How Self-Publishing Works

February 25, 2011

Since becoming a world-famous author*, I’ve had a number of people ask me about self-publishing and how the whole process works.  There are some great resources available and I’ve written down a few of my thoughts as well. Self-publishing does not mean ordering 500 books at a time and mailing them out by hand.  Authors [...]

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Answering Reader Questions And Evaluating Your Time

February 22, 2011

One of the goals of this blog is to try to help bloggers make more money without spending more time blogging.  This can be done by changing your efforts from non-profitable activities to more profitable activities. Another side of the equation is to try to eliminate time spent on tasks that don’t provide any return. [...]

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Some Interesting Reads About Blogging And Self-Publishing

February 21, 2011

One of the best articles for bloggers, that I’ve read in a long time.  Bloggers – Don’t give away your content!.  If you do – you’ve been Dangled. Write to Publish did a good comparison between Lightning Source and Amazon CreateSpace.  She did make one crucial error (noted in the comments by Aaron Shepard himself), [...]

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How To Convert Meta Information From SEO Plugins Like All-In-1 SEO and HeadSpace To SEO Theme (such as Thesis) Using SEO Data Transporter WordPress Plugin

February 13, 2011

I’m a big fan of using the meta description box for posts that do well in search engine results.  I don’t bother with tags, keywords or even titles anymore. Read to find out the importance of search engine visitors to make money. I’ve been using HeadSpace and All-in-1 SEO for several years and have been [...]

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Blog Giveaway Contests Are Not Always A Waste Of Time – Some Are Very Profitable

January 10, 2011

In a recent post I talked about bloggers sponsoring giveaway contests.  In my opinion, this is a complete waste of money.  There are however, some type of contests which are worth doing.  Let’s look at three of them: Sponsor pays for giveaway – This works best if the sponsor also pays for delivery costs.  I’m [...]

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Giveaway Contests Are A Waste Of Money For Bloggers

January 8, 2011

Many bloggers will run giveaway contests to try to get more traffic or new readers.  Books and gift cards seem to be the most popular prizes.   It appears that in most cases, the blogger is paying for the prize which I think is a bad idea. Who enters these contests? Entrants are: Professional contest trollers [...]

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A Few Good Publishing And Blogging Links

January 5, 2011

My friend Pete has started a blog How to make money with a blog. I urge you to subscribe since Pete is one of the top-earning personal finance bloggers and he knows what he is talking about. Amazon sold 3 million e-books over the holidays.  In other news, traditional publishing is dead. Don’t know the [...]

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Guest Post Basics – Stick To Your Knitting!

January 4, 2011

One of the best ways to grow a new blog is to do guest posts on other blogs. The two benefits are: New readers – Assuming some of the readers of the guest post like what they read, they might click through and subscribe to your blog. Link juice – Google uses links to your [...]

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Easy SEO Tip – Remove Dates From Posts And Comments

December 20, 2010

I recently learned of a great SEO tip from Mike Piper, who is a bit of an SEO guru. The tip is: Remove all dates from your posts and comments. Why does this help? The problem with dates on posts is that if a search engine visitor sees an old date associated with an information [...]

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Bloggers – Just Ignore The Blog Rankers – Use Your Own Metrics

December 15, 2010

Daniel from Sweating the Big Stuff recently wrote an excellent analysis on various blog rankers. A blog ranker is a site that attempts to distill various unrelated blog statistics into one magic number, by which blogs can be ranked.  Some well known rank sites are at Fire Finance, WiseBread, MoneyCrashers and Yakezie. I think this [...]

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