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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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Twitter is great for getting traffic to your blog, yet I find it’s not so fantastic at encouraging engagement. The same can be said about other forms of social media. It’s fabulous for page views, but does naff all for building a community within your blog – and as I can babble for England, a community is what I wanted.

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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. I use the Post one a lot. Things were so simple.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

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9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging That Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. In today’s episode I want to share my keynote at this year’s Social Media Marketing World – 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. Social Media Marketing World.

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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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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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