A few lessons I've learned over the past couple of months since Vic suggested that I start a local niche blog.

- I've learned about what Not to Do

- The importance of Being Yourself

- How to find Under-served Topics

- The importance of finding a good reason that you'll Want To post every day (or at least on a

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What started out four months ago as a Clinton win (in terms of votes) ended up as a Nevada victory for Barack Obama in terms of caucus strategy. Obama parlayed a solid January showing in rural Nevada and lower than expected Clinton support at the district caucuses into a three delegate advantage (14-11) over Clinton in the Silv

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Blogging for money is not as easy or likely to succeed as many would have you believe.

If your blog is your only strategy for making money, perhaps you should think again. This post looks at some of the realities of making money from a blog and suggests that despite the lemming mentality encouraged by many bloggers and mark

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RT Cunningham reminds bloggers that offering RSS subscriptions should always include an email option. You could be missing out on subscribers who don't use an RSS reader or are unfamiliar with them.

Allow your readers to subscribe via email and you will probably capture a larger audience is the message. RT even offers to he

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Rob Watts vents about the prevalence of rats in the SEO arena. If you have ever been reported by spiteful rivals in the SEO industry you will understand exactly what he is talking about. Why telling tales out of school should be so common in the world of SEO is up for debate, some see it as part of the game, some view it as no

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It’s just so amazing the kind of money someone will pay for a domain name. I mean the kind of money that could last a generation to some people. You’ll be surprised that tens of millions of dollars are exchanged during the resale of domain names every year. Phew!

Well, I’m not in any position to make any judgment whether it’

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Social bookmarking websites allow users to bookmark their favorite links into categories and share them across a network with their friends. Members can also bookmark the links that have been submitted by other members.

Social bookmarking was first started way back in 1996 with a website called `itlist` sadly tis site is no

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Unless you are using a free blog from WordPress.com, you could right away start your blog in a minute as the setup is as easy as 1-2-3. But what if you want to have your WordPress installed in your own domain and have attempted to install it but no luck?

Despair not, I’ll be glad to help if you would allow me to do the initi

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Bloggin-Ads is giving about 2 MacBook Air laptops and $1,000 split to 10 winners. This whole contest is valued at $4,600. The contest is in place to help promote Mike's new blogging strategy on the way his content is typed and the way he discusses blogging in details. There are no more ramblings that turn away readers, but

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Florida houseboat rentals for those house boat vacations. Houseboat rentals in, with Florida Keys, Marathon, Islamorada, St. Johns River and Fort Meyers. Houseboat rentals in Florida are in demand year round. Where else can you have such a mystic vacation, off in a secluded cove with Spanish Moss dripping from trees and you c

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When blogs first appeared on the internet scene they were a personal diary that you could keep online. They were used as a way to record your thoughts and experiences either for your own use or even to share with your friends and family. However, as with most things online it was discovered that you could actually make money wi

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Jamie Harrop describes how he fell in to the trap of feeling the need to monetize his blog, only to realise he had slowly lost his focus on the blogging community. His focus shifted from writing comments on other blogs and forming relationships with other bloggers to playing with Adsense and affiliate programs. It effected his

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If you're stressing due to blogging, you are not alone. A lot of bloggers including myself stress over blogging because we don't konw if we're doing it right or wrong. What if I tell you that you do not have to stress and stressing is just a mere thought in your head rather than something happening in reality. Keep things

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You may have seen the recent story on the 13 year old Texan boy who used his dad's credit card to pay for strippers that played his Xbox all night.

Well, it was a hoax.

The article was produced solely for the purpose of attracting links from around the world. That itr did - over 1500 of them.

But what about the ethics

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Did you know that the Top Commentator WordPress plugin could be gamed? That it could be hijacked by someone who wanted to insert a site-wide followed link to a 'bad neighborhood' into your Top Commentator list? Or that someone who wasn't the original commentator could insert their link into your Top Commentator list, even fr

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