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Warning: 34 Million People Can’t Read Your Blog!

by Ryan M. Healy

in Blogging, Business, Tips

Last I checked, Apple had sold like a hundred gazillion iPods and iPhones.
Okay, just counting iPhones alone, they’ve sold more like 33.75 million as of fourth quarter 2009. [source]
Remember, that’s not counting any iPod Touch sales.
Plus, millions more Crackberries, PDAs, web-enabled cell phones, and handheld Internet devices have been sold all across the world.
I don’t [...]

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One Thousand Comments & Counting

by Ryan M. Healy

in Blogging, Business, Tips

Over the holidays, this blog hit an important milestone: 1,000 approved comments and counting. It happened in just under one year from the time I started this blog on the new domain.
Since there are currently 1,048 comments and 115 published posts on this blog, that’s about 9.1 comments per blog post.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about [...]

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Important Blog Updates

by Ryan M. Healy

in Blogging, Tips, Tools

Over the last few months, I’ve tweaked this blog a bit and added a few pages.
So I thought it would be good to let you know about them.
1. I removed the “no follow” tags from this blog.
I did this on Fred Black’s recommendation. You can read his post about removing “no follow” tags here: I’ve [...]

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The FeedBurner Deception

by Ryan M. Healy

in Blogging, Tips

FeedBurner is the #1 service for tracking blog readers through RSS. If you have a FeedBurner account, you can log-in and track how many readers you have, and whether your readership is growing or shrinking.
You can even publish a widget on your blog that dynamically displays the number of blog readers you have. For instance, [...]

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Does Frequent Blogging Encourage Bad Writing?

by Ryan M. Healy

in Blogging, Tips

I’ve been blogging on at least a weekly basis since 2004. During that time, I’ve written hundreds of blog posts… and I’ve read even more.
One thing I’ve noticed is that most bloggers pay little attention to the quality of their writing. To simply publish another blog post is good enough.
It seems to me, in the [...]

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