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Keeping Track of Your Blog’s Readers, Part 3: StatCounter

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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RevResponse provides your readers with even more quality content

RevResponse provides your readers with even more quality content

As promised a few days ago, it’s time for our review of RevResponse. Now is as good of a time as any, as RevResponse is offering a $50 bonus for mentioning their program. Take note that this offer is only good through July 31, 2008.
I’m not reviewing RevResponse as a provider of free content. This [...]

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Photo Dropper plugin makes finding images easy

Photo Dropper plugin makes finding images easy

Writing quality content is the foundation of an exception blog. However, you still need to draw your readers into the post before they can commit to reading even the most well-written content. There are two simple ways to do this: writing catchy headlines, and including interesting pictures.
We’ll leave headlines alone for now. Today’s post reviews [...]

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Writing great blog posts: Do Your Homework

One of the coolest things about blogging is it’s inherent lack of editorial control. Anyone can post anything they want, without having to meet certain quality or grammar standards. As you can imagine (and have probably seen first-hand), this leads to a huge amount of crap.

You don’t want your blog to be part of that [...]

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Brainstorming unlimited blog posts with bubble maps

Brainstorming unlimited blog posts with bubble maps

Strangely, one of the most popular niches on the Internet is blogging about blogging. With metablogging being such a popular topic, there’s a lot of similar content floating around on the topics of building your blog and promoting it.As Blogging Addiction is still in its early stages, we decided to brainstorm ideas so we’d have [...]

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Set your blog apart with great branding

At last count, Technorati is tracking 112.8 million blogs. I can’t say for sure, but I’m guessing the vast majority of them look very plain and generic. I’d even go so far as saying that thousands of them probably look exactly the same, not counting the content, of course.
Out of that 112.8 million, your one [...]

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Making the Most of Your Freedom of Speech

Happy Fourth of July to all of our American readers! That would include the authors, but we’ve also had some decent share of our traffic come from other parts of the world. Today’s patriotic post discusses your freedom of speech.
photo credit: Nrbelex
Our freedom of speech is arguably the most conflicting topic of the first [...]

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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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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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