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Many of you are probably familiar with Chris Garrett. His blog ChrisG.com currently has almost 5,000 subscribers, and he also provides consulting and a variety of other services through omiq. He writes on blogging and new media, as well as other various topics for other blogs. Hopefully you can learn something from him through this […]

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I think everyone who has consistently maintained a blog for any length of time has faced the issue of burnout. Sometimes it’s difficult to keep moving forward, and these situations lead many bloggers to quit. With the tips listed below you will be able to prevent a major burnout in your blogging efforts.

1 - Choose […]

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Like most bloggers, I’m always interested in increasing the quality and quantity of comments and inbound links to my posts. I decided to do some analysis to see if I could find any patterns or trends by looking at some of my existing posts.
I started by breaking them down into 3 classifications:

List posts (primarily links […]

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Every successful blogger is part of a network of other bloggers. The community aspect is extremely important for a number of reasons that we’ll look at below. Building a strong network is not difficult, but it does require you to be proactive.
What can a network do for me?
First of all I should clarify that networking […]

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With millions of blogs in the blogosphere, and more being added everyday, all of us face stiff competition for the attention of our readers. With so many choices available for readers it’s easy for them to overlook your blog (or anyone else’s for that matter).
One of the best characteristics any blogger can have is a […]

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Most of us as bloggers and website owners devote so much of our focus on increasing the value of our visitors to us that we neglect to focus on our value to the readers. If we dedicate our efforts to creating more valuable and useful content for our readers, the natural progression is that readers […]

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Update: This post is no longer accurate. Links in comments are now nofollow. 
The DoFollow plugin is now installed and active on this blog, which means comments no longer include the NoFollow tag in links! If you’re not familiar with NoFollow tags, they are a way of preventing search engines from following and indexing links.
Almost all […]

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Jonathan Phillips wrote a post yesterday, Getting A-Listers to Notice Your Blog vs. Social Networking. In the article Jon asks his readers which source they would prefer to send them traffic. He mentions that his experience has shown that visitors who are referred from other blogs are more likely to stay on the site longer […]

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RSS Tutorial from mnot.net
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RSS Utilities: A Tutorial
RSS Tutorial from W3 Schools
RSS […]

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Google is by far the most frequently used search engine, so naturally ranking well in Google is important. However, ranking well and maximizing your traffic requires getting and keeping your pages out of the supplemental index.
What is Google’s Supplemental Index?
Google’s goal as a search engine is to provide the user (searcher) with the most relevant […]

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