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The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs

ProBlogger

The best of these commenters in my experience tend to use a personal name (and where possible use a personal avatar). Note : on avatars, it can be worth registering for a Gravatar account as this is often used for avatars on many blogs. They tend to leave less comments than the above groups but the comments are more effective.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

He’s also the founder of Digital Photography School, he has a conference of his own. 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.

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

ProBlogger

I was at the FinCon Conference where I did the opening keynote and had an absolute ball. Really great conference, very good community. I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. Ideally, what you want to create is some kind of avatar or persona or reader profile for your blog.

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

ProBlogger

Today, I want to share the audio of a keynote I gave at a conference early last year about 10 things I wish I’d known about blogging and creating content for content marketing when I started. So today I dug out a talk I gave at the Super Fast Business conference, which is run by James Schramko here in Australia. I was the only one.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

” Now, I started blogging in 2002. It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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Social Media "Pioneers" Tell Why

Diva Marketing Blog

Started in 2002, and only took that long to blog because it took me a long time to find a designer who could create it to have the same design as my website. Neville Hobson - Neville Hobson.com @jangles Began blogging 2002(UK) . When it became possible to switch to a blog, I didn''t hesitate for a second.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Add an avatar and a bio at the minimum. And well, they say that social media is the new link exchange, so instead of asking for an old-fashioned link (which might have worked in 2002), consider using a more viable strategy for this modern time period. There is no reason to make a personal request. Not humanizing your profile.

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