Does Your Next Blog Post Matter? (12)
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If your next blog post doesn’t matter - don’t publish it until it does. In our series on How to Craft a Blog Post we’ve been talking about ‘points to pause’ while writing a blog post. So far we’ve looked at choosing a topic, titles and opening lines and today we’re going to get into the meat of your actual post. Here’s the question that I think we should all be asking before we hit ...
Does Your Next Blog Post Matter? (10)
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If your next blog post doesn’t matter - don’t publish it until it does. In our series on How to Craft a Blog Post we’ve been talking about ‘points to pause’ while writing a blog post. So far we’ve looked at choosing a topic, titles and opening lines and today we’re going to get into the meat of your actual post. Here’s the question that I think we should all be asking before we hit ...
A stunning lack of disunity (1)
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A stunning lack of disunity… that was my immediate reaction watching the crowd respond to Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. No doubt there are Clinton delegates who remain unconvinced, and no doubt many will cast their ballot for Clinton come roll call, but if folks were expecting any drama tonight, they’ll just have to make due with the uplifting kind. Accustomed to watching conventions on TV I almost feel as if ...
10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog&8217;s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs (4)
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Ask popular bloggers for 10 ways to build traffic to a new blog and I’ll guarantee that almost all of them will mention the importance of commenting on other blogs as part of their answer. Much has been written about commenting as a strategy to build traffic (because used correctly it is a powerful tool) - but very little has been written on the dangers of it. Over the past few months I’ve noticed some ...
Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build a Successful Blog? (32)
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At times you could be forgiven for thinking it is - if you read a lot of blogs on ‘how to blog’ that is. One of the first thing that most of us who write about blogging advise those starting out is to work on writing useful and unique content. Certainly at the core of most great blogs is useful and unique content that draws readers in and generates links from other blogs, builds the ...
How to Craft a Blog Post - 10 Crucial Points to Pause (18)
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It hits you like a TON of BRICKS! It’s an idea for that KILLER blog post that is just bound to bring you all the traffic that you’ve ever dreamed of. With the idea fresh in your mind you sit down at your keyboard and BANG it out - desperate to hit publish as quickly as you can for fear that someone else will beat you to the PUNCH! Image by pallotron As SMOKE rises ...
Things Teens Can Make to Earn Extra Money (1)
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If there’s one thing I remember about being a teen, it’s the fact that being a teen costs a lot of money. In addition to the music, movies, and other things that teens enjoy there’s dating, extracurricular school activities, and food. In my house, the rule was once we turned 16 and could get a [...]ShareThis
24 Things to do When Stuck for a Topic to Blog About (34)
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Stuck for something to write about on your blog? Here are a few suggestions of things that might help get the creative juices flowing. 1. Use Mind Mapping I’ve previously talked about how Mind Mapping can be used to generate hundreds of ideas for blog posts. It can be used both to come up with fresh ideas for posts but also in extending previous posts that you’ve already written. 2. Change Your Blogging Environment Sometimes ...
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Paul said:
Great ideas for coming up with additional content for blogs. Thought this would be relevant for the #30DC.
WordPress Talk - August 7, 2008 (3)
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Here are some WordPress links that I thought our readers may find useful. They were all published over the past couple weeks. Enjoy! How to Display Page Children on the Parent Page - WPLover provides some code you can use to place links to your page children on the parent page. This is a nice idea for your themes sidebar. 5 Plugins to Secure Your WordPress Blog - Our friend Jean of Cats Who Code ...
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guido_cc said:
Buenos links, para Wordpress.
Texas Agrees to Sort of Comply with ICJ’s Avena Judgment…But It Will Go Ahead and Execute Medellin Anyway (1)
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Almost buried amid the last-minute flurry of litigation over Medellin’s pending execution tonight at 7 p.m. EDT, Texas has made a potentially important but ambiguous concession to the ICJ. It has agreed to support federal habeas petitions in the future for Mexican citizens arguing that a failure of consular notification had caused prejudice to their criminal conviction and death sentence. Here is the somewhat curious but very interesting statement by Texas, made at the very ...
Do Your Visitor Numbers Look Like This? (1)
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“Darren, I have been blogging for 6 months and have tried to build traffic through social media, networking and buying reviews. I have attached a screen capture of the last 2 months of traffic (above) where you will see I have some good days in traffic, but it always flat lines days later. The spikes all come from social bookmarking campaigns, links from other blogs or paid reviews - but my normal days of traffic ...
10 Ways to Optimize a Popular Post on Your Blog (11)
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Over at the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed Keith asks a good question that has stimulated a whole stream of thought for me. He asks: “If you have a blog post that clearly outperforms all other posts (more than double the traffic in my case) do you capitalize on it by writing more posts on the same topic?” When a post on your blog does better than others there are numerous things that I’d encourage you ...
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Alex said:
great tips on optimizing *hot* post.
Build rail now (1)
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Is Osama bin Laden’s Bush-aided victory destroying the American way of life? Apparently, that is, if you’re vision of American prosperity is one of endless suburban sprawl: A Portland economist predicts that buyers soon will choose where to live based on what they would spend for gasoline. That, eventually, will devalue suburban housing while strengthening in-city home prices, says Joe Cortright, whose Portland consulting firm, Impresa, recently released a report saying as much to U.S. ...
Why I Use Aweber To Deliver My Newsletters (1)
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Yesterday I announced the re-launch of the ProBlogger Newsletter (there have been 500+ new subscribers added to the list from last time bringing it to a total of around 16,000 - the first newsletter will come out next week) and since doing so I’ve had a number of questions about why I use newsletters, ‘how’ I deliver newsletter (AWeber), why I’ve chosen the tool that I have and why I have chosen a service that ...
The Importance of ‘Pause Points’ On Your Blog (3)
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Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me a very simple method of increasing the number of pages that people view when they visit your blog. Let me illustrate with a screen capture of the heat map from my post - How to ...
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Jardenberg said:
Gäller inte bara bloggar. Utan alla sajter kan utnyttja pauspunkter - eller beslutspunkter som är ett bättre namn. Det finns enkla lösningar för heatmaps, du kanske ska kolla din egen sajt?
How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive (2)
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Today I want to share a technique that has increased my productivity levels incredibly. image by estherase “How do you fit so much in?” This is a question that I’m asked a lot. Yesterday I kept track of the work that I did. It included: Researched & Wrote 5 blog posts (2500 words) - Planned a future series - Edited 3 guest posts Moderated 150 comments (Lara did the rest) Read 300 emails - replied ...
12 Tools and Techniques for Building Relationships with Other Bloggers (2)
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Image by Michael Sarver A recent question asked in the Q&A widget was from a reader asking me to write about: “How to go about building relationships with other bloggers?” Building relationships with other bloggers is an important aspect of blogging. I see it as crucial for a number of reasons: Finding Readers - one of the best ways to grow your readership is to have another blogger recommend that their readers check out something ...
12 Traits of Successful Bloggers (1)
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I was just doing an interview on an Aussie radio station and was asked to name some traits of successful bloggers. My initial reaction was to giggle - because no two successful bloggers are the same - however as I began to answer I realized that there are some common traits among bloggers who gain popularity. Here’s a list, presented in no particular order, of some of the traits of successful bloggers that I observe: ...
12 Traits of Successful Bloggers (1)
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I was just doing an interview on an Aussie radio station and was asked to name some traits of successful bloggers. My initial reaction was to giggle - because no two successful bloggers are the same - however as I began to answer I realized that there are some common traits among bloggers who gain popularity. Here’s a list, presented in no particular order, of some of the traits of successful bloggers that I observe: ...
