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Traveling Webmaster/ SEO Consultant
Traveling Webmaster SEO Consultant Independent Travel BusinessSAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico- “If you can get creative, you can make money from it,” Mandy spoke in the backyard of a coffee house in...
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Freelance Writing to Fund Travels
Freelance Writing to Live Abroad or to TravelSAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico- “I will probably write two books and fifty articles this month,” Rachael spoke matter of factly while sipping a beer.I...
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Digital Nomad or Economic Refugee?
Are you a Digital Nomad or an Economic Refugee?BOGOTA, Colombia- Digital nomads can recognize each other on sight. This is not to say that there is a secret hand shake, a uniform, a badge, a club card,...
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Being a Self-Employed Digital Nomad is a Real Job
I created 19 websites, wrote and published two blog posts, made good headway on a book, added a graphic to purchase my digital magazine on VJT, sent off some emails to advertising partners and other...
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Don’t Waste Time Styling Your Blog – It’s the Content that Counts
In this period in the evolution of the internet, where even the most fledgling independent blogger is competing with and being compared to the big boys ticking off posts for corporate web properties...
View ArticleWhy Travelers NEED to Use a VPN (Virtual Private Network)
I’m in China now, a country that blocks almost all major foreign social media networks and heavily censors the internet, but I’m able to post on Facebook, tweet, upload videos to Youtube, and browse...
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Why Single Topic Blogs are Better
I recently went onto a blog about social media tips and tore right into the first article it featured. It took me until I was halfway through the article before I realized that it had nothing to do...
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Success Means Becoming Your Image
I had a friend when growing up who was a great musician. He led a band that played for a very defined niche audience. This social niche that he played for had a certain way of dressing, a certain way...
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You Have to Know That You Suck To Improve
My three year old daughter sucks at jumping. This is no problem except for the fact that she thinks she’s doing it right. She jerks her little body forward and calls it a jump without really lifting...
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How Much Money Can You Make With Chitika Ads?
How much money can you make serving Chitika ads on your site? Pretty much none. Seriously, Chitika has to be one of the worst major ad platforms for publishers out there in terms of payouts. In point,...
View ArticleTorched From the Adsense Program (and Liberated from Pay Per Click Advertising)
Update, 23/01/2013: After submitting an appeal, Adsense re-enabled ad serving to this site. I’m not sure if I’m going to put the ads back up, please read this article and tell me your opinion in the...
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CNN May Have Ripped Off Vagabond Journey
In December I did a report on the New South China Mall — aka the World’s Largest Ghost Mall — that garnered a good deal of media attention. Business Insider, The Daily Mail, Yahoo, Jyllands Posten, and...
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The Benefits Of Using A Tablet For Travel Blogging
I am typing this while sitting under a tree in a park next to a canal. I am outside, observing what is going on around me, enjoying a warm summer day, watching butterflies land on flowers and dragon...
View ArticleHow I Make Money From My Blogs Via Advertising
I’ve been making money off of my blogs since 2005 and blogging has been my full time job and main source of income since 2009. To put it bluntly, I’ve been through the gauntlet of advertising programs,...
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Google, Please Return My Image Search Traffic
There was once a day — no, not a day, years — when my main blog, www.VagabondJourney.com, would pull in 4 to 5,000 unique visitors per day. Life was good, this site was perpetually on the rise, I was...
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How To Use Google Image Search To Build BackLinks
Around six months ago I found on of my images in some random Google image search, but the site that it was published on wasn’t one of my own. No big deal, when you publish tens of thousands of images...
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The Backend Of Internet Advertising: Your Ads Slow Page Load Speed
Those ad units you run on your site don’t just do what they appear to do. No, those javascript rendering banners and text links that you make your living from don’t just show advertisements, they...
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How To Make A Blog Load Faster? Kill Unneeded Plugins
Plugins are one of the best things about using the WordPress CMS, though they are also some of the worst page load lag time offenders. We reported last week about how advertisements can severely...
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The Ultimate Travel Writing Device Goes Extinct as Times Change
It is easy to assume that the technologies, things, people, and places that are around us today will always be there. We know that times change but it always comes as a shock to the system when an...
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How to Sign a Digital Document and Email Without a Scanner and Printer
None but the most intense of digital nomads would travel long term with their own scanners and printers . . . No, only an absolute idiot would travel with a scanner and a printer . . . No, I’m going...
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