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100 Rules for Bloggers #13 – Don’t Clutter Your Blog

by El Plumber (admin) on February 4, 2009

I see this far too often when surfing blogs.   The theme and layout of the content vs the columns vs the ads is just so bizarre that  I can hardly find the content through the misplaced and odd sized badges, fake “awards”, tiny chicklets for every BlogCatErLinkSter site, and crapton of ads. Keep it [...]

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100 Rules For Bloggers #12 – Get Viewers Involved

by El Plumber (admin) on December 24, 2008

If you want to drive repeat visitors to your site and really drive traffic, you need to not only provide great new content on a regular basis, but you need to figure out ways to get readers involved in your site. Encourage comments, host contests where people vote, hold votes and polls, anything to get [...]

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100 Rules For Bloggers #11 – Host Your Own Blog

by El Plumber (admin) on December 22, 2008

Rule #11: Sure, it’s easier to use a free host for your blog at first.  Minimal startup time with WordPress.com or Blogger and you’re off to the races! But you’re not in control of your own destiny. For WordPress.com, they won’t let you advertise or put up affiliate links to 99% of the  programs out [...]

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Rule #10 Hundreds of Millions of people hit the Internet every day looking for something.  They’re either looking for: Information that they need or want.  For instance, I went looking for a Cinnamon Raisin Bread recipe this morning and found it. Entertainment. You need to provide one of these two things to your readers, or [...]

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Rules For Bloggers #6: I’ve noticed a trend on BlogCatalog lately where random people will post a message to my Shoutbox saying things like, “I just $upported your blog, come $upport mine!”, or “I $miled on your blog, come $mile on mine!” If you can’t read h4x0r, replace the $ with an S.  That means [...]

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