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Case Of The Disappearing Blog?

March 21, 2009

You probably know about my book, “No Business Like E-Business”, that sells on Amazon.
I have also developed this really powerful Membership Software, whose primary “Claim to Fame” is that it can “drip” content little by little on a list, much like an email autoresponder drips emails.
So, I had this rather brilliant idea and [...]

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Hey You, Come Stalk Me

August 19, 2008

“Twit” is no longer just a mean word
I signed up for Twitter a while ago. But I never “got it” – until recently – when I figured out the awesomeness of microblogging.
Seth Godin wrote this on his blog:
“My goal in creating this blog is to spread my ideas and keep me from having [...]

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How To Check If Your Web Site Can Run PHP Scripts (or WordPress)

April 10, 2008

Create a file called phpinfo.php

Enter these few lines of code in it: (you can copy-paste from below):
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Upload this to your root folder (where your home page (index.htm or index.html etc) lives.

Access this script via the browser like this:
http://www.YourSite.com/phpinfo.php

You should see a nice page come up, with the PHP logo and headers, that shows all [...]

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Free RSS Feed Publishing Script

March 10, 2008

I’ve thought about selling my RSS Feed Publishing Script for a long time.
And then one day, I just decided to give it away.
All I want is for you to try out my free newsletter. You can leave any time. No questions asked. And you will never hear from me again.
Your permission to send you really [...]

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If I Had To Pick Just One Blog To Read…

January 19, 2008

If I had to pick just one blog, and could read only one blog for the rest of my life – including my own blog (the one you’re reading right now) – I would pick Seth Godin’s blog.
Seth’s blog is (hyperbole alert) amazing, educational, informative, remarkable, mind-blowing, extraordinary, purple, eye-opening and goose-pimple-raising good.
Seth’s books, his [...]

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Blog-o-Phobia: Fear of Criticism

November 27, 2007

I recently asked a very close non-blogger, never-blogged-before friend to start his own blog on my new multi-blog site, YehHaiIndia.com (driven by WordPress Mu – very cool software).
His immediate response was:
The problem with blogging is you need ideas and thoughts you want to write.
And you are assuming I have thoughts that are worth writing [...]

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Podcasting With WordPress

August 26, 2007

The whole idea of podcasting is not to be just able to publish your audio files online, but to make your audio posts “subscribable” – i.e., your listeners should be able to set up their podcasting software (like iTunes) to subscribe to your feed, in which case the software (in this example, iTunes) will automatically [...]

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How Much Money Can You Make From Your Blog?

August 6, 2007

Maybe quite a lot, and mostly not a lot.
“Huh?”, you say?
If you look at this “top bloggers” list, you may end up buying into the fantasy that blogging will make you big bucks.
Not every blog will make that kind of money. Actually, it would even be fair say, that less than a fraction (less than [...]

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How To Use Blog-And-Bookmark To Send Your Traffic Through The Roof

July 11, 2007

You know what is Blog-And-Ping. Blog-And-Bookmark is quite similar.
You first blog about something (hopefully) interesting, then once your blog’s ping service has done its work on the back-end pinging all of the various web sites and your post is live, then you go to work as follows.
Use a one-to-many social bookmarking tool like AddMe.com or [...]

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Bad Words To Blacklist In Your Blog’s Comments

March 27, 2007

I was getting about 500+ spam-comments a day. I’m now down to about 20. Based on my personal experience with spam, I have created a list of “bad words”, which, when used as a blacklist, will make most of your spam go away.
If you’re using Wordpress, copy the list below and paste it into the [...]

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How To Use and Ping Google Blogsearch

January 26, 2007

Google’s Blogsearch and Technorati are great sites for focused reading about a particular subject.
Doing a Google search is entirely different from doing a search on blog search. Google’s Blogsearch and Technorati will both bring you back all posts on blogs and niche sites that have been tagged with, or contain, the keyword that you are [...]

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How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Site

December 27, 2006

If you know what a “blog” is, you probably already know what a “RSS Feed” is.
One of the best (not to forget, cheapest and fastest) ways to get free content for your web site, is to display a third-party RSS Feed. Every time the feed’s content changes, content on your web site automatically changes, thus [...]

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