Find Out How Popular Your Blog Is

This site covers how to start a blog, build traffic and make money blogging. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Since so many bloggers don’t understand how and why to use trackbacks, it’s always a good idea to use other ways to learn about who’s […]

How To Send A TrackBack From Blogger

Yesterday I covered how and why to use trackbacks with a WordPress blog.
If you’re using a blogging program that doesn’t include the ability to automatically send trackbacks you can — and should — still use them for all of the same reasons. You’ll just have to do it manually.
Here’s how, in six simple […]

Blogger, Edit Thyself

There’s a reason why the authors of every book you read make sure to thank their editor: a writer is only as good as the editor makes him/her look. Bloggers don’t have the luxury of bespectacled, grumpy editors correcting our text with fat red markers. It’s DIY in the blogosphere, but Simon has 10 editing […]

5 Quick Ways To Improve Your Traffic Today

Sundays are notoriously slow times in the blogosphere, with many bloggers choosing to give their fingertips (and brains) a day of rest. Even if you’re one of those who like to skip a blogging day now and then, there are still ways you can improve your traffic without sitting down to write an entry.
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Starting A New Blog: A Checklist

Whether you’re starting your first-ever blog or launching a new one, first impressions matter. A new blog, to the blogosphere, is like free beer to frat boys, like shoe sales to fashionistas: it’s almost as exciting as free Wi-Fi. It will get traffic, sometimes a huge surge, even. If you want to turn that traffic into a regular reading audience, you need to create a good first impression. Accomplish this by making sure you have your blog’s ducks all in a row before that first surge of new blog traffic ever arrives.

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