I won a copy of Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s fantastic book,
PROBLOGGER - Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Instead of just reading it and taking action on the lessons, I decided to do something different - and am sharing my insights and biggest lessons learned from the book in the form of […]

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I created this series of posts about launching a new blog some months back.
During the site redesign, somehow the links to it got knocked off the homepage and I’ve had a few questions from readers asking where it went.
Well, it’s still here - so this post is primarily to link to the different sections.
The multi-part […]

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This Blog Launch post is a part of “2 Weeks To Launch Your Blog“.
Well, it’s finally over!  The 2 week long project,
“2 Weeks To Launch Your Blog”
just ended today.  It’s been an exciting, fun 2 week overview of the blog launch process.
In all, we’ve had 49 posts and another 11 guest submissions - that’s 60 […]

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SEO Secrets
Basic search engine optimization is something every blog will benefit from. By their architecture, blogs are natually SEO’ed to a great extent - but you can still tweak a few things to your benefit.
Some quick and easy SEO tips for […]

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Forum Postings
When you make one of the more ‘newsy’ posts, preferably something controversial or provocative or hot at the moment, mentioning it on forums can bring in a surge of visitors to your blog.
Here’s what to do:

locate an interesting news story or […]

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Press releases
Try and look for anything news-worthy about your blog… and draft a press release around it.
The aim of your release is to get reporters interested in doing a follow up story - so you need a ‘hook’ and an ‘angle’.
Learn about […]

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Email your house list
The best way to get a quick burst of traffic to your blog is to send out a short mailing to your in-house list.
This is the best kind of traffic - targeted, trusting, ready to buy or […]

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Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is all the rage today.
And there’s a service that makes it quick  and convenient to handle multiple bookmarking sites easily.
Go to ONLYWIRE - http://www.OnlyWire.com
On the right side of each form field, you will see a link to the […]

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Blog comments
Done the right way, commenting on other blogs can bring a lot of targeted traffic  to your site.
Browse the Web, searching for blogs on your niche. When you find a post that  intrigues or interests you, and on which you think […]

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Using RSS button and email opt in form
By prominently displaying the RSS subscription button PLUS an email opt-in form, you can give your blog readers the twin options of subscribing to future updates via RSS or email.
This serves as a reminder to […]

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