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When I look back at this year, or at least as far as it has come for now, I can say without hesitating it’s been quite a year for me. All the way back in January I started blogging, for money, that is, and a lot has changed for me ever since.
In the beginning I [...]

In the past I made many mistakes, just like basically everyone who starts with something new, no matter if it’s digital or not. One of my biggest mistakes was not blogging frequently enough to bother the visitors of my website enough to keep them coming back!
It’s fairly easy to spot that kind of trouble, especially [...]

It took me quite a while to figure out – I admit I don’t check incoming links to my blog that often – but I discovered I’m featured on Paula’s list of blogger salaries!
Basically that list is a summary of a load of bloggers – about 60 – that have published their income at some [...]

A guest blogger, Aaron Wall, has published a pretty interesting article on Problogger yesterday, discussing whether to blog neutral or biased. The outcome is somewhat predictable; blogging biased, while still staying reasonable and non-offensive.
While this might seem obvious, there are still a lot of people out there who try to be a neutral source of [...]

When I started with ‘Leftblank.nl’ I never had the intention of making money blogging – in fact, I didn’t expect it to become anything but a nice playground for myself. After about five months of blogging, with three of them intensive and paid, I can say I don’t regret starting with it at all, not [...]

The title of this post might be a little ‘out of the ordinary’, but I that’s the goal of this competition. The content is held here on Leftblank, and is sponsored by Banana Hosting, a hosting company with, as you might guess, a banana as logo and name.
This hosting company is looking for some nice [...]

Ever since the famous World Wide Web was formed and standardized, pages and documents have been connecting themselves with all kinds of other documents and pages through hyper links. These links often weren’t between ‘just’ HTTP powered pages, in fact, it started even before that particular protocol was widely used.
When the HTML format was created [...]

No matter where or how you host your blog, sooner or later you’ll notice unwanted comments or trackback pings coming up – this is especially the case with a weblog powered by popular software such as Wordpress. Luckily, there are also several ways to block or filter this kind of trash from the ‘real’ [...]

Most bloggers must have heard already of the upgrade of Wordpress last night; it shows up on your Dashboard, you know, the first page you see when you login to Wordpress. Anyway, for those who don’t; a new version of Wordpress has been released, number 2.1.2.
The reason of this sudden upgrade in version seems to [...]

I’ve written a lot about making money online, advertising your weblog and monetizing it, however, nothing is better to post than your own experience. That’s exactly what I’ll post here.
Even though February has three days less than the month January, of which I reported my income as well, I’ve managed to increase my blog income [...]