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What is Your Blog s Mission Statement?
Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to articulate a ‘Mission Statement’ for your blog.I won’t rehash all of my reasoning for having a Mission Statement and tips for writing one because I’ve previously written about Mission Statements as part of my previous series on Strategic Blogging (head back for a read as […]

Respond to Comments On Your Blog
One of the most basic skills that any blogger should spend time working on from the very early days is responding to comments on your blog - and that’s today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project.While this is one of the simplest acts that a blogger can do (I almost […]

What Everybody Ought to Know About Blogging - 97 Blog Tips
We are entering the last week in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and I’m continuing to enjoy both writing my own tips and reading those being submitted by readers.Today I’ve got another 97 reader tips for you (taking us to a total of 456 submissions so far) and once again they […]

The Secret to Increasing Your Traffic Overnight - Hint, it has Something to do with Going on Holidays
Today I was asked about a post from a few months ago on Savvy Affiliate that did a little analysis of the Alexa graphs of four blogs (including ProBlogger) which had surges in traffic that were the beginnings of sustained traffic growth.In the post Scott observed a surge in ProBlogger’s Traffic as can be seen […]

Should You Respond to Comments via Email or in Comments?
In my last post on responding to comments on your blog two readers, john - from fat to fat and Lynnae, both post the question of whether a blogger should respond to comments via email or via comments?I’d like to throw this open as a reader question - what do you do?Let me share a […]

5 Comment Management Plugins for WordPress
One more post on the ‘respond to comments‘ post that I wrote yesterday.If you’re a WordPress user there are a number of WP plugins that can help with managing your comments and responding to readers. Here are some that might be worth exploring.1. Better Comments Manager - this plugin allows you to respond to comments […]

Blog Action Day - October 15 2007
There’s a nice project happening in October called Blog Action Day that is attracting a bit of attention today after it’s launch.The concept is pretty simple - bloggers around the world all committing to post on the one topic on the same day. The first day is October 15 (it’s going to be annual) and […]

Create a Sneeze Page and Propel Readers Deep WIthin Your Blog
It’s Day 18 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project and today your task is to develop a ‘Sneeze Page’ (or pages) for your blog.One of the challenges that faces blogs that have been around for a while is that they end up with a wonderful collection of posts in their archives […]

How to Blog Successfully - 70 Reader Blogging Tips
The 31 Day Blogging Project Rolls on (we’re at Day and the last 3 days have seen another great bunch of 70 reader blog tips submitted. That brings the total of reader submitted tips to 151 with still 23 days in the project.There is some seriously good reading in this lot on a huge […]

A New Look for ProBlogger - Coming Soon (Very Soon)
Over the last month or two I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions that I’ve had a small team working on a redesign of ProBlogger.I’m happy to say that some great progress has been made and we are aiming for a release of the new design tomorrow (all going well).While the current ProBlogger design and […]