Part of the process in selecting a topic for your blog is to consider the topics you already read everyday. If you get up each morning and go to all your favorite websites on sports or celebrity gossip then that’s a good indicator of what direction you should go in with your new blog. The [...]

Keeping a steady flow of new material on your blog is a key component to retaining your readers’ interest. So what do you do when you know you’re going to be away from your computer but want to keep those posts publishing? It’s easy. WordPress has built-in functionality that allows you to write a post [...]

Getting lots of traffic to your blog is awesome. Getting so much traffic to your site all at once that your server, or shared account buckles and shuts down your site is not so awesome. Luckily, there’s a great, free WordPress plugin called WP Super Cache to help you avoid problems like that. WP Super [...]

Have you noticed how some of your favorite websites have their logos next to their url in the browser? That’s called a “favicon” and I’m going to show you how to make your own. First up you’ll need to have your website logo on hand. Don’t have one? You can use free tools like CoolText.com. [...]

Now that I’ve shown you ways to earn money online with CPC (cost per click) ads like Google Adsense and dynamic, in-text ads like InfoLinks I’m going to show you a great option for CPM (cost per thousand impressions). Value Click Media is my recommend entry-level provider for CPM ads. With CPM ads you are [...]

Dynamic text links are the new in-thing to earn money online. Sure, those double green lined links that change each time you refresh the page have been around but just recently have they been options for entry-level bloggers. I’ve tried several of them and can tell you which is the best for dynamic, in-text advertising. [...]

When I was looking to expand my blog network I spoke with a friend in the hopes of recruiting his expertise who asked me, “how do you start blogging?” “It’s easy!” I said, but then told him that would be one long email and I’d rather talk him through it. Realizing I’ve been asked that [...]

Once you’ve set up your new website you’re probably anxious to start earning money online. Well I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First the bad news: many money making options require careful reviews and applications consisting of an inspection of the age and quality of your site. Without a steady, developed traffic [...]

When you’re on a shared hosting plan you’ll want to start with for blogging your resources are limited. If you try and consume too much CPU or memory on the server you could be faced with lockdown periods on your account which loses you money. Luckily there are many ways to avoid that issue and [...]

There are many available options for blogging software and the great thing is that any of them worth considering are free. As I mentioned before, you could chose to go with an option like Blogspot instead of a self-hosted blog but I wouldn’t recommend that for anything but the least serious of bloggers-to-be. My recommendation [...]