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Best WordPress Template Designs

07 Jul 2008 / 20 Comments

Every week I’m asked by readers to recommend a WordPress template.

I thought it’d make an interesting discussion - which WordPress templates are your favorites?

I know it always varies from blog to blog when you’re choosing the best template for …

Should You Incorporate

07 Jul 2008 / 13 Comments

This guest post is part of a two part series written by Kelly Phillips Erb, a tax attorney who blogs for b5media at taxgirl.com. You can find out more about Kelly here. For more information about tax …

Taking your Blog to a Community

06 Jul 2008 / 16 Comments

Today Community Strategist Connie Bensen shares some tips on taking your blog to a community.

Every blogger wants more readers. I’ve always appreciated how Problogger regularly features ideas for improving your blog & writing techniques. As people happen upon your …

How to Monitor the Quality of StumbleUpon Advertising Campaigns

05 Jul 2008 / 13 Comments

In a guest post Neil Matthews of ClickQualityConsultant.com writes about how we can monitor the quality of paid visits from a StumbleUpon advertising campaigns.
Darren advocates using paid advertising from StumbleUpon in his post …

Amazon Video Widgets - Earn Money From the Amazon Affiliate Program and Video

05 Jul 2008 / 27 Comments

Amazon have launched a new handy Video Widget that will interest many bloggers wanting to combine the use of video and the Amazon Affiliate program.

The widget allows you to make a video and then upload it to Amazon to …

I’m on BlogTalkRadio Today

04 Jul 2008 / 9 Comments

At 5pm Pacific time today (10am Melbourne time) I’m being interviewed by Wayne Hurlbert (his blog) on Blog Talk Radio.
If you’re around and have the time it should be a fun interview. I’m told there will be downloadable …

Want $10? Sign Up for the Pepperjam Affiliate Network Today

03 Jul 2008 / 29 Comments

One of the innovative new affiliate networks to hit the market in the last 6 months is Pepperjam Network - and today they are offering you $10 as a signup bonus for …

How Many Posts Should You Show On Your Blog’s Front Page?

03 Jul 2008 / 90 Comments

@tcdzomba (on Twitter) asked me - “Do u have a post up about how many blog posts to keep on the front page of the blog?”

It’s not a topic that I’ve written about specifically before so let me write …

The ProBlogger Newsletter is Back - Sign Up Today for a Free Bonus

02 Jul 2008 / 22 Comments

Today I’m pleased to announce that the ProBlogger Newsletter is Back! You can sign up today and get a 1 hour podcast with me for free here:

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The Power of Commenting On Other Blogs [VIDEO]

05 Jun 2008 / 178 Comments

You’ve probably heard the age old ‘how to find readers for your blog’ advice that goes:

Leave Comments on Other Blogs”

It was one of the first tips that I was given on how to find new readers for my blog five years ago and it’s one of the first pieces of advice that I hear most people giving still today. It’s so common in fact that I think that many of us gloss over it looking for a ’sexier’ way to drive readers to our blogs.

But today as I analyzed the post featured in this video I saw something that drummed home to me the power of leaving relevant comments on blogs as a way of driving traffic.

The tool I’m using in this screencast video is CrazyEgg - a click tracking tool that creates a heatmap of where readers click when on your blog.

I do want to emphasize again - that the strategy of building traffic to your blog by leaving comments on other blogs only works when your comments ad value and are relevant to the post. If you don’t adhere to this you’ll just end up hurting your reputation.

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