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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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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It’s the 29th of February today, that magical day when the girl gets to propose and some 16 year old leap day babies celebrate their 4th birthday and salaried workers work a day for free!
What a day!
And today I want to consider the effect of coincidence on your blog.
Now, I know some of […]

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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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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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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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Okay, this is the last post in the post series - Doing a Post Series.  If you missed the last three posts, read on, because there are links at the bottom.
This post will cover the topic How to End a Post Series.
I will be covering all the aspects of finishing off and cleaning up a […]

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It’s time again for the next installment of the post series on doing a post series - and tonight’s post is probably the one you’ve been waiting for!  I am going to share with you the secrets about how to do a post series.  This is post three out of a four part series.
There is […]

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I have seen blog owners complain that not many people are commenting on their blog.  In fact, I have seen bloggers get so desperate for feedback that they put incentives just on commenting in the hopes of getting a reply.  That worked, but where is the quality if the readers are being forced to reply???
The […]

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