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Dosh Dosh explores Why You Should Build Your Feed Subscriber Base and gives a variety of good reasons for building up the number of readers subscribing to your blog including: Personal Gratification Feed-based Monetization Social Proof Ability to Initiate Feed-Level Promotions Improved Linkability Buzz Generators Id add two more reasons to build your RSS readership (and Im sure there are many more [...] - [Read more]

Glen Stansberry is the author of the blog LifeDev (feed). Check out LifeDev for other tips about productivity and life improvement. Im going to let you in on a little secret: Becoming a better writer is the best thing you can do to improve your blogs readership and traffic. Not how many buttons you [...] - [Read more]

Think that all of the great Web sites have already been invented? Think again. The Internet is evolving in new and inventive ways thanks to mashups that pull data from all over the Web. Check out these 25 up and coming Web 2.0 technologies. - [Read more]

Jon wrote an interesting post last Thursday titled Why Im Giving Up on Making Money which has given me food for thought over the weekend (found via Rich Minx). In the post Jon quotes a course that hes doing: If you try to make money, youre in for a long and fruitless ride. Instead, please people within [...] - [Read more]

Time for a quick reader question: How many Posts did you post to your blog/s last week? Lets make the dates from Sunday 10th June to Saturday 16th June. Ill kick it off: Here at ProBlogger I posted 17 posts - at Digital Photography School I posted 5. Those numbers are pretty average for me (although at ProBlogger I [...] - [Read more]

The following is a guest post by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress and an excerpt from her popular book, Blogging Tips, Tips Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging. Writing with keyword-rich content helps your blog be found and readers to fully understand what you are writing about. Write consistent and purposeful content. The more inline your [...] - [Read more]

This post was submitted by Chris Garrett from ChrisG.com The other day I was telling Darren about an accidental affiliate success I had on my digital SLR blog with a dirt cheap ebay gadget (GadgetInfinity ebay slave triggers). We thought it might make an interesting guest post for Problogger readers as this audience likes to learn [...] - [Read more]

This Guest Post was submitted by Scott at Savvy Affiliate For a blogger, making mistakes can be embarrassing, but missing an opportunity can come at a huge cost. One thing that new bloggers sometimes have trouble with is the idea of jumping into things with both feet. Often times people are afraid [...] - [Read more]

This Guest Post was written by Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home. Last March I attended Elite Retreat - a rather exclusive conference with a small number of participants and 7 big name presenters who taught us much of what they know (including Darren himself!). One of the biggest eye openers I had at the conference [...] - [Read more]

Behind the scenes here at ProBloggere there are a number of changes in development that youll see more of in the coming months - but one has been the seeking out of some premium sponsor partnerships. These partners are currently being highlighted on the ProBlogger sidebar as 125 x 125 pixel ads and in the coming [...] - [Read more]

The following is a guest post by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress. Words tell their own story. They bring forth rhyme and reason, color attitudes, and move people. Combining the power of the verbal image with the visual can either enhance your story or overpower it. Finding that happy medium is the challenge facing every [...] - [Read more]

Theres been some good activity on the ProBlogger Blog Job Boards over the past week with 10 or so new Blog Jobs advertised from a variety of advertisers. Heres the latest blogger jobs to apply for: LinkWorth is searching for an Account Specialist Columbia Business School is looking for a Web Communications Manager 451 Press is looking for [...] - [Read more]

This post has been submitted by Penelope Trunk - columnist at the Boston Glob and Yahoo! Finance, blogger at www.blog.penelopetrunk.com and author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success. Im going to tell you how to get a six-figure book deal from your blog. People ask me this question all the time, and I have [...] - [Read more]

mistergin asks - I notice most of your blog entries are short. I have a habit of not necessarily being long winded, but very detailed. I want to cover all the bases and make the article full. However, I realize that I start running into posts that scroll through 2 sometimes 3 pages. I keep paragraphs [...] - [Read more]

The following post has been submitted by Kelly Phillips Erb from taxgirl. It is based upon US tax laws and may or may not be applicable in different parts of the world. 1. The US Tax Code is based on the idea of worldwide taxation which means that, more or less, if you are a US [...] - [Read more]

Preston asks - I started a new blog about a month ago. I got about 40 topics written. But only 2 comments. Im thinking of faking comments, making a few users and get a nice sample of comments on some of the blog posts Ive made. Is this not a good use of my extra time, [...] - [Read more]

Many webmasters struggle with the auto-discovery code that should be added to the header of an HTML web page to automatically indicate to web browsers that an RSS feed for the contents is available. There has been debate, and of course controversy on how the code should be formed, making it ever more confusing for webmasters.

The solution, use a free online tool that will auto generate the code that can then be inserted into your website. - [Read more]

RSS Locator is a custom RSS search engine that uses Google to search RSS diretories. - [Read more]

This post on creating a Blog Binder to help you keep organized has been submitted by Julie Bonner from declutter it. I first heard Julie speak about her Blog Binder in passing in a b5media forum discussion and thought it might be something others might find helpful. I asked her if shed write it up [...] - [Read more]

Ross asks - What is more important, working on getting more traffic (digg, links from high traffic sites) or working on search engine optimisation? If you had 10 hours to spend on one or the other which would benefit you more? I think both strategies can be important for a blog - depending upon its life [...] - [Read more]