A CPM ad network is a network that pays you a certain dollar amount for every 1,000 impressions (pageviews) their ads show on your site.  Most networks do not guarantee a set CPM, some ads will deliver $6 or $7 (gross, then the network takes a cut) and some ads in the network will deliver [...]

Have you ever wondered exactly how people get involved with PR and product reviews and giveaways?  Like, where to start and how to contact them?  A lot of times, PR will email you directly after stumbling upon your blog and ask you if you’d like to participate in a promotion.  But there are a TON [...]

In an effort to help you all become Top Mom Bloggers, we have added a line of paid services to our free tips and advice we offer weekly on the blog.
Not everyone has the time or ability to be able to do the things they want to do to grow their blogs, and we wanted [...]

The other day, Trisha and I had a discussion (argument) over the best place to put the Tweetmeme button. If you don’t know what Tweetmeme is, it is a website that shows the hottest links on Twitter and they have a plugin for Wordpress that makes it super easy for people to Tweet your blog [...]

I have spent the last week visiting blogs.
Returning the favor of some great bloggers who bothered to stop by MY blog and leave a comment.  I generally don’t find the time to go blog hopping, but this week I felt like paying it forward.
Now I have a headache.
And now is where I offend some of [...]

One of the discussions in the blog world that will probably continue to be debated until the end of time is that of full RSS feeds vs partial feeds.
There are numerous arguments on either side that are persuasive for me.   On one hand, partial RSS feeds require readers to click over to your site therefore [...]

Not all web hosting is created equal.  I wrote an entire article about what you should look for when you buy hosting and honestly even if one person has had a good experience with a hosting company, you can still get burned.
Holly from I like it Frantic had a not-so-great experience with Fatcow and I [...]

It happens every day. You hear of a mom blogger that you never knew existed and she is now everywhere and you wonder, now how do I do that?
What does she have that I don’t have?
Marketing online can be quite scary in a sea of thousands upon thousands of blogs and finding where you belong [...]

Last week I wrote an article called How to use affiliates effectively for review bloggers.  At least one person indicated they had been concerned over the FTC’s revised guidelines and how it affects their use of affiliate links in review posts, so I thought I’d do some research.

Let me start off by saying that I [...]

Review & giveaway bloggers you are leaving money on the table….
You work so hard to test, photograph and write about products, and you are proud and relieved when you finally hit publish on that review.  But you are leaving out something that could potentially earn you residual income for the life of your blog, and [...]