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Darren Rowse, as part of his 31 Days to a Better Blog project, posted about finding a sponsor for your blog, something he has a fair bit of experience with.
He gives some great tips in the post, but one stood out to me more than the others:
If you have a smaller blog and haven’t had [...]

I have a little pet peeve that I want to share with all of you. I hate seeing emoticons in posts. Those little images of happy or sad faces do not equal a thousand words, despite what you have heard about images.
Even worse, on some blogs they are styled incorrectly, and either have too much [...]

Over on Blogging Tips, Kelby Carr has put out a post that gives some details pertaining to the Google Sandbox.
I didn’t realize how many people did not understand the concept of the Sandbox. The Sandbox is basically a zone that a new site sits in until Google decides it is quality, and should be properly [...]

One of the most annoying things to deal with as a blogger is the annoyance of having the spelling and grammar police comment on your posts about how you messed up various bits of the English language.
I have to admit that while English is my first language, and really the only one I am competent [...]

Your about page can be more important than you think. When visiting a site, I sometimes check out the about page to see if the writer has bothered to put up anything. Sadly, sometimes the default WordPress about page is all I find. If the blogger isn’t willing to write anything on their about page, [...]