Author Archives: Matt Frazier

The simple tweak that spiked my traffic 30%

It's Sunday morning.  I wake up, turn on my computer, and start reading a free PDF I've been meaning to get to, called Authority Rules.  A few pages into it, I'm so inspired that I immediately implement one of the concepts ...

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Why great blog posts deserve D's in English class

Everything they taught us in school about writing is wrong. Ok, maybe it's not wrong, by any technical measure.  But for blogging, it's certainly not right.  Pen an essay worthy of an "A" in high school, maybe even in a general-education college English class, ...

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Are boring headlines killing your blog?

Image by TimmyGUNZ via Flickr In my last post, I told you how excited I was about the prospects for my blog, No Meat Athlete, now that I've started writing ...

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Who are you blogging for, anyway?

Image by purpleslog via Flickr I'm as excited about my blog as I have ever been.  Readership is growing quickly, incoming links are up, Google searches have spiked, and ...

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Two great opportunities

Hey everyone, just a quick post today to let you know about two neat opportunities I found out about in the past few days.  One's a bonus offer, open for five more days, on an e-book that I personally own and highly recommend.  The other is an affiliate opportunity that I haven't seen on many ...

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What can AdWords do for you?

You know those little text ads that show up on Google searches, webpages, and some blogs? You know, like the ad to the right?  (It's just a copy of an ad; in a real one you could click the link.)  For a ...

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Scoring free schwag

Image by klabusta via Flickr Sure, I could have called this post "Getting Products for Reviews and Giveaways," but let's call it what it is.  Everyone knows that one of the ...

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Getting the most out of StumbleUpon

If you've been blogging for a little while, you may have experienced something like this:  You log into your blog on a normal day, expecting to see what you always see.  Instead, there's a huge spike in traffic, two or three times your normal ...

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Categories vs. Tags

Image via Wikipedia It took me a while to understand the difference between categories ...

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Backin' it up

How do you make a post about backing up your Wordpress blog sound exciting?  Answer: you don't!  But with a Wordpress security update just released (2.8.6), we are reminded that backing up your self-hosted blog is a necessary evil.  Luckily, there's a plugin that makes the process decidedly un-evil, which I'll tell you about in ...

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