Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
Getting Closer to the Clouds
I decided to write a post about cloud computing, because I am using less and less of my own resources and more and more of what is freely and cheaply available on the internet. It saves time, money and space.
You may be using the cloud without knowing it. If you use webmail like Gmail, an App like Picnik, or host your blog at WordPress.com or Blogger, then you are using the lower levels of cloud computing. You are taking chores and storage and moving them from your computer to a place online where you can access them from any computer and as time goes on, from your phone also. I host my own blogs for the sake of control but I really on Gmail to hold all my database backups.
Help a Blogger Fight a Corporation
Support Vlad Zablotskyy’s Defense Fund
Defend your own right to free speech!
I will have to send you to a couple of other blogs to get most of this story. I just happen to log on last night and catch it. I have been using Friendfeed lately and it is fast at catching new stories. I saw that Andy Beard had a new one and had to check it out.
But this is not a new story. It has been going on for a while.
It seems that ePerks and iHype didn’t like a review Vlad wrote. And took it to the extreme.
Making Ideas Real
I never can tell when an idea is going to occur to me. One time it’s while I’m driving to work. The next, while I am mowing the lawn. But I can almost guarantee it will happen when I least expect it.
So I just started expecting it all the time and carrying a notebook along with me. Now it’s a Moleskine. I started with one of those 6 for a dollar cardboard flip notebook. But an idea written down in that notebook was responsible for the first thousand dollar month I had online. And it happened within a month after I started carrying the thing.
A Huge List of Keyword Tools
There doesn’t seem to be a common consensus on what keyword tools are useful or whether you need to use them in the first place, but there are a lot and we will get to them. Sometimes I used them, sometimes I don’t.
There are tools that can build a mass of keywords and cost some money like Keyword Elite. I myself see no use of having 5000 keywords on a niche. I did maybe at one time. But it is much better to build a general overview of your niche with a knowledge of a few of the keywords people would use to find it. Then write articles that gravitate around a few main topics of the niche.
Claim Your Prizes
A short note for the beginning of the week. I still have a few prizes for both the Hodchstadt party contest and the MoneyBites contest. If you are the winner, just contact me through my contact form and I will get them to you. I attempted to contact everyone but still have a few prizes waiting for their winners.
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