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Building a Community

Are You Ignoring the Best Source of Content Ideas?

by Tia Peterson September 5, 2010
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This is part 3 in a 5-part series on Successful Blogging. What Makes Content Valuable? The other day I was checking out Ana Hoffman’s Traffic Generation Cafe site, and one of the comments she received was something many bloggers in this niche hope to hear. He said that there is a difference between informative and [...]

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How I Achieved Blogging Success In 30 Days

by Wayne Howard September 2, 2010
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When the doors to a new blog are opened, usually you don’t have a bunch of people waiting outside to run in. Well, this is exactly what appears to have happened with my blog.

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Two Must-Have Plugins to Make the Most of First Time Comments

by Tia Peterson September 1, 2010
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First-time comments are precious. Once a reader goes from being passive to being active, you have just been presented with a golden opportunity to turn a stranger into a reader for life.

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Two Cents Tuesday: What’s the Main Reason So Many Blogs Fail?

by Tia Peterson August 3, 2010

When you sit down to write a post, do you ever think about how much effort you’re putting into it? How much time do you dedicate to producing something that is meaningful, useful, funny, intriguing, silly, or thought-provoking? Do you care whether people actually like it or do you sometimes get into the mindset, “I [...]

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Two Cents Tuesday: (Some) Blogs Get Better with Age

by Tia Peterson July 20, 2010

“Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can. Seldom in a woman, never in a man.” — Origin is debated. Don’t stone me. I didn’t make that saying up, guys. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile and if you have downloaded and read (hint), you may notice this thing I have about [...]

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Are Your Comments Bringing in Traffic, or Not?

by Tia Peterson July 15, 2010

I am a member of the ProBlogger.com forum, and we get newsletters every so often. In today’s newsletter, something caught my eye: Challenge: 30 Day Comment Campaign Have you noticed, due in part to the big CommentLuv/Famous Bloggers contest, that commenting is like, on hyper-drive lately? It seems that commenting has become (almost) as important [...]

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Why Criticism Is Your Best Friend

by Tia Peterson July 12, 2010

Criticism is extraordinarily helpful and at the same time, it can be extraordinarily destructive. It depends on where it is coming from. Early on, I connected with someone I admire and believe has my best interests in mind. When he says something critical about what I am doing or writing, I accept it wholeheartedly. Why? [...]

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