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From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:12:38 GMT

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From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days

Hi, my name is Tina. I started a little blog called Think Simple Now on September 27th, 2007 with zero experience in blogging, internet marketing or writing. By the time Christmas came, 3 months later, I had 2135 subscribers.

I’m new to blogging, in fact, I read very few blogs. I also do not follow any blogs on blogging, with the exception of a couple of articles read from doshdosh and problogger very early on.

I have three important reasons why my blog has been successful:

Concrete Goals & Focus - You can’t get what you want if you don’t know what you want.
Content Creation - Where I spend most of my time. Content and understanding your audience is king.
Getting the Word Out - Actionable tasks I did to market my blog. All are easily reproducible by anyone. But only focus on this after area 2 have been in place. Without content, all your marketing efforts will be ineffective.

30 More Excellent Blog Designs

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:11:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

Simplicity and Whitespace

Andreas Pihlström

Theocacao

Elitist Snob

Fiveruns — so simple yet so beautiful.

Blabolnik

TNTPixel

Rob Goodlatte

Gerrit van Aaken

Jared Christensen

PSDtuts

Verbalized — sometimes less is more. Close attention to small details is impressive.

Sam Brown - a truly modest design.

Weblogs Which Don’t Look Like Weblogs

Dan Rubin

The Adventures of Cindy Li

George Huff

grantmx designs - this one melts clever portfolio and blog

Blogsolid

Carsonified

Jrvelasco — quite noisy, but the noise fits to the subject of the weblog.

Simon Reynolds

Jonathan Durán

Nice And Original Blog Designs

Tobias Baeck

Chris Murphy — don’t forget to check the design of the archive section and the footer.

Anthony Casey

split da diz — interesting design: unusual approach for site structure.

Adrian Pintilie — the top section of the site is pretty colorful.

Cult Foo

She Unlimited

Tickerville

Amy Hoy

moddular — the design might look a little bit noisy, but it definitely has its personal style.

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113 Must Read Blogging Tips

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:35:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newaffiliatediscoveries.com

When I started this months 31 Days to Building a Better Blog and decided to invite readers to submit their own blog tips I’m not sure what I was really expecting - but the results have been fantastic.

I’ve just spent the last two hours surfing through the latest batch of 113 tips (that brings us up to a total of 359 reader tips on the central page) and am quite inspired. I come away from this list with new ideas, new knowledge and with another 20 or so blogs added to my out of control feed reader.

Now grab a cup of your favorite beverage and get reading!

How to install WordPress manually! by Shawn DesRochers

Communicating With People You Haven’t Met by Pearl

Why You Should Get Your Own Domain? by Mun

How To Write 50 Articles Per Week by Tejvan Pettinger

5 Blogging Mistakes I Keep Doing And Haven’t Fixed Yet by Dennis Bjørn Petersen

What Stats Should you be Interested In? by Simon

Be bold when you blog! by Bob Walsh

Tags: blogging, tips

How to Download Free Music

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:48:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mahalo.com

How to Download Free Music

Introduction

Far from putting your favorite musician out of work, downloading free music can help you discover new artists and give you a better idea of which albums you actually want to go out and buy. But be wary. Just because a song is available online, doesn't mean it's legal. Try to make sure that the music you download is being offered legally by the band's record company, or the artist themselves. Here are some tips on how to find and download free music online.

Step 1: Figure Out What You Want To Download

Step 2: Search MP3 Blogs

MP3 Blog Aggregators

How to Find Music Using The Hype-Machine

How to Find Music Using SeeqPod

How to Find Music Using Elbo.ws

How to Find Music Using del.icio.us

Step 3: Use Google To Find Free Music Downloads

Step 4: Search Retail MP3 Sites For Free Samples

Step 5: Check an Artist's Official Site and MySpace Page

Finding Music With Bit-Torrent

Peer-to-Peer Downloads

Getting the Most Out of P2P Downloading

Tags: music, mp3, search, free

Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:18:42 GMT

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Clip Source: radar.oreilly.com

Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct

When I wrote my Call for a Blogging Code of Conduct last week, I suggested some ideas of what such a code might contain, but didn't actually put forth a draft that people could subscribe to. We're not quite there yet, but we have a plan.

We've drafted a code of conduct that will eventually be posted on bloggingcode.org, and created a badge that sites can display if they want to link to that code of conduct.

Here's the first draft:

1. We take responsibility for our own words and for the comments we allow on our blog.

2. We won't say anything online that we wouldn't say in person.

3. We connect privately before we respond publicly.

4. When we believe someone is unfairly attacking another, we take action.

5. We do not allow anonymous comments.

6. We ignore the trolls.

Tags: blogging, blogs, code, ethics

Google’s Blog Ranking Patent

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:21:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hit and read the whole document, or go directly and check the whole patent application in the related link.
Very interesting issue!

Clip Source: blog.outer-court.com

Google’s Blog Ranking Patent

A patent application from Google for “ranking blog documents,” filed in late 2005, is available now. (I don’t see Google Inc mentioned in the paper, but I know that several of the inventors – like Andriy Bihun, Jason Goldman and Vinod Marur – work at Google.) Google presents a couple of positive and negative quality indicators, and it’s possible these are live today at Google’s Blog Search to weed out spammers – in any case, this gives an interesting insight look into Google’s thinking.

Here are some positive factors for blogs:

The popularity of the blog

The existence of the blog document in blogrolls

A high number of unique subscriptions

Use of tags

Emails or chat transcripts containing the blog URL (I wonder if Google analyzes Gmail or Google Talk content for such uses?)

And here are some negative factors:

New posts being published in short succession, which hints at automation

Duplicate posts in a blog

The use words or phrases that often appear in spam

Tags: blog, google, ranks, seo