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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email feed. Thanks for visiting!So did you hear about DMOZ founder Rich Skrenta’s Topix.net purchasing the Topix.com domain name from a Canadian company for a cool USD 1,000,000?  I guess too many people were being lost in the type-in traffic [...]

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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.
Community-driven blog [...]

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Collis from NorthxEast asks, “Is it more important to post really, really regularly OR to put together more on-topic posts less regularly?”
My response is the two options shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. I don’t think any blogger should post anything that is not on-topic to the blog. Doing so is a waste of everyone’s [...]

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Matthieu Buisson of Frenchmat-Galaxy asks, “The best blogs about blogging are from USA and Australia but are all these blogging tips really effective in other cultures like France, Spain, China, etc… and how?”
I’ve never really thought about blogs about blogging being categorized by country. As a communications medium, blogs are successful because they allow [...]

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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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If you haven’t heard already, the folks over at ReviewMe have landed in some hot water for allowing bogus blog listings to appear on their list of blogs willing to do paid posting (or pay-per-post). Both BoingBoing and Gawker’s Consumerist were listed as willing to accept paid reviews for $500.

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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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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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John Chow had an excellent post on how he was able to generate over $3000 a month on his less-than-year old blog.

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Blogging is about communicating, engaging and sharing. How do we do that? We link, link link! But, do you know the proper way to link to share your “link love”?

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