a new blogger and he asked me “how do you manage to keep coming up with post ideas for my blogs?” It’s a question I get a fair bit – and one I’ve struggled to answer… until recently. It sounds odd that I don’t ...more

Here’s a really good question: what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? It’s a question every blogger asks themselves. I want to answer it here by outlining 7 content methods that seem to work wonders on social media while also generating a lot of ...more

One compositional technique that I teach in Digital Photography is to give your portrait subject space to look into when framing your shot. You can see it in the image below – but the basic principle is that if your subject is looking to one side of the frame – ...more