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How To Get More Readers With a “Benefit” Blog Headline June 10th, 2008

A long, long time ago, back in the early days of TV, one of the most popular shows was “Dragnet”, starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday. It seemed like just about every show, the police would be interviewing a lady witness, who would get into a long-winded explanation of what she saw. And Sgt. [...]

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How to set the Number of Posts per Page in Wordpress. June 4th, 2008

This is a little Wordpress “How-To” post. I want to show you how to set the number of posts per page on a Wordpress blog and then talk a little bit about whether or not it is a good idea to use the “more” tag. I like to have just one post per page on [...]

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What The Best Bloggers Do Best May 24th, 2008

1. Entertain
Good bloggers tell stories. They illustrate points so that they are memorable. Stories appeal to a lot more people than lectures do. A good blogger can take any principle they’ve discovered in live and apply it to blogging … and vice versa. There is never any end to the stories you can tell, because [...]

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Have You Seen This? Google Is Changing The Blogging World May 24th, 2008

Have you noticed Google buying up a bunch of Web 2.0 companies over the last several months? Well, they have. Apparently, they had an idea.
Take a look at this video:
Google Friend Connect
Once “Google Friend Connect” is released, ANY website can easily become a fully interactive social network. It’s pretty incredible and the implications are … [...]

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Predicting the Future - Blogging & Video May 24th, 2008

Thirty years ago I looked at the future and predicted that the idea of home computers would be a bust. It was obvious to me that computers were way too complicated to ever gain any kind of widespread home use. Not my greatest moment of clairvoyance. So let’s put that one behind us.
Today’s prediction … [...]

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9 Reasons You Should Reach Out To Guest Bloggers May 23rd, 2008

1. You get more time for yourself. You never know when you might have some emergency. If you’ve set up a couple possible guest bloggers in advance, the pressure is off.
2. Your readers get a different viewpoint. If you choose your guest bloggers well, then your readers can see that new connection as a real [...]

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Link To Your Sources - Or Not? May 23rd, 2008

Remember this old mantra from 15 or 20 years ago:
“If you love something, let it go. If it loves you, it will come back to you.”
Some comedian then morphed that beautiful sentiment into:
“If you love something, let it go. If it doesn’t come back, hunt it down and kill it.”
A lot of today’s bloggers seem [...]

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