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“Why do bloggers put so much focus upon growing RSS subscriber numbers to their blog if most of them only ever read your content in Feed Readers and don’t visit your blog?”
This question (or variations of it) hit my inbox 3 times in 24 hours from different people so I thought I’d tackle it as a post instead of individual replies.
Let me start by saying that this problem can be …
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19 Nov 2008 / 11 Comments
WordPress 2.7 is already released in beta and will go live shortly for all. I was lucky enough to get a demo of it at BlogWorldExpo a couple of months back and I have to say that I’m quite excited …
The Power Of Collaboration In Today’s Blogging World - 10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy
19 Nov 2008 / 35 Comments
Working alone as a blogger can at times be lonely. In this guest post two bloggers, Eric Hamm from Up-And-Coming-Blogger and “Motivate Thyself” and Sean Platt from Writer Dad have together written a post outlining some of …
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This morning I spent a little time doing some analysis (using Google Analytics) of the traffic coming into my main blog - Digital Photography School.
My analysis was stimulated by a question from a reader who in response to last …
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17 Nov 2008 / 47 Comments
My name is James, I currently run iLoveMacApps and MacTricksAndTips. I am not a big time blogger by far and my income is quite small in comparison to some of the blogs on the web today. But I …
What I learned about Blogging from the U.S. Presidential Election
16 Nov 2008 / 40 Comments
In today’s guest post Trisha from Ideas for Women shares some lessons that she learned from the US Presidential Election.
I followed this year’s U.S. presidential election pretty closely on T.V. and also volunteered for one of the candidates. Over …
16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers
15 Nov 2008 / 89 Comments
This article was written by Ruchir Chawdhry.
PS: Mac users can check out 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers that Darren wrote a while ago.
1. Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the …
Why Bloggers Should Consider Social Bookmarking Sites Like Digg
13 Nov 2008 / 55 Comments
Earlier in the week I published a post titled Skip Digg: Not All Traffic is Created Equal. In that post I mentioned that I’d follow up the post with some arguements FOR using Digg by a top Digg user. …
How to Manage a Multi-Author WordPress Blog
12 Nov 2008 / 24 Comments
More and more blogs seem to be transitioning to multi-author set ups and as they do I’ve been asked increasingly for information on how to manage these types of blogs.
If you have a multi-author WordPress blog then you’ll want to …
Sphere - Show Your Readers Related Content [REVIEW]
12 Nov 2008 / 34 Comments
One of the tips that is often given by bloggers is that you should use some sort of service or plugin that shows related posts on your blog. Not only does this give …
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3 Successful Bloggers Share their Blog Tips [VIDEO]
31 Oct 2008 / 61 Comments
Here’s another compilation of blog tips from three prominent bloggers - Jeremy from Shoemoney, Steve Pavlina and Andy Wibbels.
The video was shot at Blog World Expo 08 on a Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder.
See this video at full size on YouTube, Blip.tv and Viddler. See the last video in this series with another 4 bloggers here.
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