msdanielle – just another ego blog site

There’s a lot of buzz these days around the possible buyout of Yahoo by Microsoft. Their goal: a better chance of competing directly with Google. These three search engine and media giants have been fighting for much of the same audience in the last few years, but many analysts speculate that it was Google’s recent [...]

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It seems like the latest trend in online acquisitions is of premium advertising networks by the major search engine giants. Google’s had the strong hold on content text advertising, but seemingly their display network didn’t pan out as they’d hoped (much like their Google Video), so they acquired DoubleClick. If you can’t create the best [...]

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Awhile back, I created a speed-linking post pointing out some interesting blogs I found from people surfing my site in MyBlogLog. There are some faces that I see visiting here regularly, and it’s not until the weekends where I actually have a good amount of time to really check them out. This speed-linking is a [...]

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I’ve been doing some reading the past few days on Google’s new system for reporting paid links*. Now, I’m just going to take a quick step back and say that link building is a very complicated thing. To over-simply the concept and importance of linking: get as many relevant links pointing to your site in [...]

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Do you remember that old adage that says, “Everything in life is free and easy“? I don’t either, because it doesn’t exist!
So then, here’s the million-dollar question for all you money bloggers out there: Are you trying to make money online, or get rich quick?
Ever since John Chow announced his blog’s February 2007 earnings, it [...]

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I guess we all have obsessive thoughts, but I’m not sure if we’re really aware that we’re obsessing over them. Julie over at JuliesJournal tagged me in her Obsessive Thoughts meme. A meme is a question you saw somewhere and you decide to answer it, and it sort of spreads its way around the internet. [...]

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MsDanielle.com has officially been up for one whole month! And what a month it’s been. From building the blog from scratch to upgrading to WordPress 2.1.2 (and now 2.1.3 is already out!), to finding the perfect WordPress theme… Whew! It takes a lot more to maintain a specialty type of blog, too, [...]

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The dictionary defines ethics as “a set of principles of right conduct,” or “a theory or a system of moral values.” Attorneys, journalists, doctors, etc, are held to a standard of ethics in order to uphold the integrity of their professions. But as bloggers, do we each follow a general code of ethics, or do [...]

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I’m definitely not anything close to being a webmaster. In fact, if someone paid me right now for being their site webmaster, I’d feel really bad for them. But, I am MsDanielle.com’s webmaster, because this here’s a one-woman-show! In this case, I do need a few tools to check some of my stats, [...]

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As of today, my blog has been officially up for one entire week! I figured that would be cause for celebration, as well as a reason to check my stats and report them to all of you.
Today I’m just posting my stats from Technorati and Alexa. For those of you who are new [...]

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