AMS case study: Week 8

June 23, 2010

I’ve been having a little trouble with something in my sidebar and it’s been frustrating the heck out of me. Here’s the issue – my Categories show up on my sidebar, but when you click on the specific category, it comes up “page not found” – however, in the same sidebar, in the same widget, [...]

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AMS case study: Week 7

June 16, 2010

I am so glad that I had accomplished so much with my web site in the previous week, because this past week, I haven’t really been able to. With it being the end of the school year and having four children, it’s been really, really crazy.  All the last-minute projects, functions during the school day [...]

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How to create a robots.txt file

June 15, 2010

—————————————————— Now playing: Grease by Frankie Valli —————————————————— “Robots.txt” files are simple text files that tell the various search engine bots not to index certain files on your site, or possibly the whole site. A robots.txt file is quite easy to set up. What follows is the code that goes in it and what it [...]

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Spreading the word: Guest posting contest at WAHumor.com!

June 11, 2010

When you work at home like I do, you don’t have the opportunity to share a good laugh with coworkers, like about the time your boss’ teeth fell into the potato salad at the company picnic. That’s where sites like WAHumor.com come in. It puts a spotlight on the humorous aspects of working at home, [...]

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AMS case study: Week 6

June 9, 2010

This past week totally rocked for me in the development of my web site. I feel I accomplished so much and that many things were finally clicking in my head. I also feel so much more comfortable working with the back end of my site, knowing where everything is and able to go to where [...]

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AMS case study: Week 5

June 2, 2010

I’m still loving that I can “skip the scams and get the skills” with Laura’s course. As the course has progressed, the lessons have become intense for me in the sense that I’m really delving into the nuts and bolts of my web site. On the Internet when reading different blurbs or “pitches” that come [...]

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Student question: I don’t have enough to write about – is my niche too narrow?

June 1, 2010

—————————————————- Now playing: Bulletproof by La Roux —————————————————- I have been looking further through the Schoolbook, and notice that under assignments, the number of times one needs to come up with 3 idea topics comes to 24 ideas. I can’t think even of the first 3 at the moment, and I’m wondering if my niche [...]

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Yes, John Chow, I WILL review your book for a chance at winning an iPad, thank you!

May 27, 2010

I admit it. I would do just about anything for an iPad. (Far more than I would do for a Klondike Bar, although sometimes it’d be close.) So when I saw that John Chow and Michael Kwan were giving away two of them to readers of their book, “Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot [...]

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AMS case study: Week 4

May 26, 2010

I’m finally “live”! However, still pretty much “hidden” from the general public! I’m not ready to become totally official, and I learned in Lesson 20 how to prevent search engines from indexing my files and folders. So cool! I’ve been working on installing the blogging software WordPress, learning in detail about the back end of [...]

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Get the FAQs about affiliate marketing

May 25, 2010

——————————————————————————- Now playing: In Love With You Forever by Elliott Yamin ——————————————————————————- Do you have questions about affiliate marketing? Things like “do I have to know how to build a web site,” “what does it cost to get started,” or “how much money can I realistically make”? You might be looking into it but haven’t [...]

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