What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Gmail Priority Inbox

Google released their new Priority Inbox feature for Gmail and Google Apps users last week, and it has some important considerations for bloggers who use mailing lists to send content and promotions to their subscribers.

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Three Easy Ways to Instantly Improve Your Blogging Score

In this post I give you three killer tips for immediately improving the quality of your blog posts, and tell you how to get 60 more tips just like them.

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How to Get to the Next Level (for Bloggers Who Didn’t Know There Was a Next Level)

This is a guest post by Treacle of The Lingerie Addict, who writes about the five critical things that took her blog to the next level.

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Regaining Your Balance

Like many of you I constantly struggle to find the time to develop my blogs and my business amongst all of my other commitments such as my day job and family life. I can’t think of a time in the last few years that I have really felt like I had the balance right.

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WordPress Backup Plugin Review: Backup Buddy

My blogs are an important part of my business, and the recent spate of WordPress site hacks has made me thing hard about what it would mean to lose one of my own blogs in that way.

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What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Gmail Priority Inbox

September 7, 2010
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Google released their new Priority Inbox feature for Gmail and Google Apps users last week, and it has some important considerations for bloggers who use mailing lists to send content and promotions to their subscribers.

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4 Solid Reasons Why you’re Not Getting Traffic to Your Blog

September 3, 2010
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Traffic is very important to your blog’s success. It is traffic that determines how many comments you will get, it is traffic that determines how many mailing list subscribers you will get and it is also traffic that will determine how many sales you will make.

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Is Guest Posting Traffic Valuable for Your Blog?

August 30, 2010
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You’ve heard it before – guest blogging is a powerful strategy for driving traffic to your blog. But how much traffic can you expect? Well I’ve had guest posts published on blogs of all sizes and even a guest post on the biggest blog is no guarantee of a massive rush of traffic to your own site.

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4 Productive Things to do When You Hit a Blogging Dead End

August 28, 2010
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Some people call blogging a journey, and if that is true then it is a journey with a lot of false starts, wrong turns, and dead ends. When a new blogger hits a dead end they don’t know where to go. They feel lost, and very often then simply end their journey right there. But just because you can’t see where to go next doesn’t mean you should give up.

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My House Just Burned Down

August 24, 2010
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If you haven’t already put in place the things you’ll need in the future, you might one day find yourself standing in the wreckage of the thing that you worked hard to build and wondering what went wrong.

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Three Easy Ways to Instantly Improve Your Blogging Score

August 19, 2010
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In this post I give you three killer tips for immediately improving the quality of your blog posts, and tell you how to get 60 more tips just like them.

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How to Say Thank You to Your Best Commenters

August 18, 2010
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Do you know who your best visitors are? Chances are they’re also your top commenters. Considering that as few as 1% of your visitors are likely to comment at all these are people you want to hold on to.

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Are You Paying Attention to Gideon Shalwick?

August 9, 2010
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Would you like to know how to get 10,000 new email subscribers and run a successful product launch? You need to pay attention to the people who are doing exactly that.

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Your Assumptions Are Killing Your Blog

August 7, 2010
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Have you tested your assumptions, or are you killing off opportunities by blindly trusting them?

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Poll: When Do You Do Your Blog Maintenance?

August 6, 2010
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My own maintenance plan used to be “do what you can, when you can, as you think of it” which I eventually found to be totally inefficient and left a lot of important tasks undone. So I’m interested in hearing from you about your own blog maintenance routine

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