Blogging Tips

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Where Do All the Scrapbookers Live?

One of the most fantastic things about writing a blog like Scraps of Mind is the incredible spread of people I get to have contact with from all over the world. Over the last three years I have made so many International friends and one day I may even get to visit with some of [...]

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Get a Traffic Rush to your Blog with StumbleUpon

Want to really explode the traffic coming to your blog? Well if your blog is about scrapbooking or crafts then I can thoroughly recommend StumbleUpon as a fantastic way to increase your blog traffic. Over the last year I’ve experimented with a number of different social media and bookmarking sites and I’ve come to the [...]

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Alltop – Your Online Magazine Rack

Many of us use a feed reader such as Google Reader or Bloglines to keep track of our favorite blogs. If you don’t know what a feed reader is then just have a read of this article I wrote explaining all about them. And for others of us we use the Bookmarks or Favorites tab [...]

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How to Get More Blog Readers with Entrecard

Regular readers of Scraps of Mind may recall an article I wrote a couple of months ago explaining how you can advertise your blog for free using Entrecard. That’s the little graphic thingy in my sidebar with the gold bar at the bottom. Basically you sign up (click on the gold bar if you haven’t [...]

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The Digital Scrapbooking Blog Carnival needs the Kiss of Life

Calling all Digital Scrapbookers! Your support for the Digital Scrapbooking Blog Carnival is desperately needed. The last couple of carnivals have had little support and I can’t see how long it can continue without some improvement in the love department. Why Bother? Well if you have a blog that’s scrapbooking related then this is a [...]

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Scrapbooking Social Media Love-in

Last month Darren Rowse from Problogger ran a Social Media Love-in for his readers. And following in his footsteps, I thought I’d set up one for on-line scrapbookers. The object of the exercise was to help all his readers to connect with each other on the social media sites that they belonged to. They could [...]

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Scraps of Mind – The Magazine

Welcome everyone to the New Look Scraps of Mind. As the Olympics dominates our thoughts and our TV time, bringing together the World in sporting challenge, it seems just the time to launch the new Scraps of Mind format. I have thought of this site as an on-line scrapbooking magazine for some time. With its [...]

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Mid-week Mashup

Here’s a round up of snippets from the week. Kangaroos can save you money Last week I told you about the exciting news of Blog Mastermind reopening. If you haven’t seen any of the videos, or read the Blueprint or listened to the million dollar blogger interview, you can start right now (it won’t cost [...]

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Return of Blog Mastermind

Even if you don’t feel ready for the Blog Mastermind Program, you should definitely watch Yaro’s free video on Conversion Blogging because it’s packed with great strategies for creating a business model out of your blog. Guaranteed to be totally hype-free!

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Where Does the RSS Button Go?

The prevailing wisdom says that if you want to grow your RSS subscribers you should place the button at the top of your blog. Either in your banner, or right at the top of your sidebar.
But I’m going against the prevailing wisdom!

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