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Link love from Blog Carnivals and Festivals this week

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Without further ado, here are the various personal finance carnivals and festivals I participated in over the week. I have also included some interesting articles and blogs I found along the way. The Carnival of Personal Finance, with a Middle Eastern theme, was hosted by Greener Pastures: Personal Finance and featured my article Effectively Using [...]

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RSS readership correlation with Blog Revenue

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Curt from Penny Jobs left an interesting comment on a recent post about increasing my passive income to $300 p/month. His comment related to my target of growing my blogging (passive) income to $50 p/month by year end and was: Here is a calculation for blogging income. JD of the ‘Get Rich Slowly’ blog posted [...]

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Blog Stats Addiction

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I have a confession to make – “I have become addicted to checking my blog statistics every 10 minutes or so!”. This has been exasperated by the recent purchase of my iPhone which allows me to check my stats anywhere I have a signal. When I started this blog a few months it was one [...]

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Is My Stimulus Check Payment Taxable?

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The answer is No. According to the IRS website – “You will not owe tax on your payment when you file your 2008 or 2009 federal income tax return. But you should keep a copy of the IRS letter you receive later this year listing the amount of your payment.” That’s a relief. I am [...]

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Which Personal Finance Blogging Platform is best (plus 3 tips)

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[Update 2010] – I recently moved to a Self hosted WordPress platform! Having run this personal finance blog for a few months now on Google’s blogger platform one question I ask myself as I become more serious about blogging, as a possible full time pursuit, is what is the best and most effective blogging platform [...]

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Appearances this week

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I started this blog in December as I dipped my toe into the personal finance blog pond. However over the last month or so I have started committing more time and effort to the blog and have increased the frequency of posts to almost 1 a day. Over this time I have also contributed some [...]

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Beware Paid Links and use the "no follow" attribute

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I have started receiving the following type of emails recently, which offer to pay me between $10 and $50 to embed a link to specified external websites. Hi Andy, I was looking at your page on credit scores – 10 things to know about your credit – , and I’m interested in paying you $30 [...]

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Carnivals and Festivals

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The Money Hacks Carnival #7 was hosted at Mommy Gets Paid, which featured my article on Easy Ways to Save Money. Check out the other great articles there. Carnival of Personal Finance #147 is up at MoneyNing. Many great articles are presented there and thanks to David for including my article on “Excessive Taxes and [...]

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