Surviving the Rank War

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Among the distinctions between bloggers there is one that stands out: those who care about rank and those who don’t. Whether you care depends on several things. If you are interested in giveaways, reviews, sponsors or any other type of compensated blogging then you definitely care about your site’s rank. If you are a pure [...]

How Fast is Your Blog?

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    Lately I’ve been obsessed with website optimizations of every kind. The area I concentrated on today was load time. I mentioned the importance of load time in an earlier post. Can I just say it again, but with different words? If your blog takes too long to load, it doesn’t matter how pretty, [...]

10 Tips for First Time Bloggers

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No one was born a blogger. We’ve all had the awkward intro phase where we didn’t know what to do, what to type, or how to let people know about it. I’ve been blogging for several years and work in web design for a living – and I still tweak things almost every day because [...]

How is blogging like motherhood?

  Today’s Question: How is blogging like motherhood?

Working from Home: Keeping Your Sanity

For several years I worked two jobs. I spent every free moment daydreaming about the day when I could start my own company and make my own schedule. In 2006 that dream became a reality. I quickly learned that it isn’t exactly what you’d expect. In fact, it’s very demanding; sometimes more so than working [...]