Looking to improve your blog writing? Today Shannon Paul ( @shannonpaul) from Very Official Blog gives her very official tips on the topic.
I love blogs. Before I started blogging seriously, I read a lot of other blogs and was very engaged as a reader. I commented a lot and began honing my ability to craft [...]

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Over the last 10 days I’ve been running twin polls on two of my blogs – ProBlogger and TwiTip – asking readers whether they’d prefer more Twitter Followers or Blog Readers.
The overall results were fairly clear – 84% of those who responded people would prefer more Blog Readers.

I expected this result but was curious when [...]

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Mike asks:
Do you still comment on other blogs or do you mostly focus on maintaining the community around your blog?

Interesting question.
First of all let me clarify that I will answer the question as if it was referring to using blog comments as a promotional technique. Obviously there is also a social factor there (i.e. [...]

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If you are not familiar with it, Darren uses to run a very useful series on his blog titled “31 Days to Build a Better Blog.” He basically takes one month out of the year and packs it with practical articles that people can use to improve their blogs.
This year he added an interesting twist [...]

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