When I mention mixing business with personality, I am not talking about a 9-5 job where you go out with your coworkers and party all night after work.  I am talking about the life of a blogger.  What I am talking about is how far you go in mixing your personality into your blog.For most of us, it starts out as a side business that happens to be something we enjoy doing.  At some point blogging turns into a time of enjoyment and I would venture to say an addiction.  I love blogging.  I have become addicted to meeting new people, sharing ideas, writing my own posts, and so much more.How far   read more

Matt Cutts was invited to talk at the WordCamp San Francisco 2009 conference back on May 30, 2009. WordCamp is a conference that is held throughout the world that focuses on WordPress.  They are people who use Wordpress that come to share ideas and ways to make WordPress better.For those of us that were not able to go to that conference, they have made available some of the videos from those different camps that were held.Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google, and he shared some good insight on SEO techniques you should be using on your WordPress blog.  I think the information   read more

Today Alltop added Home Business Posts to their directory!  For those of you who may not know too much about Alltop they are a little different than your normal directory that you might encounter on the web.  They refer to themselves as the “online magazine rack” of the web.Alltop bases their submissions not on algorithms or popular voting, but consider themselves highly subjective and judgmental.  What this means is that if you write a post saying how great and wonderful they are you just might find your website listed at the top of your selected category in the directory.  You might   read more

I have recently seen the Wibiya website toolbar being used all over the internet.  I have seen it being used on blogs and websites.  One of the top article directories, Articlesbase.com, currently uses the toolbar.  I am always up for trying new plugins for my blog, and thought that I could give this one a try as well.I am not sure if this is something that will remain and prove to be a useful plugin, but I have been assured by Wibiya that this is just the tip of the iceberg.  This is what I was told by Wibiya from a tweet I received from them. Thanks for the kind words, what you are   read more

Ninja affiliate is more than a link cloaker.  It is a complete link management solution as well. You can manage, track, cloak and shorten an unlimited number of links from the plugin itself.  You may already know that promoting affiliate programs in your blog is one of the best ways to earn maximum revenue from your blog. The problem is that you can’t think of recommending or linking the right affiliate program when you are trying to concentrate on writing a blog post.  Even when you figure out what to promote, you first have to find the affiliate link, and then link it to the right   read more

Google recently announced plans for a new Google web search engine.  At first glance you won’t recognize anything different, but Google is in the phase of boosting their algorithms. They code named it ‘Caffeine’ for those of us that have suggestions or feedback. You will see a link at the bottom of the results for the BETA version.  Click the link that says dissatisfied, and add your feedback or suggestions to help improve it more! Here is a quick snippet of what Google had to say about the changes they are going to be implementing. To build a great web search engine, you need to:   read more

I know choosing a domain for your home business isn’t rocket science, but it can play an important role on the type and quantity of visitors you receive.Let me; first of all, ask you some simple questions that you should ask yourself.  What do you take into consideration with your domain name?  Are you thinking of your domain name as online real-estate?  Are you picking a good location for branding, marketing, traffic, etc?  Did you consider a name that is easy to remember?  How much natural branding do you want to receive?  If you have already asked yourself similar questions that   read more

Affiliate marketing isn’t a new concept to internet marketing.  It always seems to attract a huge number of online marketers.   I have made this podcast to help out anybody wanting to start an affiliate marketing business of their own.If you aren’t sure where to start or maybe you think you are forgetting something, go ahead and listen to what I have to share.  It is about 45 minutes in length, and have tried to cover all the basics to get you started.  I have included a short outline of what to expect from the podcast.  Click the play button button above to listen now! What you   read more