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Weekly Fix #1: stay motivated, don’t spread yourself thin

Welcome to the first edition of the Weekly Fix. This is our opportunity to take a break from writing content to send you to some of our favorite blogs on the Internet. Our goal is to highlight a number of smaller blogs as well as large ones, on the topics of blogging, making money, and [...]

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Five reasons why your blog is failing

I think it’s safe to say that most blogs are junk. Most blog posts are probably not worth your time to read. Obviously, that’s not the kind of blog you want to be running, and you don’t want people thinking that about your blog. Fortunately, if you’re not sure where you’re going wrong, there are [...]

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Why the Blogosphere is Like the Music Industry

Who let the dogs out?
Have you heard the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?” What about “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” or “The Macarena”? Unless you’ve been living in a third-world country for the past 10 years, the odds are pretty high that you’ve turned on the radio and heard one of these songs playing.However, can [...]

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Clean up your permalinks for better search traffic

Anybody who’s been reading blogs for long has an opinion about permalinks. They may not know that “permalinks” are the official name for it, but they will have an opinion. If they don’t, they probably haven’t seen enough blogs. “Permalink” is a scary-looking word, though, and some people may not be clear on what it [...]

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Blog hosting, part two: custom software solutions

A quick review of what I said in Blog hosting, part one: as a blogger, your job is to write content that will be interesting and useful to your readers. The blogging platform you choose to use should serve to help you accomplish that goal in a way that gives the best experience to both [...]

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Five reasons why your blog is succeeding

You’ve read all of the “overnight success” eBooks, browsed through every forum, and subscribed to every related blog’s RSS feed. And at last, your blog has become successful. Unfortunately, you’re not sure why. Fortunately, it’s not that hard to figure out if you look around at other successful blogs. And no, it wasn’t the traffic [...]

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Blog hosting, part one: blogging platforms

Anybody who runs a blog needs some way to publish it, and there are more than a few providers willing to help out with that endeavor. There are a lot of great blog hosts available, and most of them provide a free offering that is more than enough to satisfy a simple blog.
We’ll take [...]

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Never skip another day of blogging

Having trouble posting every day?
Without a question, the biggest liability for bloggers in inconsistent blogging. One day, they feel like nothing will stop them from starting the next TechCrunch or Perez Hilton. Many people have woken up one definitive morning, and decided they wanted to blog. They take the time for set up their [...]

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Site growth: late June 2008 (the Addiction begins!)

Site growth: late June 2008 (the Addiction begins!)

Why is it so fun to post your site statistics for everybody to read? There are a variety of both logical and vain reasons. Blogging Addiction is starting nearly at the bottom. After acquiring this neglected site, we scrapped the site and we’re starting fresh. Don’t believe that we’re starting with nothing? Here are the [...]

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