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Increase Your Blog Subscriptions: How to Activate FeedBurner Subscribe Via Email

January 12, 2009 By Gail Gardner 9 Comments

Even though it is likely that most bloggers are using RSS to subscribe to their favorite blogs it is always a good idea to provide multiple options. When Dennis Edell commented here yesterday he asked that we enable the option to subscribe via email in FeedBurner. We do our best to quickly act on requests from our readers and offer this link for those who are interested in subscribing by email: Subscribe to GROWMAP by Email Eventually we'll probably add that function to the right sidebar near … [Read more...]

Tired of Talking to Yourself? Go Visit Other Blogs, Leave Quality Comments and Links

January 12, 2009 By Gail Gardner 54 Comments

Are you waiting for a personal invitation before you go visiting? The best way to get quality comments in your blog is to leave some of your own in other blogs. The odds are excellent that you'll be paid a return visit. Even if you don't, anyone reading your comment has a direct path to find your blog. The latest post at Blogging Without a Blog is an excellent example of both a popular blog and a post that garnered plenty of comments: 54 so far as I type this. Read Attract Readers - Make Your … [Read more...]

Twitter and FriendFeed Quick Start

January 9, 2009 By Gail Gardner 20 Comments

Get up to speed right away at Twitter and FriendFeed with these posts. To make it simpler I've linked only to the best Getting Started posts I found. Getting Started at Twitter: Twitter Term Definitions You Need to Know (like Tweet, RT, feed, etc.) SearchEngineGuide: From Twits to Tweeple: Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too MichaelHyatt: The Beginner's Guide to Twitter Remarkablogger: Video Tutorial: Basics of How to Use Twitter Want some excellent tips on how to use Twitter in a … [Read more...]

CommentLuv Verfication

January 8, 2009 By Gail Gardner 5 Comments

This post is to verify this blog for the CommentLuv plugin. We just added it. Read why in Blogging Best Practices; Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments and Magic Formula to Get More Comments. … [Read more...]

Blogging Best Practices: Enabling Your Readers to Subscribe to Comments

January 7, 2009 By Gail Gardner 32 Comments

Few realize yet how many decisions go into the best way to add every single feature to a Web site. Where you place it, whether you use text or icons, which plug-ins or widgets you select - each and every one of these factors contributes to how successful your blog, site or store will be. Here is one simple example. I requested Derek Semmler's assistance in adding a subscribe to comments function on this blog. Here are the questions he immediately asked: Do you want a simple text link or … [Read more...]