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My Best Earner


After a forced hiatus I’m slowly getting back into my normal routine and hopefully the new features for March should be up soon. Today I want to talk about something everybody has been asking about: my best earner.
Over the last 3 months I’ve been reading a lot of questions and even complaints in the comments […]

Getting the Most Out of Paid Reviews


In this post we continue the series about paid reviews, it will give you no less than 12 tips on getting the most out of your reviews, whether they’re paid or not. Read the first two posts in this series before trying to grasp this one:
JohnChow.com Review - The Verdict
Should You Buy A Blog Review?

Should You Buy A Blog Review?


In the first post of this series I took John Chow’s review of my blog as a case study, my verdict was that the review was well worth the $100 I paid. After that post a lot of people were asking if it’s worth the current price - $250. Well, let’s see.
Before I you we […]

3 Ways to Expand Your Potential Reader Base


Finding the right niche is often about finding the right audience, the audience you can connect, inspire or just feed with news and information from that topic.
Regardless of how well you’re currently doing with your own audience, expanding your potential reader base can only benefit you, delivering whatever kind of value freely to as many […]

2 Comment Related Plugins I Won’t be Using


I’m sure most bloggers have already heard of the “Top Commentators” plugin as it is now being widely implemented in a lot of blogs. For those who don’t know - this plugin lists the top x commentators on a blog’s homepage.
Another comment related plugin that is now being adapted by many is “The yesfollow Project“, […]

Few Established or Many Small Earners?


While instant messaging with one of the readers I was asked whether I’d prefer to have few established online earners or many small ones that would add up my income to a good sum each month.
My immediate response was “excellent question! you just gave me something to blog about”, obviously I had other posts waiting […]

4 Tips on Smarter Archive Use


Regardless of your niche, your expertise or your writing quality, kicking off a blog is one of the hardest stages you’ll have to go through. Since I’m going through this myself with AlleNation, I know one of the most frustrating things about it is the fact that what I write today may not be read […]

Green Day Give The Best Advice on Blogging


When you take blogging so seriously, suddenly you start relating it to almost any other aspect in life. It’s funny (and scary at some moments).
That’s what happened to me when I was listening to Green Day’s song called “Time of Your Life”. One of the sentences that I immediately related to blogging was the […]

Reader Explains Her Problem, Gets Advice


It’s midnight here and I was just going to log off and call it a night, but then I noticed Mallory’s comment, and since I know she has been coming to AlleNation for a while, I decided to do a quick brainstorm and give her (and all of you) some advice, now where in the […]

The Myth We Need to Dispel


After publishing my motivational post about striving for perfection I realized I have overlooked one major obstacle that would prevent readers from actually getting motivated by it.
This obstacle is one of the biggest myths in the blogosphere and is believed to be true by most new and many mainstream bloggers. It’s the myth that not […]