Setting Your FeedBurner Feed To Report Feed Clicks – Pros and Cons

December 13, 2010

FeedBurner has an option where you can choose to track any feed clicks originating from your FeedBurner feed. To select this option: Log into FeedBurner Choose your feed Analyze Configure stats Select Item link clicks But is this a good idea? Pros of tracking feed clicks If you have this option selected, you will be [...]

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Bloggers – Make Sure You Are Using Full RSS Feeds

December 11, 2010

RSS readers, such as Google Reader have become a popular way to read blogs. Rather than guessing when a blogger has updated, you can just tune into your RSS reader and read whatever posts are available. Or you can opt to have the blog updates emailed to you. Bloggers have the option of providing a [...]

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Self-Publishing Company Comparison: Amazon CreateSpace, Lulu or Lightning Source?

November 15, 2010

Welcome to my “Write a book” series.  Here are all the articles: How to pick a profitable book topic? Some suggestions on how to make money with your non-fiction book. How to write a book I go through the actual steps involved in writing a book. Traditional publishing vs self-publishing A look at the pros [...]

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Some Interesting Blogging and Self-publishing Articles

November 3, 2010

A few quick links that caught my interest.  One of them is even about blogging.  David Risley talks about the fact that bloggers shouldn’t apologize for making money.  This goes along with what I said in Why you have to make money blogging. Novelr wrote a great post about some very creative ways to make [...]

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Writing A Book: Traditional Publishing vs Self-Publishing

September 26, 2010

Welcome to my “Write a book” series.  Here are all the articles: How to pick a profitable book topic? Some suggestions on how to make money with your non-fiction book. How to write a book I go through the actual steps involved in writing a book. Traditional publishing vs self-publishing A look at the pros [...]

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Link Roundup – Blog speed, backup and fixes

September 23, 2010

I’ve never done a link roundup on Blogthority, so I thought I’d give it a shot.  If you have any links that you think should appear in future roundups, feel free to email me. On with the links About Online Matters wrote a detailed post about website latency and performance tools.  Web site speed is [...]

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How To Write A Book

September 20, 2010

Welcome to my “Write a book” series.  Here are all the articles: How to pick a profitable book topic? Some suggestions on how to make money with your non-fiction book. How to write a book I go through the actual steps involved in writing a book. Traditional publishing vs self-publishing A look at the pros [...]

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How To Pick A Profitable Book Topic – Monetize Low-Income Blog Content

September 12, 2010

Welcome to my “Write a book” series.  Here are all the articles: How to pick a profitable book topic? Some suggestions on how to make money with your non-fiction book. How to write a book I go through the actual steps involved in writing a book. Traditional publishing vs self-publishing A look at the pros [...]

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Why You Have To Make Money Blogging

September 12, 2010

Often newer bloggers really enjoy creating content for their blogs, interacting with readers and they don’t worry too much about making money.  They might try some monetization, but if it’s not successful then they give up and go back to just writing. There is nothing wrong with blogging for fun, but in my experience the [...]

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Don’t Be A Slave To Your Regular Blog Readers

August 23, 2010

One big issue some bloggers face is allegiance to their regular readers, combined with a fear that they will all leave en masse if the blogger changes their writing style in any way, shape or form. This is usually a function of the fact that a lot of new bloggers start their sites for themselves [...]

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