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5 Best Ways to Spend Your Blogging Time

You’ve started a new blog and still feel the euphoria brought on by a new adventure. There is so much to be done - tweak the design, find advertisers, read ebooks, and brag to the relatives who don’t know a blog from a wiki.  You start reading other blogs, drawing pictures of how your […]

We Have a Winner in the Blogging Startup Contest!

Well, despite all the challenges of the past week, I survived. But more importantly, I’ve gathered all the entries for the first ever Blogging Startup contest and randomly selected a winner. But first, here are the numbers from the blogging contest:
35 - Number of individuals who entered the blogging contest
223 - Number of […]

OMG, The Computer Gods are Toying With Me

So, just in case some of you were having a tough week and feeling down, I thought I’d share something that might make you feel better.  Here’s how my week has gone:

Day job website is down for nearly 100 hours!  Nothing seems to work.  Finally had to move it to BlueHost and spend two nights […]

Should I Kill One of My Blogs?

First, let me give a little history behind my blog murder plot.  As many of you know, I own and write for several blogs…four to be exact.  I am also developing a trivia website, run a site for our disc golf club, and manage the website at my day job.  It’s a lot to manage, […]

11 Best Damn Blogging eBooks That Cost You Nothing!

Before I start any new activity, I love to read up on it. My shelves are filled with books on tennis, coin collecting and moth breeding. Blogging was no different for me. But when I dropped by my local bookstore, I found a real shortage of books on the topic of blogging. […]

The Easy Way to Create a Privacy Policy for Your Blog

I was doing my daily read of other blogs and came across a post at Aaron Cook Dot Com about the new Adsense policies that got me thinking about my need for a privacy policy. One of the issues in the recently updated Google Adsense policies is the requirement to inform visitors of the […]