Many steps take place prior to making your blog public. These steps range from selecting your blog niche to the actual name of your blog. These steps can take time or be quick, all predetermined by your overall knowledge of blogging techniques and what to do to get your blog started. One thing I have…
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Nov
30
Write 10 Posts To Ensure the Transparency of Your Blog’s Niche
Nov
28
Big Weekly List of Links for Bloggers (46 Links)
We’ve been traveling across the country for the past eight days, so my access to my computer has been intermittent. Therefore, I’m a day late on this post and it doesn’t contain quite as many links as some past editions, but they’re some of the best I’ve found this week! 11 Lesser known SEO Ranking…
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Nov
27
21 Words to Use Other Than THINGS In Your Article Titles
Let me tell you three things wrong with using the word things in so many of your titles, like “Ten Things To Remember About Blogging…” After all, things isn’t really one of the most potent things you can say… Tools Details Interests Passions Practices Habits Tricks Ways Methods Concepts Principles Points Tips Tasks Ideas Actions…
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Nov
24
Does Your Blogging Leave An Impact?
I headed out of the house to pick my wife (then girlfriend) up for church one night and took a back county road to her house. About halfway there, I was struck suddenly in the side by a deer. He jumped a fence out of nowhere and his head crushed into my fender so hard…
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Nov
20
Big Weekly List of Links for Bloggers (50 Links)
Having been off a couple of days this week ill, I don’t know that I ever fully caught up on all the good news out there about blogging. Nonetheless, here are 50 links I’ve enjoyed this week. Hope you enjoy them too, and feel free to nominate others in the comments or in the Community…
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Nov
20
11 Books on Every Bloggers’ Wishlist
I love books and have a personal library of hundreds of volumes. I’ve also started using the Amazon Wishlist feature to sort of bookmark resources I’d like to have. A few of the following are not on my list because I already have them. Others, I haven’t read but would like to own. The first…
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Nov
18
You Don’t Just Want Traffic, You Want Collisions
Bloggers have a tendency to scramble for traffic. We want eyes, readers, clicks, etc. Or do we? Not far from my office is a group of nice new billboards ready for ads. I called about the prices and found they were $1,400 per month. I could advertise my blog’s url there. I’d get a lot…
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Nov
18
Email Newsletter Sweetness from Themeforest
Designing email newsletters stinks! Someone had to say it. Some look nice, but any designer knows you have to go back at least five years in modern design and development practices to design for email clients. Tables… ugh! Well, Themeforest has a solution – a whole new category of some rather sweet looking email templates!…
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Nov
17
One Day Off Will Not Kill Your Blog
We Blog Better started 28 days ago. It’s been a joy to watch it grow in influence and interaction with the larger blogging community. When starting out, I had a determined commitment not to miss blogging for a single day for at least the first month and to reach 50 blog posts in that amount…
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Four Little Five-Minute Tasks for Building Your Community
By Brandon Cox | Blogging, Networking
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I recently received a thank you note on my desk from someone for whom I filled in at the last minute and taught a class. I’m not a card sender by nature, which makes it all the more special when I receive one – I know it takes effort. As a blogger, you have a…
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