With the advent of the new year, we are all contemplating how we can improve our blogs. We can pick a new theme, change our blogging platform, increase our posting interval, or increase commenting on other blogs. But I’m here to say that nothing, I repeat, nothing will do more for your blog traffic than guest posting.
Kevin …
I remember when the pundits told us that working online would be the key to our own personal freedom. I remember they told us we’d have more free time to spend with friends and family when we decided to start working from our own homes. It all sounded so great for somebody who grew up in the 1970s and I had great visions of …
The other day just as I sat down to start my morning work, I heard the door to my office nudge open in a way that told me it wasn’t my wife. When I didn’t hear footsteps I knew it could only be a visit from only one of the two other inhabitants of the house. Sure enough it was our …
Seven years ago I was paid to drive around and give away muffins. I learned something from that experience – and it was more than just the fact blueberry are the most popular kind.
The lessons learned in those years have actually helped me build quite a profitable network – one which sends referrals on a regular basis and enabled the launch of …
Life isn’t meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you’re at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream.

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After all, you’re not …
The best bloggers are like the best writers anywhere and they will take suggestions and advice from anywhere they can get it. The other day I was looking through my books and came across an edition of a style book for newspapers that I used back in the early 1980s. A lot of the rules that applied then are still good foundations to know …
No matter what your reason for starting a blog, everyone has the same ultimate goal in mind; and that’s to attract traffic and capture a wider audience of readers. Bringing traffic to a blog can have a number of benefits; generally, it can increase a blogger’s credibility and voice online; generate revenue through ad usage and pay-per-click payment structures; and attract clients for …