If you are using most modern blogging software, I am sure you can create pages, and you should be. Darren recently wrote a post on the types of pages that every blogger should consider adding to their sites, as they help, inform, and promote the site.
He lists things like the about, contact, disclaimer, subscribe, advertise, […]

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Darren Rowse recently wrote a great post which gives you an insight to the history of him becoming a Problogger or as he puts it, a Web Publisher. Darren, like myself, had to convince others that what he was doing was legitimate, but thankfully, again like myself, he was supported in his dreams and goals.
Actually […]

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Darren Rowse recently wrote a post that I think every blogger writing in hopes of making huge money online should read. The post is a reality check of sorts, reminding people that it is long, hard work to make Darren Rowse type money online.
While it’s true that I have built my blogging to a point […]

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Thord brought up an amazing point recently on Wisdump about bloggers doing freelance work, and how that may negatively effect their branding efforts.
Here is a bit from his article:
Does it hurt my personal blogger brand that you can read me on so many places?
What I mean is, can blogging on several blog be a […]

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Over on Tech Soapbox, Ahmed has a short post up about the best keyword research source that no one talks about. The site is Delicious, and it is useful for more than just bookmarking your sites.
Example: iBegin Source. I can immediately see what people associate the site with. Notice how no one mentions ‘yellow’ for […]

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Making sure you stay on topic with your own blog can be quite easy, but when you are looking to get paid for blogging, sometimes you think “any job will do”, but Lorelle goes over her own experiences blogging outside her comfort zone at The Blog Herald.
I took a fresh look at it and cringed. […]

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Ahmed Bilal from Performancing has put up a great post reminding bloggers that we not only have to be distributors of great ideas, but we also have to listen to a variety of different people, as they might just be trying to help us reach that next level in our blogging.
A bit from the article:
As […]

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Ben over at Binary Moon has written a post about driving traffic away from your website. I love posts like these that help you avoid pitfalls that you might come across, or already be doing.
He lists some of my top annoyances in his post like:
Snap.com previews. Snap.com offer a way to add “previewsâ€� to external […]

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Something that most of us bloggers probably never think about is our passwords. We set them up in WordPress, out FTP, and e-mail, and leave them the same forever.
Over on Daily Blog Tips, there is a post recommending we switch it up from time to time like many corporations force people to do.
In order to […]

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Lorelle has asked an interesting question on the Blog Herald, and I wanted to take a second to answer it here, as my comment might be a bit too long for a comment form.
First off, I want to mention that I started my professional blogging career off with a bang by guest blogging for […]

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Brian Clark does it again with his “Three Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post“. He lists three really great things that you can do to keep people interested in what you are writing.
1. Use Sensuous Language
2. Employ High Impact Wording
3. Be Entertaining
He gives examples for each, and having tried these tips myself, I know […]

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Over on Freelance Writing Jobs there is a great little post talking about what you can do to not feel lonely while blogging.

Go to the coffee shop.
Go to the library.
Talk to other moms.
Join clubs or groups.
Social networking.

I have to admit to having tried just about all of these, though since I am not a mom, […]

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Tadeusz Szewczyk has written an article on Google Blogscoped about SEO and what you can do without it to make your site a success.
Things like:

Discover your niche
Use Wordpress
Create a killer CSS design and submit it to CSS galleries
Allow trackbacks, use dofollow
Socialize, write comments and link other blogs
Include social media on your site, use social media […]

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Tadeusz Szewczyk has written an article on Google Blogscoped about SEO and what you can do without it to make your site a success.
Things like:

Discover your niche
Use Wordpress
Create a killer CSS design and submit it to CSS galleries
Allow trackbacks, use dofollow
Socialize, write comments and link other blogs
Include social media on your site, use social media […]

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Darren has a new series starting called “31 Days to Building a Better Blog - 2007“, and one of the first pieces of advice he gives is to e-mail new readers. He suggests this as it could help create loyal readers, and if nothing else, it will most likely make them want to return to […]

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Over on Yugatech there is a post talking about which route bloggers should take in becoming a problogger: joining a network or independent?
I, personally, think joining a network, or even just a group of bloggers willing to promote each other is a faster way to get to that “pro” level.
Here are some details from […]

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I love when people put together lists on how to manage a blog, and while most of it is common sense, sometimes it isn’t formatted in an easy to understand way.
Squarespace Insider has put up such a list in a post called Managing Blogs and Increasing Traffic.
Here are a few of their points:
5. Ping […]

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Darren has a great post series going on his blog right now about rediscovering your blogging grove. It is a series of posts that do more than just ask you to write about something specific, but also how you might want to go about completing the task, and why it is important.
With his […]

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David Krug, a good friend of mine, has published a video asking what your role will be in the history of publishing. It is a simple question, that for bloggers can be as simple or as complex as the bloggers themselves.
For me, I’d like to be remembered. Maybe not as a huge, important or influential […]

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David Krug, a good friend of mine, has published a video asking what your role will be in the history of publishing. It is a simple question, that for bloggers can be as simple or as complex as the bloggers themselves.
For me, I’d like to be remembered. Maybe not as a huge, important or influential […]

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