Archive for December, 2009

New Year’s Resolution: You do have one right?

Here we are on New Year’s Eve and although many bloggers have plans to celebrate this evening, they don’t have plans on how make 2010 better than 2009 for their blogs. Sure, we could all use blog goals and objectives but all I’m asking right now is this: What promise did you make to yourself [...]

Factors contributing to blog success

As promised from last week’s blog failure article, here is the second part of the series, factors contributing to blog success. These factors for success are just the opposite of factors that guarantee failure: 1. People want to read what you write 2. People can find you 3. Your passion for your material shines through [...]

A blogger’s Christmas is bitter sweet

First, let me wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. If you are reading this on Christmas Day, I genuinely hope your plans today include much more than just reading blogs. Anyway, holidays are always tough on blog traffic but the toughest stretch is the time between Christmas and New Year’s Day. In other [...]

Factors contributing to blog failure

So, you have a great blog (at least you think it’s great), you have dozens or hundred of posts, but your traffic is very low. Maybe even double digits… maybe even single digits… you feel disappointed. But how could it be, given how much work you’ve done? Here’s the brutal truth, the factors for failure [...]

The 5 bestest features of WordPress 2.9

Alright, WordPress 2.9 Carmen was released over the weekend and it seems like every other blogger is “announcing” its release. Looks like WP gave us an early Christmas present. True, WP 2.9 has been anticipated for some time now and the laundry list of features is actually pretty long. However, many of them are just [...]

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3 darn good reasons to buy a domain today

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Alright, we all know you must have your own domain to have a successful blog. If you’re not willing to commit under $100 per year for a domain and hosting, then most people won’t commit to you. That’s the bottom line. Other than using a domain for an existing site, many people don’t realize there [...]

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Meet the FTC disclosure requirement in under a minute

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When the FTC announced that bloggers must disclose compensation in early October, there were rumblings of how it would affect us. In fact, there was so much confusion and bad information out there, I wrote an article on the biggest myths of FTC disclosure in mid-November. Turns out that those are two of my more [...]

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