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Google AdSense is a great way to make money with your blog. After adding some code to your pages, the ads will automatically appear – like magic. Once readers start clicking on your ads, you can start making money. An added bonus, it’s free to you. If you’re comfortable adding… read more Make Money With Google AdSense

With blogging, the language is: CSS, HTML; XHTML, links, pings, trackbacks, URL’s, posting, stats, addons, widgets, plugins, SEO, page rank, RSS, and much more When I was “blogging without a blog”, a month or more before I actually had a blog, the language of blogging, made my head spin. To… read more Oh, That Blogging Language – Part 1

If you’re new to blogging, you may be overwhelmed with all of the blogging language. You did find out that blogging has it’s own language, didn’t you? My best advice to new bloggers, is to take it, one step at a time. There is no way, you’ll learn all there… read more Are You A New and Overwhelmed Blogger

If you have a new blog, and want to get indexed by Google, Yahoo, plus other search engines, thus improving search engine optimization, it’s apparent that a site map is imperative to install. What is a site map? Think of a site map as a blueprint of your site. When… read more Google Sitemap Generator

Adding a Google Search Bar on your blog/website, can help you increase your Google earnings. This is almost a no brainer, as most themes already include a search bar. To add AdSense for Search is easy. Log into your Google account. Go to “AdSense Setup”, click on “AdSense for Search”,… read more AdSense For Search

My head is still reeling from “crashing” both of my blogs late last week. It all started, when I decided to add a third blog (more on that at a later date). I signed on to my web hosting account, and filled out all of the information. No problem there…. read more I “Crashed” My Blogs

If you have a website or blog, you’ll want to know that your site is being indexed. To test if your site is being indexed on Google, Yahoo, or any of the other search engines, enter your site’s name, i.e. “bloggingwithoutablog.com”, hit “search”. The results will show how many times… read more Are You Being Indexed On The Search Engines?

Over the weekend, I received an email from the owner of a website I “showcased” on my other blog. She had a question about “hits” on her website, Dare To Care – Alaska. Her passion is to feed hungry children, who have fallen through the cracks for Federally funded school… read more Is A “Hit”, A “Visit”?

Google Page Rank. If you blog, and have done any research on linking, you’ve probably read that you want incoming links to your pages from sites that have a ranking of 4 or above. This apparently, will help your Google Page Rank., which, in turn, increases your position in the… read more Google Page Rank – Chasing That Elusive Dream

Are you constantly checking your blog stats? Have you become a stataholic? With new bloggers, it understandable that you check your stats often. You want, what you’ve written, to be read. After all, you started blogging to share with the world, what you feel is valuable information. I’ve been a… read more Are You A Stataholic

Would you like to be able to make a million dollars blogging? Of course, you would. Although most of us blog in an effort to help others, money always enters the picture, in one form or another. We may want to make a few bucks via our affiliate advertising, by… read more Quit Blogging and Make Millions

If you use Google AdSense ads in your blog(s), and are constantly clicking “Google AdSense” to check your account balance, Firefox has an add on that will list your earnings in your status bar. Just go to Firefox, search for “AdSense Notifier”, and download (“install”) the add on. Then, go… read more No Click Google AdSense Reporting

If you blog, and have incorporated Google AdSense ads into your pages, optimizing the performance of those AdSense ads to generate income, becomes an issue. On Google’s blog, there’s a great little “Optimization Demo” for AdSense ads. It takes approximately five minutes to watch, and is full of neat little… read more Optimizing Google AdSense

Blogging is easy, once you have your software program in place. Now, blogging got even easier. Last night I was reading Lorelle’s site on WordPress., and came upon a post of hers about a nifty feature that Firefox has as an addon. It’s a split brower, or often called, split… read more Blogging Just Got Easier

The expected stats for a newbie’s blog seems to be a mystery. I’ve done some research on stats for a new blog, but so far only found one newbie blog, where the author listed their stats. I’m curious, are my new blog stats inline with other new blogs? Am I… read more Stats For Newbie Blogs – I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours

What do I Digg? I dig Digg. And, I Digg my posts. I’m my harshest critic, but I’m also well aware that some of my posts are worth Digg-ing. By the way, these aren’t typos. Read on. To Digg your own posts gives them more exposure. If your posts appear… read more Do You Digg “Them”? I Digg “Them”!

