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How to Build a Website for Your Business

July 11, 2011

A good friend of mine is an author, speaker and radio talk show host. Her story is amazing. Just to give you an idea, the tagline on her website is “From the Crack House to the State House.” And the other day we were discussing how to market a business on the internet. The first [...]

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How to Pick a Lucrative Online Money Making Topic

November 8, 2008

Two readers recently contacted me with two separate but related comments about how I make money online. The first came in the form of an e-mail: Hello, I really like your tutorial on how to make money blogging except I am sort of confused. Can I make a site or host a domain about any [...]

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50 Ways to Make Money Blogging

August 30, 2008

A reader recently e-mailed me with a question that I get a lot. How does one make money blogging? Here’s the e-mail: “How do I make money from blogging? And where does my payment come from? Do I have to sell my articles to a magazine? I am confused at how this actually works and [...]

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SEO Copywriting – How to Get Your Article to the Top of Google

July 20, 2008

SEO copywriting is the art and science of writing articles that rank well in search engines for the keyword phrase you are targeting. It’s a science in that search engines use complex algorithms to rank the search results when a web surfer types in a keyword phrase. While search engines like Google do not publicize [...]

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Anatomy of an Optimized WordPress Blog

July 5, 2008

Building an optimized WordPress blog is a critical step to making money online. Whether you intend to build a mini site focused on a narrow topic, an authority blog that covers a broad range of subjects, or a site to promote your small business, creating a site architecture that search engines will love is a [...]

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Online Marketing for a Home Based Business

June 18, 2008

Let’s get right to the bottom line–online marketing for a home based business can make the difference between success and failure. Marketing your business online can also make the difference between making a lot of money and making just a little money. And the benefits of online marketing are real even for small businesses that [...]

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5 Must Have WordPress SEO Plugins for a Money Making Blog

June 14, 2008

Installing and properly using the right SEO WordPress plugins is critical to getting a money making blog up and running. You can choose and host the best domain name, and you can install an SEO optimized theme, but without the right plugins, you are greatly limiting the money making potential of your blog. So in [...]

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How to Optimize a WordPress Theme for Search Engines

June 8, 2008

An SEO optimized WordPress theme is a critical component if you want to make money online. When I started the Dough Roller in May 2007, I focused exclusively on what a theme looked like. At the time I didn’t know how to modify the look of a WordPress theme, and I knew nothing (literally) about [...]

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30 Things I Learned in My First 30 Days of Blogging

June 27, 2007

Thirty days ago I published the first article on The Dough Roller. At the time, I had no idea just how humble the first 30 days of blogging can be. With that in mind, here are 30 things I’ve learned in my first 30 days of blogging: 1. It turns out, Furl is not something [...]

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