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How to Keep Your Subscribers Forever

One thing you may have noticed is that your blog’s feed count is volatile: it fluctuates on a day to day basis. While much of that depends on how many people read your feed in a given day, some...

5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out

In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org helps you differentiate your content. Blogs are now so popular that it’s very hard to find a niche that isn’t already...

Use Feedburner Statistics to Interpret Reader Habits

Can your Feedburner stats reveal habits of your readers that could help you make your blogging more effective at reaching them? Guest poster Max Pool finds out. As we know FeedBurner counts can...

Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening Sentences

In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org explains how a great opening sentence can draw readers into your blog posts. You might not want to hear this, but a killer headline...

Your first 10,000 Blog Posts are Always the Worst

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”Henri Cartier-Bresson - PhotographerI came across this great quote today and as a photography nut it rang true.However I quickly...

Finding Your Blogging DNA

This blog post was written by Glen Stansberry, co-founder of the blog network LifeRemix.No two bloggers are alike. Everybody works differently, and everybody has their own routine when it comes to...

Editorial Calendars and Professional Blogging

This post on Editorial Calendars And Professional Blogging was submitted by Gerard McGarry. Gerard is a web designer from Northern Ireland and runs a popular music blog called Unreality...

Do You Use American English, British English or do you Swing like the Canadians?

Here’s a question that I get asked a lot - particularly by non US bloggers who find themselves writing primarily for US audiences:“I am English so of course spell words such as...

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip”

I recently wrote a post with 8 things to do with your blog when you get sick - number five on the list was to find a guest blogger to lend a hand.This week on noticing a fellow blogger, Blog...

Create a Sneeze Page and Propel Readers Deep WIthin Your Blog

It’s Day 18 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project and today your task is to develop a ‘Sneeze Page’ (or pages) for your blog.One of the challenges that faces blogs...