You blog. You want your blog to rank high on the search engines. The major question is, “How do I get my blog at the top of the search engine results?”. From my experience, getting your blog to the top of search engine results doesn’t happen overnight. This is what… read more How To Rank High On Search Engine Results

So, you want to change your WordPress theme, but aren’t sure what to do? Switching your WordPress theme is pretty simple. 1) First, locate, download and unzip (extract all files) a WordPress theme that suits your site. Check out my previous post The Best Source For Free WordPress Themes 2)… read more How To Change Your WordPress Theme

To change your WordPress theme, is actually quite easy. All you have to do is find one that fits your needs, and also fits the theme of your blog. If you’re not sure where “your blog will take you” (subject wise), I think it would be best to stick to… read more Changing WordPress Themes

Learning where to insert code into a WordPress blog can be confusing. Most code is written in HTML, as are the “presentation”, “theme editor” pages. All the more reason to learn HTML. The process I follow to make inserting code into my WordPress blogs easier, is to study the “theme… read more Learning Where To Insert Code In A WordPress Blog

When researching setting up a blog, most sites say to blog on specific topics. “Pick a topic you know a lot about, and start a blog”. At the end of March 2007, I started two blogs. This one and www.observationmountain.com. This one is specific to blogging. www.observationmountain.com is not on… read more Blog On Specific Topics or Not

Two months have passed since I set up this blog. What have I learned? 1) Start with a good blogging software program. I use WordPress 2) Install a good spam remover. I use Akismet,-caught 96 spam so far 🙂 3) Post often. Post valuable data 4) Research what you don’t… read more 11 Blogging Lessons For Newbies

I’ve now had Google Analytics tracking my sites for a month seven months a year over two years now. What do I think of Google Analytics? I love all of the graphs and maps they provide, however, the numbers I’m receiving are different than Awstats and Webalizer. In fact, they’re… read more Google Analytics vs Awstats vs Webalizer

O.K., you decided to become an affiliate of Commission Junction, Link Share, or any of the other affiliate marketing companies. You carefully choose which ads to place on your site to target your audience. Everything’s going along fine, until you start micromanaging your site, and see that Google has an… read more Competitive Ads By Google? Use Google’s Competitive Ad Filter?

Is it just me, or do you get frustrated with the outdated information search engines are “throwing at you”? I do a lot of research for my blogs, as well as for my full time job. What I find most frustrating, is that the information at the top of the… read more Search Engines & Outdated Information

If you’ve signed up for the free Google Analytics for statistic reporting, you may have noticed they now have a new beta version for reporting statistics. I received an email from Google, notifying me of the change. When I clicked on the Google Analytics Bets Version, I was immediately confused…. read more Google Analytics – New Beta Version

Stumble Upon is a new (to me) way to surf the internet. After you register, you check boxes for the types of sites you like to view. The categories are limitless. After you add the Stumble Upon toolbar, you can click the “Stumble” button and see websites that fit your… read more Stumble Upon – Add Your Blog

As mentioned in my previous post, I installed Google Analytics. I now have two days of stats and am very impressed with the results. Google Analytics gives me beautiful bar and line graphs, information on my visitors and pages views, a “geo map overlay”, and a ton of reports I… read more Google Analytics Up & Running

In an effort to increase traffic to my blogs, I came upon Google Analytics. It appears to be a well designed tracking mechanism. It apparently can analyze what improvements can be made to your blog to continue getting a good traffic flow, plus possibly increase your traffic flow. It also… read more How To Add Google Analytics To Your Blog-It’s Free