Bloggers get a lot of advice to do things differently, try harder to get traffic, make more connections, monetize properly, write for SEO, or build a subscriber list. Those of us who write about the craft and business of blogging spend a lot of time thinking about how you can improve your blog and [...]
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The winner of the Extreme Blog Makeover will be announced tomorrow at 5pm EST so be sure to get your vote in soon for one of our Extreme Blog Makeover finalists. The winner will get all of this: Custom Graphics including; header, badge, ‘grab my badge’ code, favicon and avatar installed and ready to go [...]
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Tribal Blogs now offers a multitude of blogging services. We cover everything from ghostwriting and SEO to blog design and WordPress conversion. We’ve been having so much fun giving Extreme Blog Makeovers to some great bloggers that we decided to hold a contest and give one lucky winner a free Extreme Blog Makeover ($300. value). [...]
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Blogging can be creative, fun, rewarding, demanding and time consuming. Is your blogging income the equivalent of negative umpteen dollars an hour? If you’d like to increase your chances of making money with your blog, keep the following tips in mind. If you aren’t interested in making money from your blog, you and Richie Rich may go for a ride on your [...]
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Unnecessary Words We often read that blog posts should be brief and that readers like to read posts quickly. When writing your post, make sure that you’re not filling it with words that don’t need to be there. Words to avoid: frankly, actually, honestly, truthfully, really, quite, so, very, somewhat, seems, utterly, practically, basically, probably, appears, very, [...]
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Due to the recent announcement of the purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL there has been a lot of discussion about compensation for bloggers who submit content to a news site. In many of the stories, covering the purchase, it was disclosed that the Huffington Post has 6000 bloggers who contribute articles for free. [...]
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Have you ever noticed how bloggers tend to hang out in little neighborhoods? We all know one another but we don’t necessarily know bloggers who know other bloggers. Does that make any sense? I’m not sure. However, I thought it would be a good time to plug your other blogging pals, the ones we might [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Today we are going to start a new thing here at Tribal Blogs. Each Friday there will be a challenge for readers. The challenge will involve tasks you can do to improve your blog. Today’s challenge is to go out and find an advertiser for an article you will write on your [...]
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Comment Etiquette
by Jennifer Brown on January 19, 2011
Comments are the life blood for most bloggers. If you don’t have any you want them and if you have some you want more. I’ve been thinking about the unwritten rules that most bloggers follow when leaving comments and how those rules are different for different types of blogs. The distinction I am making about [...]
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