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Blogging superhero by day and internet super villain by night. Blogger, future online millionaire and an all around great guy.

Using Google Alerts Today And Several Alternatives

February 21, 2016 by 4 Comments

In this post, we’ll look at Google Alerts and how to use them today. We’ll also look at several alternatives worth a look.

Google Alerts are simply automated messages sent to your Gmail account whenever Google indexes web content or content changes that included your selected keywords or keyword phrases. This is a free tool provided by Google. You can choose to include several keywords to narrow down the search alerts or even put your keywords in “quotes” to even further narrow down the relevancy. [Read more…]

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15+ Potential Income Streams For Bloggers

January 3, 2016 by 46 Comments

The most popular question among bloggers has to be, “How do I generate an income stream and profit from my blog?” The truth is, that’s not a simple question because every blogger, every niche, and every goal is different. With that in mind, I’m going to tackle the subject of potential income streams and see if we can’t gain a little perspective and help a few bloggers along the way. I’ll also, like the title says, list 15 potential income streams for bloggers. [Read more…]

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New Top Level Domains List – New gTLDs (Updated 02 Oct 2015)

October 2, 2015 by 12 Comments

List Updated 02 Oct 2015

Supplemental audio for your listening pleasure:

I couldn’t find a detailed list of new and future Generic Top Level Domains that I could easily scan so I decided to create one myself. I put together as many domains as I could find into a SlideShare presentation. I believe many bloggers and marketers will find this list helpful as you plan future sites, projects and marketing campaigns. Domains are relatively inexpensive so they make a nice alternative for Pretty Links setup for affiliate links and content we’ve created. I posted Branding Opportunities With The New Generic Top Level Domains last month if you’d like some ideas on getting the most from GTLDs. [Read more…]

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Check Out This Free WordPress Table of Contents Plugin

September 28, 2014 by 12 Comments

In this post we’ll take a deep dive into the free WordPress plugin – Table of Contents Plus. I don’t know about you but every now and then I get a little long winded when writing a blog post. Adding a Table of Contents (TOC) to longer posts can make your post easier to read (consume) and the section itself can help “breakup” our content so it’s not as overwhelming. The Table of Contents Plus WordPress plugin allows us to include a clickable post menu based on the number of headings (you determine which heading tags). Shorter posts can omit the TOC while longer posts with a lot of sections can include the table. [Read more…]

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6 Things Your Daddy Never Told You About WordPress Themes

September 21, 2014 by 13 Comments

Questions to ask yourself before buying that next premium theme

We all know and understand the value of a great looking blog and most of us understand the basic questions to ask a developer before buying our next premium WordPress theme.

This post and SlideShare (Embedded above) looks at six questions we should ask ourselves before hitting that “buy now” button. Be sure you have the answers to these six questions and you’ll have a better experience with fewer problems. [Read more…]

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