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How to Launch a Blog and Have Fresh Content for Weeks
10th of January 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Launch a Blog and Have Fresh Content for Weeks

This question from James of My Fitness Guide hit my inbox this week: “My question is, when starting a new blog, do you write a list of all your blog topics first, then plan to write one of them per day, or do you write it all as fast as ...more
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Two Tips on Landing Interviews for Your Blog
6th of January 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Two Tips on Landing Interviews for Your Blog

Last week on Twitter I had a discussion with a number of followers about landing interviews with other bloggers as a way to generate interesting content for your blog. One of the responses I had via a direct message from a follower was: “I’m too shy to approach big bloggers ...more
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How to Write Fast
30th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Write Fast

Alisa Bowman from projecthappilyeverafter.com shares some tips on writing fast. So you haven’t quite monetized your blog. That means you’re still working 8 or so hours in the non-virtual world for that paycheck. You may also have many other time commitments. They are called marriage, parenthood, friendships and Twitter. With ...more
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Get Inspiration from Blog Comments When Writing your Next Post
29th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Get Inspiration from Blog Comments When Writing your Next Post

Today Marko shares a quick tip on how to generate post ideas from the comments left on previous posts. At the time of writing this, there has been 34 comments to my Create A Media Kit To Attract Advertisers To Your Blog guest post at ProBlogger.net. One of the good ...more
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3 High-Powered Reader Engagement Tactics
22nd of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

3 High-Powered Reader Engagement Tactics

In this guest post Jonathan Fields from the Career Renegade takes a look at three types of blog posts that will Engage your readers. Three words… Engage. Engage. Engage. It’s the rally cry of great blogging. Heck, it’s the touchstone of powerful writing in general. When it comes to blogging, ...more
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The Final Frontier to Exquisite Writing – Avoid Clichés
5th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Final Frontier to Exquisite Writing – Avoid Clichés

Today Bamboo Forest from Pun Intended shares some thoughts on the topic of avoiding Clichés. I’ve co-authored a blog for less than a year, and prior to beginning, my writing was natural – which is precisely why it wasn’t good. Good writing stands on good principles. These principles aren’t natural; ...more
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The Importance of Pillar Articles and why Obama and McCain are Idiots
30th of October 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Importance of Pillar Articles and why Obama and McCain are Idiots

In this post – relatively new blogger CJ from Wise Money Matters shares what they’ve learned about using Pillar Articles (sometimes called evergreen content) to Grow Traffic to Your Blog. I started blogging only 4 months ago. In the grand scheme of things, this is a very short time and ...more
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How To Build a Successful Email Newsletter
28th of October 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How To Build a Successful Email Newsletter

Over the last week I’ve been talking about Newsletters a little. We’ve covered reasons start a newsletter and how I’ve increased my newsletter subscriber numbers 10 fold. Today I want to finish this informal mini-series on newsletters off with some tips for actually writing a newsletter. How to Write an ...more
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Finding Your Posting Rhythm [Part 2]
26th of October 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Finding Your Posting Rhythm [Part 2]

Yesterday I suggested 4 tips for helping bloggers to find their posting rhythm: There is no Right Posting Level Start out Slow and Work Your Way Up Monitor Your Readerships Response to Your Posting Levels Consistency is Important Today I want to share 4 more tips on posting workflows. 5. ...more
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