Topic: small business

You've probably seen information online that makes it sound like there are bloggers making $1000 a month or more starting from their first month and going up from there, and you're (quite correctly) suspicious. Otherwise everyone would be blogging instead of doing other jobs, right?

To answer your questions, based on my experience, yes it is difficult to make money blogging, and yes I suspect there are a few bloggers out there who are lying on their income reports. I'll provide reasoning for this here and let you know the red flags to watch for.

Adding schema markup to your website is a great way to give search engines extra information about your site. Google Structured Data Markup Helper is an easy point-and-click tool that lets you pick what goes into that information by highlighting the appropriate bits from your page.

There are two common errors that come up when using this tool, which are both covered in this article. The first is the "Unable to create page" error. The other problem is an inability to fill in the bits from your website and move on to get the code with the "Create HTML" button.

Fortunately, there are easy fixes for both of these problems. I'll cover them one at a time.

Let's assume you don't yet have a website and you're trying to figure out how much bandwidth and disk space you need from your hosting plan. Here we'll use data from 3 of my own blog-style sites to find out how many visitors add up to how much bandwidth, and what amount of disk space is used.

You're hoping not to go over your allocated bandwidth or disk space at your web host, but you may be wondering what happens if you do. For example, what happens if you get a sudden traffic spike to your website, or your website simply grows faster than expected? Here the answers.

If you're an individual or a brand who handles their own tweets, you don't want to get sucked into a time sink with Twitter. Maybe you've already tried to save time on Twitter and have drifted back to old habits. This article is for you!

Here we'll cover "how to look super-professional and active on Twitter while spending barely any time doing so". In addition to the obvious common-sense stuff, we have some specific strategies - "recipes" so to speak - so read on for these nuggets!

Plurk can be thought of as a Twitter alternative - a form of social media that encourages short-form updates. Here is the complete guide to Plurk for businesses and brands.