Blogging Tips

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6 Tips to Make Your Blog Posts Attractive to Google

Have you ever noticed how some of your blog posts seem to attract more visitors from Google than others do? Incidentally you can see this information in whatever statistics package you use. For WordPress bloggers it’s in the Stats Dashboard and for others it is sure to be in the stats section of your platform’s [...]

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Get Your Name Right on Facebook!

Facebook is really handy for tracking down long lost family and friends from your past. And getting your name right probably seems so obvious that you might not think it worth writing about. But here’s a tip I discovered a couple of weeks ago. If your current name is different from the one you were [...]

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Google wins the Readers Survey

A couple of weeks ago I ran a survey to try and discover where the majority of my readers actually came from. Now some some readers have been members of the Scraps of Mind community for such a long time that it’s not surprising that they can’t actually remember how they originally found me. After [...]

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Where Do Blog Readers Come From?

I’m running a little experiment and I hope you’ll help me with it. I’d like to know how you found Scraps of Mind. Out of all the squillions of sites on the Internet, what brought you to Scraps of Mind? I’ve been using Entrecard for 9 months now and I know that it has brought [...]

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Turn your Craft into a Business

I’ve talked to you before about Yaro Starak (of Blog Mastermind fame). Well, now Yaro is teaching how to set up a membership site just like the Blog Mastermind teaching program so you can turn your own passion into a business. This is something that many people in the craft world dream of. Being able [...]

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Advertising on Blogs

Almost all craft blogs carry some sort of advertising, even if it’s just hosting banners and blinkies for friends. A couple of weeks ago we started to explore the world of advertising on craft blogs, and we took a look at direct advertising methods and affiliate promotions. In this article we’ll have a look at [...]

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To Advertise or not to Advertise

I do feel that many blogs don’t appear to give much thought to the advertizing that they carry.
There is definitely a line between providing a useful service and beating your readers over the head with the advertizing stick.

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Comment Spam

Have you noticed an increase in comment spam over the last couple of months? And the comment spammers are getting cleverer too. It used to be easy to spot comment spam. Usually it was made up of a lot of porn or medical related keywords and a bunch of links. That was good because it [...]

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Super Celebration Blog Contest

Regular Scraps of Mind Reader, Myra is celebrating one year of blogging with a huge giveaway contest. Now when I say that Mira has reached her one year blogging milestone I want to point out that she has really done it in style. Mira writes no fewer than SIX different blogs! Yep you read it [...]

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Are You Driving Blog Commenters Away?

For bloggers everywhere comment spam is an ongoing problem. As a result, most blogs have some sort of security mechanism to try to filter most of the robot comment spam and general rubbish. But is your security set up in a way that actually discourages genuine commenters? Fortunately for bloggers using the WordPress system, the [...]

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