Blogging Tips and Advice

Below you'll find the posts at Sugarrae from the blogging category. I highly recommend you read each of them if you're serious about making an income or developing a personal brand as a blogger.

If you're brand new to blogging, I'd recommend reading the following resources relating to making your blog search engine friendly to help you get your blog in "ship-shape" before working on implementing any of the promotional, branding and monetization strategies we recommend:

Additionally, while not aimed specifically at blogging, I'd highly recommend reading my post about unique content before working to gain readership to ensure you make a solid first impression.

If you have suggestions for posts you'd like to see me do or information you'd like to see provided, please feel free to contact me and let me know.

Six Components of a Killer Personal About Page

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Ok, so maybe "killer" is stretching it a bit. I don't claim to be the end all, be all when it comes to writing an About page. But, I have seen plenty of About pages that suck (as in I as a potential reader have hated them) and I have seen a lot ...
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How I Doubled My Blog Traffic (& Got a Bigger Audience) in 3 Weeks

Doubled Blog Traffic

Building more blog traffic requires work. But it's not rocket science. It's a series of simple steps that require time and effort to execute, but the steps themselves aren't a secret. You simply have to be willing to DO THE WORK. 3 weeks ago, I ...
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How to Create Targeted Sidebar Advertisements (Without Using Code)

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I had a request for more information about adding functionality to your blog that will help increase your revenue - without requiring any kind of programming skills. Targeting ads are one of my "must be able to do" items when building any new ...
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4 Painless Ways to Come Up With New Blog Post Ideas

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Honestly, there are some days that I have no earthly idea what to write about. You guys made it clear in the reader survey that want me to write more. Sometimes I want to do a guest post on an outside blog to get some exposure for Sugarrae, PushFire ...
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Affiliate Site Maintenance (& Avoiding Potentially Costly Mistakes)

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After 10+ years as an affiliate, I own a lot of affiliate sites. Some very successful, some semi-successful and yes, some have been complete failures. Once you start getting into the running multiple sites arena, it's easy to let some things slip ...
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5 Simple Ways to Make More Money from Your Blog

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Based on the reader survey, website monetization ideas are a hot topic. So you have some traffic - now how do you go about monetizing it (and without selling your soul)? Affiliate programs are obviously my top choice for monetizing. Being a direct ...
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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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Starting Your First Email Newsletter

Starting a newsletter

The following is a guest post by the awesome Lynn Terry. Lynn has a ton of experience and solid advice on a topic I don't. Creating a (successful) email newsletter (actually, she has several of them) from the ground up. I asked her to write a post ...
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Thesis WordPress Theme Review – Take Two

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It's been almost three years since I bought Thesis, did my original review of it and became an avid evangelist for it. I don't think there's ever been a product that I've been a stronger fan of since starting my career in Internet marketing. My ...
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Thesis Tutorial: Adding the Facebook Like Button to Individual Posts for Dummies

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I don't think I've ever claimed to be super technical. To my mom, I'm beyond technical. To my friends, I'm super technical. To programmers, I know enough to be dangerous to myself and their code. ;-) When I first started using the Thesis theme ...
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