Blogging | Blogging Experiment

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About a month ago, Daren (aka Problogger) published a post called 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers. As a big fan of Mac’s and of course a blogger, I found his post incredibly useful. I’ve been using ImageWell, one of the applications he mentioned, for my blogging and ...

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About 3 weeks ago I decided to test the “less is more” theory in terms of my posting schedule. Previously I had been publishing new posts every day Monday through Friday. However, after reading several comments about improving your blog by posting less often, I decided to give it a ...

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In 1848 a foreman working in a lumber mill noticed something strange as he was working. He mentioned this to his boss and the two began to investigate a bit further. Before long it became obvious that the foreman had discovered something that could make both men incredibly wealthy. Knowing ...

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Right now, bloggers are plotting to make money online, my blog needs content, and if I succeed with this post it may help me with both. I’m Blogging Experiment author Ben Cook. This is going to be the longest post of my life. Ok, so this isn’t really going to ...

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I’ve been debating the issue of changing my posting frequency for quite some time now. I’ve considered both writing shorter but more frequent posts, as well as writing longer posts less often and really hadn’t come to any conclusions. However, Darren Rowse recently published another one of his one question ...

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Many bloggers logged onto their site today and were astonished by the number of subscribers Feedburner was reporting for them. I’ve read accounts of blogs going from 300 to 3,000 and over at ProBlogger the count went from 41,000 to 100,000! The glitch has been tracked down to FeedBlitz reporting ...

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Throughout the Lessons on Blogging series, I’ve discussed concepts and principles that popular TV shows teach about blogging. The series has been very well received, with several posts becoming popular on several social media sites and attracting several new incoming links. At the end of each post I mention that ...

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When a TV show lasts nearly 4 times as long as the subject it covers, it’s a pretty good indication that they did something right. When the series finale becomes the most watched episode in American history, with a whopping 50 million viewers and 60% of households tuning in, you ...

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Well it’s time for another installment of Learn from My Mistakes and this one is just a bit embarrassing since I’m an SEO by trade. Not only does it involve losing rankings, traffic, and eventually cached pages in search engines (never a good thing), but it was all caused and ...