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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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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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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We are now at the business end of developing your blogging routine - and by now, you should have eliminated your time wasters, balanced your inward or outward focus, and set yourself some excellent goals to strive for.  If you haven’t, make sure you read the other posts in this series - the links are […]

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You can’t develop a Blogging Routine effectively without setting goals for yourself.
Now most people should have heard of the SMART goals acronym - but I’ll repeat it here in case you haven’t.  But more than that, you need to know what to set goals about, and when those goals should come up.  And that is […]

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Everyone has a different approach to blogging, and some people are naturally more witty than others.  Even if you aren’t that funny, sometimes a bit of humour can lighten things up - and humour can be used in more ways than just in your posts!
Some bloggers effectively use humour or a light attitude to liven […]

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The second topic in the blogging routine series is the focus of your blog - or more specifically, your focus as a blogger.
The thing to think about is whether you are inwardly or outwardly focussed as a blogger.  It doesn’t matter what your topic area is - you need to find the balance between the two […]

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New to blogging?  Haven’t started yet?  Well, you should start today, because the sooner you get started, the better it will be!
A great way to start a blog is with WordPress.  I haven’t used any of the other systems (yet), but from my use of WordPress, I can say it is pretty powerful.
But there is […]

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I promised another series, and this is an important series for me (as in, I need to read it and learn from it as well), because it is about a topic which I have had a lot of difficulty with.  You read the title, and that is what it is - Developing a Blogging Routine.
This […]

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This is a meta-blog.  It is a blog mainly about blogging.  A little bit about monetizing, and a very, very little bit about SEO.
The question is - why would anyone read this instead of Problogger?
Problogger is an excellent resource on blogging and making money from blogging.  I think it might just be the best there […]

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