When I was recently signing up for an affiliate program, I noticed that they made note of the 1099-MISC form and I had absolutely no idea what that was. After doing some research, I found that the 1099-MISC form is sent to freelancers and contractors by the companies that pay them. Here’s what I learned:…
After posting about how to connect your custom domain email address to Microsoft’s Outlook.com service, I noticed that I forgot to mention why you should do this. I use GoDaddy for my web hosting and I feel that their email packages are lacking features, overpriced, and slow. I finally decided to use Outlook.com instead and…
WS Domains I was recently browsing the GoDaddy website and saw that they have added another country-specific domain name to their top level domain list. The .WS domain extension is obviously nothing new since it was developed in the year 2000, but domain registrars have found a way to advertise and brand this extension to…
When I got to my new school this year and they were handing out our @nwfsc.edu email addresses, I noticed that they had stopped using Microsoft Exchange and started using Microsoft’s new service Outlook.com.
I first started blogging back in 2010, so I didn’t get to where I am today without a little practice. I needed practice writing in the style that is effective for the Internet, practice with blog design elements, social networks, common blog terminology, etc. Successful blogs do not happen overnight and neither do successful bloggers.
One of the biggest problems I find with new blogs is spam comments. New bloggers are excited that they receive comments on their posts, so they either set the setting to always approve comments or they just manually approve them. This is great for when it says a particular blog post has 8 comments, but…
I was recently browsing one of my favorite blogs, Daily Blog Tips, and realised that their commenting system was lacking many important features. I couldn’t reply to other comments to create a threaded message and I couldn’t subscribe to the comments to receive email notifications when another user has commented. These are two necessary features…
If it’s not already that time of year for many bloggers out there, it surely will be shortly… Summer is coming to a close and the fall semester of college is about to start. I personally just started my first year at the Collegiate High School, which is located at Northwest Florida State College. I…
This is a guest post by Nathan Brown of BuyATT.com, a site that offers savings and current information on AT&T. Who said everything has a price tag attached? With blogging you can share your thoughts, spread a word and upload anything from pictures to recipes for free! It is one of the quickest and most…
I’m a regular reader of Darren Rowse’s website ProBlogger and I saw that he recommended a CPM advertising company called Chitika. Without going into too much detail, CPM stands for cost per thousand (M is the Roman Numeral for 1,000). This means that the CPM rate of an ad unit would be how much money…
When I’m laying in bed at night, I often search for blogging tips, ways to make money, and things of that nature using my phone. Every once in a while I will come across a tip that I include in my blogs, but never like the one I found tonight… I was browsing the Internet…
If you have ever read any of my rants about the news before, you should know that I don’t read the news and I don’t reccomend to anyone to read news publications like CNN or Fox News. It’s true that these two websites are PR7 and PR8, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they have…
When we are optimizing our blog, images are one of the last things we worry about. The problem with not worrying about images is that they affect website load time and disk space. When people want to visit your blog and it takes longer than ten seconds to load, they will often click the back…
Many geeks who run websites have turned to creating their own home server to bypass web hosting fees. You can create a server using an old computer (I mean old, like one from 2002 would be okay), installing either Windows Home Server, Mac OS X Server, or Linux (the free option), and attaching it to…
If you have a slow computer that freezes up often or has many viruses, you can completely erase Windows and install Linux instead. Linux is a free, open-source operating system that runs on a variety of hardware and is compatible with many applications.
