From the category archives:

Blogging

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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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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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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Are You Paying Attention?

August 2, 2010
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Do you need to buy expensive blogging products to succeed, or can you acquire that knowledge through careful observation instead?

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Feedburner is the Canary in the Mine Shaft

July 29, 2010
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The last few weeks there has been some buzz around the accuracy or reliability of Feedburner. Mostly the criticism is the subscriber count that Feedburner calculates and many bloggers display on their blog using the provided widgets. Subscriber counts have been fluctuating wildly (wilder than normal) and people are blaming Feedburner.

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The Value of Setting Blogging Goals

July 21, 2010
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Your goals can be broad or they can be very specific. They can be long or short term, or a combination of both. But you definitely need to have goals. In this post I talk about the different ways that goal setting can bring value to your blogging.

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