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There’s been no shortage of people who mention that traffic from Digg or StumbleUpon doesn’t really have any long-term advantage due to the fact that the traffic stops by for thirty [...]

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Daniel at Daily Blogging Tips would like to know what your blogging goals are for the coming year.
I’ve written a few times what goals I have for this blog, but wanted to put some time deadlines on the things I’d like to see happen around here.
RSS Subscribers: I’m not quite there yet, but I would [...]

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Quite awhile ago, Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror came out with his list of stuff that drives him nuts about a lot of blogs (and, by his own admission, committed two of the sins in the list just by posting it). But this doesn’t mean that the post itself is not extremely useful. Granted, it’s [...]

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On Saturday I wrote about an application that would allow you to use Windows Live Writer on a USB key, taking it with you, wherever you needed it. And for the most part, I’m very happy with the way that it works.
I found out about this app on TechLifeBlogged, and admittedly it did come [...]

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If you occasionally run up against times where you’re struggling to come up with something to post, maybe what you need to look at doing is creating an editorial calendar for your blog.  This can help you brainstorm ideas, and give you an idea of how much time you have before a post goes live [...]

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Before I started BN, I admittedly didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to SEO, figuring that if I was just able to publish quality content that the traffic would eventually find me.  Besides, Google already crawled my site, so I figured that was enough.
But numerous posts by Grizzly, including What’s In A Keyword? made [...]

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If you’re like me, you get a healthy number of comments posted on your blog, with most of it hopefully being valid comments, as opposed to being spam.
On the way to work this morning I was listening to the WordPress Podcast, and heard mention of a plug in for WordPress that will monitor your blog [...]

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The other day Skellie asked, “Where are the holes in your leaky bucket?” trying to get readers to document what shortcomings they might have, or things they’d like to improve about their blogging. I’ve decided that I’d like to answer the question here.

Promoting BloggingNotes: this unfortunately, is a big one for me. I [...]

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The other night I was doing some preliminary investigation of new themes for the site. I’m not really planning on rolling it out until about February 1st, but I wanted to see what sort of designs have come along lately that might look like they’d work for me.

Photo by pingnewsAnd there were a couple [...]

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A lot of bloggers will say that they don’t pay attention to any sort of ranking system, whether its Technorati rank, feed count, income generated, or whatever. They say that they just don’t care about it that much. But I ask, how do you know if you’re getting better?
While you definitely don’t need [...]

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