Zen Zoomie’s Place: Chronicles of a (Wannabe) Pro Blogger

You may have noticed that we have a new addition to the Chronicles of a (Wannabe) Pro Blogger website.
As you create more content on a Blog, you’re sure to find that some articles are a big success and receive a lot of clicks–or that your readers spend a lot of time looking at […]

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Zen Zoomie’s Place is about a step-by-step approach to building a successful blog from the ground-up. But it’s tough to look back and see what worked and what didn’t without some good quantifiable metrics. Starting today (Saturday, 14 Jul), I’ll do a report each week on a few key metrics. When I […]

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What is DoFollow?
As I mentioned yesterday, Zen Zoomie’s Place has officially joined the "Do Follow" movement, aka "No No Follow". By default, WordPress blogs implement something called "NoFollow" for all links posted in comments.
Why would WordPress do that? Let’s go back to our sometimes trusty WikiPedia:

nofollow is an HTML attribute […]

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One of the nice things about metrics is that you can easily measure your progress towards a goal. Of course, the flip side of the coin is that if your metric is defective, you’re not really sure how much progress you’ve made towards a meaningful goal. Alexa traffic rank is one of those […]

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All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In case you had any doubt that the business of Blogging is anything less than war, check out SEOmoz post on the tactics some companies are using in an effort to undermine your success:

Social Media Poisoning at SEOmoz
 

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I hit quite the treasure trove of new ideas while scanning my favorite blogs today. One of the main things you want to concentrate on for a new site is building up links into my site–by making quality comments on other blogs, or by other means when efficient. The key is, you want […]

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Since starting this blog, I’ve begun to settle into a daily routine that I go through each day when doing my Blogging work.  It goes something like this:

Get off my ‘other job’
Scarf down something resembling food

Quickly scan my favorite blogs (see my blog roll for the current list of blogs that […]

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Back to the Roots
When I first started this blog, it was with the intent of providing a daily step-by-step guide for you to follow along and see exactly how a new blogger takes a brand new, completely unknown blog, and turns it into a profitable business.  The idea is that as time goes on, you’ll […]

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Apply Sun Tzu’s principles of warfare to protect your domain name as your blog or website increases in popularity. If you’re interested in the long-term success of your website or blog, one of the things you’ll want to do early on is register a few additional variations of the domain name…

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BC Magazine just published a great article on blogging for profit that features online money-making mogul John Chow…

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