The best, most effective, quickest, way to KILL your blog is quite simple.  (Apart from deleting your hosting account )
STOP POSTING!
But the funny thing is, not posting for a little while probably WON’T have a devastating effect on your blog.  In fact, it may have no effect.
I used to post three posts every night.  […]

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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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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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You hear bloggers around the world either saying that the Alexa toolbar is great, or that it is rubbish.
They say these things because a lot of Alexa users are actually web developers themselves and therefore the sample of Internet users that they use to create the statistics is not valid or not a good enough […]

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Okay, its a new month and a busy one at this blog I can tell you!
I have to really hit the ground running, because I know that I will be taking a week of in the middle (I did that in early February, but that was due to stress - this time I’m actually going […]

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Whiz!  Contest Whiz - congratulations, Brenda!  (I got your name from your about page).
You have won the prize for the February contest, which consists of $25.07 US Dollars via PayPal and 500 EntreCard credits.
I know you use EntreCard, so hopefully the credits are handy in getting yourself some free advertising on some blogs.   I will […]

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