Do you market affiliate products on your website? Do you actually use those products?
I discovered early on that I couldn’t write a solid, sales-worthy review of a product if I didn’t a) use it, and b) find it helpful. I mean, I could cover my sites with information about Viagra or PokerStars or something, but [...]

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Had an interesting conversation yesterday with one of my bloggy friends from the political world. He’s been messing around with SEO lately, and discovered something amazing: Google gets more searches for the word “nude” rather than “naked”. Strange, huh?
The hot topic so far this week has been about the new Miss USA, a smokin’ hawt [...]

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No? Why the hell not? Do you not want to improve your traffic, or make your content more search-able? Tell me, do you just not love your blog? Because if you loved your blog, you’d be reading Glen.
I’ve written about this internet wunderkind before, and I’m shamelessly addicted to his blog and his book, Cloud [...]

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Nice! Gmail is finally allowing you to drag and drop attachments into emails. It only took them 5 years to catch up to Outlook in this regard.
For me, this means no longer sifting through folders and sub-folders to find the right attachment. I can now just minimize my Gmail screen to a smaller size and [...]

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Is it weird that I think Gideon Shalwick is way hot since he cut his hair? I mean really, really hot. He used to look like Weird Al with that crazy long curly hair. I’m almost tempted to think he hired a new spokesmodel and just calls him Gideon. But I think that theory stems [...]

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In this great world of outsourcing and link whoring, a new breed of spammer has come to a comment section near you. This spammer doesn’t just include 16 links to Cialis in the comments. Oh no, this spammer is friendly. Personable. And oh-so-thankful for your post.
Surely you’ve seen the comments that read “Thanks for this [...]

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I never thought this blog would become another free speech outlet, but stories that affect journalists are important to those who read this site.
Last week Canada’s Supreme Court snuffed out the right of journalists to protect their sources.
This is something I’m torn over. If a journalist is privy to a crime, s/he has the civic [...]

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I live in Canada. We don’t have freedom of speech here as defined by the first amendment of America’s great Constitution. In fact, we have entire quasi-judicial bodies that hear claims from people with hurt feelings. No, I am not exaggerating – hurt feelings are covered under the Human Rights Commission.
Two years ago journalist and [...]

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Today is one of the two casual days of the home worker: Topless Wednesday (the other being No Pants Friday). Unfortunately, I’m be-shirted today because I’m working at the library. Mustn’t scare the locals.
Speaking of scaring the locals… I know guys who would totally be into this.
Blogging Without a Blog has tips on writing a [...]

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Jennifer Mattern of All Freelance Writing has created (with a little tech help) a new Wordpress theme to help freelance writers organize their portfolios.
Here’s a screen shot:

Click the image to read more about it and find out Jenn’s terms for using it (very straightforward).

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