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WordPress.org prevails!

Last week, I posted a question that a new reader had for me. She basically wanted to know whether or not to switch her PR3 wordpress.com site over to a wordpress.org. Oh, and in case you were wondering, I asked her permission to post it on here. Here’s essentially how I responded to her: First, [...]

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Switching from wordpress.com to wordpress.org dilemma

One of my really early posts was differentiating between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Although wordpress.org sites have the flexibility to do just about anything a blogger wants at a low cost of a domain and hosting, wordpress.com does has its place in the world. That said, wordpress.org is really where nearly all serious bloggers will end [...]

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Bring your old articles back to life

Ever withhold your greatest work because you don’t feel you have quite the audience for it yet? I mean, who really wants to post a killer article and have it sit there on a site with nearly no visitors and zero comments? Last week I published an article about choosing a blog topic that you’re [...]

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Really, you need to care about your topic!

Novice bloggers and blogger wannabes, have you found your topic yet? Remember, you must choose something that interest you in one or another. Today, I’m going to give you an example of someone who stumbled upon a niche: Heather B. Armstrong AKA dooce (www.dooce.com) Some people love her, some people hate her. Basically, she started [...]

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The MMO ebook of all MMO ebooks

With so many blog “experts” out there, how can you tell the difference between really useful information and dated, irrelevant hype? There are some of us who have been blogging or running our own sites for years and the best endorsement is what other bloggers have to say about our sites, our … Related Posts [...]

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The secret ingredient for reaching goals

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How many of you had what you thought were realistic goals for your blog and failed to reach them? Were you able to understand why your blog didn’t hit the goals? If you don’t know, let me tell you why: the number one reason why people fail to reach goals is because they did not [...]

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The 8 things your blog must have to make a good first impression

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Out of the hundreds of millions of blogs in existence today, whether it’s due to your promotion, a quality referral, or simply dumb luck, a reader somehow ends up on yours! So how do we ensure we captivate our new guest? I think we can all agree that many blogs are terrible. Visitors can tell [...]

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