We want everything to be easy. Things are nice when they’re handed to us, aren’t they? The more handouts, easy breaks and close calls we experience, the more we want. All of these things have to do with luck, and the people you interact with on your blog.

The “simple life” I’m talking about above is not created by you. In fact, nothing is easily accomplished if you’re the only person in the picture. It’s the people who are around you, and interact with that help make things easier for you. In the world of blogging, those people are your readers.

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Blogging Interviews and the Tremendous Value they Hold

Interviewing Bloggers and the Tremendous Value it Holds

by srinirao

Today, Srinivas Rao, talks about the benefits he has enjoyed by interviewing bloggers for his own site, BlogCastFM. Want to write for us too?
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the minimal usage of multimedia content by bloggers. As the host and co-founder of BlogcastFM, a podcast for bloggers, it should [...]

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How to Create a Popular Blog | The Iron Maiden Guide to Blogging

The Iron Maiden Guide to Rockstar Blogging

by Henri

Becoming a huge hit in the world of blogging is tough. Henri Junttila diagnoses the success of his favorite band, Iron Maiden and shows you what you can learn from that success. Want to write for us too?
Being a successful blogger depends entirely on what you want to get out of it and what your [...]

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I Don't Feel Like Blogging Today

I Don’t Feel Like Blogging Today

by Alex

I‘m not kidding either. For the first time in weeks, it is warm out (about 57 degrees today), and there is actually a field of green grass showing under the bright sun instead of a blinding white. Why would I, or anyone else want to sit inside on the computer on a day like today?
It’s [...]

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Search Engine Optimization: Is it worth the fuss?

SEO: Is it Really Worth all the Fuss? – Weekend Debate

by Alex

I have been talking a lot about SEO (search engine optimization) over this past week on Blogussion. I started the week off with an article about good headline writing techniques, and ended it talking about optimizing content for search engines.
With all of the discussions those two posts generated about search engine optimization, it left me [...]

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Capturing Readers with Creative Leads

Capturing Readers with Creative Leads

by Chris Scott

The most important factor that leads up to a post being read is how well you can hook a reader into it. Today, Chris Scott of Blog Tap teaches you how to hook a reader in just two paragraphs.
What do elephants and blogs have in common?
Absolutely nothing.
But now that I’ve exemplified one of the many [...]

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Blog Content Optimization

Blog Content Optimization Made Easier…Much Easier

by Alex

When it comes to writing content, you have a lot of things you need to take into consideration before publishing that final draft onto your blog. The one thing you need to consider before publishing anything is whether or not your article is ready to be seen by many people.
There are a lot of [...]

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King's Ultimate Guide to Blog Design Perfection

King’s Ultimate Guide to Blog Design Perfection

by King Sidharth

Each year brings us new trends be it fashion, films, web design of blogging. I am not a professional designer or anything – just a curious student of life who spends hours looking at great blog designs and taking notes of what pleases me about it.
I do have quite a stack of notes on design, [...]

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How to write better blog titles

Headline Writing Techniques That Just Work

by Alex

A good blog headline is often the only factor that determines whether or not an article on your blog will be read. The idea that content is king is true, but some people miss out on reading that great content because there is nothing interesting in the headline that represents it.
Unfortunately, writing a good headline [...]

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How to bring life back to old posts

How to Tweet the Life Back into Old Posts

by Alex

How effective are your Twitter marketing campaigns? How often do you retweet your blog posts? Do you just retweet current articles, or do you ever dig deep back into your archives to find posts to tweet to your followers?
A great method I can’t recommend enough to bring back life into old articles is to simply [...]

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Common uses of social networking

5 Common Uses for Social Networking and the effect on your target audience

by Ian Collins

Ian Collins of Tecmark SEO Manchester digs deeper into the communities of popular social networking sites bloggers use and explains how the different uses of these sites can change your marketing strategies for better or for worse. Want to write for us too?
Social Media is the current big buzzword in the world of Internet Marketing, [...]

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The field of dreams myth

The Field of Dreams Myth

by Rob Stretch

Today, Rob Stretch drops the harsh truth that many bloggers don’t realize about driving traffic to a blog. Want to write for us too?
Remember the movie Field of Dreams? Here is a short summary if you have no idea what I’m talking about:
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) lives in a small house on a cornfield. He [...]

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7 Ways to Improve Your Blog in 2010

7 Ways to Improve Your Blog in 2010

by David

Today, David Walker shares seven other things you need to be doing on top of your New years resolutions to keep your blog staying steady. Want to write for us too?
The hysteria of your New Year’s resolutions regarding blogging should have ended now. After promising yourself on December 31 to write a new post every [...]

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