Welcome To My Island

Blogger is a free blog publishing system open to anyone.  It provides a great opportunity to gain experience blogging, and to see what blogging is all about.
All you have to do is register and then pick an address you would like for your blog.  Your address will be what you picked with a “.blogspot.com” at [...]

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I have seen many programs out there that say they will submit your web site monthly to “thousands” of search engines for a fee.  They say that it is necessary if you want to stay on the top of search engines.  That is absolutely ridiculous, and it is a complete waste of money!  
I don’t see why anyone would ever [...]

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I have been told that it is always a good idea to test your web site or blog in different browsers and even computers, to see how it displays.  Sometimes you may find that your site displays correctly in one browser, but not in another.
I have just created this design and tested it in Opera, Firefox, and [...]

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This nice little calculator gives you the estimated worth of any web site that you enter.
Along with it’s worth it finds the web site’s Alexa ranking, Google page rank, and amount of backlinks. Even shows estimates for how much it could sell text link advertisements for, how much it could earn on affiliate products each month, and how much [...]

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Have you ever been to a trade-show?  How about a virtual trade-show?
eComXpo has created a real online virtual trade-show for ecommerce marketers.  Exhibitors buy space to set up their own virtual space open for visitors to explore and even chat or email them if they want to ask them questions.
The last trade-show included hundreds of exhibitors [...]

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When it comes to having a successful blog, you need a visitor friendly design. One that will keep visitors and not make them dizzy from going around and around in a clicking frenzy leading them nowhere. 
Make your layout easy to navigate
You’ve probably been to those sites where you enter looking for something, but then get taken [...]

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One thing all successful blogs have is plenty of frequently updated content. If posts aren’t frequently added to a blog, it dies. Posts are like water, a blog is like a plant. If you don’t keep watering it, it will never grow.
I have set a goal that by February 2008 (around 7 [...]

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Many people have asked me what a blog is. I know I always have to think for a minute before I try to explain what it is. So here is a little intro to blogs and what they are.
When blogs were first started they were created to be online journals for people to [...]

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At first impression I hated Wordpress.  In fact, when I first installed it to try it out, I poked around for about 5 minutes and came to the conclusion that I hated it.
Why did I hate Wordpress?

Because I was too used to Blogspot.  Blogspot is simple, and since I had gotten so used to it, [...]

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Welcome!  This is the first post of the expected flood of posts expected to be released in the future.
What do I plan on doing with this blog?
I plan on covering everything about how to make a living online.  If it will help me make money and get me closer to my goal of being successfull on the [...]

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