So many people email me asking for blog advice. I usually end up getting excited, spending half an hour on the email, cramming WAY too much information into it, and probably giving the poor person more than they can handle at once.
But they tell me it really helps. That their traffic goes up a few ...
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Let's say you come up with a knockout post idea, and just as important, a killer headline. You write the headline first, write a strong post around it, and publish.
How do you know if it all worked?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about ...
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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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So you've got this new blog and you're pumped to write all sorts of amazing, insightful posts. Like at beginning of most fun things in life, the awe and the wonder, the ideas and the jokes don't seem to stop coming. But then you settle in and get comfortable and suddenly you find ...
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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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Hey guys and gals! A lot of you have told me you appreciated the Wordpress plugins list I posted a while back. Since I wrote that post, I've discovered a few more plugins that I don't know how I lived without, as well as remembered an important one that I forgot to list ...
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Much like Feed Burner, Google Analytics is a very powerful tool that can tell you a lot about the traffic your site gets.
How many unique visitors is your blog getting? How long are your readers sticking around once ...
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Change of plans! I was all set to write a post this week about how to use Feedburner to make your feed user-friendly and track your subscribers, then Gena from Choosing Raw came along and did that awesome interview!
I found Gena's answers so thought-provoking and relevant to what I've been thinking ...
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Hi there Health Blog Helper readers! My name is Allison, and I blog about my experiences as a new runner who is trying to lose weight by eating whole foods at Eat Clean Live Green. When Matt asked if I would be interested in writing a guest post, I thought this would be ...
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I am what you might call a compulsive learner. When I do something new, I immerse myself in it, at the expense of all other things. And blogging, for me, has been no exception. In the past six months, I've brought home (and yes, even read!) armloads of books from the library, on blogging, on ...
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