Category Archive for Lifestyle | Yakezie.com - Part 14

Imagine selling your site for $200,000. Wouldn’t that be incredible? It depends actually. What if the site took you four years to build? Each week you spent over 70 hours writing content and getting the word out. Furthermore, this was your only job during this time period. You’re 29 now and flush with $150,000 in […]

For the first two and a half years of blogging, I don’t think I had a single affiliate post. Reading other blogger’s affiliate posts sometimes made me cringe because it was evident most did not use the products they were pitching. Over the years, I’ve seen plenty of blogger’s completely lose their audiences and quit […]

Blog building and website creation can be a time consuming and somewhat lonely task. There are so many things to handle, from site design to backup and recovery to obtaining or developing fresh content and more. If you are suffering burnout – wondering how you can possibly attend to everything for daily operations and still […]

Given the huge Google Penguin update in the Spring of 2012 and the rolling Panda updates that occur once a month, guest blogging has become the #1 way for people to acquire backlinks to their sites. The SEO industry has gone into overdrive to ping all bloggers whether they can guest post their “free and […]

Aaah, Thanksgiving is in the air! This is such a happy and exciting time of year. Black Friday’s coming, the snow has started to fall in the mountains, ski lifts are opening, persimmons are all over the farmers markets (YUM), and people are headed home to spend time with their extended families. It’s also the time […]

Finally, a part of life where being thin isn’t better anymore! I’ve been spending some time reading about the interesting world of niche and “authority” sites lately. I never would have delved so deep if Google had never laid the smackdown. Everybody kept talking about the latest carnage, so I just had to pay attention. […]

As the Yakezie Network is a network of personal finance bloggers, it’s easy to get lost in our bubble, especially when we first go on our journey. The first people we reach out to are bloggers in our genre who hopefully reciprocate. Other bloggers are going to be the ones who help get your name […]

I’d like everybody to take a look at their most frequent commenters and ask yourselves some questions: * What is the gender makeup split? * What is the gender split who comment? * What is their socioeconomic background? * What percentage are bloggers vs. non bloggers? * Do they always agree with what you are […]