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If you are either a new blogger just getting introduced to the blogosphere, or you’ve been blogging for a long time and want to gain more visibility and attention to your blog, I have provided a few tips to give your site a better audience.

• Learn SEO – SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is key for the placement and appearance of your site on search engines. There are specific rules and guidelines to placing your blog higher within search engine results pages. Want to know more about SEO? WebProWorld is a great resource and forum for everything SEO-wise, and a great place to ask SEO-related questions.
• Social Media/Networking – If you are involved in social media/networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, these are great places to help promote and advertise your blog. A trend that I have been seeing on Facebook is that users have been syncing their blog posts to the Facebook Notes section of their profile, and adding applications to their profile page like Blog It!
• RSS Feeds – RSS feeds are always beneficial to add to your blog. These allow people who read a lot of blog posts to view and organize them all in one place. This helps keep the user interested in the content of your blog.
• Article Directories – Submitting your articles to various article directories will help the publicity of your blog, and compete with other writers as your articles will be placed by category. If you would like to submit to a vast amount of directories in a small amount of time, you will need to subscribe to a submission service (e.g. SubmitterBot) that will automatically submit your article to different article directories for you.

Happy Blogging!

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I have provided this week’s cut of Thursday Links below:

Breaking The Rules Of Blogging and Succeeding

Is Your Neighbor On Twitter?

Are There Any Good Domains Left? The Importance of Keyword Search and Findability

We Can Learn From E-mail Spammers

Promoting Your Blog During The Holidays

Feedback is always welcomed!

Happy Blogging

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I would like to apologize for not getting these links out to you sooner, but here are yesterday’s/Thursday’s links for you…

Everything I Need to Know About Blogging I Learned in High School

Syndicating Your Blog

Free Blogger Templates

Are You Getting Spammed Too?

The Top 5 Ways to Generate Traffic With Less Work

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First of all, I would like to wish all readers of this blog a Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s my pick for Thursday’s links…

Dirty Laundry Tweeting

Blog Marketing: How to Use Holiday Down Time to Grow Your Blog Traffic

What to Do When People Unsubscribe

Do You Make These Mistakes in Guest Posting?

So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?

Happy Blogging!

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I apologize for the infrequent posts here lately. It’s been a combination of being incredibly busy and me being sick. I’ve been battling some kind virus or something for about a week now, but I think I’m finally starting to get closer to recovery.

What I should’ve done perhaps is had a few extra posts in the bag to put up on just these occasions. I do not always practice what I preach obviously, but perhaps next time (if I ever have enough time to do so) I will have a few ready.

What do you do to keep your blog updated when you are unable to write? After all, frequency is generally in the best interest of a blog, because when posts become infrequent, it can lead to a loss of readership. Depending on how long you go without posting, readers may just stop coming back, assuming that your blog will not have been updated.

This is not as much of an issue for people who read your RSS feeds, because they will get your posts when you post them, but many, many people are still not using feed readers, so that is not a good enough concept to fall back on.

Besides, with those who do use feed readers, you still run the risk of them unsubscribing due to a lack of updates. People are going to be cleaning up their readers and getting organized from time to time.

So I ask again, what do you do?

Besides having some posts ready to go, you can get guests to blog for you, you can post short link lists, like the ones I often do on Thursdays. This is far less time-consuming (provided you have some sources to draw from) than writing an entire post.

You could also update an older post with some newer, relevant information, which can be much quicker than staring from scratch. You probably don’t want to do this very often because it can take away from the freshness of you blog, but in a pinch, I don’t see why it can’t be done. Besides, depending on how old the post is, there’s a good chance that current readers have not been around long enough to have read it in the past, and those who have read it may have forgotten it and appreciate the reminder.

How do you make up for lost time on your blog?

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For several days, I’ve been trying to spend a little time getting more organized to increase the efficiency of my work. What I have mostly been doing is reorganizing my Google Reader account.

As a writer/blogger, I have plenty of sources to draw from, and I subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds. I also write for a variety of different blogs/sites, and they’re not all in the exact same niche (plus I have other interests and subscriptions that don’t have much to do with my writing at all). I have been working for a while with pretty much a jumbled mess of all of these things. Don’t get me wrong. I had it organized to a certain extent. I had my work stuff separate from my non-work stuff, although as I take on new writing projects, the line on some of that begins to blur a bit.

But I have been breaking down my organizational structure as far as I can take it. For example, I have a folder dedicated to only blogging-related sources, that I will draw from for this blog in the future. This way, when I know it’s time to write something for PureBlogging.com, I can easily peruse this folder and find a topic that I wish to discuss (if I’m having writers block) or a reference that I can cite. I follow a similar pattern for my other writing projects.

I have also been going around seeking out new sources of information. The more sources the better as far as I’m concerned. The more information coming in, the more informed I am likely to be, which can only enhance my writing.

This is all probably common sense to a lot of you, and it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but it can be a bit time consuming. That’s just the thing. I think sometimes we get caught up in our work (and non-work lives for that matter) and don’t take the time to get organized, which in the long run will likely save you a lot of time and increase your productivity.

I’ve been doing it a little at a time, from day to day as to not take too big a chunk out of my day. When it’s all said and done, my Reader is going to be a well-oiled machine and my writing quantity and quality should increase as a product of that.

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