I know this is a constant refrain for me, but for every person who finds success using a shortcut, there are thousands who never will because they use shortcuts. Seth blogs about that today. Add up all that time you spend chasing a quick solution, and you could have had real success. Instead, you're left with nothing while the turtle wins the race.
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Yowch. A painful lesson that everyone should learn from rather than having to learn it personally: http://activerain.com/blogsview/737400/How-NOT-to-steal
Amazing themes that you can download for free is one of the biggest reasons why I love WordPress -- and every week there are more and more available. Smashing Magazine regularly compiles lists of some of the best, but as with anything on the web the landscape is always changing. Themes come and themes go. So today I wanted to create a list of my favorite free WordPress themes that are available right now. I'll also ... Keep reading »
In case you haven't been reading any blogs lately, Bankrate.com bought one-man blog Bankaholic for $15,000,000 this week. Duncan Riley summed up many people's thoughts about that when he wrote: You would presume the site was making good money by the sales price, but nothing else about the site stacks up. Traffic isn’t brilliant, matched by irregular posting at best. Quantcast shows 156,000 uniques on 263,000 visits, Compete puts the unique number at 300,000. The site has an ... Keep reading »
If your site was deleted from the Google index would anyone other than you notice and care? That was a quote from Aaron in "How Does the Algorithm View Your Website?", and nothing has ever rang more true to me. See, I had a site in the same mold as so many others that I had had success with. It was a very easy model for making great money: find a ... Keep reading »
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