I hope you all have a Merry Christmas.
I also hope that will you did make money online during the Christmas season that you do not forget what the real reason for Christmas is.
It is not about making money online or off. It is not about the lights, the trees or even being kind to your fellow man. It is about a baby. The birth of Christ, who

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How to get great photos of your outdoor Christmas light decorations. In this post you will find many hints on getting photos of outdoor Christmas lights.
Getting photos of outdoor Christmas lights involves both night-time and cold weather photography techniques. I show you photographs of outdoor Christmas lights from New Glarus, WI and Michi

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Ever read cheap linkbait and felt like you fell hood, line, and sinker for a scam?rnWhen linkbait is done for a cheap page count increase and provides no value to the reader, it hurts your credibility. In the long run this cheap link bait hurts your business.rnWhen linkbait is done right, the reader is rewarded for taking the time to read

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Two versions of the same photograph of snow from Thanksgiving.
One has a normal color balance. In the second photo, the blue in the shadows was enhanced with the levels command in Photoshop Elements.
You will also find a tip for focusing with a macro lens. Focusing in this way lets you keep the magnification the same.
I ask which snow pho

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This is a humorous post about trying to hid paid links from Google.
The recent PageRank slap has had major impact in the blogosphere. It will probably harm the smaller blogs more than the higher traffic blogs. What can bloggers do to counteract this. Some are sweeping things under the rug as the author describes.
I enjoyed this post and I t

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It is not hard to manually install WordPress on your host.
In this video, I show how to create the MySQL database in cPanel that you need for WordPress. There are three step to creating the database for WordPress.
1. Create the database (give it a name)
2. Create a user for the WordPress database with a password
3. Add the user to the Wor

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A video showing how to crop and resize photos in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
If your are going to email a digital photo to a friend you should not send them the whole file. Unless you think they are likely to get a print made from it, sending them a screen sized version of the digital photo will save a lot of time uploading and downl

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The debate about paid links was really over years ago.
It is too late to complain about being penalized for paid links. While everyone was paying attention to Google's play with a PageRank slap, for worse things for paid links may already be heading our way.
No matter how you feel about the Google PageRank slap, it is time to face the musi

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There is a lot to look forward to in making money on the internet.
Many let fear, uncertainty, and doubt rule their lives. They give up at the first sign of failure.
There is a group saying the internet will be over congested with traffic in two years and no one is investing enough to increase capacity. Just what you want to hear when the i

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How can you use ScratchBack for making money online?
I give 5 ways to make money with ScratchBack on your site. I also give four additional ways for making money online from ScratchBack on other websites or blogs.
This new text link ad system comes at just the right time. With Google giving paid nofollow links a hard time, this could be jus

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Thinking about some family photos when everyone is together for Thanksgiving?
For many families, it is the time to take the annual Christmas card photo. For other families, it is a time to get a photo of family members that are normally out of town.
I have five tips that can help you get better family photos this Thanksgiving. I did not fol

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Ever have that special picture at a very special event (like the reception at your best friend's wedding) turn out blurry? Maybe you used your flash but it is blurry and it looks like there are four people instead of just the happy couple, in the p

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Yogi Berra was a baseball player. He was an MVP and All Star player but often best know for the odd statements he made.

There is a lot you can learn from Yogi Berra about marketing. In this post, the author takes Yogi quotes and applies them to marketing.
My favorite:
"If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere el

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BlogRush has been an underperformer.
It seems the more views I give to the BlogRush widget, the less traffic I have gotten from BlogRush. Take a look at the graph from BlogRush! Even though free and nearly effortless, I will soon be removing the BlogRush widget from my blog. Blogging Zoom has proven to be infinitively better for traffic.
I

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Private label rights.
PLR material is content that you purchase the right to use for your own purpose. Similar to hiring a ghost writer. Private label rights content may also be sold to others beside you.
There are many different ways you can use PLR content to make money online. This post lists many different ways to profit from and use pr

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