Mar 04, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Group of bloggers challenge themselves to create 2 weeks worth of blog posts, and getting them ready for publishing, on top of their normal posting schedule. Here are the updates for the challenge…
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Mar 02, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Tracking website traffic, gathering statistics and analyzing them is very important part of any online activity, even if you’re just doing this for fun, but especially if you’re running an online business or otherwise making money online.
Either case, you should add some sort of tracking to your blog or website from day 1 (or day zero to be exact). There are many ways to handle tracking traffic stats for your blog or website, but Google Analytics is the most popular one, it’s free and relatively simple to use.
In this simple Google Analytics tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up Google Analytics account to track your website traffic, visitors and other statistics. This is true beginner’s stuff, step-by-step style…
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Feb 14, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Would you be interested in creating posts to your blog during the weekends and use weekdays for something else, or blog commenting and promotion instead of writing new blog posts?
Or are you planning a vacation and don’t want to leave your blog stranded without fresh content? There is an excellent way to add flexibility to your blogging and it’s called blog post buffer and to get it going, you need pre-writing.
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Jan 28, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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I receive quite a bit of questions through email and I always answer them, so I might as well share the answers with you all, right? As long as that’s OK for the person who asked the question, of course. This is the first Q&A -post, so do tell me what you think about this in the comments, OK?
This time the questions and answers are related to building niche sites, and more accurately search engine optimization, SEO, and choosing the right domain name.
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Jan 14, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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It is easy.
Would you spend 1-2 minutes more on a blog post that will be online for years, to drastically improve the chances of that post bringing you free traffic from the search engines without you lifting a finger? If you do, read on. If you think SEO is hard and there’s something fishy about it, don’t read this and others will get your traffic.
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How to get more blog comments and discussion
On this post I will show 15 tips you can use to encourage discussion on your blog. The first step is to setup your blog in a way that it encourages the right kind of comments and when the platform is in order, it is building a discussion culture to your blog and start building a community.
If you are looking to encourage interaction between the readers, a bit like in forums, you need to encourage comments and replies as well. The number of comments in itself doesn’t do anything. The purpose of this post is not only to get more blog comments, but to get the right kind of blog comments.
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