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This is a guest post by Ashley over at BossSanders.com.  This is her contribution to our series "Building A More Successful Blog in 30 Days".  You can follow her on Twitter.  She goes by the name @bosssanders If I were to ask you to please tell me how you spent each hour of your day, could you? No really, COULD YOU? In high school, I had a major revelation. Up until that point, I had never really considered how long it took me to reach cer...

Here we are on day 22 of our Build A More Successful Blog in 30 Days series, and with all that we've learned thus far, you should be seeing good gains in traffic and blog exposure through different mediums. For those of you who have been following along in the program, I want to hear from you.  What gains have you experienced with your blog?  Any good results?  Any negative results? Today we focus on how doing something for other blogger...

iConnect Social Media Bar Plugin The iConnect social media bar plugin orginated as a custom addition to my own blog because of my interest to better connect with my blog community through all of my social media profiles. I was asked by several of my friends if they could get the same thing for their blogs but with added features like custom images and urls. This lead me to contact my good friend Owen Cutajar (master plugin creator) to get my...

We are on day 21 of our "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days" series, and today I am giving you 7 bonus posts all at once that will help you to build a more successful blog. These posts were all written prior to this series, but they are some of the most important topics in making your blog more successful, and as such, should be included. Your challenge for today is to read through these articles and implement them all in your blogg...

Today is day 20 in the series "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days." We've covered everything from SMART goal making to Participating in Forums, to The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers, and in the past couple of days, Branding Your Blog For Success Part 1 & Part 2. We are 2/3 of the way through and to celebrate our special milestone, I want to reveal to you 7 ways to make money online.  Two of which are guaranteed to make ...

Yesterday in our series "Building A More Successful Blog in 30 Days," we covered part 1 of branding your blog for success. We asked ourselves questions about our blog and our motives for blogging, as well as who our audience is and what unique things we can bring to the table. Click here to read part 1 of Branding your blog for success, and decide what answers you can provide for each question. In part 2, we forgoe all of the questions a...

Whether you want it to or not, your blog will develop a specific brand.  The question remains as to whether you want to effect how that brand develops or let it happen by itself. If becoming successful online is your goal, then you're going to want to help guide that brand in the direction you want it to become. Some bloggers don't work at developing their brand and in return they are left with a brand they don't want, and often one that i...

In the article I wrote 2 days ago for our series "Building A More Successful Blog in 30 Days," I gave you some tips on how to increase your RSS subscribers. Increasing your subscribers is great, especially to give people reason to advertise on your blog, but RSS feeds are limited on how you can monetize them. And while most of your successful monetization comes from within the post itself, there is usually some good money to be made with th...

We're officially over half-way now in our series "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days."  And day 16 brings you some tips on strengthening the community you're building around your blog. Strengthening your blog community builds both trust and a relationship with your readers that will keep them coming back over and over again. The most important part of successfully building a strong community is to show your readers that you care. ...

One of the biggest goals for any blogger interested in being successful is to increase their RSS subscribers.  When blogging it looks better when you can say "I have 1,000 RSS subscribers," rather than saying, "I have 1,000 daily visitors to my blog." This is because RSS subscribers show others that your content is good enough to keep coming back.  Just because you may have 1,000 daily visitors, it doesn't mean your blog is worth much. Ma...

Twitter has quickly become one of the greatest social media sites the world has ever seen thus far, and for the early adopters, it will mean great things. Twitter has become so popular in fact, that many books are being written by it's more prominant and understanding users. One such book by Murray Newlands (a Twitter Ebook), called "How To Twitter Successfully & Gain Followers", helps to guide those new in the Twitter scene to a better...

In yesterday's post for the series "Building A Better Blog In 30 Days", I showed you how hosting a giveaway or contest on your blog would increase your traffic.  So it's only fitting that today I explain in more detail on how to effectively run a blog giveaway. There is actually more to running a successful giveaway than sticking a great product on your blog and telling others to comment. At least until you're very well established among the ...