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When Choosing a Domain Name, Think About the Future

on Mar 25, 2011
When Choosing a Domain Name, Think About the FutureThis post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Kaitlin asks: I thought of a great blog name, but the .com is already taken by a pizza business. For clarity’s sake, let’s say the domain is BigSlice.com, and I want to start a blog that has nothing to do with pizza (a lifestyle blog) that’s called “Big Slice.” My question is: Would you ever buy a domain like BigSliceBlog.com if BigSlice.com isn’t available, or would you give up on the name?

How Many Backlinks Do I Need for a PageRank 2?

on Mar 18, 2011
How Many Backlinks Do I Need for a PageRank 2?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. OneBlogTips asks: How many backlinks should I get per day if i want to get PR2 in next PageRank update (approximately 3 months)? It always amazes me the amount of interest and confusion that Google’s PageRank (both the algorithm and the toolbar number) attracts from webmasters.

When Should I Quit My Job To Work Full Time Online?

on Mar 11, 2011
When Should I Quit My Job To Work Full Time Online?This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Sharninder Khera asks: I have a tech tutorials blog and would want to make working on it my full time job. My question is when (and how) should I decide to do this? The blog makes me about 1/12th of my income right now, so what should be the level when I decide that I should leave my current job and work on the blog only and grow that?

Are Trackbaks and Pingbacks Still Useful?

on Feb 25, 2011
Are Trackbaks and Pingbacks Still Useful?This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Michelle asks: Should I approve trackbacks and pingbacks? Do allowing trackbacks and pingbacks help SEO or add value to my blog/website? Trackbacks and pingbacks were very popular some years ago, but lately fewer and fewer blogs are using them, so I suspect some of our readers don’t even know what those terms mean. They are pretty much interchangeable, and refer to a network ping that

Someone Wants To Buy A Link On My Website. Should I Sell?

on Feb 11, 2011
Someone Wants To Buy A Link On My Website. Should I Sell?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Eric Cummings asks: I received the following email today. Is this a good idea, or is this person trying to game Google? If so, I don’t want my search rankings to go down. I’m curious if you’ve seen anything like this before.

One Big Post, Or Several Smaller Ones?

on Jan 28, 2011
One Big Post, Or Several Smaller Ones?This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Destination Infinity asks: There are two ways to approach writing an article about a particular topic – One is to write a long article covering all the sub-topics in a single page. Another is to write shorter articles about each sub-topic, and publish them on different days. Which approach do you think is better?

Copyblogger Weekly Wrap

on Jan 22, 2011
Copyblogger Weekly Wrap

I took last weekend off. It was a mini-vacation with my wife, wherein the objective was to get away from the kids and dogs and “do nothing, in peace and quiet” for a while. Consequently, I discovered that I’ve become damaged goods. Back in the day, I was able to lay around and do nothing for weeks on end. I’ve lost that ability somewhere along the way. I’ve regrettably become a do-er, uneasy unless I can participate in something.

How Many Hours Do You Spend Working On Your Blog?

on Dec 3, 2010
How Many Hours Do You Spend Working On Your Blog?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Bill Yann asks: How many hours do you spend working on your blog every day? I am a new blogger, and I am having trouble to set a schedule for my blog. There were basically three periods in my blogging journey, and during each I would work a different amount of time on the blogs.

How Do I Monetize A Classifieds Website?

on Nov 25, 2010
How Do I Monetize A Classifieds Website?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Joe asks: I’d like to setup a classifieds website for a fairly large community. The community actually had one, but the person running it moved away and shut down the site. People keep asking for a new one so I think it’ll be a good opportunity.

What Are Your Views On Outsourcing?

on Nov 19, 2010
What Are Your Views On Outsourcing?This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Traffic Coleman asks: Wuz Up… Daniel! What are your views on outsourcing? First of all let’s define what outsourcing is. The standard definition is that outsourcing involves contracting out to an external provider or company part of your business that was performed in-house before. If you are a one-man show working on the Internet outsourcing means finding other people to perform tasks
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