If you’re a blogger and aren’t sure if you need to pay taxes, it will depend on whether you’re making money with your blog and whether you consider your blog a business or a hobby. I received the question below and Amanda Henson of High Impact Mom researched the answer and wrote it up. Dear [...]
What to Do When Someone Steals Your Blog Post
September 26, 2011 By 26 Comments
If you’ve ever found your articles reprinted without your permission — and I’m talking more than what’s considered fair use — then you’ll love today’s article. Ang England explains what scraping is and how to approach a website that’s stealing your content. (Hint: You may be able to turn it into a lucrative opportunity!) Please [...]
Should I Migrate my TypePad Blog to WordPress?
September 22, 2010 By 7 Comments
Should I migrate my blog to WordPress? Given the brouhaha that’s going on this week (Six Apart was bought by VideoEgg and they’re forming a new company named SAY Media. Please click that link and read the article. I was surprised at a quote from SAY Media’s president about how they plan to work with [...]
Defining Basic Blogging Terms, Part 3
April 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
Thank you for sticking with me as I’ve defined basic blogging terms over the last three weeks. This is the last week for the blogging glossary; next week I’ll be defining and discussing social media terms. CAPTCHA: stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart. You’ll recognize captcha as those [...]
Defining Basic Blogging Terms, Part 2
April 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
This week I’m continuing to define basic blogging terms. My goal is to compile a glossary of key terms that will help new bloggers navigate their way through the blogosphere. Every time I think I’ve defined all the basic terms, I come up with a few more that have stumped my readers in the past. [...]
Blogging Glossary: Defining Basic Blogging Terms
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’re new to blogging, you may be overwhelmed by the jargon tossed around effortlessly online. I started this article thinking I could define a few key blogging terms that may help beginning bloggers find their footing. What I ended up with was an epically long post that needs to be separated into several categorical [...]
Learning HTML Can Help You Take Control of Your Blog
March 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you’re blogging and you don’t know even a little bit of HTML, you’re doing yourself a disservice. HTML tells a web browser how to display text elements on your web page. Learning and using HTML is fairly intuitive; I think you’ll find it very easy to learn. Knowing how to use HTML on your [...]
