How to Make Money Blogging

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I was recently trying to explain to a friend new to the concept of affiliate marketing how I made money from blogging. For this post, I'll use Sugarrae specifically as an example of how I make money by blogging since most people blogging ...
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How I Use Crazy Egg To Make More Money (or a CrazyEgg Review)

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I found Crazy Egg years ago. At first I thought "heatmaps... how exciting [/yawn]" - UNTIL I first tried it out and realized that if I 1. used Crazy Egg 2. paid attention and 3. made "smart" changes based on the FACTS it delivered to me, I could make ...
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The Cost of Entrepreneurship

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I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning completely unable to sleep. Why? Because in 24 hours I was supposed to be on a plane en route to attend my kid sister's wedding... and I knew there was no way I'd be able to get on that plane. Edited to add: ...
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Using Pinterest To Rock Out Your Brand

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If you're like me, a magpie drawn to anything with a little bling, then Pinterest is the social media platform for you. Not one to ignore a sexy pair of designer shoes or the Fifty Shades of Grey inspired fashion (yes, someone's probably on top of ...
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Customized Girl Review

Customized Girl Review

For the first time in my life, I'll be exhibiting at a conference - namely, PushFire will be exhibiting at Affiliate Summit East next month (and we're pretty damn excited about it). Knowing myself, Sean and one of our team members were going to have ...
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How to Add Crazy Egg Code to the Thesis Theme

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I needed to add some Crazy Egg code to specific sections on the Sugarrae site today (which runs on the Thesis theme) to see the impact of the new design I launched last week. But after a few searches, I couldn't find any "copy and paste" code to add ...
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Link Building With The Experts – 2012 Edition

Link Building with the Experts 2012

Since 2007, I've been doing an interview series on link building with some of the best in the business. That has resulted in five super educational and insightful posts on link building. Now that we've launched PushFire, the series is moving from ...
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Announcing PushFire (and what it means for the Sugarrae site)

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A little over a year ago I posted about how I was taking my life back - making a lot of changes and figuring out what was next. Changes sure as hell have been made. :) And now it's time to let you know about them and what they mean for me as an ...
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Announcing PushFire

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This post was originally on the PushFire site, which now no longer has a blog. ;-) I'm super excited to finally be writing this blog post! Today, we publicly launch PushFire - an online marketing agency that offers SEO, PPC management, and ...
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Authorship Markup and Affiliate Marketing

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If you've been in the affiliate game for any length of time as an affiliate that relies on organic SEO for traffic, then you've probably had a conversation with your affiliate friends about Google's Authorship Markup. Recently, SEOMoz did a post ...
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