-What about Blogging and Taxes?

It is almost Tax time in the USA. If you made any money on your blog or website last year at all, no matter how big or how small, it must be reported. The IRS treat hobby bloggers far different than those who make a substantial income online and consider their websites to a real business or part of actual company.

-New Year: A Good Time to Evaluate Your Blog or Website

The new year is a good time to evaluate your blog or website. An excellent time to evaluate exactly what you are currently doing and how it measures up with your original vision. Or better yet, is the original vision that got you started blogging in the first place still valid or does it need to be adjusted or changed in any way?

One of the most effective ways to judge what you’re really doing is to take a hard look at how you’re really spending your time.

-Backing Up Your Blog or Website

I have learned the hard way how important it is to backup your blog or website or even your computer for that matter.

What if tomorrow your blog or hosted website files were hacked into and were changed or destroyed, what would you do? Or worse yet- what if your host went belly up and no longer existed flushing all of your blogging files (it has happened)?

-After 15+ Years of Blogging: Here’s What I’ve learned

After over 15 years on the internet blogging and publishing religious websites I have learned a lot and I have observed many different trends and changes. I have also seen many good blogs and bloggers come and go.

Many started blogging in 2005 and 2006 because their friends did and it became the popular thing to do. It was a golden time when 1000’s of new blogs came into existence every hour of everyday. Some of my favorites and even some of the best blogs of that era no longer exist.

-Copyright Facts for Bloggers

One of the strangest facts for a new blogger to fully comprehend and accept is that when one writes a blog article it is actually copyrighted and its use is subject to the writer.

There is a great blending and sharing of stuff through social networking sites and through private emails that many times totally disregard copyright propriety. 

-What to Do About Your Website When You’re on Vacation

Disconnecting from the internet and blogging is actually a very good thing to do every once in a while—especially vacations.

Also, once in a while I will take a necessary weekend off from it all just to relax and get the creative juices flowing again. This is really important—to be in it for the long haul you must learn to disconnect once in a while no matter how 'painful' LOL. Vacations are not only beneficial for your off-line work but for your on-line longevity also.

-The Importance and Effects of Colors

Personally I have put a lot of thought and effort into the colors showing on all of my blogs and websites. However I have not always been entirely successful. 

-What About the ‘About’ Page?

 ABOUT? WHO ARE YOU?

It is a mere afterthought on so many blog and websites yet the ‘About’ page is the second most viewed page on every site. Not only that but also the second destination of nearly every new visitor that comes aboard.

-Blocking Offensive ADs and Setting Up an ‘AD Disclaimer’

This is for all of you bloggers who have woken up one morning and discovered an offensive ad generated by Google AdSense on your site. If this hasn’t happened to you then you are either new or you haven’t monetized your website with AdSense or something like it that generates ads on your site that are ‘supposed’ to target and compliment the content.

What to Do With Offensive Ads