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Finding Readers Week: Corinne Talks Commenting, Engagement, and Are Forums Right For Your Blog?

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Welcome to the first post in the Finding Readers series here on ProBlogger.net. Corinne runs the successful blog skinnedcartree.com, and consistently gets genuine engagement from her readers and community across the board. Corinne introduced forums at the beginning of the year and has seen that engagement increase sharply.

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Beginner Week: My 43 DOs and 25 DON’Ts of Blogging

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Eleven and a half years ago when I hit publish on my first ever blog post, I had little idea what I was doing and what was going to unfold for me over the coming decade. Do write in an engaging voice. Do pay attention to the design of your blog – first impressions count! Do create something to sell from your blog.

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210: Launching a Blog: How Many Posts Do You Need?

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This is what I’ve done in most occasions when I’ve launched a blog too. I think back to my first blog, back in November 2002, it all happened very, very quickly. It does take time and energy to write a blog post and to launch with three. My first personal blog had about 30 categories.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

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Keep focusing on the pillars of pro blogging: Profitable blogs are built on great content. Take the initiative to drive traffic to your blog. Take ownership of building engagement with your readers. And here are 9 accelerators to grow your blog faster: Understand and engage with your audience. Monetization.

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216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)

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Today I want to talk about style guides – how to create them for your blog, and why you should create them for you blog as well. Style guides in my opinion are one way that you can really lift a good blog to a great blog by building more consistency across your content, across from one blog post to another.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

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You’ll get a full day of me teaching on the four key areas of building a successful blog. I’m going to talk for about an hour about content and crafting great content for your blog. ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. It’s engagement.

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191: Tools for Creating Great Visual Content for Your Blog

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Each are important types of content to be able to create for your blog – but one that is increasingly important today is visual content. When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. I was also like, “Who reads a whole blog post on their phone?”

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