RSS Feed Reader Numbers - A Farce

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No offense to my loyal RSS readers, but it’s time others know that claims of having thousands of RSS readers is a farce.
Today’s Lesson
Often, on big name blogs they will post or brag that they have 15,000 +/- RSS readers. No, they don’t. They have that many subscribers to their blog.
Subscribing [...]

Bloggers Fall Prey To Instant Gratification

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Just as a top needs help to make it spin, a blog is similar. A top always stops, and falls over, after spinning out of control, will you?
Today’s Lesson
In the past few days, I have been visiting and reading a fair amount of blogs and comments. I sense many bloggers [...]

Spikey Traffic Distorts Visitor Statistics

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Have you ever written a popular post, that created a huge spike in your traffic statistics, only to see your numbers plummet after several days?
Today’s Lesson
I call that “spikey” traffic.
It does one of three things.
1) It distorts your actual visitors statistics by increasing your averages
2) It may help to [...]

Honorable Mention For A Mom Who Blogs

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It’s Tuesday, and time to announce my “New Blog Of The Week”
In the past, I did not dedicate a full post to my new blogger, but today is different.
This blogger does not have a flashy blog.
In fact, if you were to land on her site, you might quickly click off, [...]

How Keywords Attract A Larger Audience

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As bloggers, we often take time to study about SEO ( search engine optimization), Google’s page rank, and keywords, in order to get our posts ranking high in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).
Today’s Lesson
Sometimes I try to use keywords in my posts, but often that technique goes by the wayside, as [...]

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