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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 create something to sell from your blog. Do think beyond what you’ll write today – develop an editorial calendar. Don’t sell out.

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

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I only started blogging late December 2012. I knew nothing about growing an audience or how to promote myself. I understand there’s more to successful blogging than simply getting comments, but I wanted engagement. Twitter is great for getting traffic to your blog, yet I find it’s not so fantastic at encouraging engagement.

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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. I think that’s also a very smart way to go about it too, because in that first week, you do need to spend some time promoting and responding to comments that are left.

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207: Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Bloggers

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Today, I want to take you on a tour of my iPhone and iPad, and talk about the apps I use most in my blogging and online business activities. One of the biggest changes that has happened in my blogging since I began back in 2002 is the technology I use. Things were so simple. Obviously, things have changed since then.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

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Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. This is a picture of my first blog.

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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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Someone asked me that same question but they asked me to go back to the very start of my blog and said, “What has changed in your blogging since you started?” ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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