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This week, we’ve got a couple of intriguing blog posts coming up that deal with bloggers’ personal stories. Obviously, personal stories tend to do well with blog readers. But look around, and you’ll see that personal stories have become a mainstay of the media more generally. We have reality t.v.—real ...more

This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. Yesterday, I started the convoluted process of swapping my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. As you may remember, I’d finally got to the point where I was ready to import the files of my blog. Everything seemed to be okay, until…. Big ...more

 This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. It was finally happening: I was about to embark on the trip of my dreams—and I wanted to write all about it. I decided that a travel blog, shared initially with family and friends, would be a great experiment to see ...more

While we love blogging, we all know there are some aspects that really do seem impossible sometimes—none moreso than transferring a WordPress.com blog to the WordPress.org platform. We’ve discussed the differences between these two platforms before, because more than one blogger has been caught up by the limitations of WordPress.com ...more

This guest post is by Mary Jaksch of Write to Done. Imagine boosting your subscriber count by more than 50.7% in under six months. You’d like that, wouldn’t you? Okay, so if your blog has only about 200 subscribers, growing by more than 50% in under six months isn’t a ...more

This guest post is by Michael Silverman of Duo Consulting. As bloggers, we’re constantly obsessing over ways to extend our reach to more people. We hover over every scrap of information about promoting our blogs and expanding our audience. And we use social media channels to get the word out and go ...more

From the marketers’ point of view, subscriptions are a loyalty mechanism—they’re the first technique we’ve looked at that’s most often used to build repeat traffic from people who have already visited your blog, and like it. If they like it so much, why do they need to be reminded to ...more

This guest post is by Mark Cenicola of BannerView.com. Search engine optimization, in its most basic form, is simply a matter of combining relevant content on a web page with back links to that content.  If you want to rank high for a particular keyword phrase, that phrase needs to ...more

This guest post is by Amy Harrison of Harrisonamy.com. This article is the final part of a three-part series on how your blog can feed different types of business models. In the previous two articles we looked at how blogging can attract customers who want to hire you to do your ...more