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Blog theft: the scrapers are at it again

August 9, 2007

Blog scraping has been going on as long as there are blogs. Scraping is the reason I no longer offer the full text of my blog posts in RSS feeds. Essentially, a scraper republishes your content, with his advertising attached, so that he can make money. It’s all done automatically; using scripts. These grimy little [...]

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Blogger’s block: short posts are the answer

July 21, 2007

When your blogging well is completely dry, and you can’t think of a single topic you want to post about, consider short posts on a particular theme. That theme could even be “blogger’s block”. Over on my writer’s blog I’ve written some posts which may help you to overcome blogger’s block: Writer’s block: don’t panic [...]

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Organic blog content: let your readers tell you what they want

July 12, 2007

When you’ve been blogging for a month or two, and your site is indexed, your referrer logs are a great source of inspiration for content, because your site’s visitors will tell you what they’re looking for. For example, I’ve just looked at my StatTraq daily summary for this blog, and “wordpress photography themes” attracted several [...]

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Be yourself on your blog: it’s easier

July 7, 2007

Many bloggers start out with great enthusiasm. They make five or ten posts over the course of a week or two, then they stop posting. Usually it’s because they’re bored. “Blogging is HARD” some of my blogging students tell me. Here’s my answer: it’s not, if you’re yourself on your blog. Think about it. If [...]

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Blog content: how often should you post to a blog?

June 21, 2007

Problogger has an interesting post “8.9 Posts Per Week – Too Many? Not Enough?”. They conducted a mini-survey, and discovered that the respondents’ average number of posts was 8.9 per week. Obviously the bloggers who responded were people who take blogging seriously. So, are more posts per day/ week better? It obviously depends on your [...]

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Get the rage off your chest and onto your blog

June 15, 2007

Been trampled into the ground by “customer service?” Consumers don’t have to take it any more: the little guy now has a global audience, and that audience listens. “Customer blogs: the lone nut theory debunked” is a great piece on two customers who blogged their woes and got results: At present, Melrose runs haveyoursay.com, a [...]

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Five easy ways to create content for your blog – fast

June 11, 2007

I was chatting with a friend last week, who said he was getting back to blogging: it was making money for him. Although he hadn’t updated his blog in seven months, his ClickBank checks were increasing steadily each month. It was nice “free” income, and made him wonder what he could earn if he made [...]

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Content is king, but you’ve got to SELL on your blog

May 27, 2007

Why are you blogging? It’s a question you must ask yourself, and you must know the answer. I give free consultations with my Blogging for Dollars ebook package, so I see a lot of new blogs. One of the most common problems I see with new blogs is that the bloggers are not clear on [...]

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When good blogs go bad

April 25, 2007

What do you do when a blog just isn’t working for you in the way it’s supposed to? Easy. Drop the blog and start another one. I’ve got many blogs – some for my own interests and work, and others which I work on for my copywriting clients – and occasionally, it becomes obvious that [...]

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Blogging seeds: blog snippets help you to build blog content

March 15, 2007

I love writing blog content, because I LOVE instant gratification. Type, type, type… hit Publish and whoopee, another blog post done. However, with some blogs you can feel like a hamster on a wheel – endlessly churning out content. This hamster-feeling is a signal that you may be stressing needlessly. It depends on you. You [...]

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