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1st of April 2007 Darren Rowse

Long Posts vs Series of Posts

Ah Pek asks – ‘I have started a new blog, and I will be doing a series of articles that are quite lengthy. I have divided it into a few parts. Is it advisable to post it as a regular entry with titles that says XXX Part 1 and so ...more
Writing Content
31st of March 2007 Glen

The Importance of Letting A Good Post Wait

This article was written by Glen Stansberry of LifeDev (feed). Check out LifeDev if you want more ways to be creative and efficient with your writing. Growing a readership is something that takes hard work and a little luck. Sure, sites like Digg and Reddit can greatly expand your readership ...more
General
19th of March 2007 Lorelle VanFossen

Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier

By Lorelle VanFossen Weblog Tools Collection is doing it. So is the Blog Herald. Are you doing it? These and other blogs are hiring translators to translate their blog into different languages. Blog Herald began with Japanese, based upon a study released by Technorati stating that Japanese is the most ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
10th of March 2007 Darren Rowse

The Balancing Act of Where to Pitch Your Content

Yesterday I posted about how it’s often the simple posts aimed at the basics that get most attention on a blog. The challenge with this is that for those blogging on established blogs with longer term and more advanced readers suddenly posting a lot of posts at a beginner level ...more
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28th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

The Rise of the Multi Blogger Blog – Outsourcing Content Creation

There’s something in the air today – everyone seems to be talking about outsourcing your blogging (or elements of it). Daniel is writing about it from a perspective of outsourcing some of your non core blogging activities (like design, blog maintenance, marketing and even content creation) and Yaro is talking ...more
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8th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

How to Blog With ‘Voice’ and Increase Community and Readership

This post has been submitted by Glen Stansberry. Most bloggers have a great advantage over traditional media: there’s no stingy editorial process to whittle away at our writing. We can say what we want, however we want. Yet many bloggers fail to take advantage of this fact, afraid to voice ...more
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1st of February 2007 Darren Rowse

How do you Find Stories for Your blog? – Open Mike

On the weekend I asked readers to submit their tips on how they find readers for their blog in an ‘open mike’ discussion – the results were pretty good (it’s done pretty well on Digg today – I hope some of those featured got some good flow on traffic). Today ...more
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25th of January 2007 Darren Rowse

How to Think Outside of the Box and Develop Attention Grabbing Content

I’d like to welcome Glen Stansberry from LifeDev (feed) to Problogger. Glen has offered to write a series of posts looking at how to use creativity, productivity and organization to improve your blogging skills. With the blogosphere ballooning to gigantic proportions, more and more blogs are springing up in every ...more
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8th of January 2007 Darren Rowse

The Kenny Rogers Guide to Getting People to Read Your Whole Posts

I never thought I’d quote Kenny Rogers on this blog but here’s something he said to a contestant on American Idol this series: “the first word that comes out of your mouth helps people to decide whether to listen to the next word, which in turn helps them work out ...more
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