Tax tips for bloggers was originally posted on Clarks Condensed.
Disclaimer: This information is provided on an information basis only. Katie is not a tax expert, and even though Bruce Barker is, this is general advice about blogging and taxes. Do not consider this as a consultation on your individual needs. Pleas consult a tax professional to discuss your individual situation.)
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It's that time of year that most people dread -- tax season. If you are
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Three Ways to Make a Mobile Friendly Website
More than likely, the majority of your site visitors are visiting your site on a mobile device. For our site, Clarks Condensed, we get about 70% of our traffic from mobile devices. After talking with others, this is definitely the norm. Because of this, ensuring your viewer's mobile experience is pleasant is more important than ever.
I've looked into a lot of different options and weighed the pros and cons of most of them. I've come to the conclusion that there is no perfect solution, but a lot
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Best Blogging Books Every Blogger Should Read
In any industry, the desire to constantly learn more about what you are doing is essential to success. Doctors need to know the latest medical advances. Teachers need to know the best methods for teaching a child to read. And bloggers? Well, professional bloggers need to know how to most effectively reach their audience, grow their blog, and make money. With blogging, the industry is constantly changing, so it's essential to stay on top of the latest trends.
But before you can follow the latest
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Blogging 101: Everything You Need to Know to Start a Blog
Be sure to check out our Blogging Resources page on The Blog Help for our favorite products and services to get your blog off on the right foot!
We've been blogging professionally since 2013, and in that time, we've made a successful business that has allowed us to work from home and have a fabulously flexible life. We are constantly being asked how we did it, and if others can do it as well.
Yes, yes they can. Does it require a lot of work? You better believe it. But if you truly have a
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How to Make Money Blogging
A few months ago, my friend Katelyn from What's Up, Fagans? mentioned on Facebook how she was grateful for the income she was able to bring in from blogging. A few people quickly asked her to tell them what she did to make money blogging. While I'm sure people are generally interested a lot, a lot of people seem to think it's a get rich quick scheme.
Well, let me dispel the rumor right now - blogging is not a get rich quick scheme.
Developing a blog, a following, and promoting your posts
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How to Fix the ?m=1 Blogger Mobile Redirect Problem
One of my areas of expertise are Blogger to WordPress transfers. As such, I've encountered just about every problem and error that can come from moving your blog to Blogger from WordPress. In short, you should not see a drop in traffic. If you do, something has gone wrong with the transfer.
The single most common issue I find people having is that their Blogger Mobile Redirect (Blogger adds a ?m=1 to the end of these links) is not redirecting correctly. This never happened until a few months
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How to Make Money on Popular Posts with Media.Net
UPDATE:
In the past several months I saw a decrease in earnings. After talking with my account manager and a few others, I found a new technique you may want to consider trying. After you've been running the tags for awhile, take the code from your top performing post and add it to the other popular posts. This has proven successful for many. Also ask your account manager to make sure you have asynchronous codes.
Affiliate links are use in this post
I'm always trying to find new ways to increase
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Ad Backfill Tutorial
Setting up backfill for your ads is a great way to increase ad revenue and work with multiple ad networks. This ad backfill tutorial will teach you how to get started.
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Like it or not, display ads are one of the best ways to make money blogging. To make a decent income from ads, it's important to know it takes more than just throwing up a couple of Adsense ads and calling it good. There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes, and it takes a lot of monitoring,
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The Best Sponsored Post Companies for Bloggers
I've been blogging for a little over a year now, and in that time, I've really gotten to know a lot of the sponsored post networks that are out there. In case you aren't familiar, these groups work with large companies to bring bloggers an opportunity to write about their service or product, and get money for it. They are super helpful to get your foot in the door with some companies you may not have otherwise had the opportunity to work with.
As you might have guessed, there are a lot. And I'm
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