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13 Types of Posts that Always Get Lots of Comments

18 Dec 2009 / 25 Comments

Over the last week I’ve had a couple of record days of getting comments on my own blogs. Here on ProBlogger my ‘win a book’ competition drew in 1512 comments while on DPS asking my readers if they …

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Google and Amazon Partner Up to Integrate Amazon Associates Program into Blogger Blogs

17 Dec 2009 / 43 Comments

In the last few minutes Blogger.com has flipped the switch on a new way for Blogger blogs to be monetized from within their system – an integration with Amazon Associates program. Expect an official announcement from Blogger/Google shortly on this …

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The Storyteller’s Tale: How a Fiction Mindset Will Empower Your Blog

17 Dec 2009 / 30 Comments

A guest post by bestselling novelist Larry Brooks from Storyfix.com.

Sports analogies rock.

They certainly can and often do lean toward the cliché, but like even the most trite of clichés, they’ve earned that dubious label because they’re valid.

The use of …

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Competition Winners – These 6 People Won a Book

16 Dec 2009 / 38 Comments

Thanks to everyone who entered this week’s ‘win a book’ competition here on ProBlogger.
It’s been a while since I ran any kind of competition so to have over 1500 …

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Google Add Socialize Feature to Feedburner – Tweet Your New Blog Posts from Feedburner

15 Dec 2009 / 41 Comments

Google today announced a new feature that impacts bloggers – a new URL shortener that integrates with Feedburner and a new ’socialize’ feature on Feedburner.
This allows bloggers to use Feedburner to send Tweets out automatically via Feedburner.
Of course most …

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My REAL Secret to Growing Traffic to a Blog

15 Dec 2009 / 105 Comments

“Tell us how you ‘really’ get traffic to your blog?”
After presenting to a group of bloggers at an event recently I was surprised to be asked this question by someone in …

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The Parable of the Lemonade Stand: Is AdSense Costing you Money?

14 Dec 2009 / 67 Comments

A guest post by Kevin from BeginnerBloggerTips.com (with some comments from me below too). Image by Shawnson.

My journey into affiliate marketing.

Before I start, I’d like to make two disclaimers:
I don’t hate google or AdSense—this article isn’t a rant …

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7 Questions to Ask On Your Blog to Get More Reader Engagement

02 Dec 2009 / 185 Comments

Have you ever been ‘talked at’ instead of had someone ‘talk with’ you in a real life conversation? It doesn’t feel good to have someone talk AT you.

It leaves you feeling like you might as well not have been there at all.

Blogs can be like that and in this post we explore the power of asking questions on your blog and I share 7 types of questions you can ask to increase reader engagement.

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