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A Successful Blog

I’ve had so much great feedback on my “Be a more productive blogger� post that I’ve decided to dedicate a Web site (and blog) to the concept. Way back I did a series of posts over at Asterisk on how to design, build and maintain a successful blog. Those posts were very popular and seemed to help quite a few people. After that I’d write on a fairly regular basis about tips, tricks and techniques for bloggers and, again, those posts seemed to be helpful for many people.

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I am sure that you learned a lot in the process, the opposite would be surprising

It’s the same for me. I initially started blogging to try increasing my English skills and it worked like a charm (It’s not perfect but far better than 8 months ago hehehe)

I also meet really interesting people; I constantly clarified my thoughts by posting and discussions about these posts with my readers, etc. Only a fool could not learn from such a process that blogging is. It’s the magic of writing: something I had not discovered, and even suspected, before starting to blog.

Stickiness

One thing all bloggers and webmasters want is return visitors. Many of us watch the stats and monitor this critical measurement of web success�if you come back time and time again, you must like me. If you like me and return enough you’ll finally heed my call to action – make a purchase, register, click on an advertiser, etc. Stickiness makes a blog and return visitors are paramount to ecommerce success - repeat buyers are a critical component to revenue growth.

How best do you get people back to your site time-after-time?

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As other readers said: Content. However, I will also add feeds. It’s the easiest way for your readers to get in touch with the news things you post on your website. Remember, feeds can containt anything� not just messages.

Do I Really Want to Share the Intimate Details of My Life With the Rest of the World?

This is a bit off the topic of cancer, but very much on the topic of putting together this new site. For the last few day I’ve been putting in some long hours at the computer, piecing together this blog, which I now call Cancer NewsWatch. As I was taking a break this evening, I cruised the sites of a few well-respected bloggers (culled from a recent list by Darren at ProBlogger,) and came upon two similar posts, one at ShaiCoggins.com, the other at The Blog Herald, lamenting the outright theft of original content, presumably for the goal of making a quick buck on ad-revenue, and wandering what could or should be done about it. As a person fairly new to blogging, I have to say I find the subject disturbing, though certainly not surprising.

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Hello Cary,

You see why you ought to write about this topic? Because it reach intimately millions of people that have questions about how to handle it. I never had been confronted with cancer in my near surrounding (the few family members I have) but I know that soon or later there are good chances that it happen and then I will have many questions about the situation I’ll face, and people like you will help me in the process.

Keep going your good work Cary, I think you will help many people,

Salutations,

Fred