Archive for July, 2008

Optimizing Your Keywords Part 1

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization is an interesting subject and an important topic to know about. With the expected increase of internet sales making up 40% of all sales around the world by 2020, it's no secret that getting to the top of the most popular search engine is important. As I ...

John Chow E-Book Review Part 2

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Chapter 5 places a large emphasis on RSS feeds and the importance of supplying one for your readers. There are paragraphs on how to increase your RSS subscription and why you should offer a full RSS feed, RSS button placement and monetizing your RSS. Out of all the chapters, this ...

John Chow E-Book Review Part 1

Monday, July 21st, 2008

John Chow’s E-Book is broken up into 9 chapters that cover a variety of topics on how to make money online using your blog. “Here’s a clue for all you losers out there; someday never comes.” Starting with an inspirational post about seizing the day and starting the process of achieving your ...

Schedule, Schedule, Schedule

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

So you've picked a topic, started your blog and decided on a posting frequency. Let's say you picked, oh I dunno, 5 times a week. You're dead set on 5 times a week and it's going swimmingly so far. Your posts are in depth, smart and informative. But week 4 ...

Focus, Focus, Fo… zzz…

Friday, July 11th, 2008

One of the hardest things about blogging has to be writing about the same topic constantly. Scratch that, it is the hardest thing. If you're looking at blogging being a long term hobby or even job, be prepared to write constantly on a set schedule. By set schedule, I mean ...

Focus, Focus, Focus.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

While reading beginner’s guides and articles to blogging, the first point made was always pick a topic you’re passionate about and one you can focus on month after month, until your blog is old and gray. Depending on the topic, this might be easy to do or it might be a ...

The Template Search Continues

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Finding a custom template isn’t as easy as I thought it would be. Sitepoint offers a marketplace for them, but at the moment the pickings are slim so we still haven’t found one. I’ve also been browsing Digitalpoint (what’s with all the -point sites?) and again, haven’t found anything that ...

Why Did We Redo The Blog?

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The point of Makethemillion.com is to chronicle our journey on making a million dollars and providing information on how we're doing it. We're going to be talking about a bunch of different ways to make money such as day trading, online poker, real estate development and other types of investments. So ...

Make the Million Reborn

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Two weeks in and we've already had to redo the blog. We decided 2 blogs doesn't make sense since we're posting about the same thing, so we've decided to focus on just 1 blog together. We have a few big changes coming up and it will take a couple days ...


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