Written by Sara Christensen from Pajama Professional on November 14, 2007

When working with people as story topics, a sure sign of a rookie writer is the tendency to tell the reader things instead of showing them. While sometimes telling is the only way to communicate the necessary elements of the story, if you can find a way to show the readers what you want them to understand you will create a much more subtle and professional piece of work.

The opportunity to show your readers most often presents itself when you are focusing your story on a person or people. If you use…

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Written by angela from Blogging For Dollars on November 14, 2007

As a blogger, you’re a Web publisher, and a profitable blog can be small publication, rather than a large one. I’ve got one blog which has 13 posts, and makes more money than blogs which have hundreds of posts.

Got an Idea? Get a Blog

The major benefit of blogging is that a blog is an instant Web publishing tool. If you have an idea for a Web site which sounds profitable, you can publish a blog as quickly as you can type. Add a few more blog posts and some advertising,…

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Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog on November 14, 2007

Seems like the Page rank charm is fading away and guess what we have a replacement. Your RSS feedcount that is. More bloggers are inclined to believe that RSS Feedcount is what you can boast about in your blog, and gone are the days when advertiser’s asked for your page rank status.

Cash Quests posted an article on the current trend in the blogspohere, of bloggers paying people to subscribe to their RSS Feeds. And there are more and more articles coming up on how to fake your RSS feedcount. If you…

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Written by kelbycarr from Kelby Carr on November 13, 2007

There are a couple ways to boost your blog traffic through search engine optimization. One way is to create new content that is mindful of SEO, which you should obviously continue to do at a steady pace.

Another way that is often overlooked, but that can provide a great return on time investment, is going back and analyzing your older content. This can be especially helpful if you started blogging before you knew much, if anything, about SEO.

You could very well have older content that already exists on your site that…

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Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog on November 13, 2007

Here are the best plugins and themes for wordpress blogs, we found interesting. We have hand picked them based on their utility and ease of installing. They are quick and should not run into installation errors. If one of them does, do let us know.

PLUGINS

  • WP - Custom Title Colour plugin
    This plugin gives you the ability to customise the title colour for any post via a panel in the sidebar of the write page. Handy for creating alerts, or drawing attention to a particular post.
    It’s easy to install and works like…
Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on November 13, 2007

8 Great Bloggers Tell What Inspired Them to Blog - Ruchir asked 8 bloggers what inspired them to blog :)

My Essential 5-Star Feeds - A nice roundup of links from Chris Garrett.

Network Evolution - Blazing A New Trail - Mark discusses the benefits of joining his fouthcoming blog network.

Boost Your StumbleUpon Traffic with Outbound Links - Caroline Middlebrook gives some good tips on how to increase your stumbleupon traffic.

51 RSS Button For Your Blog - A good selection of RSS buttons which you can add to your blog.

Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening…

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