Dec
29

Bloggers Must Never Go On Holiday – Unless…

Going away is a great chance to improve your blog. Here’

Dec
21

Merry Christmas & what’s coming next on WeBlogbetter!

Christmas is just a few days away, and since this is time to spend with family, I’ll be stepping away from the computer until just after the New Year.   But before I go, I wanted to take a moment to touch bases with you and let you know what’s coming next.

Dec
20

Adopt A Family and Ad Space Winner Results

Last Monday, thanks to all of our generous sponsors, I was able to deliver packages to Families Helping Families for a family of six worth $563! With your kind donations, I was able to purchase:

Dec
16

Sharing Blogging failures: Will it build trust or make you a loser?

Hector Cuevas had an awesome idea for a series and asked me to join in.  He wanted to address an extremely important aspect of blogging:  building trust and credibility. I can’t stress enough how powerful and influential your blog can become when your audience trusts you.  There’s no limit to what you can accomplish. You…
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Dec
15

How to Persist When you’re Ready to Quit (Please Vote)

BlogEngage‘s Best of the Guest Blogger 2 Contest is quickly coming to an end – just another few weeks left – so if you’re still thinking about entering, you’ve only got until January 1, 2011.  While it may seem like you’ve to til next year to get your post ready, I want to remind you…
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Dec
14

5 Ways to Stand Apart from the Crowd

How many blogs are there in the world? 100 million? 200 million? 500 million? I honestly don’t know, and for the first time in a long time the Internet is not providing me with a satisfying answer. My guess is there are so many new blogs are created each day that it’s impossible to keep…
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Dec
13

A Killer Domain Name: The Most Important Blogging Decision

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Recently, I’ve been working with my son to help him start a blog to showcase his artistic abilities. The first major hump we hit was deciding on the domain name. He wanted to choose something clever and cutting edge while I insisted we had to try aim for a domain that contained some target keywords…
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Dec
11

6 Tips to Help You Develop an Effective Online Survey for Your Blog

I haven’t really done very many surveys since I’ve been blogging, but as an instructor, I relied heavily on student surveys at the beginning of the semester to help me gauge their interests and guide instruction. Surveys are a quick way to get insider knowledge that would otherwise take weeks or months to gather. The…
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Dec
10

Adopt a Family Update

First off, I want to start by thanking our super generous sponsors, who gave kindly from their hearts to help me adopt a family.  I’m happy to report that together, we’ve raised $500 for this family of 6!  I realize that for some people, $500 isn’t enough to cover gifts for one person, but I’m…
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Dec
09

Why aren’t you hosting your own blog yet?

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I have nothing against Blogspot or WordPress.com. In fact, if it wasn’t for Blogger, I might have never gotten my start. But it only took a few months of struggling to build search engine traffic before I started asking myself, how could I honestly say that I’m taking my blogging seriously if I wasn’t willing…
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Dec
08

5 Reasons Why Better Bloggers Must Believe In Santa

Bloggers need all the hope, excitement, imagination,belief and perseverance of a child. Success will come with determination!

Dec
07

7 Steps to Creating a Content Strategy

The term Content Strategy has been popping up more and more in my world, and now that I’ve wrapped my head around it, I thought you might like to as well. Content Strategy is “the practice of planning for content creation, delivery, and governance.” In other words, it’s a plan for understanding how content is…
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