My first week of blogging has been somewhat successful.  I’ve barely had any traffic on this site, but I’ve also branched out to SideTick.com where you can earn TickBucks (which turn into PayPal cash) by getting referrals, commenting, viewing polls, blogging, etc.  I’ve posted my blogs there as well. I’ve made $5.66 from Google Adsense [...]

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Caution: When building a blog and getting traffic, it takes time.  These last few days have been slightly depressing, but I need to keep going on: So what have I been doing to promote the blog?  I’ve been tweeting about it, Facebook-ing about it, LinkedIn-ing about it, telling friends on MySpace about it, and posting [...]

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I just (hopefully) installed Google Analytics on my website. First, I went to my Google Adsense’s page, then clicked the link at the top to sign up for Google Analytics.  I simply added this website’s URL and that was about it.   I followed these instructions on WordPress’s website to install the plugin.  It asked [...]

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Per Google Adsense’s requirements, my website needed to have a privacy policy.  Clueless as to how to write one, I turned to Google and searched for “adsense privacy policy” to lead me in the right direction.  The first result I came up with was Serp Rank’s “Privacy Policy Generator for Google Adsense Publishers.”  It couldn’t [...]

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It took a couple days to get the picture added to my last post, but I did it!  It only took my webhost 48 long hours to respond.  The problem was “Unable to create directory [path here]. Is its parent directory writable by the server?” All it was was a simple WordPress setting under Settings [...]

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