No matter your circumstances, I want to take this opportunity to encourage you to consider the idea of working from home. For many, the prospect of being self employed seems more like a dream, and is usually outside of our traditional comfort zone. Well, I am here to tell you that you can be your own boss if you’re only willing to take the risks! Chances are, the only thing holding you back is the fear of the unknown!!!
Guess what:
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Work From Home
start a business, work from home
If you are going to be an entrepreneur that makes money online, it goes without saying that you have to understand what search engines are and how they think. Now, how they think can also mean how they work, but the fact is, as technology advances search engines are becoming more and more intuitive in what information they provide based upon a range of algorithmic calculations developed by real thinking engineers.
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Search Engines
how search engines work, search engine, search engines, what are search engines
A lot of people woke up on April 25th to find their traffic from Google dramatically reduced, their rankings gone, and their Google search results awash in a massive state of change. The newest update from Google came quickly on the heals of the now infamous Panda update that negatively impacted an estimated 12% of all websites in the Google search index. So what is the Penguin Update?
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Search Engines
Google Updates, Penguin Update
So, the Google Panda Update has been all the rage since February – I actually got a couple of phone calls from people on this – “Did it affect you?” me ”Did what affect me?” Yep – I had no idea anything was going on. One thing is certain—as soon as Google makes a huge update and we all just start to get comfortable with how the new algorithm is set to work, the search giant updates everything once again and keeps us guessing what’s next. This is exactly what has happened within the last 60 days with the new Panda 3.3 (February 26, 2012) and Panda 3.4 (March 23, 2012) updates.
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Search Engines
Google Update, Panda Update
Continuing on the topic of Search Engines, I want to talk with you about the “webmaster guidelines” that used to be available from the various search engines. The reality is, these guidelines were just basic principles that search engines wanted you to follow to improve the quality of the information they are serving to their customers. Overtime, a lot of these rules governing search have been hidden or just disappeared. So it makes it hard for the new guy on the block to know in advance what the search engines actually expect of you.
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Search Engines
guidelines, webmaster guidelines, webmasters
If you’re just looking to create a basic WordPress blog designed to help you get started with making money online, the best WordPress plugins for your blog are probably the ones I use for the blogs I own. Now, WordPress plugins are really built around what you’re doing and the more plugins you run, the slower your blog will be.
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Wordpress Blog
best plugins, plugins, wordpress plugins
Let’s think about that for just a moment. When things are at their worst, who do we have around us to help pick up the pieces? Family. When we find ourselves in need, who in our lives can help us to meet them? Family. When we have accomplished something of significance in our life, who do we want most to celebrate with us? Family.
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Rules To Follow
family, family first
Faith is an important part of my life. It defines how I look at myself, the choices I make, the people I associate with – basically, my faith is an intrical part of my life. I think anyone that knows me might be surprised to hear this. I’m not the outspoken type and I certainly am not the one that will quote scripture in a conversation. I do believe that faith defines our character – and that’s not to say we are not imperfect. To the contrary, we are all flawed and we all make bad choices.
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Rules To Follow
Religion, Sales Tools
Now, I can only speak for myself here – I don’t like debt. I have written about this topic in some fashion, shape or form for about a decade now and I am a firm believer that Debt Kills Dreams. Personal dreams and business dreams. Anyone who has had any serious debt knows your finances can even impact the dreams of your children. I’ll go on to say that I don’t particularly like to watch or listen to Dave Ramsey for reasons that don’t really matter here…What does that have to do with anything?
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Rules To Follow
avoid debt
So here is a rule that I think everyone just starting out in business can really appreciate and understand. Limit your risk; whether it’s financial or personal, you want to ensure that whatever it is you’re doing in business you limit the amount of your financial risk as much as possible. Unfortunately, there are a few people in this country that simply will not take responsibility for their own decisions and these people will come after you whenever the opportunity presents itself. There is just not much you can do about that and frankly, there is no point in worrying over it since you can’t really control it. What I am really talking about is hard currency!
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Rules To Follow
limit your risk, risk
Before investing any money in any business, you need to know what the legal requirements are for whatever it is you’re planning to do. My favorite thing – regulations. Regulations are laws. These laws are designed to control who can do business, what you must do in order to do business, and how you can and cannot do business.
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Rules To Follow
know regulations, know the law
If you don’t understand what you are doing how can you ever hope to do it successfully? Just one of the things you must do before you begin the process of considering whether your business is viable is to research thoroughly the industry you’re looking to start your business in.
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Rules To Follow
Research, Research You Business
