by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 20, 2014 | Blogging
This, my friends, is the 1,000th blog post on Breaking Even. Now you may argue that other people have written blogs on this site but I have also guest blogged (that’s to say posted on someone else’s blog with a link back to mine) and ghost blogged...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 3, 2014 | Websites
We had a client we did regular services with us for six months. When it was time to renegotiate the contract, she decided to not renew. A few months later, she emailed us. “Well you must have been doing something because my search engine rankings tanked.”...
by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 20, 2013 | Blogging
When I saw the Ramit Sethi quote below, I laughed very hard and very alone in my office for about five minutes: For 99% of people, starting a blog is a terrible way to make money. You might as well take your money, shred it, spend a year sewing it back together by...
by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 13, 2013 | Blogging
As a blogger, I’ve long had my eye on content scrapers, which are people who steal content from your website and, with little or no changes, put it on theirs. Search engines love blogs so in an effort to get fresh website content that people are looking for,...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 9, 2013 | Blogging
When I say prolific bloggers, we might think of people like Seth Godin or Heather Armstrong. These people blog full time and have thousands of people reading every word they say, the moment they say it. Being a famous blogger is that part recognition for a talent,...