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How to Keep Your Subscribers Forever
5th of December 2007 Skellie 0 Comments

How to Keep Your Subscribers Forever

One thing you may have noticed is that your blog’s feed count is volatile: it fluctuates on a day to day basis. While much of that depends on how many people read your feed in a given day, some of that is also people both subscribing and unsubscribing. If you ...more
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5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out
20th of November 2007 Skellie 0 Comments

5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out

In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org helps you differentiate your content. Blogs are now so popular that it’s very hard to find a niche that isn’t already saturated. There are probably dozens or hundreds of other bloggers writing on the topics you cover. Being unique has never been ...more
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Use Feedburner Statistics to Interpret Reader Habits
10th of November 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Use Feedburner Statistics to Interpret Reader Habits

Can your Feedburner stats reveal habits of your readers that could help you make your blogging more effective at reaching them? Guest poster Max Pool finds out. As we know FeedBurner counts can naturally fluctuate. But what about when they fluctuate unnaturally? Can we find trends in our statistics? Interestingly, ...more
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Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening Sentences
6th of November 2007 Skellie 0 Comments

Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening Sentences

In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org explains how a great opening sentence can draw readers into your blog posts. You might not want to hear this, but a killer headline simply isn’t enough. To be effective, every great headline — like the punch of any legendary boxer — ...more
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Your first 10,000 Blog Posts are Always the Worst
10th of October 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Your first 10,000 Blog Posts are Always the Worst

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” Henri Cartier-Bresson – Photographer I came across this great quote today and as a photography nut it rang true. However I quickly realized that the quote could easily be applied to the medium of blogging. “Your first 10,000 blog posts are your worst” ...more
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Finding Your Blogging DNA
29th of September 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Finding Your Blogging DNA

This blog post was written by Glen Stansberry, co-founder of the blog network LifeRemix. No two bloggers are alike. Everybody works differently, and everybody has their own routine when it comes to posting. Some work best on a routinely basis, posting every day. Others work best as the inspiration strikes ...more
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Editorial Calendars and Professional Blogging
7th of September 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Editorial Calendars and Professional Blogging

This post on Editorial Calendars And Professional Blogging was submitted by Gerard McGarry. Gerard is a web designer from Northern Ireland and runs a popular music blog called Unreality Music. Professional publications use editorial calendars to plan features and stories for future editions. Steve Rubel talked about this a while ...more
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Do You Use American English, British English or do you Swing like the Canadians?
27th of August 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Do You Use American English, British English or do you Swing like the Canadians?

Here’s a question that I get asked a lot – particularly by non US bloggers who find themselves writing primarily for US audiences: “I am English so of course spell words such as ‘colour’ the English way. However, I also know that my largest audience is likely to come from ...more
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“I try to leave out the parts that people skip”
21st of August 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip”

I recently wrote a post with 8 things to do with your blog when you get sick – number five on the list was to find a guest blogger to lend a hand. This week on noticing a fellow blogger, Blog Bloke, was having a bad run with illness I ...more
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