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I just saw this funny but also interesting video (via ze frank):
Goodie Bag TV – Americans Love Lists

It’s true – lists are very popular online and I suspect people often write all kind of lists primarily as link bait – and it often works (to some degree). People like short, to-the-point bullet points that give [...]

I’m pretty sure all blog owners want more traffic to their blog – More traffic can mean more sales, more clicks on your ads, new clients, higher advertising rates, etc. I’m always looking for new ways to get more people reading my blog. I’ve written before about Getting More People To Read Your Blog – [...]

As a blog owner one of your biggest assets is your readers – if you don’t have any readers there isn’t much point in blogging (unless you just got started). Having a lot of readers is great but what really adds life to a blog are comments – and you definitely want to encourage comments. [...]

One of the things bloggers strife for is to increase the number of people that are subscribed to their RSS feed. When people subscribe to your RSS feed it’s almost guaranteed that the person will come back to your blog to read new posts – then you’ve turned a one-time visitor into a loyal reader [...]

OK, I’m not going to post about how sorry I am that I haven’t posted on this blog recently, that I’ve been so busy, the days have just flown by and… oh, wait, I just did ;) Oh, well…
I just checked my RSS stats on the FeedBurner widget and it looks like I have 50 [...]

I just added the FeedBurner widget FeedCount that shows how many people are subscribed to my RSS feed. You can see it to the right in the sidebar. I wanted to wait a little until adding this because it’s more impressive when your subscribers are at least 2 digits ;)
If you’re using WordPress you should [...]

Last week I decided to join MyBlogLog. I’ve seen more and more people using MyBlogLog over the last few months and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Also, since Yahoo was willing to pay $10 million for MyBlogLog it might be useful.
The most recognizable feature of MyBlogLog is the “recent readers” widget [...]

I just read this great article over at ProBlogger – it’s by guest blogger Tony Hung and he lists a lot of good tips on how to market your blog in 2007.
Tony split the tips into a few categories. Here are some that I liked and/or found interesting – with my comments:
Get Your Own House [...]