It is that end of month time again.  The Internet moves in minutes and hours, but the blogging world seems segregated into months, because most blogs are archived by months.
The time frame that defines an important characteristic of a medium really becomes the benchmark of that medium.  Months are a common unit in sales as […]

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Well hello everybody.  Through some strange error, the last post I wrote before my holiday got saved as a draft and wasn’t posted.  Sorry!
But now I am back from Melbourne - so I’ll be back online.  Probably not as frequently as before, but I am still here.
I keep talking about my little traffic experiment - […]

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It has been a while since I wrote anything because life has been very hectic.  To compound that, I am going away tomorrow (to a tropical island with no Internet!  Okay, okay - I’m just going to Melbourne )
That is why this blog is so quiet at the moment.
I will be back into blogging when […]

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From the beginning of writing this blog, I have said quite a bit that it is an experiment.  I think it was important for me to remember that, and it was something that I lost sight of along the way.
So, swallowing my pride, I can say only this:  For information about Blogging, seek the advice […]

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I have been busy crafting a new experiment, and here’s the World Exclusive Release!
It is called Traffic Experiment and it has begun already.
The website is fairly terse because I knocked it together quickly, but basically, if you refer traffic to the site using the link you can get from a form on the site, the […]

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That’s right, seven days into March, I am reviewing February.  I wanted to do this earlier, but I had some computer problems this week.
In February, this blog really got started.  I mean, it’s been live since december, but nothing was happening then.
I started of February with the question - Are you a blogoholic?  The thing […]

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It isn’t easy starting a blog.  Well, it isn’t easy for someone who has never blogged before to start a blog.  Once you have the experience, you know so much more and you set things up so differently.
But anyway, these are the challenges that new blogs face, and in particular, new bloggers:
Chances are someone else […]

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digg_url = “http://www.andrewmesser.com/the-blogging-troubleshooter/”;

Problem:
I have no readers / subscribers of my RSS feed.
Solution:

Write more original content
Ask readers to subscribe to your RSS feed
Comment constructively on other blogs

If that doesn’t work, try also:

Advertise your blog
Use Social Media sites to get your blog seen by others
Incentivize subscribing to your feed (its corny, but it will […]

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Everyone knows the tips and tricks, but sometimes you need to be reminded of exactly what you should do to get the best out of something.
So here is a quick commonsense guide to what you can do to improve the Advertising Revenue you get from your website.
Place your best performing ads in the best spots

The […]

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On Saturday I was lucky enough to get the chance to go for a ride again.  I needed to practice cornering - getting the whole countersteering thing right and building up the confidence.
We also went down to the bike dealers and checked out all of the different bikes.  Well, not all, but quite a few.  […]

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