Get More Good News With the Reeder App

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If you get your news from the internet like ten bajillion other Americans these days, you might be wondering how to manage it all. I get my daily dose of the latest happenings from a variety of sources on the web, usually via RSS (what is RSS?). I used to view all my news with [...]

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What’s Really Missing Here?

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I recently got an email from a social networking site that bills itself as “”Your address book for life”. (The fact that they don’t rank #1 for this phrase in Google is interesting.) This email had the subject line “Your profile is missing a photo”.  (The account profile was originally created probably two or three [...]

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Designer Pull Quotes Made Simple

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I’m always looking for ways to enhance my blog articles easily. I may be lazy, but I also like small changes that have big impact. Pull quotes are a fun and, more importantly, easy way to give a more professional or journalistic look to your posts or pages.  I’ve read several blogs recently which gave [...]

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Google Mayday Updates Impact Long-Tail Search

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If you’ve noticed any change in your rankings over the last few days or weeks you may be feeling the sting of Google’s recent changes to their ranking algorithm.  These have been confirmed by Google’s Matt Cutts and he indicates that it is a ranking factors change, versus crawling or indexing methods. The change was [...]

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Edge Blueprint Time Savers and My Cheat Sheet

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If you’re interested in a quick method to test a market, I’ve found to the Edge Blueprint is an interesting way to get started fast.  Also, I like that it doesn’t rely on Google to provide you with your traffic source.  The whole PPV thing was new to me as a traffic generation method, but [...]

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Customizing Thesis 404 Pages

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I like to think that my websites are error proof. WordPress does a great job handling cases of mis-typed URLs, outdated or broken links, and general server-farts.  But no matter how bullet proof the system is, it is possible to crumb up your own system as it gets older, obtains more internal links and posts [...]

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