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A few years ago, I read with interest the obituary of Bob Hope, one of the 20th Century’s legendary American entertainers.  It was in the obituary section of The New York Times newspaper and [...]

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Here’s a list of posts about of blogging mistakes to avoid (including one from yours truly ).

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I’ve alluded before that I think blogging is one of those things that require a lot of thought before you put the proverbial pen to the proverbial paper. And, I’ve also posted about how to brainstorm when you are stuck. But, what happens when you just can’t seem to focus with the task at hand–that is, write something insightful for your readers?

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I don’t think there are an unlimited number of original topics a blogger can write about. At some point, all bloggers repeat something that has, in essence, been previously said. But the really great bloggers are the ones that are able to take a topic that has been previously discussed and recycle it in such a way that the delivery is entirely original.

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From time to time I see comments on this and other blogs that indicate concern amongst bloggers that linking out too much is bad. The nature of the concern is two pronged. One, some feel that linking out too much results you sending traffic away and reducing the stickiness of one’s own blog. Two, some feel that linking out too much will have a negative effect for search engine rankings. I don’t think either should be a concern for the quality blogger.

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Dear Blogger,

I have some things I’d like to share with you and get off my mind. I hope you’ll take the following pointers to heart so that we can both have a healthy relationship going forward.

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Dave Pelz is a great teacher of golf. When he started teaching golf way back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were a lot of teachers of golf already. He could have set up a golf school and taught golf to the masses like everyone else but instead he focused on a different market. Dave’s target market was teaching already good golfers how to lower their scores by focusing on these golfers’ short game. [The "short game" is golf parlance for after the golf ball is first struck but before the player starts to putt.]

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There are always improvements one can make to increase his or her blog’s “worth”. If we define the “worth” of a blog to mean the value that that blog provides to its visitors, here are five things you can do now to make your blog more worthy:

(Re)Focus your “About” page into a mission [...]

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How’s that for a headline?! Brian Clark is clearly doing too good of a job because I’m seeing so many creative and attention-getting headlines like:

• The Ultimate Guide to [blank]
• 12 Sure-Fire Ways to [blank]
• The Secret of [blank]

And therein lies my beef.

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I was thinking about who I envisioned the audience of this site to be (of course I thought, “It’s the problogger”) and it occurred to me that there could be multiple definitions of what a problogger is.

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