Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism

On search engines, optimization, and backlinks

Published in December 1st, 2018
Posted by in Blogging
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One problem with the backlink approach [of SEO] is that it confuses popularity with authority. Read this post about backlinks to see what they are. If the goal of search engines was to find the most popular sites, page ranking works excellently. If the goal is to find the most authoritive, page ranking does not […]

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Are we blogging the wrong way?

Published in November 28th, 2018
Posted by in Blogging, Strategy
7 Comments

Some strategies for discovering things that go unnoticed would involve ignoring the “junk mail” and go to the (usually smaller) shops in the side streets. These often offer better deals because they do not sell low margin junk and compensate for it by volume and advertising like the mass stores. Yesterday I alluded to the […]

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Books, ebooks, advertising, and donations

Published in November 23rd, 2018
Posted by in Blogging, Work
19 Comments

… are the four ways I can think of as monetizing a blog, or perhaps more accurately, make money as a writer. eBooks has become a popular way to make money on your writing and I must say that I far prefer this model to the advertising model. It is very clear that most (I […]

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