I Help You Blog

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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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Stripe ads are a neat way to extend screen real estate to create additional advertising room. They are extremely popular with high traffic websites and are extremely visible to the website visitor since they are the first thing the visitor sees on the site.
A stripe ad is a strip of highlighted ad adspace right [...]

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It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention yet for a number of reasons–off-topic for this blog, etc. While the content was off-topic, the process for creating that content was very, very on-topic…. Then, the post becomes very relevant in terms of its content–a comprehensive list of posts in the universe that reveals all the secrets of the people we entrust with our money and secrets.And here comes the good part: You can use the same process that I used to create that list to create a viral content for your blog on demand.The content for the “Would You Still Trust These People” post was discovered in less than one second.

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What is community-driven blog promotion:
Community-driven blog promotion is the term I use for describing any technique a blogger uses to promote his or her blog and that involves getting a blog’s readers to do something that will result in greater exposure for that blog. This definition includes review-for-linkback schemes, memes, contests, etc.
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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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In the short life (so far) of I Help You Blog, my 101 Great Posting Ideas is so far the most popular post. It has been featured on the home page of del.icio.us as well as del.icio.us/popular/blogging. Over 560 people have so far bookmarked the post.

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Here are some quick thoughts on how you can make more money with you blog/website.
Affiliate Programs
Don’t just join some affiliate program, paste some code and be done with it! You won’t make very much money that way. Affiliate programs are best done when you make a thorough article post on the affiliate product. [...]

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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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Great posts are hard to do consistently on a day-to-day basis. Probloggers really have to work at it. I thought about all the different ways and angles a blogger can approach choosing posting topics. Here are 101 different ideas that I think are great to stimulate your mind and jumpstart your blogging.

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