cmiddlebrook

The biggest challenge all new bloggers face is getting people to notice them. Even the highest quality of blog posts won’t do you any good if no one is reading them. Building a large audience for a blog takes time, but fortunately there are a number read more »
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My October stats revealed that my blog commenting strategy had brought in almost 700 direct visitors resulting in a large growth of RSS subscribers (large for me anyway). In this post I lay out all the details of the strategy. read more »
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My RSS numbers took a plummet today and at first I was worried until I saw that the numbers of a load of big blogs had dropped - some come on, who broke Feedburner? :-) read more »
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I have a confession to make... Yesterday I hadn't checked Sphinn in a few days and I felt a bit guilty about it. I was pushed for time so I whizzed through the front page, and the upcoming submissions (new ones, and most sphunn so far) and I began c read more »
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Darren (ProBlogger) thinks we should all lighten the mood around the recent PageRank drops and I couldn’t agree more. So here is my take on it… read more »
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When Tony Northrup from Microsoft published an article entitled 10 tips for improving your wireless network he followed pretty much every rule of linkbaiting and the article has 1831 links as a result. It's also been on Digg twice. read more »
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Hamlet shares some of his most closely guarded SEO tricks for checking out your competition. Warning - it requires a little programming skills! read more »
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DoshDosh explains his detailed method of considering bloggers to be prospects and how he nurtures relationships with them over time. read more »
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Eloi has captured data every hour for the past two weeks in order to compile a good, up to date, illustrated, informative analysis of Sphinn traffic and posting times. They should help understand how Sphinn is used, and when to post in order to give read more »
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I had almost 2000 unread posts in my feed reader and I just couldn’t get them down even spending 1-2 hours a day going through them. I had to do a major purge. I used many criteria but mainly it came down to quality of content. What I found was that read more »
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