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A crazy long title from Darren today with his view on how commenting on other blogs can hurt your blog’s brand. Most of them have to do with being lazy, or spamming, but they are still great things to keep in mind when you are commenting on someone else’s blog. 2. Excessive Self Linking – [...]

Brian Clark of Copyblogger writes some amazing posts, and in his most recent post, he talks about spicing up blog posts, something that some writers sorely need. Use Sensuous Language – use words to bring things to life ala “the fear crawled down my spine creating an all encompassing shiver.” Employ High Impact Wording – [...]

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 [...]

Copyblogger’s Muhammad Saleem, has put up a great post on how you can reword sentences and remove extraneous words in order to shorten posts, and since pretty much everyone that reads blogs has no attention span, this should be required reading. Is it worth the extra effort to ruthlessly edit? Well, if we take the [...]

Freelance Switch has an article up helping everyone learn how to deal with e-mail better. I am horrible for giving e-mail too much time and attention, and I know I am not the only one with that problem. The article covers things like getting your inbox to empty, filtering out all but the essential e-mails, [...]