If you were one of the people who didn't much care for the name of the new James Bond flick, "Quantum Of Solace," you'll probably be one of the people who doesn't care much for this new poster for that same film.

Who knows what's going on with James Bond these days.  The title was strange but this po

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Anybody that frequents the social news network Digg.com knows the entire community is buzzing about algorithm changes in the way stories become promoted to the front page. Diggs once powerful "top submitters" are now mad their submissions can no longer be promoted to the front page simply b

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I searched for one without any luck. A simple BloggingZoom Firefox Add-on. It adds a Zoom It option to both the right click menu and tools menu. It can handle pages that have and have not been submitted. If the page has been submitted, it will Zoom the article; if it hasn't been submitted, it will forward you to the submit p

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Most blogs are in danger of being smart priced by Adsense, meaning they will only receive a fraction of the money they should be getting. Here's how to hack the Shylock Adsense plugin for WordPress, so that ads are only served to search engine visitors. This should increase your click through rate (and the advertiser conversio

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This article looks at what Adsense Smart Pricing is, the danger it poses to blogs and how to avoid it by showing Adsense only to search engine visitors (in WordPress). It also argues that Smart Pricing is NOT triggered by a low CTR as many people suggest. Instead Smart Pricing is more likely to be caused by a low advertiser conversion rate -

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My wife is going to have surgery sometime between mid-February and mid-March. She's in the U.S. and I'm in the Philippines. She's deathly afraid and wants me there. I'll have the money for the round-trip ticket and she'll have a little money saved for us to get by on. I won't have access to my pension, which comes direct deposit to a lo

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Many bloggers expect to make money by placing Adsense on their blog, then discover that Adsense doesn't make much money for them. The reason for this is that while Adsense can make a lot of money, it only works well on certain types of sites. This post examines the factors behind Adsense success, including the underlying principle of Adsense

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Caroline Middlebrook recently released a free eBook entitled "How To Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress". I decided I would do a review of it since I have an interest in developing niche blogs. While I found the book to be an informative, basic, how-to-use WordPress tutorial for a novice blogger, I had some serious reservations

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Blogging Tip: Use feed scrapers to your advantage.
Feed scrapers are a source of frustration to all bloggers. We may not be able to beat them, but we can certainly take some benefit.
Two bloggers, Stephen Cronin at More Than Scratch the Surface, and Vic at Blogger Unleashed offer some solutions to your feed scraper woes.
If you offer full

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As usual Vic has taken a confusing topic and detailed the basic differences between what pagerank signifies and why this doesn't necessarily convert to more traffic.

Pagerank is based entirely on links and what anchor text those links contain. You can have a PR7 blog and not draw a single visitor from the search engines. Why? If all of m

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The make money online niche is a sea of posers and A-list wannabes. The art of SEO has taken a back seat to "style" and this has resulted in hordes of nice looking blogs with decent social traffic wondering why they aren't making any money.

The answer is because all the social networking advocates have been singing the praises of soc

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