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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Perhaps what the world does not need more of in 2008 are the blogs about blogging.

Despite the ever increasing number of meta-blogs in 2007, there are a bunch of them that visibly stood out.

Below are my favorite blogs about blogging that rose, or continued to rise, higher than the competition in 2007.

All blogs are a must-subscribe

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Have you been looking for a way to get more traffic to your blog or Website without spending money or begging for links? You need a little link bait. Learn what link bait is and how to use link bait to get long term quality targeted traffic to your site. You don't need to pull any underhanded tricks or do anything to lose the respect of your

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There is an interesting speculation that Digg.com has hired a "small but influential" private investment firm to help broker a deal at an asking price of $300 million.

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One way to increase the number of subscribers of your RSS feed is to submit it to many sites. I found such a list but I had to update it because some site were already closed. I also separated the list of 45 in 2: I have 28 sites that don't require a email to add a RSS feed and 17 that do ask for a email. In either case, you may have to ente

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There’s been no shortage of people who mention that traffic from Digg or StumbleUpon doesn’t really have any long-term advantage due to the fact that the traffic stops by for thirty seconds or so and then leaves, almost never to return. Others have said the Entrecard is the same way.

I don’t think that there’s any reason to think that blog

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Finding a blog niche that is on the verge of rapid growth can be difficult, but it’s not impossible if you know where to look. I did this years ago with flashed-based web video, when Google Video was new and YouTube didn’t exist. That video blog now has more than 1,500 subscribers and I make a couple bucks from AdSense on it. But what are som

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Jenn H of Mixed Metaphor.net presents "The Letter (Part Three)." This is the third installment of a multi-part short story about love lost. Jenn wrote the story in response to the Sunday Scribblings prompt for this week, "walk." Writers who enjoy using writing prompts to stimulate creativity should check out Sunday Scribbligns as a differ

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From her new blog, Mixed Metaphor.net, Jenn presents a fictional short story: "The Dream." Based upon the prompt provided by Writer's Island, the story is a vivid account of a dream that proved disturbing and unsettling. But it resolved a long-held issue, providing a definitive answer for the fictional lead character. Give it a read an

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Are you tired of your blog’s default post editor? So am I, and being the kind person that I am, I have put together a list of 15+ blog editor alternatives so you don’t have to put up with that jerk of a editor (excuse the pun).

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