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Today Marko Saric announced that this week his website ‘HowToMakeMyBlog’ turns 1!

In his post ‘From 0 to 200.000 visitors, 8 blogging lessons learned in the first year‘ he mentions eight ways to gain great traffic to your blog. To any beginning blogger (like me) it’s a must-read! Every word is true.

Besides promoting your blog through commenting and tweeting there are more ways and he covers all of them, except one: trackbacks. Continue Reading

Bloggers are big fans of list posts. One reason why everybody does it, is because they’re easy to go viral. Readers love lists, because it’s easy to read, easy to remember and easy to share. Even though it’s very advisable to post a list regularly, you shouldn’t overdo it. A regular post with a storyline can also be very enjoyable and interesting. I think you all agree if I say that all articles on your blog should be of outstanding quality, not only the lists. That’s why I’ve composed a list – Ha! The irony! – with ten criteria you should keep in mind while writing your article: Continue Reading

The nightmare of every blogger is writersblock. Can you imagine you don’t have a clue what to write about?

Especially for this occasion I introduced the category ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ to my blog – a place where I can free my head of various ramblings.

Another interesting approach to solving this problem is the ‘cross-dressing’-technique. As described in a recent post from James Chartrand @ Copyblogger.net. Continue Reading

In the old days public media advertising was an art. There were lines you couldn’t cross, there were rules you had to follow and besides that, you had to pay according to the advertising model you picked. There was a certain control. Since the introduction of the www and media such as YouTube, these lines and rules are slowly disappearing. Continue Reading

Hubpages, you might’ve heard of it already and perhaps you’re already using it. For bloggers that don’t care about or don’t want to waste time on the looks of their blog Hubpages is a good opportunity. Let me rephrase that: for bloggers that just want to write, Hubpages is a good opportunity. Their motto: Publish Easily, Get Traffic, Make Money. Well, do they meet up the promise? Read on and find out. Continue Reading

I’ve started out two weeks ago with Whenigetrich.com. Even though I’m learning a lot from professional bloggers like Darren Rowse and John Chow. I too have a little of my own experience. When I was 14 (ten years ago) I ran my own website with a cheap dot TK-domain name: Tha-underground.tk. It wasn’t a very big deal, about 500 visitors a day, but it was fun.

Besides everything else I think that’s the only thing that should matter when you’re running your own blog. It needs to be FUN! Don’t do it to make money, or anything. The moment you have to force yourself to write an article, stop. Continue Reading