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    Width for a website

    As mentioned by the poster I quoted, I'm going to assume your site automatically scales the content width for smaller screens so that people don't have to scroll left and right to read off-screen content. If your theme requires actual side-scrolling on smaller screens, pick another theme right...
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    When starting a new money-making project...

    ... how much time do you tend to put into finding things out, research, etc? Do you put quite a bit of time into that, or do you tend to leap in once you come up with a good idea?
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    Is a quick flip realistic?

    I have done some domain flipping. Some of mine have sold in less than a year, but some haven't. What I've also noticed is that what customers like can be pretty random. Sometimes the domains I thought were good did not get bought, while my lesser domains did get bought. It is very, very, very...
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    Sticking to a regular sleep schedule

    Mine hinges on waking up at a regular time each day (except weekends). Since I need to get up early anyway this is not a big deal, but during the early parts of the pandemic it was harder to have a regular sleep schedule because I wasn't needing to get up at a particular time. So basically for...
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    Is there a way to know that your site received a penalty?

    One way is by looking on Google Search Console (if you don't have it set up yet for your domain, set it up). Look under "Security and manual actions" and then select "Manual actions". If it has a manual action against it, it will show up there. I only had that happen to me once, after I bought...
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    Google Analytics to be potentially banned from Europe.

    Agree. I'm not a big fan of GA anyway, if nothing else it slows down sites too much.
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    Best Programming language

    Your choice of language really depends on what you want to do - game development? Websites? Bots? From my point of view, I like PHP for blog-related stuff. In fact it's one of the ways that coding first earned me $ by being able to add on extra features to my website. One example is being able...
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    If you code your own sites, which CSS framework(s) do you like to use?

    You're right. I see so many things that I could install with npm if i knew how to use it.... It sounds like that's the way to go. Also thank you for the valuable info that Tailwind generates only the styles you need. Right now I'm working with Skeleton so it's pretty light and I just add on what...
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    I started getting spam messages like this.

    Years ago I had those problems too, and for awhile I was applying the spam filter rules that Wordpress had (I think through Akismet). That helped a bit, but I was still getting way more spam then genuine comments so I just turned off commenting. If you didn't want to turn off comments, I...
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    Why did you become memeber of BHW?

    I became a member of BHW because I wanted to buy backlinks on the marketplace. The place I'd been buying them from before stopped offering the payment method I prefer, so I thought I'd find somewhere else for backlinks, and that's how I wound up on BHW. As an added bonus, I learned so much just...
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    On Pinterest we get traffic to out site or this is just for brand awareness?

    I've not had much success with Pinterest as far as traffic is concerned - it's a little under 1% of my traffic for one of my sites and a little over 1% for the other. That said, others have had tremendous success with traffic to their blog from Pinterest. Bear in mind though I don't have a...
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    If you code your own sites, which CSS framework(s) do you like to use?

    They both look good - I love Tailwind's documentation. I would love to try them but I have to admit the installation instructions were intimidating! My level of ability is more like "upload the .css file to the website, done." I've started looking at Skeleton because it looks like I can use it...
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    Who do you learn from?

    I try to gather info from multiple different people and places, including of course BHW. There's not one specific person I mostly follow or learn from. It's good to hear from many different people and see what worked for them. Also, some things I learned from experience, from trying out ideas...
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    yes, expired domains work

    Depends what you're using them for. My 2 main blogs, the ones that earn the most (none of them earn a whole lot lol!) anyway, those were built on new hand-reg domains. Most of my other sites are built on expired domains. I agree expired domains are great for stuff like 301's, PBN's, etc. But...
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    Has anyone had an actual nightmare about their business?

    last night I dreamed that my newest site used up all of my hosting resources and then all my other sites went down too....! :eek: I was glad to wake up and find out it was a nightmare :D
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