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Every few days, I see a tweet about the latest edition of somebody or other's Paper.li publication. Occasionally, something I've written shows up in one, and I appreciate that. But do I ever read them? Well, I haven't yet.

Paper.li looks kinda cool -- you mash up all the interesting stuff you've been reading, organize...
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Google caused another ruckus online a few days ago when they laid down the law against content mills. Some people are complaining, others are wondering what took 'em so long, and still others are getting nervous, wondering whether their favorite content generation method is going to get Slapped next.

While nobody knows for sure where...
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Over at Daily Blog Tips today, Daniel Scocco fielded a question today about whether to approve Pingbacks:

The purpose of having trackbacks and pingbacks is to foster conversations among bloggers. By inter-linking the posts that are referencing each other it becomes easier to follow the different opinions and takes on specific issues.

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I think...
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WordPress does a lot to automatically to optimize your blog for the search engines -- linking between pages, putting your post titles in your page title tag and header tags, etc. But one flaw in the design has been bugging me for a while: the order of page numbers. Let me explain.

Let's say you'r...
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I saw an article at Daily Blog Tips today that made me laugh. It was all about how to keep motivated to post to your blog.

To build a successful blog, you need motivation.

Motivation comes easy when you're making lots of money from your blog.

When you're making very little or no money however,...
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You've heard the old philosophical question: "If a blogger posts in The Cloud and no birds are there to Tweet him, does he make a noise?"

Well, it goes something like that.

Bloggers are always looking for ways to make more noise and get more listeners -- more traffic. Blog Riffers was created to help....
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Over at the Official Google Blog today, Matt Cutts wrote a little about what they're focusing on in his neck of the woods:

...we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly. The new classifier is better at detecting spam on individual web pages, e.g., repeated...
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Seth Godin did a blogging seminar a few days ago. Zen Copy posted a series of tweets about it. Ryan Healy tweeted about the tweets. And now I'm going to blog about a few of them. Credit where credit is due.

The first tweet that caught my eye:

Coin a term or two - be...
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The popularity of your blog depends partly on how often you post. Post too infrequently and you'll drop out of readers' minds. But how often is often enough? And can you post too often?

I found this in an old post by Jack Humphrey:

...from an authoritative study: Bloggers who post more often are mor...
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Yesterday, at the end of my post about how to connect with other bloggers, I hinted that I'd been stewing over an idea to help bloggers connect with each other. After that, I thought about it some more, got motivated, and now it's ready to go.

It's called "Blog Riffers". It doesn't cost anything --...
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