Passions That Pay

I love Skype. I just wanted to make that clear first. For those not yet in the know Skype functions both as a VOIP (you can use it like a telephone service to phone over the internet) and a text instant messenger. You can use the latter function to quickly set up public chat rooms [...]

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1. Are you prepared to work on your own for the most part and to make all the decisions by yourself?
2. Are you prepared to put in a lot of hard work to ensure your business takes off?
3. Do you have the perseverance and the self-confidence to keep going even when things go wrong?
4. Do [...]

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Keywords are the words and phrases that people are using in their searches. Some keywords are being searched for by thousands of people a day. Tools such as Google’s zeitgeist look at the popular words month by month.
Whilst researching on the topic of keywords, I found as I always do when reading about SEO so [...]

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I am taking part in a meme as I was tagged by this blog
Here are the rules :
First the rules:
1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself
4. Tag seven random people at the end of your post and include [...]

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Anchor text is simply the words that you see on the webpage for a link. If you have ever seen Click here then that is a commonly used anchor text. Google and other search engines put value on anchor text in their algorithm because keywords are regularly used as a way to indicate what is [...]

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I was listening to NPR interviewing Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and last year’s Nobel Peace prize winner. He is a fascinating man who has come up with a viable and sustainable solution to poverty. There is much to write about his ideas but I was particularly interested by one facet of [...]

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If you are like me and your eyes glaze over at the mere mention of Search Optimization or SEO as it is more commonly referred to, because you know the speaker is going to reel out a whole string of terms that you do not understand, then here is a basic introduction using everyday language. [...]

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I am very choosy about the blogs that I read - I simply do not have the time not to be selective. One of the blogs I do follow closely though is Jonathan Ledger . I really enjoy how transparent he tries to be at all times. He is as likely to publish a study [...]

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There is constant buzz about Web 2.0 and social marketing and new terms fly thick and fast. It can be hard to keep up. I have been hearing the term social bookmarking over and over but didn’t feel I properly understood it so I have researched it and wanted to share my findings with my [...]

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So how are you doing on your New Year’s resolution so far? Are you still working hard on the goals you have set for yourself? We are now 6 days into the New Year and I can guarantee some people will already have given up. Whether it is business or personal goals, sticking to our [...]

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