Archive | June, 2009

Should you monetize your blog or not?

Should you monetize your blog or not? Every blogger has an opinion on this issue.  Some people are fanatical about the latest trends and are quick to try the latest techniques, others implement a more basic strategy, some decide not to monetize their blogs at all.  Then you have the bloggers who are never happy [...]

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Is Twittley better than Tweetmeme?

Is Twittley better than Tweetmeme? I guess that answer depends on what you are evaluating the Twitter services on.  From a bloggers perspective, I can say that Twittley is better than Tweetmeme and I will tell you why.  First, let me start off by explaining what Twittley and Tweetmeme are.  They are both Twitter tools [...]

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Best Twitter Widget for blogs

When I was playing around with different themes last week, I was also researching various plugins and widgets.  I was surprised at how difficult it was to find a quality Twitter widget for my blog.  I tried out a couple but they only displayed my tweets and nothing else.  Finally, I came across what I [...]

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Best of Tycoon Blogger – 100th post

This is post # 100 and I thought it would make sense to take a look back at some of the most popular and most informative posts so far.  I have broken this down to the top 5 posts in each of the four categories that I blog about: Promoting your blog Promote your Blog [...]

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4 month update

It is hard to believe that I am writing post # 99 and already 4 months into this blog.  I am in the middle of creating a special one hundredth post for tomorrow that will highlight the best blog posts so far.  I figured in this post, I would talk about the progress of this [...]

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How to add video to Twitter

Let’s face it, 140 characters is just not enough space to get your point across sometimes. Luckily, there is an easy new service that will allow you to add video tweets to your stream. The service is called TwitVid

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Top 10 Blog Designs

Each week I visit hundreds of blogs, some are good some are bad and most are somewhere in between.  The same is true of the blog designs.  There are some really awesome blog designs and there are some awful blog designs

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Do you update your posts?

When I switched my theme a couple of days ago, it required me to go back into a lot of posts and change the fonts and make other cosmetic adjustments.  While I was editing the posts for aesthetic purposes

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Increase Blog Traffic Use Trending Topics on Twitter

  If you have been on Twitter in the last month (who hasn’t, right!) I am sure you have noticed that they have started listing the top trending topics in the sidebar of your homepage.  This is convenient and a good way to keep updated on the latest news and topics.  It is also a [...]

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Switched Theme To Flexis

I attempted to contact the designer and other members in the support forum and was willing to pay someone to help adjust the width for me, but my messages in the forums went unanswered.  So, I decided to change

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