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Why Following In The Footsteps Of Other Bloggers Can Be A Treacherous Path

A few weeks ago on one of my Yaro.TV daily videos I talked about solving problems by learning how other people have solved the same problem before you.

You can study other people’s solutions and then copy them to solve your problem. Easy.

Here’s the video –

A week later I published another video talking about how you can’t Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Content 2.0: How To Create Pillar Articles In Today’s New Media Obsessed World

Many years ago I coined the phrase “Pillar Article” or sometimes called, “Pillar Content“, to describe how to create great blog content.

To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is.

If you have never heard … Read the rest of this entry »

The Trend That Matters Most In 2013

I’ve had my own small business online since the early 2000s. One of the benefits of being an “early adopter” is that I was able to assume a position of leadership before I faced too much quality competition.

It was great for me back then as I could test basic ideas, see how they went and report back my … Read the rest of this entry »

“How My Blog Business Works” Web Strategy Summit Video Presentation

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Last week I presented at the Web Strategy Summit in Brisbane. The organisers of the event, Adam and Toby, invited me to come in and do a short presentation of 18 minutes, then a 10 minute question and answer session.

The event featured panel discussions for about 45 minutes and several 18 minute “keynotes”, so they could get … Read the rest of this entry »

Have You Tested Selling Video Ads On Your Blog?

Before I tell you the background story and my own results so far with video ads, if you haven’t yet tried out CrankyAds, I recommend you give it a go.

It’s a free WordPress plugin you can use to handle all advertising on your blog, and that includes offering video ads to your sponsors. This means an advertiser … Read the rest of this entry »

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How To Set Up A Profitable Blog Using The Become A Blogger 2.0 System

Video three in our Become A Blogger 2.0 series has gone live. This is the practical video, the one where we teach you the “how” our system works.

Leslie presents five steps that make up our system for building a profitable blog based business. They are -

  1. How To Select A Money Niche
  2. How To Set Up Your Content
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Mitch Wilson And His Million Dollar Sports Blog

Mitch Wilson was one of the very first students of my blog coaching programs. He was also one of the most proactive, attending nearly every live coaching call I did.

Mitch followed the system and took it to a whole new level, building a massive sports blog that is now in the top 1% of websites online – and … Read the rest of this entry »

Stop Wasting Your Time And Learn The Blogging System That Works

I’m happy to announce that we have just opened up access to the first video in a three-part brand new video series on how to make money with blogs, without the complicated geek talk.

This series is part of the opening celebration for Become A Blogger 2.0. Yee-hah!

Leslie Samuel, the new addition to the team … Read the rest of this entry »

The Original Blog Profits Blueprint Audio Version

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Download the MP3 [ 101 Minutes - 24 MB ]

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I realize you probably already have my Blog Profits Blueprint since it has been available for over five years now and has been … Read the rest of this entry »

Want To Sell Ads On Your Blog? Introducing CrankyAds.com

I am very pleased to announce that CrankyAds.com, my new ad management system for bloggers, is ready for a full public release.

You can download the plugin for free from here -

http://www.crankyads.com

The plugin is currently available only for WordPress bloggers, however in the future we will have options for any website.

It has been tested on … Read the rest of this entry »

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How We Made A Three Person Partnership Work

In case you missed it, last week Gideon Shalwick and Leslie Samuel, my two partners in Become A Blogger 2.0, along with me (Yaro), hosted a live webinar.

Before I begin telling you some of the background story about how this new partnership came together and the challenges we faced, I want to make sure you … Read the rest of this entry »

Just Released: Our Ten New Become A Blogger 2.0 Training Videos

About four years ago I partnered with Gideon Shalwick to create ten free videos to teach one thing – How To Set Up A Blog.

The videos were deliberately focused on beginners, people who wanted to follow the steps presented in a video to learn how to do each task necessary to create a fully functional, optimized and … Read the rest of this entry »

How To Sell More Ads On Your Blog

I previously explained my simple formula for pricing ads on your website. If you missed the article, please read it first here -

How Much Should You Charge For Advertising On Your Blog?

Now you know how much to charge, the next step is exactly where to place the ads on your site so you can achieve these goals … Read the rest of this entry »

How Much Should You Charge For Advertising On Your Blog?

So you have decided to sell ads directly to sponsors on your website or blog.

Great idea.

I’ve made money using this method since the early 2000s. It started off as a trickle – my first ad sale was direct to a small business for $50 a month for one banner on my card game website. From that point … Read the rest of this entry »

7 Insights Every Blogger Should Know

What is more important: quality or quantity?

The easy answer to this long and heated debate is both are very important – and I’ll give you that, they both are, but for free content I am in the quantity camp. Go ahead and paste me and leave 1,000 comments telling me I’m wrong – I don’t care, I will … Read the rest of this entry »

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My Most Challenging Year Part 2: A New Business Is Born

If you haven’t read part one, you can do so here – My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes

At the start of 2011 I set up this blog to run as automatically as possible.

A stay at home mum friend, Steph, from my city Brisbane came on board as editor and head of new writer … Read the rest of this entry »

The Real Skinny On Duplicate Content

The issue of duplicate content is a rather contentious one in the world of Search-Engine Optimization. There were for many years – and perhaps still to this day – myths floating round about duplicate content penalties.

Essentially, folks were told that if they produced duplicate content then they would be punished, and many thought that this meant you could … Read the rest of this entry »

Forget SEO And Think Local

I know the headline is a bit contradictory. Local search is still considered SEO by those near and dear to our hearts.

Maybe for you targeting people all over the world makes sense. I’m certainly not saying to forget it completely, but I read a lot blogs semi-regularly and you might be pretty well served if you started catering … Read the rest of this entry »

The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide To Set Up A Profitable Website

If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look at the new EJ step-by-step guide to set up a profitable website.

You will find it under the “How You Can Start” tab in the navigation bar above, or click this link –

How You Can Start: A Step-By-Step Guide To Set Up A Profitable Website

You will have … Read the rest of this entry »

Blog Mastermind Closing Forever This Friday (Plus A Story About Video Games, Magic And Skating)

When I was about 5 years old I discovered my first love – video games.

It all began with a nintendo entertainment system. There was nothing more important in my life at the time than Super Mario Brothers.

My passion grew as I grew, going from nintendo to the sega master system, to the mega drive, the … Read the rest of this entry »

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