Bloggers love comments. I’m no different. They’re like a badge of success. It you get elevently-trillion comments on a post, you are awesome. If you get none, you are a loser who should commit suicide immediately and do the world a favor.
Or something along those lines.
Well, despite my best efforts, I’m still alive, so I [...]

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Or at least it felt that way. Though I can’t say I wasn’t warned. And it was certainly better than the legal document I once read that went on for seven pages before the first period.
Glen, the 12-year-old who runs ViperChill, wrote an excellent post about… well, lots of stuff, actually. Pretty insightful for a [...]

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I read two great posts earlier today.
Five Simple Ways to Increase the Reach of Your Blog
I love the points about social media and commenting, but I disagree with article marketing. I tried it, and it didn’t work for me. That said, I know there are a great many niche bloggers who have built up a [...]

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Hey Canadians, wanna be the Blogging Idol? Think of it: Fame, fortune, a blogging contract, Simon Cowel making a fortune of the sweat of your brow…
Or, you know, a thousand bucks and some increased traffic.
IT World Canada is hosting a contest called Blogging Idol, which is open to all Canadian bloggers. Check out the info:
Starting [...]

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No, not me. I don’t know the first bloody thing about making pretty-pretty on my blog. I can post each day, change the occasional link in the sidebar, but that cosmetic stuff is soooo not for me.
Whenever I need a major change, or an update, or a plugin I don’t understand (and let’s face it, [...]

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Remember books? I used to read them. Sometimes one each day! Now I’m lucky if I can read one book each month.
It began with fiction. Once I began blogging about news, politics and war, I stopped reading fiction. My fortunes went to pay for non-fiction tomes on subjects that gave me nightmares.
Then I gave up [...]

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Ali Hale, author of the Staff Blogging Course (which I loved, because it made me money), has just launched The Bloggers Guide to Effective Writing (which no doubt will also help me make money).
Ali Hale has turned blogging for clients (businesses, individuals, corporations) into a career, and her Staff Blogging Course helped me get started [...]

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Everyone always wonders what it takes to succeed as a blogger, but frankly there is no one key you can turn to make success happen. You have to hustle to get traffic, and if your goal is income, you have to use the right words to get the right people coming over and clicking all [...]

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Even when it’s a hobby, it’s a business. If you love it and are passionate about it, you’re probably devoting hours to it every day. It’s as time consuming as (and way more satisfying than) golf.
Five years ago when I started mine, I had no idea that one day people would be paying me to [...]

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Back in April I did ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge. Ok, by “did it” I mean I signed up and didn’t do ANY of the tasks on their assigned days. So sue me. In fact, I kept the emails highlightes as unread in my inbox, so that I could peruse them [...]

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