There was a time when I began using a timer to track of how much time I spent on what and see how I could streamline it – it turned out that on many days I easily spent well over two hours just getting through my inbox and handling my emails at the beginning of the day.
While it’s important not to spread oneself thin and try to work on too many projects at once, it’s also important to develop multiple streams of income. One has to find a proper balance between the two. Generating multiple streams of income is not just a wealth-generation strategy, it is also a matter of increased financial security.
Have you ever wondered what to do when people use your RSS feed to scrape (automatically copy) your blog content directly onto their site? How do you ensure that they don’t rank higher in the search engines for that article than you do?
A long time ago I stopped displaying Adsense ads on several of my blogs, including this one, because of the types of ads which were showing. On a health-related blog I did not want to advertise drugs and weight-loss fads, and on this blog I did not want to advertise scams or get-rich quick schemes.
If this blog could talk it would tell you it is being adopted by a new owner. I’m not Joe. I know. I don’t look remotely like Joe. I don’t even have dreadlocks. I heard that Joe was closing IfThisBlogCouldTalk.com down and I decided to give the little orphan a second chance in a new [...]
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You might not be fully and 100% aware of everyone you are linking to. You could even be linking to a bad-neighborhood site without realizing it. There are a few ways this can happen.
You may have heard about the recent commotion when Amazon.com and other affiliate networks had to drop all affiliates from certain states. If you lived in North Carolina, Hawaii, or Rhode Island, you might have received a notification from Amazon that you could no longer be their affiliate. For some people this may not seem like a big deal, but for some it is devastating.
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Do Your RSS Feeds Link to Your Site or do they Link Somewhere Else?
By Anna on July 25, 2009
It doesn’t hurt to get credit where credit is due. You could be losing some valid backlinks, if you use a service such as Feedburner to manage your RSS feeds. But that’s easy to fix.