My friend Cindy is a San Francisco middle school teacher. We got to talking about how to best get our thoughts across to our respective audiences. Middle school kids are notorious for misbehaving. Meanwhile, some blog readers frequently leave commentary that completely misses the point or argues the thesis with no background. Cindy mentioned a […]
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There are two camps when it comes to making money online with blogging. When it comes to the question of the best way of choosing a topic, the perennial debate is passion vs. profit. On the one hand, there are the “do what you love and never work another day in your life” types; I […]
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When content started being given away for free on the internet, we knew journalism, specifically print journalism was in trouble. Over the past 10 years, more than half of journalism jobs were lost in the Bay Area. The same trend can be seen across much of the country due to the disappearance of subscription based […]
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Every year brings new opportunity. Some of us overwhelm ourselves with tons of goals to accomplish, while others curiously have no goals. Yakezie.com’s main goal is to continue challenging publishers to be the best in their niche. If you win, we all win as the quality of content gets raised across the PF and lifestyle […]
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There’s been a longstanding discussion on whether keywords in your URL matter for SEO or whether your URL matters at all. Conventional wisdom states the following: * Have your URL match your post title * Have at least your desired keywords in your URL * Keep your URL shorter than 140 characters * Consider taking […]
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The Yakezie has always been about organic growth through meritocracy. Anybody can choose to join the Yakezie Challenge and write 2-5 times a week on their own sites and build relationships within the community. If you succeed over the next six months in breaching 200,000 in Alexa and have developed 30 or so relationships with […]
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I hope all of you are having a nice holiday spending time with family and friends. This year is rapidly coming to a close and it’s a time when we’re all reflecting on our accomplishments, failures, and starting to put together our goals for 2013. I feel like this year started off pretty slow, but […]
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Although you’ll see me commenting around the personal finance blogosphere, I actually comment even more across the lifestyle and more recently, the SEO space due to all the changes with Google. The reasons are several fold: 1) Variety is entertaining 2) It’s always good to learn something from those who spend most of their time […]
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Untemplater: Congrats on getting so many consecutive features on Google News! That’s phenomenal! Writing on...Untemplater: You nailed it. I also believe great marketing is very helpful in the beginning but it’s really...
Jamie: Awesome insights thanks! I’ve been a big fan of Sam’s for years. Really exciting that he’s...Untemplater: There are so many overpriced ecourses online it’s crazy. They use very aggressive marketing tactics to...
Andy: Thousand-dollar e-courses are a total scam. You can learn everything online for free. Shame on people who sell...Untemplater: There are a lot of bloggers out there who focus on small stuff like should you or should you not spend...
Derek: It’s fascinating how some bloggers continue to just mindlessly pump out affiliate content. It’s clear they are...Untemplater: Lots of valid points! So true that bloggers are a minority of overall readership, so blogging to much...
Bingo: You are spot on. Most of our bloggers are white people living on the coasts, where half the population of...
Financial Samurai: Hi Jim – Nice to hear from you. It was too much work running Yakezie. Too many people wanted...Personal Finance Lifestyle Writing Contest
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