I’ve noticed that more and more people call all the methods that allow you to make money online “scams”.
Do you also think that making money with blogging is a scam?

Some people make beginners believe that they can earn money from blogging straight from day 1. They make you buy their tools, subscribe to their mailing list or lure you into a monthly subscription program that will cost you tremendous amounts of money. That’s why many people talk about a conspiracy and a so called “make money blogging scam”. There are even some affiliate programs that will lure you into their program by telling you that you can make $1000’s per month by putting links on a website.
It’s not that easy, but it’s also not as diifcult as many people think.
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Well, sometimes you might feel like writing your posts in Word until you realize that copying from Word to Wordpress doesn’t work very well.

What to do then? Well, it’s tricky, but I have found not just one, but several solutions. Some solutions are good for short posts without much formatting, others work better for long posts, ebooks or articles.

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I have just acquired a really good domain via Snapnames.com.
Initially there were 4 bidders, but luckily none of them was bidding more than the initial bid. Overall, I used three different backordering services.

Whenever you backorder a domain, you should make sure to know the *where* to backorder the domain. Every registrar gives special rights to some dropcatchers, which means that the “own” backorder services of the domain registrar will get a priority bonus that will allow you to pick up the domain with a higher chance. Makes sense, right? Domain registrars are not stupid they know how much money they can make with backorders (that are usually between $60 and $70 per domain), that’s why they are giving more kudos to their own backorder services.
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Are you looking for an online article rewriter? I want to present 4 of the best online tools that are working like a charm:

RandomPaper is a free online article rewriter that does not fully reorder sentences, but replace keywords with synonyms. This is very useful and will make your article unique. The disadvantage is that synonyms do not always have the same meaning and the search engines might still count this as duplicate content.

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Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that one of my wordpress blogs was hacked. How did I notice it? My permalinks were changed and at the end of every link there was a code line attached it.

Actually it looked a bit strange, but I was in a hurry and quickly changed my permalinks and did not think about taking a screenshot at that moment.

So, what was my emergency plan?

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I would like to introduce the concept of the “Ultimate Footer Ad” to you.
Well, you probably know about ad blindness, people get used to the ads on your site or to ads in general. That’s why we’re coming up with new ad specs, formats and ways to advertise effectively.

One of the most successful ad is the footer ad. I am using it on one of my sites and my sign-ups for my “free themes” have doubled. I am offering free themes as an incentive to get more sign-ups (you should use incentives too! this is crucial).

Well, let’s see what it’s all about: (click on read more)
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