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Quick Poll: Which Topics Should This Blog Cover?
I started my first business blog on Typepad. I called it “On Copywriting.” It was about copywriting, advertising, and marketing. But because I’m a freelance copywriter, I attracted mostly other freelance copywriters as readers. In January 2008, I started my new blog here at RyanHealy.com. I decided to reposition my blog to focus on business […]
Continue readingHow I Built PaidOnTime.net
Although I’ve used Thesis on this blog for a few years now, I’ve been experimenting with different themes on other WordPress sites I run. So when I began to create PaidOnTime.net with my friend and business partner Ken Gary, I began to look around at other options. I knew I wanted the site to have […]
Continue readingTraffic Patterns – What Influences Traffic
Last week, I tried an experiment. Normally, I publish one or two or three blog posts a week. I hold back a lot of my ideas because I don’t want to email my list too much. But last week I wrote and published a blog post whenever I felt like it. I didn’t hold back. […]
Continue readingHow to Generate Traffic from Blog Comments
There are dozens of different ways to get free traffic to your site. One of them is to leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your own site. This by itself is a decent strategy. The quicker you comment on a new blog post, the more likely it is you’ll get some […]
Continue readingWhy I Allow Only 14 Days for Comments
A few months ago, I quietly changed my blog comment settings to automatically close comments after 30 days. After this worked so well, I decided to reduce the “comment window” to only 14 days. Here’s why I decided to do this. Reason #1 – I’ve had quite a lot of work to do this year, […]
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