Archive for the ‘Getting Started’ Category

Protecting your online (ass)ets: Creating a secure password

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

While building traffic and notoriety for your web identity may take a lot of your time and energy, it’s important to dedicate some effort to security. Few steps are as easy to keeping your assets secure as a strong password.

A post in Eches Blog does a good job of outlining the increasing strength of password crackers and the need for a more secure passwords.

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The Art of Choosing a Domain Name: Branding and Descriptives

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Branding is essential to getting your blog off the ground. Sure a catchy name doesn’t meant everything (obviously, since my name isn’t catchy), but it does help build an identity and rapport with your readers.

Although your domain name is important, it’s not easy to get a good one. Thanks to the millions of people that have staked their claim to that internet real estate already, ingenuity is the name of the game.

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Roadmap for Getting a Site off the Ground

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Getting your website/blog off the ground may seem daunting, and it can be. But once you’ve done it, everything else is gravy. Here is roadmap to get you off the ground if you are trying to figure out where to start.

Decide on your topic: Pretty straightforward, but you have to make sure you know enough about it and can get enough content. It’s also pretty important it’s something you are interested in, but a lot of people forget this.

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Setting Your Expectations: Part I

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Sometimes I feel a little gullible for thinking there is money to be made online by people such as myself. There are too many snake oil salesmen out there telling too many fantastical tales about how to be rich.

That doesn’t mean you can’t make some money, and it doesn’t mean that it has to be a lot work to do so.

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