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Nothing can be more heartbreaking than getting laid off at a company that you have given your heart and soul to for years. Many folks assume that if they stay loyal to their company, they won’t get laid off. Unfortunately, many have found that not to be the case the hard way. Nobody likes to [...]

New blogs do not often get that many link requests. But once your site starts getting ranked high in the search engines, people will e-mail you, asking you to link back to them. The majority of these requests are not even worth checking out. Nobody wants to link to a spammy site anyway. But once [...]

Amazon S3 is bloggers’ best friend. It is one amazingly cheap and powerful service for storing files for small businesses, developers, and anyone in between. The service is not only affordable, it is pretty secure too. If you store your backup files on hard drives or discs, you are setting your business up for failure. [...]

There is a difference between blogging for the sake of doing it and having a plan to get your blog some major traffic from the top search engines. Many SEO professionals understand what it takes to optimize sites, their content, links, and structure for the search engines. As a blogger, you may not have the [...]

Starting a Wiki is a great way to get your community more involved and take advantage of user generated content to offer more value to your audience. Unfortunately, running a Wiki can be a huge problem considering that spammers and hackers love going after these types of websites. Maintaining the quality of content published on [...]

Publishing an e-book is a great way to generate some revenue for your business and get the word out about your blog. If you can afford to offer your e-book for free, you can get more recognition and traffic for your blog. These days, e-book publishers have so many ways to promote their works. Companies [...]

No matter what you think of Wikileaks and people behind it, there is no question that what these folks have done has opened the eyes of the world to a whole new way of reporting the news. We have already seen many similar leak sites launched in the past few weeks. The governments around the [...]

Blogging is all about providing value to your visitors. One way to do that is by writing killer content. Offering your visitors with useful tools and features would help too. What can be more helpful than a job section on your blog? In these tough economic times, there is no reason you can’t use your [...]

One of the best ways to build a solid community around your blog is by getting your visitors engaged in discussion on your website. Everybody who comes to your blog has needs and will have questions. That’s why adding a Q&A section to your blog can help you take it to the next level. Thanks [...]

In case you have not noticed, there is no way to give a website or web-page a negative score with those Facebook or StumbleUpon buttons. Getting positive feedback from your visitors is nice, but sometimes you may need more than that to improve your blog and take it to the next level. Giving your visitors [...]