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How Making Money Blogging Has Been Looked at the Wrong Way by Thousands of Bloggers

How Making Money Blogging Has Been Looked at the Wrong Way by Thousands of Bloggers

by Alex · 80 comments

in Favorites, Monetization

Aren’t I just full of revelations this week? On Monday I talked about the degration of quality content, and now I want to share why I think many people are looking at making money online incorrectly.

Before I begin, I just want to let you guys know that I’m not making six figures online and that I do have some ways to go before I start earning enough to support myself. But, I do feel that for a 16 year old, I am coming up with some pretty decent money from my online ventures. And I can do it because of how open minded I am becoming on the topic.

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What has our Perception of “Quality Content” been turned into?

What has our Perception of “Quality Content” been turned into?

by Alex

Lately, I have been thinking about what makes a post so great and appealing to make someone want to actually read it. We have talked about writing more interesting headlines, and keeping a consistent post frequency, but I feel like we have missed the point a little bit when we talk about writing great articles.
In [...]

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Breakdown of the 28 Plugins That Have Contributed to our Growth

Breakdown of the 28 WordPress Plugins That Have Contributed to the Growth of our Blog

by Alex

If you use Wordpress, there’s no doubt that you know of all the free plugins and modifications available for it. Without all of these plugins, a lot of the features found on many blogs today wouldn’t exist.
In this article, I want to share with you guys the 28 plugins we currently have installed here and [...]

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How To Fight Spam Without Effecting User Expereince

How To Fight Spam Without Affecting User Experience

by Ishan Sharma

Most bloggers use strong anti spam measures to protect their blogs from spam. However, these measures can hurt user experience. In this post, I have explained how you can retain a good User Experience and still combat spam effectively.

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5 Easy Blog Improvements in under 5 Minutes

5 Easy Blog Improvements in under 5 Minutes

by Alex

Your blog is not perfect. There are many things you can do to improve your blog, and after reading this post – you will be glad you made some of these changes.

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How to Create A Schedule You Will Actually Stick With

How to Create A Schedule You Will Actually Stick With

by Alex

Sticking to a schedule is one of the most effective ways to blog. You can plan out a large variety of things, like when you will write, when you will promote, when you will take off, etc. A calendar, or schedule is really a very helpful thing to have around when you are trying to [...]

54 comments
Refresh your Blogging Process

Refresh your Blogging Process in 4 Steps

by Ashwin

In this article, Ashwin from Thoughts Unlimited goes over the PDCA method and how that can help you treat your blog more like a business. If you would like to write a post for us, check our guest post page for details.
I am sure most of you reading this post are either actively running a [...]

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The Secrets to More Effective Blogging

The Secrets to More Effective Blogging

by Alex

The definition of blogging has significantly changed over time as the idea has advanced. I have heard many things about the future of blogging. I have heard it is dying, it is dead, and of course it’s nothing that it used to be.
Blogging, in many cases has become a more passive activity over time. [...]

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The Power of Free

The Power and Importance of “Free”

by Alex

A technique for building the readership on my blogs that I have started working at is the power of releasing things for free. I have been preparing many things over the past weeks to start releasing on my blogs, in hopes of building a stronger and more loyal community.
Of course, the keyword in that first [...]

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Customizing Input Forms

4 Tricks For “Awesome-izing” Input Forms

by Alex

Input forms are commonly used throughout your blog, and I see a lot of input forms that surprisingly are left untouched and uncared for.
When you want people to signup for your newsletter or RSS feed via email, you usually have an input form that will take the users email address and submit it. But did [...]

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Prevent Blog Downtime

6 Plugins You Should Always Have Ready For Blog Emergencies

by Alex

Crazy things can happen to any blog at any time. Some make sure to be prepared for these things, and others may not be as prepared.
Crackers, hackers, massive floods of traffic, database errors and many more things are all preventable. With the WordPress community being as large as it is, there have been many great [...]

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5 Pet Peeves of Blogging

5 Funny Things Bloggers Do To Make Their Blog Look More “Official”

by Alex

In this hectic world of blogging where all we want is acceptance, we often tend to do things out of the ordinary to gain this feeling of “fitting in” and “success” into our heads.
As redemption for these things we do, it’s time for someone to stand up and make fun of these people. That’s going [...]

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Twitter Marketing

7 Simple Tips for Effectively Marketing Your Blog on Twitter

by Alex

Twitter is amazing for generating viral traffic, and will even help you increase comments on your blog. However, you have to know how to use twitter effectively to reap the rewards.
Contrary to popular belief, simply setting up a feed for your blog and letting your account run itself will not create a noticeable effect. Instead, [...]

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