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Here’s My Five Top Tips For Building Your Blog’s Readership –What Are Yours?

Common questions new bloggers ask me is how do you build your blog’s readership?  How do you get people to read and comment on your posts?
If you’re looking for a quick solution – forget it!
Building your blog’s readership and community takes time.  Here’s my five top tips to get it happening!
#1 Become a Better Blog [...]

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What Everybody Ought To Know About Podcasting: Part II

One of the hardest aspect of podcasting is deciding on a site to host them.
Sure you can use a podcast hosting site. But most people don’t realise podcasts can be hosted on their blogs.
Hosting podcasts on a blog can be simpler to set up, is easier for your audience to locate all of your [...]

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What Everybody Ought To Know About Podcasting: Part I

What do you prefer the most? Blog posts, podcasts or online videos?
Good chance if you’re reading this you probably prefer blog posts. But this isn’t the case for everyone. Similarly some people prefer to write posts whereas other are more engaged creating audio and video.
The key is that most bloggers don’t realise [...]

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Managing Comments and Posts On Student Blogs Using Google Reader

It’s important, when managing student blogs, to be able to quickly read all their latest posts and any new comments.
Sure you could visit each individual blog but that is incredibly time consuming. The better way, which saves time, is to bring the posts and comments to you using their RSS feed.
Here is how you [...]

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Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours?

Ever had one of those days where the words just refuse to behave? Where it feels like every word you use is the wrong word? And you continuously rewrite the same sentences.
Worse Still! You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments.
The unfortunate fact of blogging is [...]

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How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier

So I’ve tried my best to explain what is RSS and why it’s important to learn how to use. And as I said I find it hard to explain probably because the power of RSS is really something you need to experience first hand.
I’m really into RSS — a RSS power user may be [...]

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Are You Making Your Life Easier By Using RSS?

There’s the easy way or the hard way. RSS makes your life easy but for people new to RSS it’s easy to overlook it’s importance. And educating, those new to the concept of RSS, how to use it effectively should be a priority.
What is RSS
Spend any time on the Internet, and you [...]

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Redirecting Your Blog Feed To Feedburner

Besides making it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog using RSS or email, using a Feedburner feed means you can analyse your subscribers e.g. number of subscribers, and which feed reader they use.
Trouble is unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get an accurate picture of the number of [...]

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Adding a RSS Feed From Feedburner To Your Blog

Most readers receive posts from their favorite blogs by subscribing to RSS using their feed readers (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes).
RSS notifies your reader of new content; saving them time because it means they can read their latest news in one location, their feed reader, rather than having visiting each web site separately (if you [...]

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