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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus. I photoshop my avatar to have a moustache -. - from Australian Movember site). To engage with your online community, play a practical joke on them on April Fool’s Day (or let them play one on you). Change your Facebook page to have Christmas Holly on it. What is Movember?

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9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

ProBlogger

As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. When I started Digital Photography School I created avatars to represent the different types of people I’d be writing for. Sounds a bit like an avatar, doesn’t it?). Some of you may remember a site called Digg, where you could post links and people would vote on them.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

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. Gradually over time, I began to deepen my avatars.

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The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs

ProBlogger

However, their comments are pretty obviously only about trying to get a link to help their search rankings or to get a few clicks back to their site. The best of these commenters in my experience tend to use a personal name (and where possible use a personal avatar). 7 Benefits of Leaving Comments on Other People’s Blogs.

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

ProBlogger

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. It sort of sets us apart I guess in some ways from other people who have used dPS and those other sites out there who do. 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

For me, it all started in 2002 with an email from a friend. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. It’s a how to take photography-type site. Some people would call them personas or avatars today.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

He’s brilliant on membership sites and just a really smart guy. ” 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.

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