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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 going to the dot-com.
So, think about that when you choose a domain name. If it’s a dot-net (or something [...]
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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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