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Comment Your Way To A Bigger Blog

May 24, 2010
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Do you want to know a really low key way to boost traffic to your blog while also increasing your overall visibility to others?  The answer isn’t something magical or complex; it is something you can easily accomplish with just 10 minutes of effort every day. Just like how linking out to other blogs is [...]

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My Short Experience With Text-Link-Ads

May 20, 2010
paid links

Last month I decided to try something new, and I signed up at Text-Link-Ads in order to get paid for publishing links to other websites from my site.  At first it looked like an easy way to do a little monetization of this blog, but in retrospect I would have to say it wasn’t worth [...]

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Comments Are Not Your Marketing Tool

May 16, 2010
blog comments

I get my share of ridiculous spammers commenters on this blog as well as on other blogs that I own or manage.   After bottling my thoughts on this for so long, I’ve decided to say a thing or two about this. I love flattery as much as the next person, but when you leave a [...]

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It Is Better To Have Your Own Blog

December 21, 2009
free blogs

I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this weekend and he expressed to me his plan to start a blog and jump into this “new blogging thing”.  He sounded pretty enthusiastic about it and we talked a little about how he was going to go about getting into blogging.  He had [...]

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Persistence Is Required For Blogging Success

December 17, 2009
persistence

Over at Salemites the other day the one and only Salem Man made a great point on what it takes to build a popular blog and that is persistence.  Persistence is the underlying key to so many things that go into turning a blog that only your mother reads into something that is read and [...]

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Is Syndicating Your Blog Content Costing You Too Much?

December 15, 2009
traffic

I don’t remember how I heard of zimbio.com, but a few years back is when I started using them.  If you don’t know, Zimbio is a collaborative online magazine with thousands of contributors.  People either syndicate their blog content with them or directly write articles for publication.  It is a very popular site that receives [...]

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