Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
The $4000 Notebook
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Reason Not to Blog: Feeling Boxed In
This blog has subscribers. I have followers on Twitter. At one point, I realized these could be real people and I freaked out.
I used to spur of the moment posts about anything I happened to be doing during the day that might be useful to someone else. Then more people began reading and commenting on my blog and I wasn’t sure what to post next. At some point stage fright hits and there is so much you can’t write or at least you may tell yourself that.
Friday Links – 2/19/2010
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Helping Your Niche Site Swim in the Mainstream
Just because you have a niche site does not mean it has to remain in obscurity. There are plenty of ways to make even the most boring site appeal to a wider range of people.
How to engineer a successful viral campaign. They don’t just happen. A very in depth post with specific steps.
What’s New with Magento
First, let me tell you that I will soon be receiving the Magento 1.3 PHP Developer’s Guide to review. Magento has an architecture link no other software. Hopefully this book sheds some light on developing with Magento and beats hunting a pecking through the forums. The last book I bought for a CMS was one for Drupal. With WordPress, I picked up everything I know online.
What I Do Sundays
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I started writing this post a few weeks ago on a Sunday. I was just getting to a weekly rhythm and something broke, so that Sunday was different as most Sundays are. A schedule is always the best case scenario.
Before I started freelancing, I did have a rhythm but I forgot it and found it again and that’s what this post is about. For over a year now I only go into the day job 4 days a week at my day job and when I thought I was going to make a killing freelancing, I was only going in three days a week.
Friday Links – 2/12/2010
On Potential Privacy Problems With Gmail Buzz Exposing Email Contacts
Before I logged into Google Buzz, I thought, Google cloning Facebook. But I was actually surprised that it was something more useful. And then I ran into this article about the privacy issues and it has me wondering.
Keyword grouping tool for PPC : A free keyphrase grouper by CampaignSniper
I was looking for a desktop keyword grouping tool and was amazed at how hard they were to find. Here is an online one with the source code. I am currently integrating the source into http://www.dir23.com
Yes, Virginia, SEO’s are Ruining Google
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And here are some similar phrases that I put in the same basket:
- “We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”- George Bernard Shaw
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