Tag Archive: blogging

My Comment Policy

One of the things I’ve been considering for a while is having an official comment policy.
It’s not because I feel I need one, per se – the community here is one of the best on the web.
I feel incredibly lucky to have you guys come here and share your views, because you always treat both [...]

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Around the Web

For someone who’s written about guest posting a few times, as well as recommended the benefits of it to clients when talking about Blog 101, I haven’t really done a lot of guest posting myself.
I’ve had brilliant guest authors here, but not really written too many myself. Maybe I should revisit my own post…
Having said [...]

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Why You Don’t Need to Blog Daily

There’s a bit of a debate as to how often you should blog if you want to have a successful blog and grow the community around it.
Some folks will say you need to blog every day, or every other day.
Others will say once a week.
Others will say only blog when you have something useful to [...]

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Why Arkayne is Good for Your Blog and Business

For any blogger (especially if you’re using your blog for your business), Arkayne is a pretty solid platform that you might want to check out.

I’ve been using Arkayne on my blog for the last month or so, and I gotta say, I’m enjoying the experience so far. I’ve not used all the features to their [...]

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Why I’m Loving BlogOnCloud9

First, I just want to say none of the BlogOnCloud9 links in this post are affiliate, in case you thought this was just a blatant sales pitch.
About a couple of months ago, I noticed that my site was having loading issues. I ran it through a load time analyzer and was shocked at [...]

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Headway 1.7 Premium WordPress Theme – Quick Start Wizard

The Headway theme developers (affiliate link) have just upped the game yet again with the release of Headway 1.7, currently in beta for developer license holders.
I’ve been using the Headway theme on my blog for a year now so I’m biased, but this is a huge step up for premium WordPress themes and sees Headway [...]

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Blog Awards, Recognition, And Your Part in It

When I first started this blog just under two years ago, I had one clear goal – fostering thought connections.
Sure, I’d be using it to offer my views on the still-emerging (at the time) social media platform, as well as ideas and solutions on how you could get the most out of the new networks [...]

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Community, Loyalty and the Power of Give

Last night on Twitter, I was part of the #sbt10 chat, part of the Start Blogging Today project (disclosure – I’m a partner in the project). As usual, there were a ton of great topics discussed on how to make your blog work better for you.
One of the conversations that arose was how to reward loyalty [...]

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