If your like a lot of Bloggers out there, myself included, you have a lot of junk sitting on your sidebar that should be gotten rid of. If not gotten rid of at least re-arranged and cleaned up a bit. The sidebar of your Blog is arguably the most valuable part of your Blog.

The problem is that you have a limited amount of space and an unlimited pool of blog stuff to put on your sidebar. Think about some of the stuff that can go in your sidebar. There…

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Bloggers need to accomplish projects from time to time. The problem is most of us just dive in with little thought to the process and an unclear understanding of what we’ll be doing. A project is a series of tasks that has a start date, an end date, and which produces a unique output. I’ve taught project management for several years, now. Although much of project management is overkill for a small blog, we can borrow quite a bit from it to help us…

As a blogger, you are part of a community. If you want to be successful, you must get involved. While it is very important to become involved and read blogs within your blog’s niche, it is also a good idea to spend some of your time reading blogs in other niches. It might seem like you just don’t have enough time to add anything else to your to-do list. But this is seriously an investment worth making. Here are three great reasons to read blogs in other niches.

To Increase your…

With so many people obsessing over PageRank (PR,) it’s often a bit funny to see many of the same people letting the PR of their own pages leak like it’s nothing.

What is Pagerank (PR?)

Before I provide some tips on improving the internal linking of your own site/blog in order to not only increase the “indexibility” (I know, that’s not a word, I like it though) of your own site/blog, but also to increase the PR of your “money pages,” I’ll explain the basics of PR for those who don’t already…

You’ve got a blog, and you’re creating content. However, unless you take an active role in promoting your blog, you won’t get the traffic you deserve.

The no-promotion equals no-traffic conundrum especially applies to blogs in highly competitive niches, such as the Internet marketing niche. However, while it may be possible to rely solely on your RSS feeds for traffic in less competitive niches, the more you promote, the more your traffic will grow.

A tip: while promotion is important, it’s not a substitute for content. Keep adding content to your blog,…

If you’re like me, and a total blogaholic, then you may write for more than one blog. You also may be known as an expert in a particular area, which means you could run multiple blogs or guest blog on subjects that are similar or have crossover topics.

One day, you may find you sit down to write a blog and realize you are just about to target keywords you’ve already targeted elsewhere. It isn’t really all that far-fetched. If you are guest blogging to promote your blog, you will want…