When doing affiliate marketing for U.S. companies, one of the trickiest things for a non-U.S. Internet marketer is to figure out the whole U.S. taxation system. Seems that we “foreigners” need to know these things ourselves, because some of the companies running the affiliate programs don’t know the requirements themselves.
I’ve written about the challenges that non-native english blogger faces, but that is nothing compared to the confusion that surrounds the U.S. taxation system. Seems that no-one has clarified the issue once and for all, and thus everyone is guessing. I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, so proceed with extreme caution, but here’s is how I understand it.
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Jan 28, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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I receive quite a bit of questions through email and I always answer them, so I might as well share the answers with you all, right? As long as that’s OK for the person who asked the question, of course. This is the first Q&A -post, so do tell me what you think about this in the comments, OK?
This time the questions and answers are related to building niche sites, and more accurately search engine optimization, SEO, and choosing the right domain name.
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Just yesterday I shared you a secret to making money online, and today I share even more good stuff. I know, I know – the amount of “secrets” on my blog is getting overwhelming, but what can I do when people title their videos and eBooks like this? Anyway, let me show you what these 3 free guides are about and how to get them.
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Have you heard of the company called 37signals? These are the guys behind Basecamp, Backpack, Highrise and Campfire (plus other web-based applications, like Writeboard and Ta-da List). In addition to that, they also released Ruby on Rails, an open source web application framework.
They launched five of their web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, in just two years with no funding, no debt, and only 7 people. And they’ve written a book how they did that. The book is called Getting Real. I haven’t read it yet, but it went straight to my wish list now that I heard about it.
But this post isn’t about that book, it’s about doing business online. And more importantly, this is about doing small business online and the right mindset, the beauty of thinking small and mastering the art of the start.
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Jan 14, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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It is easy.
Would you spend 1-2 minutes more on a blog post that will be online for years, to drastically improve the chances of that post bringing you free traffic from the search engines without you lifting a finger? If you do, read on. If you think SEO is hard and there’s something fishy about it, don’t read this and others will get your traffic.
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Jan 13, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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SEO, or search engine optimization, consists of two parts; on-page and off-page SEO.
- The on-page search engine ranking factors are the things on your blog and on your pages.
- The off-page factors are the things outside your domain, e.g. links back to your site.
Because the on-page SEO is fully in your own hands, that is where you should focus first. The on-page SEO helps the off-page SEO as well, but we’ll come back to that on later parts of this Blog SEO -series.
You’ll learn the most important things for this one-time BLOG SEO on this post. The second part of on-page SEO is the continuous optimization, writing SEO friendly blog posts. The next post on the series, will cover that.
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Jan 12, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Topic: Blogging
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When I started blogging I didn’t have a clue on what is a good blog and how to make my blog better. I fumbled for 4 years with my gaming blog, never seeing much success. At the end of May 2009, I started this blog. I moved the old blog to this domain and started blogging for real.
At the beginning, I didn’t really know what I was doing, I was reading a lot blogs, tons of how-to’s and tried to learn as much as I could. I did learn a lot, but I was having hard time deciding what I actually should do with the limited time I had. There were so many good tips that I got paralyzed. I faced an information overflow.
After working a while with the new blog, I saw that Darren Rowse of Problogger.net released an eBook called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB). I bought it the day it was released and started doing what the book told me. The clear structure of the book not only showed how to do things, but why and when too.
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