Tips and Tricks

Without fail I get at least three emails a day from strangers asking me to link to their websites. I don’t mind giving backlinks, in fact I like to do it, but I get a little peeved when the person asking for them doesn’t even know what my blog is about. There is nothing wrong [...]

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For those who struggle to write quick content here are a few tips on how to write a blog post in 15 minutes.* There was a time when I could write a blog post in mere minutes. There was a time when I had so much to say I couldn’t wait to get to my [...]

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How To Cook SPAM

by Jennifer Brown on June 25, 2011

If you have been blogging for any amount of time you know all about spam comments but do you know how to get rid of spam? Most of us are familiar with the “nice post” comment. It’s annoying and aggravating because we all know the person who left the comment didn’t read the article we [...]

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Blogging has gone mobile. With these top five blogging apps you don’t need to be tied to your desk anymore. During the summer months, when the kids are out of school, we are always on the go. That means I can do my blogging late at night after everyone has gone to bed or I [...]

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StumbleUpon 101

by Kelly Bristow on June 19, 2011

If you ask a blogger how to get a lot of traffic most will tell you to get Stumbled. But what does that mean and how does it work? StumbleUpon is “a new way to explore the web. It allows you to discover photos, videos, and web pages recommended by friends and people sharing your [...]

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WordPress and I don’t get along. Our relationship, based solely on need (mine) and callous disregard (WordPress’s), holds no trace of balance or ease. We’ve only been together a few months, but since then my mental health, already tenuous, is measurable only in negative numbers. This alone is a frustration: inept in math, I can’t [...]

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Summer is here and without fail-blog traffic goes down, sometimes way down, because bloggers aren’t as active on the internet as they are during the winter months. Your traffic doesn’t have to take a nose dive, here are a few steps you can take to prevent traffic loss during the busy summer season. Auto-Post Set [...]

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Have you lost your blogging mojo lately? Don’t know where it went or how to get it back? Do you sit down at your computer to write something, anything to fill the blank page, but can’t conjure the words? Do you fear your blog is dying a slow and painful death because you can’t figure [...]

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Bloggers are always talking about their traffic. Either they don’t have enough of it or they do but want more, which means they don’t have enough of it. Most bloggers are addicted to their stats. On good days, when blog traffic increases they watch it to see how high it can go. On bad days [...]

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We all enjoy getting comments. Well, not all of us. Some of us are troubled losers who build pipe bombs in our mother’s basements. But most of us are troubled loners who believe we have something important or funny to say, and we like to know others are interested in us. So we labor over [...]

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