I’m running out of time to get all my projects sorted, so I basically need to start outsourcing my work. However, my experience with finding writers has been very hit and miss. I’d love to hear ideas and your experience on hiring different types of content writers.

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So my feeds have now moved over to Google, but with their supposedly “more accurate reporting method”, my feed values have dropped significantly. My feed count for Daily Eco Tips was 108 before the move, and it dived to 78 (a 27.7% drop); my feed count for EnviroGadget was 165 before the move, diving to 112 after the move (a 32.1% drop); my feed count for PowerDosh was 43 before the move, and now 23 after the move (a 46.5% drop).

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So here I am again with one of my frustrations in the webmaster world - link exchangers.

Link exchanging, if done correctly, is a perfectly valid method of building backlinks. However, I receive a few link exchange requests per week, and they are worded so badly. So this article is about the don’ts of link exchanges from my own perspective, drizzled in dry wit and sarcasm.

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It’s nearly Christmas, so I’ll refrain from talking about 2009 goals (for now) or talk about Wordpress 2.7. For this week’s article, I thought I’d ask you a question. Why should I read your blog?

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So another mixture of useful tips and resources today. An inspirational article by someone with a long term illness that caused them to re-evaluate their life (in a way I did with my RSI), how to optimise your Wordpress blog for high traffic, how to recover unverified email subscribers and a little humour with some very unfortunate choices of domain names.

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A little cocktail of links today, based on a few things that have interested me recently. The odd photo of fruit was meaning fruit cocktail, and link cocktail. A tenuous link, but I liked the photo.

These tips include a NoFollow/DoFollow indicator tool for Firefox, news about context-advertising in PDF documents, issues with Google and Feedburner transfers, how to forge your earnings without using photoshop (and why you shouldn’t trust ‘proof’ of earnings), plus a few other resources from blogs I read regularly.

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Since I added the DoFollow status to PowerDosh, I didn’t see much of a change. I think it was because I hadn’t advertised the fact that the blog was now DoFollow. Therefore in order to promote PowerDosh, I decided to get myself on to a range of DoFollow blog lists. Just from getting on to 2 lists, I’ve seen a number of decent comments appear on the site.

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After reading the post about Gravatars and DoFollow comments on SelfMadeMinds, I thought it was about time that I implemented it on my blog. I was particularly interested in the DoFollow comments to encourage more comments on the site and ideally even increase the number of RSS subscribers by people who choose to stick around.

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One simple way of making some extra cash is to sell blog posts. I’ve had quite a bit of experience selling blog posts when I used paid blogging as a way of earning extra cash. I’m by no means an expert, but I have learnt some vital lessons. They are all simple tips and make sense with the littlest spot of thought.

Do bear in mind, you’ll never earn a fortune doing paid blogging. However, it can be a great way to earn yourself some starting capital for a new venture that could potentially earn you a fortune!

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With the massive popularity of blogs at the moment, there appear to be some distinct categories of blog cropping up. Here are my views on what they are, and I think that virtually any blog fits into one of these categories.

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