I know I’m a day early with the guide to last month’s best articles. Every month I’m looking back at the articles that we have published here on Ghacks; I evaluate them, check some stats and post the most popular articles and a personal selection in a best of overview. I usually post the overview [...]

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My full time blogging career began back in December of 2007. Back then I wrote Full Time Blogging and My first 15 days as a Problogger which offered advice for webmasters who were blogging part time and not sure whether they should make the big leap forward to become full time bloggers. More than three [...]

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Ghacks.net is currently looking for two to three additional writers who can contribute between one and two articles per week to the site, with options to increase the output per week at a later time (depending on performance and user perception). You ideally should have experience writing articles in the tech niche, it is a [...]

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What happened in February 2011 on Ghacks? The month started with Google accusing Bing of stealing, or copying, their search result rankings which many saw as an below the belt shot. A patent application by Microsoft a few days later revealed the Direct Experience Mode which is rumored to be added to Windows 8, Microsoft’s [...]

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Regulars may know that I’m trying to diversify the traffic that Ghacks get, less Google more social media and other traffic sources. I have decided to kick-start the move with regular promotions and incentives to win Ghacks T-Shirts, and maybe other things. Today I’m running the first promotion over at the Ghacks Facebook page. All [...]

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With the recent Google Search algorithm update I finally decided to go ahead with my plans to diversify the traffic profile of this website. I was far to long dependent on one company and would like to change that. The first step is to revitalize the Facebook fan page and Twitter account to add social [...]

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A friend of mine recently asked me if I could write a best of post at the beginning of every month. He mainly asked that because he did not have time to check my website every day which could mean that he missed interesting articles. I’m interested in your opinion as well. A total of [...]

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Blog spam, in the form of manual or automatic comments, trackbacks or pingbacks, has always been a problem for bloggers. It is just to lucrative to run a software that spams links all around in the hope that some will stick and benefit the site that they link to. List of blogs that do not [...]

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I got the news this morning but I had to seek all types of clarification today before I believed it was genuinely true.  I’m delighted to announce that my first ever book published through a proper publisher (I’m not counting my own self-published Windows 7 book here) Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out from Microsoft Press, [...]

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