Blog to Build an Audience

Some people blog to get good search engine rankings. But getting good rankings should not be an end in itself, but rather a means to an end. That’s because a first page ranking, by itself, does you very little good. Visitors search, they click, they read, they leave. Search engine visitors rarely return. They find […]

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How to Generate Traffic from Blog Comments

There are dozens of different ways to get free traffic to your site. One of them is to leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your own site. This by itself is a decent strategy. The quicker you comment on a new blog post, the more likely it is you’ll get some […]

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Why I Allow Only 14 Days for Comments

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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