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This week’s posts somehow slipped through the cracks. Our goal is to publish three posts a week: something on Tuesday, Thursday, and the Weekly Fix on Saturday. Hopefully now that this goal is public to our readership, we’ll be bound by it.
RockFuse has a great application of Pareto’s Principle. Twenty-percent of your content will bring [...]

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Just five links today, with a little more running commentary involved.
Carl Ocab has a guest poster who proposes a four-step formula for productive blogging. It’s pretty simple, but it’s safe most bloggers don’t have a plan when it comes to writing new posts or updating their blog. The end of the posts brings up something [...]

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A quick note before the good stuff: if you haven’t already, go back and read Parts 1 and 2 of this series: Part 1: Have a Mint, and Part 2: Google Analytics.

Of all the analytics tools we’ve taken a look at so far, it’s safe to say that StatCounter is by far the oldest. It’s been [...]

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One of our readers left us a comment a few weeks ago, asking us for advice about naming her blog. The comment wasn’t particularly relevant to the post, so we’ve decided to write a whole post about it instead. Hopefully it was worth the wait!
Hello, I am thinking of blogging about my life struggling with [...]

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Hopefully you guys have enjoyed the first part of our series on traffic tools. There are a couple more traffic trackers still to be reviewed, so hang on if you’re a blogger still deciding which one to use.
We, the owners of Blogging Addiction, have several other blogs in non-related niches. Each site has its own [...]

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In Part 1 of our three-part series, we covered Shaun Inman’s excellent website statistics software Mint, a commercial software package you can install on your own server to record great-looking information about your readers. If you haven’t already, go take a look at that review.

Here in Part 2, we’ll take a look at Google’s free [...]

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If the purpose of your blog is to make money, knowing who is reading your blog is one of your most important responsibilities. You can’t make money unless people are reading your blog, and you won’t be able to effectively market your blog to its target audience. Therefore, it’s important to know everything you can [...]

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It’s that day of the week again. Today’s links were fairly easy to gather. There are a couple returning “featured” blogs, as well as a couple that we haven’t highlighted before.
Blogging Addiction has sponsored IndoContest’s first ever contest. We’re giving out 1337 entrecrards to Winner #4. There sure have a been a lot of contests [...]

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July was our first complete month on the blogosphere.
Traffic: 809 visits

We know you’re out there. To say the least, the site hasn’t had particularly exponential growth — aside from a StumbleUpon wave — but our readers have left a decent number of comments, so we know you are out there.
There was a good deal of [...]

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