One of the hottest ways of raising money today for a project is through online fundraising. As the conventional ways of making money online become harder and harder, more people are turning towards platforms like Kickstarter to keep their projects alive. All it for online fundraising is a great project idea that's innovative, or serves a cause people are willing to support. If you're looking for patrons for your projects, here are some tips to use social media to help you along.

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So you want to make a name for yourself out there (and perhaps a buck)? Making money online today is no less of a phenomenon than it was a few years ago. The competition has grown, yes, and it's difficult to maintain a steady pace. But then again, so have the number of ways you can make money. However, to make your business successful, you have to step up your game. Here are some tips to help you make your business successful in 2014, and secure a better future for yourself.

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Affiliate Marketing is great, more than a tad bit better than many of the other options out there including Google AdSense. We do it. Most blogs today do it. In fact, many people make all of their money by affiliate sales. So evidently, there's nothing wrong with it. But are all sorts of affiliate marketing are legit? Well, no. As we'll discuss in today's post, not all affiliate programs are worth the effort, on account of their modus operandi, and the effect they (might) have on your site's SEO.

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We know that having a presence on social media sites, and building good quality backlinks from networks such as Facebook and Twitter is important. But how important exactly are these links? Is there any special signal generated by such sites, and does the size of your followership matter? Let's take a look at how important social links to your website are, and how Google uses them in its algorithm for ranking webpages on search results.

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The basics and fundamentals of SEO change periodically over the years. These ever-changing circumstances lead most of us to learn some new things every year - and let of some things old. You see, there are new SEO skills needed each year (or every so often) to keep up with the change and keep surviving. 2014 is no exception. A lot has changed since last year, and there's a lot of new stuff to be learned.

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Are you a developer who likes to blog? You can use the Google Blogger API to create amazing Blogger client applications of your own! The Blogger API v3 allows external applications to view and update Blogger content. Your client application can use Blogger API v3 to create new blog posts, edit or delete existing posts, and query for posts that match particular criteria. You can use this API to create desktop and browser apps and create a whole new user-base of your own.

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Managing a blog with hundreds and thousands of pages and blog posts can be a tedious job. Not everything ages with your blog - some things expire. News updates become old, comparisons become obsolete, tutorials no longer remain relevant, and so on. You might have, over time, accumulated some 'bad quality' posts that are effecting your site's ranking or user-experience. So what should you do about such obsolete content? As you will find out, simply deleting the content in question will not suffice, and can lead to undesirable consequences.

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