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The Secret to Getting Others to Talk about You

Let me begin with an anecdote. Mary was actively involved in community service. She became the president of United Way of King County ? a non-profit community organization – in 1975. Mary would...

Using CSS Galleries to get visitors – a comparison of traffic over 1 month and 1 year

Creating a good looking site and listing it in a CSS gallery has become a reasonably well known strategy for getting traffic. Being a designer I have had the chance to try this technique quite a few times and...

Sustainable Blogging: 12 Ways to Keep Your Posting Going Forever

Many bloggers have lived through this scenario: they start off their blog with a flurry of posts, with a lot of enthusiasm. But once that enthusiasm dies down, posting slows to a trickle, with every real post...

Tomorrow’s Star Bloggers Talk About Blogging

Tomorrow’s Star Bloggers Talk About Bloggin

10 free ways to gain exposure for a young blog

Well, growing traffic will take patience, and you won’t get a flood of new visitors overnight (at least, not without some luck). But you can do things that will start to get you noticed, and start to get some...

10 Ways to Focus on the Reader and Build Long-Term Traffic

Too often bloggers focus on themselves – blogging is a form of journaling, right? – or on making money, on advertisers, on marketing, or on social media. As a result, if they attract a reader, they...

Make Your Blog More Powerful by Optimizing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio

“Simplify, simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau (who would have made an excellent blog writer) How much of your blog is actually useful content, compared to stuff about your blog, about your cat...

15 Ways To Become An Influential Blogger

Here’s the deal: you are your own brand, and your blog is the product you produce. The way people think about you will change the way they think about your blog. If your readers perceive you as an...

12 Ways to Turn a Boring Post into Pure Gold

First, you need to realize that all the time you might spend checking your blog stats and optimizing your ads and redesigning your site and optimizing it for search engines and submitting it to high-ranking...

Essential Posts that Every Blogger Should Know

Keeping a posting schedule consistent can at times be a little taxing. There are those days when you don’t feel particularly inspired or driven or perhaps you simply don’t have the time. Hopefully you will...

How To Talk To Bloggers

The ability to talk with a network of bloggers — and maybe even some high profile ones — is an incredible boon for any blogger. Dialogues with other bloggers can result in good advice, answered questions, links...

A Holiday Wish-List for Bloggers

A Holiday Wish-List for Bloggers

Every blogger would love to wake up on Christmas morning to find a few gifts under their tree. Whether you go with Word Press, Typepad, or something in between, this holiday might provide an opportunity to reflect on...

Building a SuperBlog. Part 2

From 2000-7000 Readers in Five Fast Weeks.After the rocketing success of those two first weeks, momentum continued our growth to just over 3000 readers in what was only our third week of existence. For a few moments it...

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