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How to Improve Your Credit Score and What Makes A Good Credit Score

Added September 3, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

What makes a good credit score? What makes a bad credit score? How do you improve your credit score? Opening new lines of credit, using all of your available credit, making late payments, or not paying in full can all lower your credit score. The easiest ways to improve your credit score include keeping your credit accounts open for a long time, not opening new credit, having different kinds of credit account, and making your payments on time. Ilyce Glink shows how a credit score can be dropped very quickly, but it takes a long time to build up a good credit score. However, it is possible to improve your credit score over time.

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Common Credit Mistakes That Lower Your Credit Score

May 15, 2009

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Do you know what kind of credit mistakes are lowering your credit score? Common mistakes may be dragging down your credit score and you may not even know what you're doing. Keep your credit card balance below 50 percent of your available credit. If you max out your credit cards every month you may…

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