Social media traffic is not entirely useless. In fact, without social media sites, many blogs wouldn’t have reached the level of authority and credibility they now enjoy. And many new bloggers wouldn’t have the motivation to continue blogging.

To make use of social media traffic, you have to understand your social media visitors. You have

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The biggest misconception about getting subscribers is that you need to write a lot of articles each week (preferably daily) and that people will unsubscribe if you don’t post enough.

In fact, the opposite is true. Subscribers dislike being interrupted by content they don’t want to read. In terms of getting (and keeping) subscribers, one g

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By many bloggers' standards, reaching the 100 subscriber milestone may not seem like much to celebrate. But for someone like me, who started out very slowly and had no idea what I was doing, I'm pretty happy about it. Today I announced my mini-achievement and thanked my readers, the reason I consider my little blog a success.

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In the never ending battle for Blogs, we are constantly searching for better ways to attract more web traffic, increase readership, and increase the number of subscribers to our blogs. This post talks about the five requirements needed before the author will subscribe to a blog. Talks about web design, content, writing style, rss icon placem

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Well it's technically not a "MILLION" dollars being given away, but you can say that this is going to be one heck of a big contest. It's totally different from what other contests are about because you guys...

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As I’m sure you have noticed, TheRatingBlog.com is reaching one milestone after another: over 3,000 RSS subscribers in less than 10 weeks, over 3,000 newsletter subscribers in 10 weeks, over 2,000 unique daily visits (63,292 unique visits in March) and over 7,000 daily impressions (225,001 impressions in March), just to name th

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When I first started my blog, I basically had no idea what I was doing. I thought blogs were boring and menial, but that changed as I grew to understand it. After realizing that I could actually make money doing it, I immersed myself in learning wha

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This blogger decided to be a little bit more scientific about showing his favorite feeds. He looked at the stats inside of his Google Reader Trends option to find out which blogs he was really reading. Out of 31 blogs, only 10 of them were read more than 50% of the time. Just because someone is a subscriber to your blog doesn't mean they'

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SIZE matters. Small is shameful. It's a sign of inferiority. Your self-esteem will be affected and it will reduce your every shred of confidence. So, I strongly advise you, not to expose your weakness. Keep it under wraps. Diligently work on it. In

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Blogs need readers. Period. But there are some things that make a person stray away from a blog, and oftentimes these things create a permanent impression that will not make that potential reader visit your blog again. This post has 5 of my reasons why I will not read a certain blog. Actually, not only my reasons. They may be t

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When you're writing a blog post, do you ever consider how much comments you'll receive after the post is published? Sometimes the outcome may turn out bad because you may get a little or no comments at all. A blogger should not commit suicide because of this. Having little or no post comments does not mean you're doing so

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have a confession to make: I am a hypocrite. On numerous places on my blog I ask readers to subscribe to my feed. But do I subscribe to the blogs that I visit on a regular basis? As of today, the answer would be NO. Although I am a loyal reader to over 60 blogs, I bookmark them instead of subscribing to them. I really can

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