2020 Update
I know it’s been a long, long time since we have written an article but that doesn’t mean we have retired from our online business. Just the opposite – in the last few months we have been working harder than ever before.
Business advice
Are you mobile friendly?
Way back in the early days of the internet, pretty much all websites were either hard-coded with standard Html or with a scripting language like Perl or PHP. Or a combination of them all. There weren’t convenient and easy to use tools like WordPress and Joomla to make our blogging jobs a bit easier. But […]
Mid Month Update – January 2016
Hi all! Sorry we haven’t written much lately. It has been a busy month! Darren hasn’t been working much in his ‘real’ business so has been devoting a lot of time to our websites. Along with updating the design on this site, we made changes on one of our other niche sites that we talked […]
How to Price What You Make
As an artist you have the fortunate opportunity to learn how to price what you make. Some claim this is pure science and if you just add up the numbers, viola! You’ll have a price that will sell. Other’s claim that it’s all in your gut and you should sell what you make based on […]
How to set up an online store front – Setting Up Shop Series
We looked at the various different options available depending on what you wanted to sell and how you wanted to sell it in our series introduction. In Part 1 I showed how you could easily sell digital downloads from your existing site. Now in this article we are going to look at how to set […]
How to Sell Digital Products Online – Setting Up Shop Series
Part 1 in our series on how to set up an online shop is going to deal with the selling of digital products online. I’ve trialed several ways on my own sites and settled on one particular plugin which has worked flawlessly and checked all the boxes for me – and I think it […]
3 options for how to set up an online store
In the last monthly income update I asked if anyone would be interested in a series about how to set up an online store within your website to sell your own, affiliate and other products. A few people said yes and I’m sure there are lots more out there who would be interested in the […]
Free e-book Friday – Blogging for Business
Blogging for Business Discover How Start And Run Your Very Own Successful Business Blog! Inside this guide, you’ll discover: – Getting Started. Tips to a fantastic business blog. – Blog Hosting 101: An overview of the blogging “Big Guys” – What to write and how to write it: A blogger’s guide to content. – Promoting […]
Earn Affiliate Income with Craftsy
We looked recently at the affiliate program for Blurb through ShareASale and I know many of you signed up and hopefully have designed your free photo book to promote on your site, and will earn some affiliate sales commissions for the festive season. I know many of you have craft blogs, or at least crafting […]
Now accepting advertising
I’m pleased to say that you can now advertise on Moms Make Money. At the moment there are a limited number of options, but I’m open to suggestions if you would like to promote your site, brand, service or product. Please drop on over to the Advertising Page – nothing swanky there, just an easy […]
BzzAgent – Get free stuff to review
We all love free stuff right? And you will often see bloggers reviewing products on their sites which they go on to disclose that they got for free. But where do you find these opportunities? If you are in the US, Canada or the UK you can sign up with BzzAgent. I’ve asked Heather […]
Linky party buttons under attack by Google?
Following on from the post about Google thinking your blog comment is spam, Google may also be thinking that your linky party button is part of a subversive and devious link scheme designed to manipulate the Google search engine results. Really! If you run a linky party on your site, the chances are that you […]
Alexa Ranking Update
It’s that time when we take a look at our Alexa Ranking to see if we have made any improvement over last month. On June 12th, I wrote about the Alexa Ranking system and why it was important to bloggers. I recommended installing the Alexa Toolbar and see if this would improve Alexa Ranking. It’s […]
Why Google thinks your Blog Comment is SPAM
Did you know that Google had updated some of their Guidelines and particularly about Blog Commenting? This is REALLY important if you have a site or blog that accepts comments and if you comment on other blogs (which you should). Read about the new guidelines to protect your site from being moved down the rankings […]
June Blog Income Revealed
June was a tough month. After going back to work full time in April and not having the time to devote to my sites I was expecting this to finally come through in to my earnings in June as any tracking periods on my affiliate offers started to expire. Search Engine traffic was strong and […]
Moms Make Money is being BLACKMAILED
Internet security, cyber crime, hacking, child pornography, viruses and malware, identify theft, cyber bullying, fraud, scamming, child-safe browsing, spamming and more. Really important issues to everyone in society who uses a computer for at work or at home. So who Polices in the Internet? Who is there for us when things go wrong? On 6th […]
Custom Opt-in Box – Mailing list series
Learn how to create your own custom opt-in boxes for your posts, pages and sidebar, just like the ‘big blogs’. Convert more of your readers to subscribers. You can also integrate social sharing buttons for the perfect share and subscribe solution. Or create forms and sales boxes. Let me show you how.
The Alexa Toolbar for Bloggers
Every blogger concerned about their traffic and looking for attract interest and investment from sponsors should know and track their Alexa Ranking. It’s simple to use, and I’ll explain why you should get it now. Read on for the Guide to the Alexa Toolbar for Bloggers. Who are Alexa? Alexa.com are owned by Amazon. They’ve […]
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