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Upstart Blogger 06 Archives

All about blogs and blogging. Professional blogging, personal blogging, magazine blogging, and every other kind of blogging.

Blogging

Nov 24  10

As a blogger, getting, keeping, and increasing traffic is always on my mind. There are hundreds of gimmicks to getting traffic to your blog, but generating real, lasting, loyal traffic is possible with these 4 tips from the pro bloggers. Here are a few of my own suggestions but I would love to hear any [...]

4 Ways to Make Your Blog Addictive and Get Repeat Traffic

Aug 27  10

Simply put — Misspellings are a quick way to lose readership. I am guilty of typing faster than I think and thinking faster than I type. Most blog interfaces include a check spelling option.  The problem with many (if not all) of these is that you must actively engage the spell check for it to [...]

People judge you by your typos

Aug 17  10

Upstart Blogger wandered wide eyed and bushy tailed onto the internet over 6 six years ago and soon made a name for itself, releasing some of the best minimalist WordPress themes ever to have graced a blog. Traffic soon poured in and Upstart Blogger grew into something much bigger. A quick start guide to building, [...]

Upstart Blogger alumni program

Aug 13  10

Another item of note that was in the massive box that we took possession of recently is a large but bloated Squidoo account in the previous owners name. In this account there are a little over 100 Squidoo lenses, most of which are pointing to blog properties that we now own. Sounds great, doesn’t it? [...]

Google slaps Squidoo

Aug 06  10

I have found that I have a limitation when it comes to promoting my blog…TIME. Not only am I having to balance the amount of time I spend promoting my blog on Facebook and Twitter, connecting with other bloggers on group sites, and providing guest blogger content (ahem…) with my blog writing itself…I’m also trying [...]

Getting the most reader “bang” for the blogger “buck”