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Building an optimized WordPress blog is a critical step to making money online. Whether you intend to build a mini site focused on a narrow topic, an authority blog that covers a broad range of subjects, or a site to promote your small business, creating a site architecture that search engines will love is a must.

Having set up a WordPress blog, building an optimized WordPress blog with solid content is simple, and it involves using what is called the silo or theme architecture. And to best demonstrate this, we’ll look at what has recently been called “keyword sniping.” Read the rest

Let’s get right to the point. Saving for retirement in a Roth 401k likely will leave you with less money in retirement than if you had invested in a traditional 401k.

There are some exceptions to this rule. For example, a Roth 401k may be the right choice if you make more than $1 million a year or if you make so little that you pay no income tax or very little income tax. But for the majority of us, the Roth 401k is better left alone. Here’s why. Read the rest

I just learned that the Chase Business Rebate Card is offering a special 0% introductory balance transfer rate for up to 15 billing cycles. This is one of the longest 0% balance transfer periods available. In addition, the card offers cash back on purchases such as office supplies and gas.

It is important to note that this is a business credit card. That does not mean you need to have formed a corporate entity to apply; sole proprietors can apply for a business card. But you do need to be an owner of a business, which could apply to a real estate agent, franchisee, a home-based business, or even somebody who makes money blogging.

Here are the details:

Vanguard recently launched an index mutual fund designed to track the performance of the FTSE All-World Index, a benchmark of approximately 2,900 stocks in 47 countries. With the introduction of Vanguard’s Total World Stock Index Fund (VTWSX), investors can now mimic the world market in a single fund.

Much like the convenience of target date funds for retirement investing, VTWSX provides instant diversification with the investment in a single mutual fund. Read the rest

I’ve just finished a lengthy tutorial on how to start a money making WordPress blog. The article incorporates content from three previous posts (Make Money Blogging–Setting Up a WordPress Blog in 3 Easy Steps, How to Optimize a WordPress Theme for Search Engines, and 5 Must Have WordPress SEO Plugins for a Money Making Blog) and adds new content. The new content covers important non-seo plugins every WordPress blog should have, adding Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, and FeedBurner to your site, two key WordPress configurations you should make after installing WordPress, and how to get indexed by Google quickly.

I’ve put all of this together in one long article so that you have all of the information in one place. I’ve also organized it as part of an articles page of this site were I’ll add future tutorials on a variety of topics.

One final note about this tutorial. You can use WordPress to create sites for a lot more than to make money blogging. A realtor looking to rank well in search engines for his or her location could follow this tutorial to set up a site. A solo attorney or accountant wanting to market their practice online could use WordPress. Perhaps you own a small business and want to tap into Internet marketing–WordPress would be ideal. The point is that WordPress is not just a blogging platform, it’s a content management system that you can use for a host of different applications.

So check out my tutorial on how to set up a money making wordpress site, and leave a comment or send an email if you have any questions.