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4 Good Reasons for Spring cleaning your blog

I know it’s been a while and I keep putting it off, but it’s time to spring clean that blog. And that’s exactly what I have done for The Photographer Blog as part of the changes, in fact it’s the first thing I did. And here are 4 very good reasons why it’s a good thing [...]

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How to Create a Disclosure Policy

Why do I need a disclosure policy? Why do I need one, I just want to blog? The way the internet has grown over recent years, it is now becoming more and more important to state where the views on your blog come from, and if they are influenced in any way. So by having a [...]

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Has the penny dropped yet?

I’m going through a very interesting part of my journey with blogging at the moment, and as you may have noticed in my posts I am writing about what I am going through. As much for me as anyone else, as it helps cement my ideas and what I am thinking in my mind when [...]

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Using Polls on your blog

I thought I’d try out a different blogging tool that I haven’t used before. I chose web polls because when I see them on blogs they always catch my eye, and I like to vote on them and see the results if they interest me. And I have never used anything like them on my [...]

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How to track your visitors

Today I’m going to look at how I track the visitors to my blog so I can see how many there are, where they are from and how long they spend on the blog etc… In fact it’s quite bewildering how much information you can see about your blog, and can then use to help [...]

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My own 30 day challenge!

Well I’ve been talking about how important it is to be consistent with my blogging, and how hard it can be to put it into practice. So I thought what can I do to help increase my consistency with blogging. Give myself a goal to work towards, but also motivates me. My own 30 day challenge You may [...]

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Who ever said blogging was easy?

It wasn’t me! Do you ever stare at an empty post page wondering what to write? Do you sometimes struggle with your blogging? I know I sometimes do and this is one of those times. I’ve got so much planned that I want to do for this blog and want to say, that I don’t know [...]

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Have you heard about the new blogging book?

Yes a proper book with pages! Yesterday I heard about a new book about blogging, the Problogger book – secrets of blogging your way to a six figure income, now that is quite a claim. But you couldn’t have two better authors showing you the way, the book has been written by Darren Rowse of Problogger and [...]

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Happy 1st Blogging Birthday

It is my first blogging birthday, I have been properly blogging now for a year on this blog in one shape or form. Although it’s not Build a Blog’s birthday because this blog didn’t start until July last year. My first serious blog was on the Blogger platform and was called Create Blogs, I just [...]

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How Well Are You Targeting Your Audience?

This is a good question and one I probably shy away from in case I’m not doing very well at it. When I think back to planning my blogs I set out a plan for what I wanted the blogs to be about and what they would look like. And then I decided who my target [...]

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