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Why I Allow Only 14 Days for Comments

by Ryan M. Healy on July 28, 2010

A few months ago, I quietly changed my blog comment settings to automatically close comments after 30 days. After this worked so well, I decided to reduce the “comment window” to only 14 days. Here’s why I decided to do this. Reason #1 – I’ve had quite a lot of work to do this year, [...]



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

by Ryan M. Healy on January 12, 2010

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 [...]



31 Tips for Working with Clients
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One Thousand Comments & Counting

by Ryan M. Healy on January 12, 2009

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 [...]



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Important Blog Updates

by Ryan M. Healy on September 23, 2008

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” [...]



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The FeedBurner Deception

by Ryan M. Healy on April 29, 2008

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 [...]



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