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Chapter 3 – What is a blog? Should I have one? How?

October 12, 2010

Blogs are absolutely the best way to promote yourself online. Let me repeat that. Blogs are absolutely the best way to promote yourself online. Period. Google loves blogs for a few reasons: a) they’re written with mostly clean, standard code, making them easy to crawl, b) they’re (hopefully) updated often and c) they’re mostly text, [...]

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To the bloggers, go the spoils

May 26, 2010

Received a gift today, all because I’m a blogger. Yeah…

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Why are your blog posts so long?

January 22, 2009

It’s getting worse every week. Blog posts, previously short, sweet and to the point, are becoming long articles filled with images, movies and crazy colors that just don’t belong. I understand that your company probably just moved to a wordpress site and you think that publishing via RSS is a perfect way to get the [...]

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Written versus Video blogs

January 6, 2009

Video is fancy. Video looks neat. Video makes you feel like you’re actually accomplishing something online. Video is LAZY. Too often I hear of bloggers going to video-only formats, eschewing their normally written blogs. They claim it’s quicker, that it’s easier and that they love it. Their video blog sucks. It sucks because they don’t [...]

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